The Elder Scrolls Megathread XV: A Song of Ice and Draugr - Games

[QUOTE=Thechuz1337;42976244]Is there a mod anywhere that adds multiple races into the Imperial Army? Why shouldn't elves be among the ranks?[/QUOTE] pff, don't ever bring nonhuman scum into my army.

I hope they do actualy use 'chim' as an excuse at some point. Not for something huge and stupid , something small, hilarious and not related to the lore. Like an argonian pouring schooma on a broomstick so that he can fight a conjurer's dremora in a busy tavern.

[QUOTE=The Jack;42978403]I hope they do actualy use 'chim' as an excuse at some point. Not for something huge and stupid , something small, hilarious and not related to the lore. Like an argonian pouring schooma on a broomstick so that he can fight a conjurer's dremora in a busy tavern.[/QUOTE] They already used it to explain away how Cyrodiil was supposed to be a jungle but got turned into a temperate forest somewhere along the line. That shouty crazy guy in Skyrim's Whiterun pretty much says it outright, and it's in the Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes as well. [quote]CHIM. Those who know it can reshape the land. Witness the home of the Red King Once Jungled.[/quote]

[QUOTE=The Jack;42978403]I hope they do actualy use 'chim' as an excuse at some point. Not for something huge and stupid , something small, hilarious and not related to the lore. Like an argonian pouring schooma on a broomstick so that he can fight a conjurer's dremora in a busy tavern.[/QUOTE] Chim is probably why Flame Atronachs have changed from a ball of fire wielding a sword to a guy wearing a Taiwanese riot police mask with a horn, a bottomless woman with gravity defying fire hair, the best thing in the universe and now a scary ass monster with shark teeth and shoulder spikes.

[QUOTE=The Jack;42978403]I hope they do actualy use 'chim' as an excuse at some point. Not for something huge and stupid , something small, hilarious and not related to the lore. Like an argonian pouring schooma on a broomstick so that he can fight a conjurer's dremora in a busy tavern.[/QUOTE] Isn't basically everything about Vivec just "LOL chim"?

Oh my god I just remebered Dead Thrall. I'm about to give Elenwen what she deserves

[QUOTE=Kurahk;42976630]So I just found out that you can kill Elenwen after completing the main quest. Yeeeeeeeeeesssssssss.[/QUOTE] I told her to leave High Hrothgar, then followed her out and chopped her head off with the Ebony Blade. The best part was that for some reason it counted her as friendly toward me, so I got a charge for the blade as a bonus.

Is it possible to punch [sp]Sybille Stentor[/sp]and have aggression be reset by leaving for 3 days to get infected with vampirism without it not being sickening to the very core of my being? And would it then be hypocritical to [sp]talk that waifu-esque vampire lady into giving up her vampirism[/sp].

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;42979185]Is it possible to punch [sp]Sybille Stentor[/sp]and have aggression be reset by leaving for 3 days to get infected with vampirism without it not being sickening to the very core of my being? And would it then be hypocritical to [sp]talk that waifu-esque vampire lady into giving up her vampirism[/sp].[/QUOTE] I just found out today that Serana has the same voice actor as rayne from blood rayne, the transexual from nier, the ego from defiance, and akali from league of legends :v: [sp]vampire waifu confirmed for following me into other games[/sp]

[QUOTE=Altimor;42978514]Chim is probably why Flame Atronachs have changed from a ball of fire wielding a sword to a guy wearing a Taiwanese riot police mask with a horn, a bottomless woman with gravity defying fire hair, the best thing in the universe and now a scary ass monster with shark teeth and shoulder spikes.[/QUOTE] Why not have both? Pretty much my response to most appearance changes. (Not glass in oblivion and skyrim. That shit's hideous and stupid and needs to go. Besides- glass was to be a vardenfel thing anyway. ) I mean i DO have preferences; Daedroth were cooler in morrowind than they were in oblivion, but i don't mind seeing skinny, loincloth wearing crocodile-man-demons alongside larger naked ones.

Seriously, fuck CHIM and fuck Vivec.

Do I need to ask the obligatory "What is CHIM?"

