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The Oblivion chat threads. Those were some great times exploring and sharing experiences with such a great game.
Anyone know if they're working on a new Elder Scrolls game?
Another day, another Septim...
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Since I've never posted this anywhere, I'll share with the shack. From a couple years of ago:
Baiting the Russian Bride - Oblivion Style
Every once in a while, random anonymous people will send messages to my ICQ account, trying to strike up conversation. I usually ignore them, because they're usually pulling some sort of scam. In the case below, I was contacted by what I assume was a 'Russian Bride' scammer - a Central European woman trying to scam airfare & perhaps a green card out of lonely, desperate men in Canada and the U.S. I couldn't resist trying to scam the scammer, simply because she complemented my (fake) mug shot I use in my profile (seen to the right).
At the time, I was in the midst of playing the epic game Oblivion. If you haven't played the game, what I say below will make as much sense to you as it did her, but basically I played my in-game character out to this chump.
Veronika
2:16 PM - hello Jeremy. such a nice picture you have ;-)
2:16 PM - are you a photographer?
2:17 PM - i am sorry, never introduced myself
2:17 PM - i am veronika, i come from a small country in europe
2:18 PM - if you do not want to write to me at all just say so, pls
2:18 PM - it is okay, it will make me a little sad, but it is okay. i am a stranger to you...
Jeremy
2:19 PM - i'm sorry - i just had my leg stuck in the drawer and couldn't reach my keyboard
2:19 PM - have you read my book at all!?!?
Veronika
2:19 PM - your book?
2:19 PM - do not no much about you...
2:20 PM - :-(
2:20 PM - know
Jeremy
2:20 PM - it's a dissertation on the levelling system of the various guilds in cyrrodil .. there's a lot of complexity there that is usually overlooked
2:21 PM - do you follow the alchemy scene at all?
Veronika
2:22 PM - why these questions?
Jeremy
2:23 PM - oh i'm sorry - it's an enthusiastic subject for me - i love to hear people's views on the topic
2:23 PM - it's ok, you don't have to say anything.. ever since the guild banned necromancy a lot of people have been very tight-lipped .. understandably
Veronika
2:25 PM - what do you do? what is your job?
Jeremy
2:26 PM - well i'm basically an 'agent' class .. merchantile and speechcraft are my strong traits .. but otherwise, generally speaking, i'm an adventurer of sorts
2:28 PM - how about you?
Veronika
2:29 PM - nice
2:29 PM - me?
2:30 PM - i am still a student. i study at university of economics, faculty of commerce and my major is business and marketing..
2:30 PM - next month i will graduate
2:30 PM - i am 23
2:30 PM - your 29, right?
Jeremy
2:31 PM - that is wonderful - with skills like that i'm sure you could hold a powerful and useful position somewhere in imperial city .. perhaps even with the council
2:31 PM - yes i am lvl 29 - moving my way up to 30 steadily ..
2:33 PM - i haven't been focusing on my major traits lately - increasing my minor abilities, though useful, doesn't affect my overall level sadly .. though these are things we must endure if we want to be well rounded in character and skill ..
Veronika
2:34 PM - yes, your right
2:34 PM - will you tell me more about yourself?
2:34 PM - married? kids? hobbies? sports?
Jeremy
2:37 PM - well .. i am a dunmer .. sort of displaced from my homeland .. i'm a fine marksman/archer .. i currently own 4 houses, though two of them are just shacks by the water .. i'm working on purchasing my 5th house - saving up my 'gold' as it were. i've joined only one guild, but am an honorable member of the blades, which is something not a lot of people can say .. hobbies include working on my speechcraft, touring ayleid ruins, and generally experiencing everything the wonderful and vast countryside has to offer
2:38 PM - and yourself?
Jeremy
2:45 PM - oh... have you ever had the privilege of tasting the Surille Brother's wine from Leyawin? I hear the vintage of 366 is of exceptional quality ..
