Yaelynne on 27/12/2003 at 01:40

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I'm nearing the end - done lots of quests, I'm the Master Thief, the ArchMage, the GrandMaster of the Morag Tong, etc. Now I've decided to seriously pursue the main thread - I've been to the cavern of the incarnate and found out I'm the Neverine.

Problem is, I keep dying. I hear a scream, and then I see my character fall on his back dead, and I get the prompt to load my most recent save. I have 100% immunity to blight and corpus. I've gone to the main temple in Vivec and bought every single blessing imaginable. But after a few minutes of game play I drop dead again. I have the Moon-and-Star ring, but I'm not wearing it. I've got all the apparel from the other candidates for Neverine, but prefer to wear my own creations.

I also carry around a couple of thousand pounds of stuff because my strength and feather potions are powerful. I levitate with an amulet and move at enhanced speed usually. My stats like luck, intel, etc. are usually pumped up over 1000 from my potions.

I'm in day 571 now and I really want to finish the game. Anybody have any clues why I'm dying?

thanks,
Wyldeman the Wood Elf

WingedKagouti on 27/12/2003 at 12:42

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Your post indicates that you've abused Alchemy and that at some point you made a very powerful Fortify Health potion.

Fortify Health adds an amount of Health above your normal maximum for a limited (in your case probably a few months) duration after which it will substract the same amount from what you have left. The catch : You can't heal above your normal maximum and if the added amount was more than that you will die. This is likely what is happening to you.

There are 2(3) solutions :

1) Use more Fortify Health to be able to survive the backlash. This will keep you addicted but able to continue from where you are. Remember that while you are making potions the gametime stands still ie. you can make enough potions to survive 1 second before you die if you have the ingredients and a mortar/pestle on you.

2) Reload from a point prior to when you quaffed that Fortify Health potion. You will not need another of those again but instead you may loose a lot of progress.

3) Use the console (PC only) to give you more base Health than the potion(s) did, wait for the potion(s) to run out heal up and reset your health (if you want back to "normal"). This is a cheat but it will rectify your situation without the drawbacks of 1) & 2).

madphilb on 27/12/2003 at 17:40

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And here I thought it was Skooma that was the killer drug in Morrowind :D

Healing up to full health (even while fortified) should do the trick... if the health meter is 100% full then when the potion wears off it should only drop off what was fortified, you're basic amount of health should be left.

PHIL

RyushiBlade on 27/12/2003 at 22:07

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Reading "Confessions of a Skooma Addict" may help with your problem ;)

I haven't used alchemy at all in any of my games. I probably should try it out sometime. Those super restore health potions of yours sound intriguing.

Daoloth on 9/1/2004 at 20:21

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hmm. am I the only one who has never used potions and stuff to bump up my stats/health/whatever to unreasonably high levels? I have always just gone with what I have, not caring about becoming especially powerful. by the time I finished the main quest @ lvl. 29 I was already so powerful that nothing could touch me. well, whatever floats your boat.