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You're one of the good ones, pony. A credit to your people.
buddy of mine was playing a Wood Elf
goes into the one place and a dude is like "Ugh, another Thalmor bootlicker here to tell us how to live" (the Thalmor are the high elf kingdom's enforcers and they are DICKS)
and he's like "But I'm a bosmer!"
dude goes "Oh, sorry, it's hard to tell you elves apart, how can I help you?"
Trying to get Ulfric and General Tullius to sit down to a peace treaty while Skyrim is being invaded by dragons was a nightmare because Ulfric was always like one wrong word from table-turning and storming out. He gets up from his chair to fuck off twice and I have to be like "ULFRIC, there is fucking DRAGONS! SIT DOWN!" and he's like "ffffffine"
i'd completed the imperial quest line before getting to that point in the main quest... so i didn't get any sort of treaty mission. i kill ullfric's right right hand man while tullius is getting his ass kicked by ullfric. then i turn around and put ullfric to his knees and i am like- man, this guy's an asshole... but still, he has at least a little bit of nobleness. can i spare him?
but then like, tullius is gonna execute him instead. and tullius is a typical uppity, self-important roman cunt so i figured ullfric at least deserved to die by my hand. so i fucked up his day right before tullius struts up.
Two of my favorite RPG quests of all time came from Oblivion: Through a Painting, Darkly and Whodunit?
Also, while not Bethesda, Obsidian put some perversely dark shit in New Vegas.
Vault 11, my god.
What happened in that thing in the spoiler because I don't remember that off the top of my head...
that's the vault with the elections
oh jesus that shit is so dark
What I love about it is the presentation of events.
It's really a classic Sci-Fi riff. I mean, what happens in the Vault 11 story is definitely within the realm of been-there-done-that Sci-Fi, though definitely far at the dark end. What's so interesting about Vault 11 is the way the player experiences it. As vaults only have one entrance, it also serves as the exit. So you get this audio recording that doesn't make any sense until you traverse the entire vault. You experience everything in a reverse order and then everything finally dawns on you.
So good. So dark.
Top notch storytelling from Obsidian. Very subtle, and very effective.
Two of my favorite RPG quests of all time came from Oblivion: Through a Painting, Darkly and Whodunit?
Also, while not Bethesda, Obsidian put some perversely dark shit in New Vegas.
Vault 11, my god.
What happened in that thing in the spoiler because I don't remember that off the top of my head...
that's the vault with the elections
oh jesus that shit is so dark
What I love about it is the presentation of events.
It's really a classic Sci-Fi riff. I mean, what happens in the Vault 11 story is definitely within the realm of been-there-done-that Sci-Fi, though definitely far at the dark end. What's so interesting about Vault 11 is the way the player experiences it. As vaults only have one entrance, it also serves as the exit. So you get this audio recording that doesn't make any sense until you traverse the entire vault. You experience everything in a reverse order and then everything finally dawns on you.
So good. So dark.
Top notch storytelling from Obsidian. Very subtle, and very effective.
I like how it ends with a little bit of mystery, too
what happened to that last guy?
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
Never did that vault but read about it there. Jeebus.
when you enter vault 11, you pick up a tape recorder with five people talking, the basic gist of which is "but, why don't we just leave? it said we were shining examples of humanity?" and someone else saying "I think that's exactly why we shouldn't leave." and then a third person saying "Let's get this over with." The first guy says "Wait, wait-" and then then the recording ends with four gunshots.
As you progress the vault, you see a bunch of posters that say stuff like "Don't vote for Steve, his family needs him!" and "Vote for Ida, a known communist"
eventually, you find out that the vault's experiment was to lie to the occupants about the need to sacrifice one person every year, or else the computer controlling the vault will kill everyone. Eventually, the occupants decide to vote in elections to decide who gets run the vault for some amount of time. This person is also the next sacrifice.
This system dissolves into a bunch of bitter alliances and terrible corruption and fraud. Eventually, the next overseer decides to choose all future sacrifices by lottery.
