A Q on spells and I need the item code for... [spoilers]

Loké on 8/6/2003 at 15:03

...a sword. Can't rembmer the name, but I can tell you how I got the quest to get it and why i'm asking:

A little north-west of 'hal Oad' are some ruins. West of those ruins are some underwater ruins [no problem for my Argoniaon] and there is a ruined statue on th sea-bed. Talk to the head and he gives you a quest to talk to a sculptur in Caldera, the sword being it's reward for you doing this.

'Fair enough' I think, and off I go on my wild goose chace.

But the time I arrive there on foot, i'm bored, and in the mood to kill something, cliff racers being nothing more than annoying gits which my steel Dia-katana dispose of with ease.

I find the moron [eventually] and then I find out I have to get a wretched book for him, which isn't bad in itself, but it's location- that rare book seller in Vivec.

...that's right, vivec.

So off I go running down to Balmora for the first time, by the time I get there [once again, on foot] it's ten minutes later. I get the silt strider to take me to vivec, get his stupid book, after playing 'find the shop' [gads that place is a maze! :sweat: ] I get back to Balmora and have to walk all the way to Caldera again.

About five minutes later I'm there, he's got the book and money, he says something along the lines of 'right I'll do it, don't let the door hit your bum on the way out.' Off I got to statue-man at the ruins to report.

Eventually, I get back to them. And the sod won't talk to me. So I travel north to the point where the statue was going to be built tosee if he'd deceided to manifest his new statue.

No statue. 'Fair enough' think's me, 'it's going to take time to be built.'

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...Twenty four days of resting non stop, still nothing. I swin back to the statue, and he won't talk. So Someone put me out of my misery and just give me the item code please.

ps. I have the latest patch installed before you ask.

pps: my genreal feeling about this is summed up with the following smiley: :grr:

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EDIT: I forgot the spell question!

How do I enchant items myself, out of curiosity? and I've noticed that when I sucessfully cast some spells, and even a few unsucsessfully, I learn them. This is because of a high stat in the right skill [eg: Destruction] right?

Myoldnamebroke on 8/6/2003 at 16:13

The sword you're after is Goldbrand, and to get it from the console:

player->additem katana_goldbrand_unique 1

You enchant items yourself by dragging a filled soul gem from your inventory onto your player icon, as if you were equipping it. That'll open up the enchant menu. Bear in mind most of your enchantments will fail unless you've a high enchant or intelligence already.

Any time you cast a spell succesfully (or perform any skill dependent action), you progress slightly in that skill. When you've progressed enough, that skill goes up a level. It doesn't matter what the current skill level is.

Loké on 8/6/2003 at 16:19

I'd forgotten what it was claled. Thought 'gold' was in there somewhere.

Thanks for your help.

And in regards to the spells... I know about that [why else would my agility, block, longblade, ectre increase? :p]

What I was meaning, was I have a scroll, say fireball. When I cast it, I lose the scroll. But It's now a 'permanent' spell- Like my Argonian's breath underwater, and, due to the serpant starsign, venom bite.

And i'm wondering, 'why' and 'how'?

but as I said, thanks.

Myoldnamebroke on 8/6/2003 at 16:31

Oh.

Well, I've no idea. I've never heard of that happening. The only book I can think of that adds a spell is Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi. Perhaps it's a mod you've got installed?

Loké on 8/6/2003 at 16:33

Mabye I just described it wrong. I only have Morrowind and Tribunal. [the new one isn't out yet in england]

How do normally learn spells? [thats right, i don't know! :laff:]

Myoldnamebroke on 8/6/2003 at 17:06

By buying them off somebody - talk to mages and they've frequently got a 'Spells' option where Barter is with traders.

Loké on 8/6/2003 at 17:37

oh right, I'v seen those, and bought off them. So that must be how...:sweat:

lol.

Ania on 8/6/2003 at 17:48

About Goldbrand, I think you made two mistakes (both can be rectified without cheating)
One, it actually takes something like 45 days to build the statue.
Two, apparently waiting around in the location where it's meant to be built can cause it to NOT appear. Wait somewhere else, out of the Khartag Point cell (map square). Similarly when waiting for your stronghold to be built- wait for it somewhere else. Or just go do other stuff until enough time passes.

Ania

Loké on 8/6/2003 at 18:09

Oh right. I'll push off and do something else then, because I've only waited about 30 days, max.

Kafein on 9/6/2003 at 09:25

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So off I go running down to Balmora for the first time, by the time I get there [once again, on foot] it's ten minutes later. I get the silt strider to take me to vivec, get his stupid book, after playing 'find the shop' [gads that place is a maze! ] I get back to Balmora and have to walk all the way to Caldera again.

and u can travel among balmora, vivec, caldera and sadrith mora-wolverine hall using the mages guilds... i mean u don't have to run...