Could You Please Tell The Long And Absurd Story About The Elder Scrolls Cat Term? :3

in-depth tes oc questions

some world-building and character-building questions.

It’s a little unreasonable for everyone in a Middle Ages-esque fantasy to be perfectly literate, and writing with quills was considered legitimate labor! How well can your oc read and/or write? How detailed is their quest log/journal, if they keep one at all?

How educated is your oc? Did their parents teach them, did they have a tutor or were they apprenticed to a master, or did they attend a university? What university? What are they educated in? How long did their education take? (Learned skills like blacksmithing count here too!)

Does your oc have any kind of crafting skills that either aren’t in-game or don’t have as much importance in-game as they would in real life? (For example, can your oc sew or weave, etc? Are they skilled in any kind of art? Can they make jewelry or work glass? Are they musicians? etc)

What pantheon does your oc worship? If they worship the Cyrodiilic/Imperial pantheon, does that include Talos? If they secretly worship Talos, how do they justify hiding it?  

How religious is your oc? Do they come into conflict with others over their beliefs? If their patron deity told them to do something extremely undesirable or against their moral compass, would they do it? Would your oc sell someone’s soul for a corn chip?

Does your oc have a family of origin? How many members of their FoO are still living? Do they have a good relationship? How much contact does your oc have with their FoO? How in-the-loop is your oc’s FoO about your oc’s being Dragonborn/HoK/Nerevarine?

What social class was your oc born into? Did they change classes at all? How?

How politically active is your oc? Are they obviously influential, or is their influence more subtle?

What unplayable faction would/did your oc join, if any? Why?

How trustworthy is your oc? Would they ever change opposing factions?

What is your oc’s main source of income, if they have one besides plundering tombs and adventuring? If they’re mercenaries, are they part of a company? Does your oc own their own business, and if so, what is it?

Is your oc good with finances? Bartering? How long can they keep the money they make? 

Does your oc have any particular rivalry or mutual dislike with any NPC?

How well-liked is your oc? What is their reputation, if they’re well-known? Are they simply liked/disliked, or are they respected but feared, or personally liked but not taken seriously, etc? Do major factions consider your oc an important player? 

Does your oc have a horse/other mount? A pet? How did they get this animal? If they were given the animal, do they have the money to maintain it? How careful/careless are they with their animal? What do they do with their pets while adventuring, especially on dangerous quests?

Does your oc take their time as they travel, or are they purposeful? How do they survive in the wilds, especially if they aren’t hunter-types? How dependent is your oc on civilized society?

What does your oc like to eat? How much food do they eat? Can your oc cook, and can they do it well?

If your oc is a vampire, do they go outside in the daytime? Does the daylight affect or hurt them in any way different from in-game? If they interact with society, how do they justify looking half-dead and hating sunlight? How good is your oc at blending in? Do they even like dealing with society?

If your oc is a werebeast, how much control do they have over their transformations? Have they ever lost control? What happened? If not, why do they have such strong control? Does Hircine ever call on them, and do they answer?

What does your oc wear in the city/settlements? In the house? When travelling, but not adventuring or expecting combat? Do they vary their clothes depending on what hold/city they’re in? If they don’t, why not (e.g., if your oc wears the same outfit to tend their garden or lounge around the house as they did to meet Ulfric or Elisif, why?) Does your oc have a good or bad sense of fashion? How many clothes does your oc have?

How picky is your oc about their gear? Do they have different equipment for different adventures, or is it the same suit of armor for everything (not counting upgrades like from steel to ebony)? 

How does your oc acquire their clothes, and from where/whom?

Can your oc swim, and how well? Have they ever swam in the ocean, or only lakes/rivers? Remember, it’s much harder to swim in the ocean than in a lake! If your oc is an Argonian, do they take special advantage of it somehow (e.g., do they go diving for fun/for profit, do they instinctively hide in the water, etc)? If your oc is a Khajiit who can swim, how do they get their fur dry?

How easy/difficult is it to rob your oc? Pickpocket? Bribe? 

If your oc is part of one of the more morally questionable or outright evil factions, how do they justify it to themselves? Do they still consider themselves as morally good? How well known is their affiliation to these groups? Do they have separate personas (e.g. Dragonborn to some people, Listener to others)? Do their family/friends know? If they have separate personas, how do they keep their less than righteous activities secret?

How helpful is your oc, and why? Are they helpful or kind even during difficult situations? Are they pragmatic, or do they have a hero syndrome?

The ol’ bastard’s birthday

It is that old Horrid Phobias Lovecraft’s birthday today. And I am delighted to be seeing his ideas of cosmic horror being torn from his cold, shriveled, horrid hands. That the concepts of the unknown aren’t being co-opted into HP’s own prejudices.

I have been really enjoying Star Wars

And silly enough as my shit is, I still don’t exactly understand the First Order.

Rather what I mean to say, I don’t see how they can maintain resources when they were supposedly just like a rogue galactic state, and not the primary power, I think I may be missing something here, but they lost a planet-sized system-killer, that they should be in like in severe space-debt or something, I don’t know.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s production of “The Call of Cthulhu.” (2005)

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Boggy saying that Phone Anxiety is real helped me manage with ongoing problems. I appreciate him with my whole being.

New Idea!

So this is a phenomenon known as “Fata Morgana”

Essentially it is a mirage, but it looks like an alternate dimension. 

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen     In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is     Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in     Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in    Lost Carcosa.     —"Cassilda’s Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2 

Add in the fact that there is another mirage that can happen, 

Now, in the book “The King in Yellow” specifically the story “The Demoiselle d'Ys” a young man ends up in a weird place with a bunch of weird characters, and one is named “Hastur.” The ending makes the whole thing seem like it was an illusion.

What if Carcosa is not another planet? What if it is a dimension that exist right here simultaneously with ours? What if it is a mirage, that we can only see in certain circumstances, and thus why it is called ‘lost Carcosa.”

Everyone complaining about the Castlevania ending, you dirty filthy lot with no taste are few but let me address this anyway: YOU DESERVE TO GET THE FINALE SUPERNATURAL FANS GOT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE AN ACTUAL GOOD ENDING.

Yes, that's all. You can say what you want but an actual bad ending is so traumatizing you cannot watch the same show ever again. Appreciate the good things in life such as the masterpiece that is Castlevania season 4, you fools.

One of my favorite things in existence is Tales From The Gas Station, and my worst fear is that I’ll forget about it before getting myself to listen to everything and to read it fully.

Call of Cthulhu

Tomorrow, hopefully, is the finale to my first CoC campaign. 7-8 months it has lasted. And it may be my crowning achievement.