A Morrowind Question!

BlackKoala

No Oblivion for me, but I do have Morrowind! Anyway, I'm working my way through the fighters guild, fun fun. But I've noticed some things, and have a few questions.

1) Can I buy a house? I REALLY need somewhere to store these items! I had to whack some bitc# on a quest, so can I use her house for my personal use? Will my items disappear?

2) How the hell do you level up?

3) I feel weak, how does one make himself stronger?

Canavi

1) No, go kill some one.

Go to Balmora and kill Raviir (Spelling?) Trader guy. Get off Silt Strider, go left, striaght, then right. So just look around on the map and find it. Kill him, pawn (Resell it ;-)) his stuff and take his house.

2) Level up by getting your "Main Stats" up.

3) You gotta level up. There is no "Scalling" system in morrowind. So just level up. Get to level 5 and do as much of the fighters guild as you can, then get up to 10, and so on and so forth.

You have to sleep once you are "ready" for a level up. So go to Cassius's house or a tavern and sleep.

That clear?

Zenshi

MW! My favorite game....ok one of my favorite games.

For houses you can do a lot of things. One possibility is as Canavi says kill someone and take their house. If you feel this is not ethical, then go see that Imperial Soldier at Fort whatever near Balmora (you will actually be invited to go see him) and ask about the Morag Tong. Then go kill those criminals off and take their house. The go get your reward for killing those criminals off and you are a hero with a house.

Another is just to go through quests of one of the three main Houses in MW (Hlaalu, Redoran, Telvanni) and eventually they let you build a stronghold (though you have bunch of people hanging around in there with you). Hlaalu's stronghold is the most popular being near Balmora. It takes forever for them to give you a house however.

If you have the Bloodmoon expansion, you can also do the East something Company quests that in the end gives you a house. The main Bloodmoon quest also gives you a house in the Skaar village which is inconvenient. The Thirsk quest also gives you a Pub to run.

If you have the Tribunal expansion, there is one quest where you get to beat on a high level mage. If you kill him, you get to keep the house.

The easiest is to go download a mod that puts a house onto the game you can use. There are hundreds of houses that modders have made. My favorite is still Abu's retreat by Pheobe but there is everything from small shacks, underground caves, giant castles and whole uninhabited towns (Moonshadow temple). One place to look for some of these downloads is at www.elricm.com. Korana has some great houses and there is a nice one that redesigns that stupid house where the Creeper is and puts Creeper in the basement for your financial benefit. A lot of these houses have teleportation rings that make it convenient to carry stuff and armory to display all your stuff. Some mods are entire games in their own (like Emma's White Wolf of Lokken Mountain) you often not only get a house but a whole kingdom once you are done. In the case of Lokken, you even get a spouse...too much like real life?

If you don't want to do any of these, then go outside Sayda Neen (I think that's what the first town is called) and find a door near the silt strider. Kill all the smugglers in there and you have a cave to relax in. Not much in terms of interior decoration but it is big and you have your own indoor swimming area.


As for lvl up, it will come naturally. It takes awhile in the beginning but then comes real easy later on.

Have fun oh Nerevarine of the future. And if you ever get stuck go to the Unofficial Elder Scrolls website (I think it was the UESP website, just google "uesp" and "Morrowind" and it should pop up).

Edit: One thing to be careful of regarding things disappering. There are containers in some people's houses that refill with stuff every so often. If you put your valuables in there, they will disappear during the next cycle of refilling so be careful where you put stuff inside. Usually locked containers never refill since they usually contain valuables. If you ever lose something, you can go into the script and type it to get it back. I think UESP has the codes for most of the valuable items in the game. Modded houses never have this problem since they were made to avoid such issues. I remember the mod house with Creeper now, its was called "Buyable Ghorak Manor" and its supposed to be one of the most popular houses available.

Riddlinkidstoner

Ah Morrowind....the quests absolutely pissed me off sometimes...especially the damn puzzle box LOL. Tribunal is a cool expansion and the whole plot really gets out of hand fast toward the end, I think you'll like it. I'll tell you one thing though...those damn flying bastards that are everywhere have killed me more often than any dremora :P

BlackKoala

Well, good news and bad news.


The good:
I became a level two!
I got some 9000 weapon **** I rock with.



The Bad:
I got caught trying to pick pocket a guard :(.
I lost about all my damn skill levels.
I lost the ability to use my weapons. Period.