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;42971754]Would anyone happen to know if there's a precedent in TES for time travel? There's the whole "looking through time" spiel Skyrim had going on, but I'm thinking about actual time travel.[/QUOTE] Pelinal was a time traveller from the future. [url=http://www.imperial-library.info/content/song-pelinal]PELIN-EL [which is] "The Star-Made Knight" [and he] was arrayed in armor [from the future time]. [/url]

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;42980019]Do I need to ask the obligatory "What is CHIM?"[/QUOTE] nah

[QUOTE=DChapsfield;42980354]nah[/QUOTE] Then i will, for hilarity... and tedium.

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;42979185]Is it possible to punch [sp]Sybille Stentor[/sp]and have aggression be reset by leaving for 3 days to get infected with vampirism without it being sickening to the very core of my being? And would it then be hypocritical to [sp]talk that waifu-esque vampire lady into giving up her vampirism[/sp].[/QUOTE] I'm asking seriously here....

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;42980019]Do I need to ask the obligatory "What is CHIM?"[/QUOTE] Well I would certainly like to know, as the only Elder Scrolls games I've played are Skyrim and a bit of the TESO beta.

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;42980019]Do I need to ask the obligatory "What is CHIM?"[/QUOTE] I'm sure somebody will correct me with a better post, but as I understand it it's basically this. Chim, extreme layman's terms edition. The world exists in the dream of a god, CHIM is being able to awaken into that dream, but continue to dream, so thus, lucid dreaming, which allows them to alter the world as they see fit. [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] [URL]http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:CHIM[/URL]

[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;42980721]I'm sure somebody will correct me with a better post, but as I understand it it's basically this. Chim, extreme layman's terms edition. The world exists in a the dream of a god, CHIM is being able to awaken into that dream, but continue to dream, so thus, lucid dreaming, which allows them to alter the world as they see fit.[/QUOTE] uh So the world is the Matrix and everyone is really sleeping in pods plugged into a gigantic power station?

How exactly does one acheive CHIM? I know there's the whole "looking at the universe from outside" and "standing at the apex of the tower" and such, but how does one actually [I]do[/I] it? I know that mantling simply requires one to become a living image of whomever they're mantling, but CHIM's different to that. Meditation? Sacrificing virginal dunmer to Azura at midnight of the 28th of Last Seed? [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;42980746]uh So the world is the Matrix and everyone is really sleeping in pods plugged into a gigantic power station?[/QUOTE] Yeah.

Chim isn't something to be achieved, it is within you all the time. You just have to find it. You can't explain to yourself something you don't understand, therefore most people can't understand chim.

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;42980906]Chim isn't something to be achieved, it is within you all the time. You just have to find it. You can't explain to yourself something you don't understand, therefore most people can't understand chim.[/QUOTE] So meditation, then? Searching yourself for the answer that you can't yet understand?

To be serious: Fuck if I know! Nobody here understands it anyway, why are you asking?

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;42980967]To be serious: Fuck if I know! Nobody here understands it anyway, why are you asking?[/QUOTE] I feel the need. The need for [sp]UNDERSTANDING[/sp]

it is literally the video game nirvana asking how to achieve chim is just as unanswerable as asking how to achieve nirvana in the real world all we know is, a good deal of beings have done it and some crazy, somewhat inexplicable things have happened

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;42980943]So meditation, then? Searching yourself for the answer that you can't yet understand?[/QUOTE] Well, Vivec achieved CHIM by [sp]using the heart of Lorkhan, a god, so he sort of cheated[/sp]

Best description I ever heard was that Chim is just a writer's nod to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall"]fourth wall[/URL], a creative way of acknowledging the player's agency and narrative power ingame. It literally fearlessly points out the barrier between reality and fiction, reincorporates it into the lore, and blurs it even more by getting people to talk about it relentlessly out-of-game. Say what you want about Michael Kirbride, but he really scores creative points on that one.

It also explains modding or some of the player's actions.

I always interpreted CHIM as an NPC realizing "Oh, I'm an NPC in a video game." and NOT disappearing in a puff of logic, therefore gaining player-like powers.

[QUOTE=The Jack;42976584]Is it not a joke? At least i hope that it was a joke...[/QUOTE] I was making an ironic reference to when the TESO lore guys called Molag Bal "the god of schemes"