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[WillowLuman]

Not that I've found.

If we know so much by researching Morrowind history at an Imperial university (as he'll think), why don't THEIR intelligence people know this stuff? Again, we want them interested in us, not some book.

We should stop trying to downplay our importance with lame excuses. No more "Um... highschool math?"

I favor the spy excuse over the dreams excuse. I think we should be mysterious, make like we're in on something. We need to hint like we're in deep cover, seem like underneath the bumbling recruit there's a person who can say "That information is classified" with perfect conviction.

Why would the Emperor put an undercover agent in the legion as a recruit? That's classified

Why wouldn't an agent have combat training? That's classified.

Why are we telling them some things and not others? We're only cleared to brief them on the nature of the threat, and only in an emergency.

If they have any problems, take it up with the Spymaster.

[shadenight123]

No, even better...
TAKE IT UP TO VIVEC!

We are on a holy task sent by the God Vivec.
He knows and he sent us...so ask him for clarifications.

Good luck getting an audience.

[WillowLuman]

Yes. We are either a deep undercover agent for the Blades, the Temple, or both. At least, that's what we want thought of us.

[Putnam]

I think it would be much easier (and much more difficult to prove false) if we just said that we have near-perfect local omniscience through some mysterious, magical power.

[ShoesandHats]

Well, if we don't end up choosing either the spy or magic explanations, we might want to preface what we say with a bit of a request, something along the lines of "before I tell you, you must promise me that you will believe me, because otherwise I will sound like a madman.

[shadenight123]

That line never works.

They immediately assume you're mad.

Nah, go with the:

I come from the temple of Vivec (True) and I spoke with him (True again) and he sent me on this mission. Of course he told me about all of this.
And I should be undercover, so don't break it at the moment.

[Man of Paper]

If you guys want the Legion to boost you up a bit and take you seriously, the easiest way to do that would be honesty instead of building up a false story. So far we've had little luck when it comes to lying about stuff. I don't think we have a high enough Speechcraft skill to pull off full on lies. Maybe we can edit the truth a little bit though.

Tell them you're stuck here from another time and place, that you have no idea who sent you here or why, whether it be the works of Akatosh (if you only mention one possibility, let it be this one) another Divine, the Daedra, the Psyjic Order, or any number of factions that may have to power to flip space, time, and reality the bird. However where you're from, the history of Tamriel is studied in intimate detail by scholars across the world. That will get a few looks, but remember, we've had audience with Vivec. A simple letter to the Ordinators or maybe Vivec himself asking if Mike did indeed speak directly to Vivec in person should be able to clear that up. That is, if your Cellphone and Rainbow Dash tee aren't convincing enough. I'm pretty sure the shirt is made of material unknown to Tamriel.

While they might think you're crazy, their outing, if it turns out to be an Ascended Sleeper (I trust nothing 100% in this thread!) then you get some points. And it also somewhat explains your lack of actual magical talent but skill in the advanced mathematics of it. Once you give them a few good nuggets of information and prove your knowledge from the future is somewhat useful, then perhaps you'll be put in contact with the Blades.

[Putnam]

If you guys want the Legion to boost you up a bit and take you seriously, the easiest way to do that would be honesty instead of building up a false story. So far we've had little luck when it comes to lying about stuff. I don't think we have a high enough Speechcraft skill to pull off full on lies. Maybe we can edit the truth a little bit though.

Tell them you're stuck here from another time and place, that you have no idea who sent you here or why, whether it be the works of Akatosh (if you only mention one possibility, let it be this one) another Divine, the Daedra, the Psyjic Order, or any number of factions that may have to power to flip space, time, and reality the bird. However where you're from, the history of Tamriel is studied in intimate detail by scholars across the world. That will get a few looks, but remember, we've had audience with Vivec. A simple letter to the Ordinators or maybe Vivec himself asking if Mike did indeed speak directly to Vivec in person should be able to clear that up. That is, if your Cellphone and Rainbow Dash tee aren't convincing enough. I'm pretty sure the shirt is made of material unknown to Tamriel.

