Been too long since I've been on these forums, and the first place I show up to is this? Seems reasonable, somehow. Spent the last three days reading through nearly every post in here. Although I think I may have missed a couple pages somewhere between pages 50 and 90, but no story posts, and I'm not turning back now. Oh how I'd like to have been here. So many times I nearly hit the reply button somewhere, wanting to weigh in, only to stop myself because the events were already resolved a year ago.
We appear to be playing this game on multiple levels of reality all at once, and some of the things are a little less gamey than the ones who made one of levels of games think it is. What's going on is going on in more levels than Sheogorath has plans involving us. But not too many more.
Sheogorath said he felt like joining the game, and now Discord wants to join. Looks like one of those non-coincidences to me. The sword may or may not have talked to the other one, but some sort of communication has taken place, as Vivec put it.
(For those who don't specifically know and are only guessing, Discord is the Spirit of Chaos; the ponies' version of Q, Sheogorath, Eris, Coyote, Spider, all those other trickster/chaos/insanity types. And apparently linked on some CHIM-related level. They don't look the same, they don't act quite the same (that'd get boring real fast,) although two of them sound
exactly the same.)
Potentially pointless tidbit 1: As this is a game for the ponies, I have to wonder what kind of game they think it was meant to be. Morrowind isn't exactly fit for a long-term MMO by itself, although it could fit as a sort of limited online story-based game for a handful of players, like Borderlands and such. Don't get me wrong, you can play it for years depending on how you play it, but the way Awesomicus/Rainbow Dash has been going at it, it won't hold their attention for very long. They'll find all the "cool stuff" and get bored, and eventually stop.
PPT2: One thing (among many others) I too would like some answers about is that Frozen bit. If that movie has been out for less than a year, and Michael's been Morrowind...-ing for well over a year our time - from our seeming forum-game perspective, that is to say - how does he know about it?
PPT3: I think we may
have to talk with Dagoth Ur at some point. Why exactly does he want us, and how did he even know about us in the first place? Subtle ripple-effects of our so-called reality field? Does he have some other source of insider information, say for example someone else like us? I doubt that whatever it was that started this chain of events woke him up first - since we're the "only true native" - but something's up with him.
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"Ponies are overrated anyway. Speaking of, if you're ever asked to turn into one, don't do it. Do you have any idea how much it hurts having eight legs kicking you all at once?How is Sleipnir these days? Did you get a mother's day card this year?
Problem: We don't even know if that's true. Vivec said we're native, so maybe we really are just a rogue NPC of some description.
True, but Sheogorath said that we're the only true native in this entire place. That means everyone else is not. The NPCs may well be plain programmed NPCs, albeit ones more complex than the ones we're used to in Morrowind. This may be because of us, our sort of reality field, or this may be because of the different hardware the ponies are running this game upon. Which might be us.
What was it Yagrum said?
:
"...No civilization I've encountered uses electricity for anything this complicated.:
"What do they use instead?":
"Internal biology, acoustics, stone, lots of things."Who was it that brought up the Matrix, way back when? Not the movie version in this case, but the book where the world was running on the collected brains of humanity. That'll add some complexity, no doubt about it. Also something not unlike soul gems may be involved. Michael may be the world itself.
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"It is difficult for me to differentiate between that which you perceive as 'you' and that which you perceive as 'not you,' let alone your 'inward' and 'outward' appearance. The borders are not so definite to my eye that I can be certain I would differentiate in the same manner that you would."Then there's the matter of Imare/Pinkie. An NPC who's been commandeered to become a player? Interesting prospect. If Michael is not the world itself, or the hardware the game is running on, then is Michael a copy and pasted person? Did poor old Tarhiel (who was never found, I might add) get overwritten with us, or was he somehow never activated?
Why don't we just... tell them everything? If Michael comes clean and tells them that he got sucked into the game, and that in his world the ponies are all a tv series, and that he can hear voices in his head that are from other people on an internet forum, what's the worst that can happen?
They fix the bugged NPC.
Again, remember that we ourselves don't know what we are or what's going on. Everything we've learned so far points to "normal modern Earth human sucked into other world" being false, though.
In that case, how very convenient that Discord distracted her before she could look too far into Michael's scripting. But I do think Clover/Twilight should be told when we see her again, after we convince her not to completely reset us right away. I suspect that convincing her might be accomplished by asking her to talk to Imare/Pinkie about us.
What about Nocturnal, or shall I say Nyx, who you ironically haven't even met? Mary Sue like her can't stand the competition, I suppose. Or maybe the incestuous implications if she were to appear. What of us? All of Us. Are we foreign? I suppose that depends on how you look at it.