It ends when only five people are left, who decide to give up and tell the computer that they aren't going to sell each other out anymore. The computer then reveals to them that they have finally completed the experiment. By not choosing to sacrifice their friends and loved ones for no good reason, they have shown that they are perfect examples of humanity and henceforth free to leave the Vault and start anew.
when you enter vault 11, you pick up a tape recorder with five people talking, the basic gist of which is "but, why don't we just leave? it said we were shining examples of humanity?" and someone else saying "I think that's exactly why we shouldn't leave." and then a third person saying "Let's get this over with." The first guy says "Wait, wait-" and then then the recording ends with four gunshots.
As you progress the vault, you see a bunch of posters that say stuff like "Don't vote for Steve, his family needs him!" and "Vote for Ida, a known communist"
eventually, you find out that the vault's experiment was to lie to the occupants about the need to sacrifice one person every year, or else the computer controlling the vault will kill everyone. Eventually, the occupants decide to vote in elections to decide who gets run the vault for some amount of time. This person is also the next sacrifice.
This system dissolves into a bunch of bitter alliances and terrible corruption and fraud. Eventually, the next overseer decides to choose all future sacrifices by lottery.
It ends when only five people are left, who decide to give up and tell the computer that they aren't going to sell each other out anymore. The computer then reveals to them that they have finally completed the experiment. By not choosing to sacrifice their friends and loved ones for no good reason, they have shown that they are perfect examples of humanity and henceforth free to leave the Vault and start anew.
Pony: That was good. Somehow I knew from the first few seconds what it was about though. The dude the camera focuses on the whole time was just too damn attractive.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
Day 3 of going cold turkey on soda. Doing better now, the headaches went wawy although I still feel kinda tired and low on energy.
unless you were drinking regular 100-calories-a-can soda I don't really see a good reason to go cold turkey
I mean, why not switch to diet, or to coffee or tea? if you're trying to cut back on caffeine I think you'd be a lot happier doing it gradually
I was drinking regular soda. Coca-Cola to be exact.
oh okay, well good work cutting that out :^:
but seriously it is not the lack of sugar that's giving you headaches. there's no need to manfully suffer through all of that. get a cup of coffee or brew some tea or something brah.
Day 3 of going cold turkey on soda. Doing better now, the headaches went wawy although I still feel kinda tired and low on energy.
unless you were drinking regular 100-calories-a-can soda I don't really see a good reason to go cold turkey
I mean, why not switch to diet, or to coffee or tea? if you're trying to cut back on caffeine I think you'd be a lot happier doing it gradually
I was drinking regular soda. Coca-Cola to be exact.
oh okay, well good work cutting that out :^:
but seriously it is not the lack of sugar that's giving you headaches. there's no need to manfully suffer through all of that. get a cup of coffee or brew some tea or something brah.
If you really want it spoiled for you (major Fallout: New Vegas spoilers people):
Again, major Fallout: New Vegas spoilers.
So, you enter the vault basically just looking for some electronic part for a quest. The vault serves little other purpose, but when you enter you can download a recording left for "anyone out there" in which five people talk about "really doing this" and it's all kind of vague. You hear four gunshots and then someone else sighs and drops their gun. End of recording.
As you walk through the vault, you can check the email system on various terminals. In the first area, there are some vague references to elections for Overseer, but it's weird because it seems like most people are trying NOT to get elected. Also, there were various voting blocs that would push for various candidates.
You get the impression that for some reason, this vault was highly political, but it's not clear why. It also doesn't make much sense to you why everyone is trying NOT to be elected. There are posters all over the place with people basically campaigning against themselves. One email lists three candidates talking about why they shouldn't be elected. One woman talks about the other candidates slandering her, and concludes with "but there's no reason I should be elected overseer."
In the next area, things start to become a bit clearer. The reason is this: The original Vault 11 overseer was told, before even entering the vault, that they would have to make an annual sacrifice otherwise all the vault inhabitants would be killed. He kept this a secret from the prospective inhabitants. When they were all locked in, they finally found out about it from him. They all felt betrayed by him, so they forced HIM to be the first sacrifice. From then on, it became tradition that the overseer would be the one sacrificed.
