Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20161101184239/@comment-1496755-20161102211953

Your optimism is infectious, Death :P

Today, we've got two unexpected developments.

Number 1 - No experience. Yeah, I was looking for that in my character sheet and was surprised to see there is no such thing. So I opened up the manual (perhaps I should have done this before starting theg ame)... and yeah, no more experience system. Now I'm supposed to level up by improving my skills. I suppose this means I improve Running by running and Jumping by jumping? I foresee a lot of bunnyhopping in my future.

And number 2 - A creepy invitation. I arrived in Daggerfall and was admirining the city's layout (no more annoying dead ends or water pits) when I got a letter from a Dark Brotherhood- some sort of Assassin guild. I suppose killing guards made an impression on someone. So, these guys ask me to join them and give me an assignment right away - to go meet someone. Joining guilds is a new thing for me and I like the idea of creepy secret societies... so I decided to play along.

Went to another town and visited some alchemist and he gave me some poison. And told me I was supposed to put it in someone's wine (in another town, of course). As usual, the door was locked, it took me several tries before I could go in before getting the local law enforcement angry (but there still were some random-spawned thugs in the house)... and there was no wine.

I had to poison a wine, but there was no wine to poison. A bug? So soon??? I started examining every inch of the house and eventually found something small sticking from the surface of a bed... just like a sprite that was sunk into the bed itself. Yeeeees, that was the wine - spawned inside the bed, not on top of it (sigh). Good thing I have experience with old games and their visual glitches.

Anyway, I finally picked up the wine jug and got a message that it was successfully pisoned. Good thing I made a backup save here, because I messed up. I went to the quest completion location without realizing the jug was still in my inventory. So I loaded my save and looked for some place to place it... but since there was no such place, I simply dropped it on the bed where I had found it (this time it appeared as a generic "dropped item" sprite). That did the trick - I went to yet another town (this game seems to love traveling around like crazy) where I had to go to a shop. At first I wasn't sure what to do, as there was just an ordinary shopkeeper. But I saw a door leading to the back rooms of the house... and there was this creepy guy clad in black who told me that I had done well and welcomed me into the Dark Brotherhood (see screenshot below).

Back to Daggerfall... and this time I saw a DB safehouse on the map. I went there (it would be rude not to pay a visit to my new family). The house was filled with various other creepy people wearing black robes. Most of them denied helping me due to my guild rank being low, but I did find a quest giver who was kind enough to give me a quest with an optional objective. I had to kill a rival assassin and (optionally) find and slay his employer.

Off to a dungeon. After an undefined number of nondescript corridors I did find the rival assassin and "accounted" him (I am already using the Brotherhood's slang, you see). From him I looted a note that detailed the location of his employer... in another dungeon. I really wanted to make a good first impression, so I went there. More nondescript corridors (I am really starting to feel how monotonous these duingeons are) and the target is always in the last room to check. Anyway, this guy died too and my job was done - I return to get some praise and a little gold.

I stopped in front of the Daggerfall palace - too tired to carry on right now. But I did learn quite a bit, advanced to level 3, improved my running and jumping skills (bunnyhopping works :P ).

And here is a little glimpse of me joining the dark side: