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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 11th Aug 2014 19:30 Edited at: 11th Aug 2014 19:55
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Hopefully someone here can help. Mrs Gandalf is stuck because where her character keeps losing life for no obvious reason. When this starts to happen her character dies fairly quickly. She doesn't know what is causing this to happen or how to stop it. This happens while she is running around solving quests, etc.

Can any Oblivion players cast light on this?

Edit Seems she may have become a vampire. I'll refrain from saying more.



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Posted: 11th Aug 2014 20:00
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for starters you can temporarly toggle godmode (tgm in console) to try and figure this out. I never had a problem like this myself. Need more info on when this started at which location, maybe its a mod glitch? what mods is she running? Also it might be a cursed/poisoned piece of clothing worn by the charecter, Something in the inventory? Maybe it has something to do with a quest? Is she a vampire? (i cant remember if vampires in OB are damaged by sulight). you can test for the vampire thing by going inside somewhere and see if it continues happening. how fast is she loosing health? is it caused by obvios damage or something unexplainable, could be a disease.

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Being a vamp in Oblivion is damn tedious, best to sort that out with that cure mission.

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Posted: 11th Aug 2014 22:24
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Was just gonna say.
I remember curing vampirism being much easier in oblivion than in skyrim though.
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Ugh, when I became a Vampire in that game, I stopped playing for a week because I was so mad....

Then I looked up the quest to cure it, and saw how tedious it was and just decided to load from a previous save (which was RIGHT before a giant quest that took me probably two hours to do...), and bypass it all together.

Now you have me really wanting to replay Oblivion though, time to dig it out I think...


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Posted: 12th Aug 2014 01:52
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Yes, her character had become a vampire somehow. She's now busy trying to sort out that quest for the cure since she's got fed up with hiding from the sun.

Of course here in Cornwall the sun is busy hiding from us.

Thanks for all the suggestions.



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You can become a vampire an hour into the game almost lol. Once out of the opening area, just look for a sewer entrance around the city and you'll find a bunch of nasty vampires.

Though myself enjoyed the vampire life. I liked the dialogue that appeared after sleeping.

Sadly there's allot of vamps in ESO, but without the negative effects. It's even an achievement. After Skyrim I started to prefer being a werewolf, so I might go that route eventually with my character.

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Quote: "After Skyrim I started to prefer being a werewolf, so I might go that route eventually with my character."

I hated how you needed to re-equip all your gear though.
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Out of all of Oblivion, I think I liked the Dark Brotherhood missions best, that little story that unfolds, how you get Shadowmere, heck they could have based a whole game around that.

In Skyrim, I just thought what they did was a continuation of that - almost like the first time round someone really got into it and put in a lot of thought - then in Skyrim your doing mostly the same thing with the brotherhood, to me it's like they regurgitated it, when it should have been as cool as in Oblivion. I think the thieves guild missions in Skyrim are much better at least.

My all time favorite thing to do in Oblivion is to find that guy who drowned with the encumbering ring, and res him, and leave him there to swim aimlessly for eternity

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Posted: 12th Aug 2014 18:19
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Mrs Gandalf thinks this game brings out the worst in people.



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Posted: 13th Aug 2014 04:24 Edited at: 13th Aug 2014 04:26
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Quote: "thieves guild missions in Skyrim"

Ah man that's the one quest set I didn't complete because it didn't interest me so much in Oblivion.
Quote: "Mrs Gandalf thinks this game brings out the worst in people."

She should play Morrowind if she hasn't, I once killed just about every npc in the game.
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Posted: 13th Aug 2014 17:18
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New Oblivion question.

How can Mrs GG find/create Grand Soul Gems?

Quote: "She should play Morrowind if she hasn't"


It's in the boxed set.



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I usually go thieving in the Arcane university for soul gems and stuff, might need good lockpicking skills though to get at them. It's been a while but I'm sure you can get a few there, I think I needed them for the vamp cure quest.