Thus began the highly politicized atmosphere of Vault 11. They started to segregate into cliquish voting blocs, the largest one being the Justice Bloc. The Justice Bloc had a monopoly on elections for some time (it is unclear how long). One woman - Katherine Stone - promised and delivered sexual favors to all the Justice Bloc members in return for not nominating her husband, Nathan Stone. Well, they nominated him anyway.
Kate then killed a few members of Justice Bloc, to dwindle their number down to a minority instead of a majority. You find this out on a security tape where she unabashedly admits this. She then gets elected to overseer and abolishes the election process, vowing that the Vault's random number generator would be used to pick each successive overseer in the future.
Justice Bloc then stages a coup. Everyone but five people in Vault 11 die. In fact, the entire interior of Vault 11 looks like a war zone with mines, booby traps, and sandbags and ammo boxes all over the place.
Anyway, these five people decide they've had enough and when the next annual sacrifice comes up, they tell the computer that they will not comply anymore. They'd rather all die than to sentence one of the others to death anymore.
The computer congratulations them for being a "shining light" for their defiance in complying with the order to sacrifice anyone in the Vault. The computer then tells them that instead of all of them dying, the vault entrance will be unlocked and they can come and go from the vault as they please.
You find this out after traveling down into the sacrificial chamber itself, which contains a really creepy empty room, a chair, and a projector. The projector shows you a movie telling you about how good your life probably was and to tell you that everyone has a role to play, even you (the sacrificial lamb). At the end of the video, the door locks and the walls open up to like 8-10 turrets and 6 or 7 robots shooting at you. If you defeat them all, you can download the information I mentioned in the last paragraph.
Now, we come back to the original recording you found at the entrance to the vault. It makes sense now: The vault congratulated them, and they are aghast. They think they don't deserve to live. So they make a suicide pact. And four of them go through with it.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
Top notch storytelling from Obsidian. Very subtle, and very effective.
i had been told in advance by idiots that vault 11 was some "next level m night shit" so i m nighted the ending and was disappointed in that my m nighting was accurate
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
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Also, while not Bethesda, Obsidian put some perversely dark shit in New Vegas.
What happened in that thing in the spoiler because I don't remember that off the top of my head...
that's the vault with the elections
oh jesus that shit is so dark
I am a High Elf and people treat me just fine.
but then like, tullius is gonna execute him instead. and tullius is a typical uppity, self-important roman cunt so i figured ullfric at least deserved to die by my hand. so i fucked up his day right before tullius struts up.
Kinda curious.
Care to expand for someone who's never played?
What I love about it is the presentation of events.
So good. So dark.
Top notch storytelling from Obsidian. Very subtle, and very effective.
I like how it ends with a little bit of mystery, too
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_11
I didn't know you were quitting soda, that's awesome man! So many empty calories clear out of your diet.
unless you were drinking regular 100-calories-a-can soda I don't really see a good reason to go cold turkey
I mean, why not switch to diet, or to coffee or tea? if you're trying to cut back on caffeine I think you'd be a lot happier doing it gradually
hey this is pretty good
watch this
I was drinking regular soda. Coca-Cola to be exact.
As you progress the vault, you see a bunch of posters that say stuff like "Don't vote for Steve, his family needs him!" and "Vote for Ida, a known communist"
eventually, you find out that the vault's experiment was to lie to the occupants about the need to sacrifice one person every year, or else the computer controlling the vault will kill everyone. Eventually, the occupants decide to vote in elections to decide who gets run the vault for some amount of time. This person is also the next sacrifice.
This system dissolves into a bunch of bitter alliances and terrible corruption and fraud. Eventually, the next overseer decides to choose all future sacrifices by lottery.
It ends when only five people are left, who decide to give up and tell the computer that they aren't going to sell each other out anymore. The computer then reveals to them that they have finally completed the experiment. By not choosing to sacrifice their friends and loved ones for no good reason, they have shown that they are perfect examples of humanity and henceforth free to leave the Vault and start anew.