DarkLink2135

1) Not without mods, otherwise, just kill someone and use their house.

2) Sleep!

3) Level up and increase the appropriate attributes, for you, it sounds like it would be Strength.

In response to your last post, going to jail is actually one method I like to do to totally max out my level as much as possible - lowers your main attributes, then you level them up again, and get to higher levels than you would be able to otherwise.

Just keep using your skills and you will be able to use that specific weapon again. Or, if you have a lot of money, you could always find a trainer and purchase skill levels from them.

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Definitely get Bloodmoon & Tribunal, both are incredible expansions.

BlackKoala

I have both expansions DarkLink. In fact, you helped me a little bit, remember? :)


Anyway, I'm only at like level four now, and I got ****ed up by my first bear yesterday. It kinda...threw me into a tree, quite awesome.

I also have a newfound hatred of all things water, as the little creatures in the waters are impossible to kill, I tell ya!

Oh, and someone explain how to do magic to me, lol, I'm lost as ****.

BlackKoala

A few more things:

1) Cliff racers can blow me.

2) WTF is that big glowing wall thing in the middle? I spent hours walking around yesterday, discovering interesting things on the map.

3) Erm, say I kill someone, and I need them for a later quest, can I get them back? LOL!

Zenshi

The one house you can take without killing someone is in Ald Ruhn (hope you like sandstorms). Just look for someone who is having materialistic issues with his life. Doing the good deed ends with an abandoned house.Not much of a house though.

To cast the magic, you have to know the magic. You can buy spells. Then just click on the list of spells you know to ready it (the icon of the spell should appear at the bottom left corner of the screen). Then get into the spellcasting mode (there is a quick key for this but I forget what it is) and cast the spell in the same way you use a weapon. If you are low level, you will fail more than you will succeed and use up your spell points. It can be frustrating. The more you successfully cast a spell, the better you will become at casting the spell. If I recally, casting an easy spell of a specific spell type gives the same experience in that spell type as a hard spell so its better to cast a bunch of easy spells than one hard one. There is a mod that corrects this but forgot what its called.

If you kill someone and need that person back, you can get the back through the scripts the same way you can get your valuable weapon back if you lose it. I think UESP has a section on this somewhere in the webpage. If not, the TES official forum probably has something on that.

By the way, what big glowing wall thing?

BlackKoala

Thanks for the information!

In the middle of the map, northeast of Ald-Ruhn, southeast of Maar Gan, there is a bright blue glowing wall!

Zenshi

Ah that wall, thats the uh...um... the Whatever Gate (man its been too long since I played the main quest) and it spans the major part of the central region of Morrowind. I won't go into telling what the gate is since it will ruin the main story but it is very much tied to the main quest.


Edit: By the way, after you played the game for awhile go download two "can't do without" mods. One is whatever head replacer you choose (I use Motoki's Better Heads but there are tons of them out there). The other is Better Bodies (and make sure its Better Bodies and not Smoother Bodies). It will make walking around MW much more enjoyable. But you will appreciate it more if you play the vanilla game for awhile before changing. The other mods are more frosting on the cake and there are some really good ones out there. Telephoro's list of mods gives some of the more popular ones though its somewhat dated.

Also, if your journal starts to get cluttered and you have no idea what quests you have done and what you need to do, you may want to load Tribunal. It has a journal organizing utility that works well. However, if you load Tribunal, you will somewhat get forced into that part of the game even if you don't want to, so you may want to wait awhile before doing that.

DarkLink2135

Ah yes, I do recall something like that :p.

Yeah....don't stray too far out :).

Equip the spell in your inventory, and press (I think) 'C' to cast the spell. It's extremely console-ish but that's what we have to put up with since game companies started whoring themselves out to the 12-year-old-no-attention-span-console-gamer-crowd.

It's the Ghost Gate. It was built by the Tribunal (Vivec, Sotha Sil, and Almalexia) to help contain, or at least slow down, Dagoth Ur's corprus disease & the monsters it has created. You'll find out more about it as the main quest progresses.

Broken game. You are pretty much ****ed :(. I believe you can use the console to restore them, but I don't know if it is a complete fix, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot of headaches involved.

Ask on the official TES forums if you come across a quest requiring you to talk to the person you have killed.

rahl07

hey PC modda, if you have a key set to "sneak", put a paperweight on it before you go to bead, with you standing in front of an NPC. When you come back, you'll be lvl 100 stealthing. You can do just about whatever you want.