I'm reading, not playing. Why? Coz the save files are incredibly gay; seems now i've completed with one char and got another a long way through db quests its become stupidly laggy, so every time I try playing I get pissed off at it.

really? Mine's not laggy. And I have nearly 600 saves. I'll take a screenie sometime if you wanna see. Can't you just delete your unneeded saves?

They're under C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves

Man, my pc is being a bastard, so I can't play. If I coul, I would tho.

I can help you out on the huge black soulgem, in any case.

I barely have any saves, thats the problem. I've got 2 for pevil and 2 for my thief, plus quick and auto. It's ok in most areas, just not if i go somewhere 'flower-heavy'. Not to mention the occassional 'loading area' crashes forcing me to fast travel are really pissing me off. I'm gonna play the 360 version for a bit, get the achievements on there. Once the pc patch comes out then I'll go back to the pc one.

there's a beta patch available right now.

As for the lag...flowers lag me too. Grass and whatnot. So I turned it off. Ruins some prettiness, but hey, what can you do. This game is amazingly cool and pretty.

Man, what a friggin' Monday.

lol well it used to run fine through flowers so i refuse to change my settings I won't bother with the patch til its a proper one; they're not exactly the worlds greatest at making stable patches so I'm not risking it.

you'd rather not play the game then turn grass off?

Anyway, I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I think I may take a bit of a break with SiN or something. What's sad is there's still SO much to do.

lol not really, but 1. there's no reason to have to suddenly change my settings and 2. i've got 2 other games i'm more interested in right now

Heh, don't feel bad about it...Oblivion is one of those games that won't disappear from your harddrive in a year or two anyway.

I'm still playing. I can't stop. :p I'm getting along in the thieves' guild...finally met the gray fox and started doing missions. hehe. The fence stuff is dumb...you know, you have to sell so much crap to a fence in order to progress...but the numbers are so low it's pointless.

I like how they spin their fiction together, though. I read some portion of a pamphlet ro something somewhere that talked about nocturnal yapping with someone. Right at the end of the fragment, she says something along the lines of "where's my hood?". Then that gets spun into the 'real world'. Really cool.

Yeah, I had that happen a few times too. In Daggerfall I used a 'regular' book (could get it in bookstores, find it, anything) to know the exact dates of all the Daedra princes' appearances so that I could summon them in the mages guild. If you summoned on a wrong date you'd piss them off and just get attacked by two bad-ass daedra. I thinkt the book was called 'The Invocation of Azura'.

It just felt really cool to come in the mages guild during a stormy and rainy night and start invoking the daedra princes...good stuff.

The entire lore of the TES is pretty good, but in the course of the years beth has been contradicting itself a bit which is never good. The Warp of the West (the outcome of the Dragon Break) is one of those work-around things.

I agree that the fence thing is way stupid. If you fence 10 items worth 200 gold to Ongar you're pretty much settled for the rest of the questline. Not really a challenge. But the thieves guild has some nice quests...not as nice as the DB, however.

And yes...the uber staff from the mages guild is truly uber. Only works on humanoids tho.

yea, I've still got a bit to go, I think. The DB quest was awesome... the statue at the end in it's 'evil' configuration is just amazing. I'm just sad it's all over with. Now I just get a paltry sum once a week.

Yeha, I was kinda bummed as well. There's no doubt in my mind that the Db will be worked out even better by modders though.

Still, even after wrapping up the quest line it's cool to hear the whispers of the night mother. I used to skulk around Bravil at night and often saw the Bosmer standing near the statue at night with a torch. I always wondered wtf he was doing there; he usually told me to get lost.

Then when i returend for the DB later...you know the rest. Pretty awesome that it's all so...real. You know? Ppl would be wondering about you too if you were paying visits to the statue at night...

Oh and the Black Hand robes are just plain cool.

yea, they're pretty cool. I'm collecting nice clothes and whatnot for enchantment purposes. I plan on getting a full suit of wisdom. From what I calculate, I should be able to get +80 wisdom or thereabouts. I wanna see what my magicka regen is like with 180 wisdom. :p

Right now I'm looking for a skirt to match my blue silk top and a hood. Gloves too, if there are any, but I don't think there are. Wish there were belts, too.

Aren't the effects of all primary stats capped at 100 or 110 or something?

And can't help you on the skirt or the gloves man....maybe you could check the Construction Set just to have a look if they even exist in-game. Could spare you some trouble.