That is pretty fucked up.
oh okay, well good work cutting that out :^:
but seriously it is not the lack of sugar that's giving you headaches. there's no need to manfully suffer through all of that. get a cup of coffee or brew some tea or something brah.
I spent half of last week at an expensive hotel in wine country and bitched about it the whole time
I know how spoiled that sounds, but much like vegas when you are only working, it kind of just sucks
Also I work for a family-owned business so my boss was in family thanksgiving mode and it felt kind of pointless
now I'm back and I was a video game playing bump on a log yesterday
my friend leilani is in town with her baby. I need to go see her but also today I get to do the beta of TOR at 10:00
also I should make coffee
those are all my stories of the last few days
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Yeah, it's good. (I totally predicted the ending)
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Eh, they are done now.
The old av and sig were never related! Somehow they worked though.
And I know, I just haven't figured what to change my sig to yet.
If you really want it spoiled for you (major Fallout: New Vegas spoilers people):
As you walk through the vault, you can check the email system on various terminals. In the first area, there are some vague references to elections for Overseer, but it's weird because it seems like most people are trying NOT to get elected. Also, there were various voting blocs that would push for various candidates.
You get the impression that for some reason, this vault was highly political, but it's not clear why. It also doesn't make much sense to you why everyone is trying NOT to be elected. There are posters all over the place with people basically campaigning against themselves. One email lists three candidates talking about why they shouldn't be elected. One woman talks about the other candidates slandering her, and concludes with "but there's no reason I should be elected overseer."
In the next area, things start to become a bit clearer. The reason is this: The original Vault 11 overseer was told, before even entering the vault, that they would have to make an annual sacrifice otherwise all the vault inhabitants would be killed. He kept this a secret from the prospective inhabitants. When they were all locked in, they finally found out about it from him. They all felt betrayed by him, so they forced HIM to be the first sacrifice. From then on, it became tradition that the overseer would be the one sacrificed.
Thus began the highly politicized atmosphere of Vault 11. They started to segregate into cliquish voting blocs, the largest one being the Justice Bloc. The Justice Bloc had a monopoly on elections for some time (it is unclear how long). One woman - Katherine Stone - promised and delivered sexual favors to all the Justice Bloc members in return for not nominating her husband, Nathan Stone. Well, they nominated him anyway.
Kate then killed a few members of Justice Bloc, to dwindle their number down to a minority instead of a majority. You find this out on a security tape where she unabashedly admits this. She then gets elected to overseer and abolishes the election process, vowing that the Vault's random number generator would be used to pick each successive overseer in the future.
Justice Bloc then stages a coup. Everyone but five people in Vault 11 die. In fact, the entire interior of Vault 11 looks like a war zone with mines, booby traps, and sandbags and ammo boxes all over the place.
Anyway, these five people decide they've had enough and when the next annual sacrifice comes up, they tell the computer that they will not comply anymore. They'd rather all die than to sentence one of the others to death anymore.
The computer congratulations them for being a "shining light" for their defiance in complying with the order to sacrifice anyone in the Vault. The computer then tells them that instead of all of them dying, the vault entrance will be unlocked and they can come and go from the vault as they please.
You find this out after traveling down into the sacrificial chamber itself, which contains a really creepy empty room, a chair, and a projector. The projector shows you a movie telling you about how good your life probably was and to tell you that everyone has a role to play, even you (the sacrificial lamb). At the end of the video, the door locks and the walls open up to like 8-10 turrets and 6 or 7 robots shooting at you. If you defeat them all, you can download the information I mentioned in the last paragraph.
Now, we come back to the original recording you found at the entrance to the vault. It makes sense now: The vault congratulated them, and they are aghast. They think they don't deserve to live. So they make a suicide pact. And four of them go through with it.
i had been told in advance by idiots that vault 11 was some "next level m night shit" so i m nighted the ending and was disappointed in that my m nighting was accurate
fucking m night
Boring is right.
Wait what?
This is a joke, right?
uh, no
didn't you play lonesome road
I haven't played any DLC yet.
You didn't seriously just spoil something like that right? Cause I will find you and ruin your world.
holy shit
don't be such a goose, his steam profile is in his sig...