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Published: 2013-11-04 14:07:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 33893; Favourites: 351; Downloads: 0
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Varril just joined the Great House Hlaalu and apparently they can't decide whether they're cool with their members being cold-blooded killers or not.To be honest, I'm always a bit reluctant to carry out assignments like this for these people because you can never be quite sure if someone is going to doublecross you or not. So, I had a bit of a panicky moment when I returned to Nileno Dorvayn and she acted like she didn't just send me to assassinate a guy five minutes ago. I was almost happy to realize that it was simply a limitation in the game engine and not a conspiracy. Almost.
Also... If House Hlaalu wants me to off somebody, would it be too much to ask that they'd tell their guards not to chase me around the town afterwards, eh? Though I guess it's a good business plan to pay the fellow 1000 drakes for his services and then have your own guards arrest him and demand 500 of it (thank the Divines for Thieves Guild discount) back as a fine. It's hard to be an honest delinquent in Morrowind.
Varril Velethi © me
Nileno Dorvayn, Thanelen Velas and Hlaalu Guards © Bethesda
from the video game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
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Comments: 171
I've never finished Morrowind but all these comics are really making me to give the game another chance.
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I hope they do - I haven't finished the game either, but I sure plan to get there one day...
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This game...My honesty-to-goodness least favorite Elder Scrolls I've ever played. I remember having to get a two-handed weapon every time just to be able to hit an enemy.
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That really depends on which class you play 
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Oh, I always went with custom class, too many variables with pre-made ones.
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Legit. No matter if you had to select every weapon skill there is in order to counter those foes even at low-level?
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And 90% of the time, you need to crouch or jump or writhe in horror at the bad character models
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... LOL. Ok, no comment at that, I don`t even mind the character models. And I play it without any serious graphical mods, since they would be too strong for my laptop.
I bet it`s because of this reason that such things like Morrowind Overhaul and Better Bodies + Heads exist.
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Ah, I wouldn't know, I only had it for XBOX. My computer (A business one I got on sale) can barely run the original half-life. It gets glitchy just because of the flashlight.
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No problem for me if it`s for Xbox. At least we both know about those character models, even though personally I kind of like them like that (vanilla Morrowind). Yeah, I`m a 90s girl 
Pfff, sounds like my own PC, thus I play the game on my brother`s laptop x3
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Yeah, they have what, 2 polygons? A voice actor? Not to mention the fact that you gotta squat for half the game to spear enemies or use a katana cuz THOSE should've been in Skyrim. Would've made it a truly perfect game.
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Haha! Unless you have them as Major/Minor skills?
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That's another thing! Skills are supposed to be something you check only when you level up, which would never happen in this game, anyways.
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Weird, since my Major and Minor skills are going up nicely and once the number of increasion reaches 10, then you can level-up (my chara`s level 26 now). And again, it all depends on the class you play, as seriously, so many different skill-classes! 
I`m personally more annoyed that your misc. skills are so damn low
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What did I just read?
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Oh, I dunno, I still like it. Sure it's older and sometimes buggy, but I can't help enjoying the atmosphere Morrowind has...
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But, if nothing else, the music was great
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The gameplay's not the best, but the story is much better than Oblivion's. I can't compare it to Skyrim because Skyrim would actually have to have a story in the first place.
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Makes them look a bit bipolar. Of course more hilarious things have happened in video games...
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Yeah, much like Skyrim guards actually...
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Usually provoking the guy you're trying to kill until he attacks you first solves the guard problem. xD As long as they attack you first, you can kill them in self-defense.
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Aww, I keep forgetting you can do that...
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Game bugs can drive one crazy! This one sounds like a dozy, makes for great comedy though.
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Gods this is why in retrospect Morrowind was such a pain in the ass despite being such a good game for its time. The Great house missions were so finicky and even the slightest fault of any kind was an automatic game breaker. Probably the main reason why I never completed the main story was because you limit what you can and can't do in the game. And on top of it all it seems like that every action you take, even for factions, makes you seem like an ass even when you do EXACTLY as they request...*sigh* still, good times. That's what PC Adventure RPGs were like back in the day
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Yeah, true story. Is till very much enjoy playing the game, though.
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Same when my Steam version actually works haha
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Nice!
To me those Hlaalu meatbags looks more like brainless tin cans or very clever manipulators that are playing some kind of trick on Varril's brain.
Anyway, great comic - as always!
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Thing is ... isn't that Dark Brotherhood armor he's wearing? Or did he just loot that from an assassin who attacked him as he slept?
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The latter one. Thanks to that assassin I got a really nice free armor as early as level 5...
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I remember doing the same thing, although I kept mine hidden under a robe.
He does look pretty good in black.
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And same, only my character was still level 1 ...
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Oh my god ..... 
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There must be some way to kill someone without getting a bounty... there must be...
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Yeah, as it turns out you'll get no bounty if you make them attack you first. I got to remember that next time I get a quest like this, lol.
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Almost every guard and even common NPCs had told that to my character~ ... xD
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The most easy way to kill him is to anger him.
just take of your clothes, pull your weapon and insult him
and he will attack you voluntarily.
...It's also the most humiliating way.
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Ack, I keep forgetting you can do that.
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I don't see the problem, of course House Hlaalu would never support a murderer...that is incapable of killing without being cought
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Awwwww, but I was such a low level scoundrel at the time... D:
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I understand these feels. ;__;
Great comic! I need to pick up my Morrowind game again. I think I got lost somewhere in Vivec last time I played ...
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Hehe, thank you!
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Yeah, I always hated having to kill people in Morrowind, more than in any other Elder Scrolls game. I never did Hlaalu(I'm a sucker for the Redoran), but I remember an Imperial Legion quest where I had to kill this guy and I hated getting a bounty for it.
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Yeah, same... Shame that I keep forgetting that if you make them attack you first, you'll get no bounty killing them. Oh well.
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The problem was that I utterly failed getting that one guy to attack me. He hated my guts, but would never attack me.
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Maybe Frenzy would work nicely or, if you have high Speechcraft, just repeatedly bribe and taunt him.
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Granted this was an old file that got destroyed when my old computer died, but I did have speechcraft(midlevel I think, it has been a while) and taunting didn't work. I didn't think about fury, but then again, at that point in time other than levitate(which was fun), I completely ignored magic.
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