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I always just stole them from mages guild's.
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Posted: 14th Aug 2014 13:25
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Thanks. Messages passed on.

Somewhat appropriately I've just been digging up garlic bulbs in the garden. Taking a welcome break now because of the rain.

Perhaps I should give some to Mrs GG?



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You probably already know this, but if playing on the PC you can just type this into the console for the cure vampirism potion player.additem 977E4 1
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Yeah, I'd write that down just in case... see that vamp cure quest is a pain in the butt - and then if you get vamped again you don't want to go through all those ingredients. So I'd write that on a post it note, then use it as a bargaining chip with the wife.
Don't show her the console commands and god mode and stuff - it'll just ruin the game.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2014 23:37
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Looks like a good bargaining tool to keep under wraps.

In fact, perhaps I should wait till she leaves the room and then enter it and see if she notices. I'd better get my running shoes on before attempting anything as hazardous as that though.



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Posted: 15th Aug 2014 02:39
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If you have the chance, get shivering isles...its all kinds of entertaining.

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Posted: 15th Aug 2014 14:12 Edited at: 15th Aug 2014 18:26
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Thanks - I'll check it out.

[Edit2 Shivering Isles is in our boxed set - don't think we've got that far through the contents yet. ]

Edit Progress. Mrs GG has found a grand soul stone! Just four more needed. No cheating or lock picking so far.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to debug a shader.

Perhaps it's time to play a game instead.



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Posted: 19th Sep 2014 13:02
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** Update **

Mrs GG now has everything she needs to cure vampirism - except garlic.

She is getting rather fed up with being a vampire. Should I look for a wooden stake?



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Posted: 19th Sep 2014 14:57
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Does she though?...

If memory serves, the vampire cure mission is to cure someone else, once you have all the stuff, you make a cure and have to deliver it - and the reward is the recipe , you still have to go and get more stuff for yourself.

I think that once she finds the garlic and completes the mission, just spawn the cure rather than going hunting for more soul gems and stuff. It should be a fair and justified hack if she's done all the ground work already. Plus - she might get infected again, might be better to have a few cures hidden away somewhere in her house. Soul gems are useful, you don't want to use them up curing diseases.

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Posted: 19th Sep 2014 15:17
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Thanks. I'll pass that on.



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Hmm. I never played Oblivion, but this makes me want to go back after more than a year and finally finish off the main missions in Skyrim. It'd be nice to play it on a powerful gaming desktop rather than an average laptop


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Posted: 19th Sep 2014 19:13
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She's found her garlic. Now it's back to the person who wanted it.



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hmm, if your wife doesnt mind clicking a lot you can ensure you have a solid way of making some coin;
goto skingrad, goto the city hall and ask around about buying property, eventually you will be given some blokes name to search out, go see him and ask about property again, he will tell you the cost iirc then you simply buy it. Once bought theres some sort of furniture shop around the corner to the property you bought(take deeds with you), buy some furniture then speak with one of the females in there - she will offer to work for you, be sure to accept. When shes hired she can be found pottering around your home(at night she sleeps in basement) talk with her and keep asking for shepherds pie(or maybe cottage? cant remember), this will mean a fair amount of mouseclicks. Once done convert the pies into potions(think it may be health it produces - you need your alchemy skill to be high to make these from 1 item iirc) again fair number of clicks, then sell the potions in the shop next to your house. Repeat as often as you like. Of course it is easier to rob items and sell them but eventually you will find you robbed everything worth anything hence why I resorted to this.
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Posted: 19th Sep 2014 21:01
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At last, Mrs GG has been cured of vampirism. Now she can move on.

@James H Noted and passed on.

Sounds a bit like a hack or glitch to me. I remember playing a user-created scenario from one of the HOMM series of games where a particular location would give you several powerful units if you completed a quest. But in this case, the author apparently forgot to delete the script so every time you went back you could get more of these units for free. You could very quickly build up an invincible army. Unfortunately I didn't realise this till I'd nearly finished the scenario without that trick and visited the site again by accident.



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