While they might think you're crazy, their outing, if it turns out to be an Ascended Sleeper (I trust nothing 100% in this thread!) then you get some points. And it also somewhat explains your lack of actual magical talent but skill in the advanced mathematics of it. Once you give them a few good nuggets of information and prove your knowledge from the future is somewhat useful, then perhaps you'll be put in contact with the Blades.

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[shadenight123]

We tried 'the truth' with Vivec. It didn't end 'well' that time...did it?

[Man of Paper]

We explained the coming events and what our situation was, yeah. But remember that this is Vivec we're talking about. He didn't react all that great, but he does speak in riddles, even in his plain sentences. I took nothing from that conversation as literal, as one should not take the sermons of Vivec as literal. All I really took from the conversation is that we only exist in one world at a time.

But that's not the point anyway. This is the Legion, not Vivec. They're not gods, so they won't get into the specifics of everything, and in fact would likely understand it worse than we do. Our knowledge of the general course of events, but mostly our knowledge of things, as events are not running in line with the game we all know, should go a good way to convincing them, besides the already mentioned phone and shirt.

[hostergaard]

I think its either the spy explanation or the Vivec one.

I think if we go with being honest we should mention Vivec. I am not entirely sure even a general of the legion can just contact Vivec but we can support our story simply by telling them that we we have witnesses in the mage guild who saw us escorted by two ordinators. That is highly unusual and should lend credit to our claim about being in contact with Vivec.

If we go with the Vivec explanation in some form mention that there is witnesses in the mage guild that saw us with ordinators.

Also, now is might be the time to get the legion working for you. Inform the general that you have expansive knowledge on various topics that may be of help and have unusual mathematical abilities that might make you a great mage, should the legion choose to support such an endeavor for you. But do be diplomatic and choose the right time.


I hope the world isn't moded too different from this one, or most of our knowledge may be useless.

[Cecilff2]

I think its either the spy explanation or the Vivec one.

I think if we go with being honest we should mention Vivec. I am not entirely sure even a general of the legion can just contact Vivec but we can support our story simply by telling them that we we have witnesses in the mage guild who saw us escorted by two ordinators. That is highly unusual and should lend credit to our claim about being in contact with Vivec.

The spy one can't be verified.  Darius WILL check up on our story either way, and I don't think him being able to find anything that corroborates is going to look good for us.  Stick with the Vivec explanation

[gman8181]

Vivic explanation or the truth, or both

Also no working with Dagoth.  If we're that power hungry, we might as well try and make a deal to serve a daedra lord.  Similar power and risky but not as risky as joining 6th house.

[BunnyBob77]

Claim that we are working for Vivec.  It seems the most believable.

[joemoben]

If you guys want the Legion to boost you up a bit and take you seriously, the easiest way to do that would be honesty instead of building up a false story. So far we've had little luck when it comes to lying about stuff. I don't think we have a high enough Speechcraft skill to pull off full on lies. Maybe we can edit the truth a little bit though.

Tell them you're stuck here from another time and place, that you have no idea who sent you here or why, whether it be the works of Akatosh (if you only mention one possibility, let it be this one) another Divine, the Daedra, the Psyjic Order, or any number of factions that may have to power to flip space, time, and reality the bird. However where you're from, the history of Tamriel is studied in intimate detail by scholars across the world. That will get a few looks, but remember, we've had audience with Vivec. A simple letter to the Ordinators or maybe Vivec himself asking if Mike did indeed speak directly to Vivec in person should be able to clear that up. That is, if your Cellphone and Rainbow Dash tee aren't convincing enough. I'm pretty sure the shirt is made of material unknown to Tamriel.

While they might think you're crazy, their outing, if it turns out to be an Ascended Sleeper (I trust nothing 100% in this thread!) then you get some points. And it also somewhat explains your lack of actual magical talent but skill in the advanced mathematics of it. Once you give them a few good nuggets of information and prove your knowledge from the future is somewhat useful, then perhaps you'll be put in contact with the Blades.

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