Prequel: Let's All Make a Catgirl Cry

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Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Of course, if she IS the Hero of Oblivion, she's going to need to get arrested and thrown in the Imperial Prison at some point.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2011 15:28

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:09

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Dolash posted:

This thread's got some sharp elbows. We should find our footing when there's another update to talk about. I'm curious to see how Katia handles the mudcrabs - is she capable of crab-murder, or will their adorable crabby faces stay her hand?

I'm sure any question of if she'll take them out will be based on the depths of her magicka reserves (since as an Atronarch-baby she can't regenerate more in combat if she runs out) and how well she can hit them with an axe while dodging their pinches.

After all, they're horrible creatures.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2011 11:02

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Necromancer#Necromancer_Spells

We already know he can summon a skeleton. According to this, he should also be able to summon a ghost or a zombie, and should have two attack spells and one healing spell. However, he's got an actual name instead of just "Necromancer" so who knows.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2011 11:50

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Young Freud posted:

How do we know it's a fire-resistance ring? It just says Ring of Firewalking. It could very well only cover Gro-Upp's feet.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Ring_of_Firewalking#Ring_of_Firewalking

It's a generic magic item you can find around the world. 30% resistance to fire.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2011 03:28

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Gnome de plume posted:

In which case Katia will have to try 30% harder to burn him.

I'm not totally solid on the math there, but it's worth a shot.

No, it just means he'll take only 70% of the damage of her lovely starting fire spell. Only thing which would make it do more damage is hitting a target with fire or general magical vulnerability, spells in Oblivion don't scale. Do we have a wizard version of :eng101:

?

(Barring mod weirdness with quest rewards and such.) (Also your math is off and it'd be about 42% harder.)

# ¿ Aug 27, 2011 10:58

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

I think more importantly from the point of view of the readers, he's hilarious.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 17:44

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

SirSamVimes posted:

Gharugg just stopped being endearing to me.

You kidding? That was hilarious. NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE KVATCH MAGES GUILD. NOBODY.

Admittedly this may be more amusing to me becuase I've played the game, and that is literally true. I don't think there's a single line of dialogue in the entire game about the place.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 14:31

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

EvanSchenck posted:

To me it seems more as though the point was to give gro-Upp an item that would make it impossible for Katia to even harm him

By which you mean "do 30% less fire damage", right? And given his displayed level of competence, which is much higher than a mudcrab, I don't think she can cast enough lovely fire spells even without the ring.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 03:29

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Captain Oblivious posted:

Elder Scrolls necromancy does not work that way so probably not. Sadly.

Unless you're the King of Worms, but then again that involved deliberately becoming a Lich instead of randomly having your throat cut. And also breaking causality.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 15:22

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Opposing Farce posted:

Off the top of my head I remember finding a spoon (when you get the knife, fork, and spoon Katia comments that she has a full set), a paintbrush, and I think probably a few other things as well.

Lots of oily rags, fireworks, and other things suitable for somehow burning down the entire town with.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 14:31

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Kurui Reiten posted:

Also a girl with a very interesting fetish and parentage near that tree in the north. Surely not a vampire. Definitely not.

Katia keeps talking about how she doesn't know any other Khajit like her, though, but... her parents may have been disappointed and probably uncaring, but are we really supposed to assume she's also never noticed they're her species, too? Or did I miss something there?

there are like fifteen loving types of Khajiit ranging from "maybe slightly hairier human with pointy ears" all the way to "literally a talking cat". Which type you are is based on the phase of the moon(s) or something and it is really loving complicated and weird.

Each Elder Scrolls game has had exactly one type of Khajiit show up in it, different in each game.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 14:49

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Silentman0 posted:

There's absolutely nothing sexual about the lockpick gag and I will defend this to my death

The lockpick gag is a game mechanics joke. If you go to jail, they confiscate everything you have on you and replace it with some prison clothes.

Except for one lockpick, assuming you were carrying one.

EDIT: How you smuggled it in is not addressed.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2011 22:46

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

You hide it in your rock hard chiseled abs, obviously.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2011 22:49

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Oh no, a comic based on a game where you wander around cities poking into everybody's stuff and talking to them had a flash where the main character wanders around a city talking to everybody and poking into their stuff.

Frankly I'm more concerned that the "Katia is bad at things and has horrible luck" thing is going to be driven into the ground and turn things into basically misery porn.

Case in Point: The necromancer whose name I have already forgotten because he only existed to hand some magic items to Gro-Upp and die.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2011 23:26

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Android Blues posted:

Oh, doy. I guess that is a super pricey/misvalued grammar book then.

It's more that Katia is dirt poor. 40 septims is about middle-range pricing for in-game books.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2011 19:59

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Pakled posted:

I get the impression that she wants to elevate Alchemy to be considered one of the major schools of magic.

I get the impression that buying cheap food and turning it into potions and selling them is a really good way to make money in Oblivion and she needs to make money somehow.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 01:17

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Sash23-83 posted:

Also Kazerad, was it actually possible for Katia to get the fish out of the well at that point or was it a huge waste of time?

Of course it wasn't, something would've gone horribly wrong for her no matter what she tried.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 06:46

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Daktar posted:

Who wants to bet that any porphyric hemophilia that Katia might have picked up hasn't actually been cured and now she's going to begin the painful process of turning into a vampire?

Seriously, just licking a clanfear's foot is not proper alchemy, Sigrid.

It's the first effect on the ingredient, which means you get it if you eat the ingredient raw.

Given that the ingredient then goes away, pretty sure you'd need to swallow it whole or something, though. Should've given Katia some nail clippers, Sigrid!

EDIT: See also chowing down on 20 pound chunks of Ebony in Morrowind.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2012 07:56

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Zenzirouj posted:

The comic really hasn't felt like a CYOA to me for a while now, so I think that's where people keep running into problems. It's pretty much a webcomic in which suggestions are occasionally asked for at this point. I never bothered with suggestions so it doesn't really matter to me either way.

Don't forget that the suggestions are also blamed for introducing a character only to kill them off.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2012 19:25

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:09

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Dolash posted:

Most stories can cut away from these darkest of moments and cleanse the pallet then come back when the character's ready to do something again, but we're going to have to watch the whole emotional grind of the thing.

Hey now.

We might cut away to somebody else who might become a friend for Katia only to be abruptly killed.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 05:13

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