Veronika
2:46 PM - never... sorry... :-(
2:47 PM - i do not drink a lot
2:47 PM - but i would taste if i had a chance of course
2:49 PM - something about me? i love life... i am very happy person even when i have many problems. but i was born under "happy star" so maybe that is why i am that happy, always smiling... well, to be honest - almost always...
2:50 PM - love dancing.. used to play handball - 9 years, love all kind of sports... want continue studying in america...
Jeremy
2:51 PM - that is so wonderful - what a great coincidence: i love life too! though, personally, i was born under the sign of the thief - which i hope does not reflect poorly on my overall character .. ahh, i'm sure it doesn't - my personality is quite high - second only to my agility.. i'm quite the acrobat
Veronika
2:52 PM - ok, now...
2:52 PM - will you tell me something more personal? ;-)
Jeremy
2:52 PM - yes? now?
2:52 PM - yes, i will certainly ..
2:53 PM - please just don't ask where i got my quartz curias .. that's something i vowed to keep to myself
2:54 PM - the twenty percent shield on self it offers is something that would be of great envy to certain others ..
2:56 PM - what would you like to know, my good veronika? what is it, citizen?
Veronika
2:57 PM - let's start with it... yes, citizen of..
2:57 PM - ?
Jeremy
2:57 PM - ?
Veronika
2:58 PM - where are you from
2:58 PM - where were you born?
2:58 PM - canada?
Jeremy
3:03 PM - i was born in Morrowind, as I said, I'm a dunmer .. but currently i am finding my place here in Cyrodiil .. though my place here feels somewhat temporary - i'm sure once i've managed to close all the gates to oblivion and restore the emperor to his rightful place, i'll be forced to move on .. but that's the way things are here in Vvarndfell, right? i mean, either you find your place as a smith or bookseller or farmer or you move where the adventure is .. it's our fate, i suppose
3:04 PM - how about you? where do you hail from?
Veronika
3:08 PM - i am from slovakia... have you ever heard about this country?
3:08 PM - it is in the middle of europe, very lovely country
3:08 PM - very small
3:08 PM - people are very nice...
3:09 PM - like myself ;-)
Jeremy
3:09 PM - yes, i hear the terrain is quite wonderful there .. and with the assistance of hdr, it's even more beautiful ..
3:12 PM - i'm sure those horrible oblivion gates haven't been showing up there either .. perhaps when i've done my service here i can venture there .. leave the political torrent and racial tensions between the bretons and khajiit .. though i'm sure i'll miss the argonians and their surly, down-to-earth manner of speaking
3:14 PM - what do you say? were i to travel to your lands, would you direct me to a comfortable inn to rest my head and regenerate my health? how many gold would a modest shack go for? do you know of any rumors that may lead me to important npc's that could start me on a new quest?
Jeremy
3:25 PM - where did you go? please don't tell me those daedric bastards have gotten to you too!
Jeremy
3:35 PM - NO GREEN CARD FOR YOU!
Veronika
3:36 PM - ???
Jeremy
3:38 PM - i'm sorry - i had recently purchased a servant's quarters for my home on leyawin, my finest home .. those quarters have remained empty and was considering it might be a suitable place for you to get your footing .. but i need my servant to be attentive, prompt - to fetch my mead when i require it .. now i fear i'd rather have fowl fagus hold that position than you.
Veronika
4:55 PM - i am so sorry...
4:55 PM - my friends came... couldn't reply
Jeremy
4:58 PM - it's ok - we've sorted things out on this end also
4:59 PM - when heironymous lex started muscling the grey fox a little too hard, we put him in his place. i was the key player - but all together the thieves guild showed lex that the grey fox cannot be defeated, cannot be caught ..
5:00 PM - haha - we had him shipped to anvil! way out in the middle of nowhere on the gold coast .. but i think he knew the grey fox was the one who put him there. the grey fox won.
5:02 PM - do you have any enchanted items you'd be willing to part with? ideally something with shock on strike of twenty five or more .. if you don't, that's ok - i'm just asking but please don't be offended
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