This strikes me as Nocturnal also being someone like Michael. Or something. I don't know, but I feel like maybe giving her a prayer at some point would be only a mildy bad idea in comparison to the rest of our bad ones.
Nocturnal is known in Tamriel as a Daedric Prince known as the Night Mistress, Mistress of Shadows, and other things; much the same way Sheogorath is the Daedric Prince of Madness (and occasionally cheese, for some reason.) I'm not sure who Nyx is in this case, but I've heard the name in connection to the night in other cultures. This is likely another multi-entity not unlike Sheogorath or Vivec. But since Sheoggy mentioned "Mary Sue" I'm put in mind of SexyWithers. I know the consensus (such as there is) has it that she's Luna - which kind of fits, she's the main night-themed figure for the ponies, with some sway over dreams as well - but given her actions, she's acting far more...I dunno, childish. I mean, it's out at this point that yes, it's a game to them, but Luna doesn't seem to fit this even with that in mind. I think it's someone else, but I'm not sure who someone else is among ponies that it could be. It's not one I have any sure knowledge about. So...praying to her? If I'm wrong, mildly bad idea. If I'm right? Better hope that mystery dunmer who sent a resurrection scroll along with Awesomicus has some more of those stashed away. Although...I'm of around three minds about this, honestly. She might be incredibly dangerous. She could have been the one to call us into being here or whatever happened. Might well be both, in which case, what is it she wants from us? Does she want a challenge? A friend? Enemy? A rival who never goes away but who knows about her reality and can talk with her sometimes?
List of things we should remember:
We are
still out of emergency potions and scrolls except for that invisibility potion, not to mention we have no useful armor and only two basic iron daggers thanks to our recent death. And we have the money for a probably a single potion, maybe two. Being killed still sucks, but at least Michael didn't lose any time this time.
If we should need to visit Divayth Fyr again - or really pretty much any place in the general southern half of the island not readily accessible by silt strider, teleport service, or boat? Buy a couple cheap Rising Force (levitation) potions
and at least one recall scroll if not more darn it, then stop by Vivec (the city) and pay a visit to the Shrine to Stop the Moon. Offer the potion at the shrine, and fly around for what should be 24 full minutes at a reasonably high speed. (At least, it was in vanilla. Not sure about this version.) Find the place from the air, and still likely float around while you're there. Beats the heck out of 15 seconds of water-walk here and there. (Awesomicus may also be interested in this.)
Also: here we are in Pelagiad, at long last, and we no longer have the recommendation letter from Ranis for that acquaintance of hers here, Nelvyn Andrano I think? It doesn't mean we can't still look him up, but he's less likely to be quite as interested without the letter, and it's not like we have the money to buy another type of magic knowledge, but at least we'd know each other for later if we still have need of it later.
But, I've been rude. Hello, Michael. New voice here, obviously. Feel free to peruse my ponderous mental meanderings as you have the time, but for the moment at hand:
Do we want Awesomicus to be away from us for a while? If we do, then tell Awesomicus the epic quest is temporarily locked out, but there's one (or maybe two) optional but cool things he might like in the meantime:One can be that Shrine to Stop the Moon, also known as the Shrine of Daring. Tell him to take at least a couple extra levitation potions so the fall at the end won't kill him if he's not back on the ground. He'll probably like seeing Vvardenfell from the air. Might also want to warn him that he can't land on clouds here. If he's done this and isn't interested, ask if he's the Archmaster of Redoran, or if Castle Awesome is complete yet.
This other thing I'm not sure about offering as a quest. While dead, your body got looted; business as usual in Morrowind to be fair. I have no idea how hard it would be to find the unfortunate dunmer who at this moment is either making his way north trying to find the tallest tree in Dagon Fel, or else doing his best to find passage to the far side of Nirn and hoping he'll be forgotten by his Noble Royal Fluffiness of Pinatas Full Of Squirrels. And while it'd be nice to get the dwemer puzzle cube back if you ever visit Divayth Fyr again, I hesitate to offer this as an Awesomicus quest because what do we have to offer as a reward? 50 gold? The Rainbow Dash shirt that the same guy is probably carrying? Unless he sold all that stuff at the first store he came across, which is possible.
...actually, now that I think about it, perhaps we could tell Awesomicus about that Shrine as the reward, so long as he doesn't already know about it. Any thoughts on this, fellow voices? Or am I too late in the week for this kind of thing around here?