PREQUEL suggestion box (thread 6)

[slashkamei]

Asotil or Nah: Enter room and save Katia.

Asotil: Enter with epic music and sucker punch Steve for some made up reason to save Katia.

[Grey Acumen]

Katia: give the nice lady the stuff and then excuse yourself for the evening. You can get it back later when you sneak in during the day. (use your new push objects spell to open doorknobs/window latches) The important thing is to keep track of that perfume she just used so you can get a hold of some for yourself.

[GloriousDemon]

Be a bee.
Bee: Waft into the room then B-line right onto the cat person's nose.

[Funderful]

A while back, Asotil gave some crucial information on Sigrid. Look at the words he chooses:
"Bold and outgoing, strong and ALLURING. Skin as fair as snow, hair as gold as… gold. Her smile alone could light the darkest nights, her tears could shatter the stoniest heart. Yet BELOW THE SURFACE, there was something DARK and MANIPULATIVE, sad yet hopeful. LAWLESS yet noble. Oh how SCANDALOUSLY she could skirt the edges of every law, every regulation – following all the rules but playing her own, MYSTERIOUS game. She was something DIFFERENT. Something UNUSUAL. Something AMAZING."
The way I see it, she isn't what she appears to be. She can sound very persuasive, but that does not mean she is telling the truth. However, your inventory is now sprawled all over the table, the dinosaur beside you has dumped some stuff too for some reason, and either you get a hold of yourself or become a failure again and go back to your drinking extravaganza.

[Funderful]

Wait...ALL YOUR STUFF?
That includes the amulet, doesn't it?
In that case...
Sigrid really let the cat out of the bag now. She's been pussyfooting around your questions and now she has you trapped like a game of cat and mouse. In all your nine lives, you never expected this to happen, but now she's pulled out the catnip purr-fume and it's left you with the whole curiosity conundrum. So, let's give paws to the situation fur now and get adorable, CATia.

[Katia Managan]

Moonsugar

That's Blood Grass, and with it is Spiddle Stick.

I was just referring to when Katia said she was allergic to moonsugar.

[DestinedFateX]

I'm expecting a Deus Ex Machina to occur; either that or Stephan attempts to save Katia out of grief, which I doubt will happen. Alternatively, Katia can just 'magically' break the control (Maybe somebody helps her do so) and take all of her belongings back before anything else happens, which is also unlikely to take place.

[Iarei]

I was just referring to when Katia said she was allergic to moonsugar.

You shouldn't talk about yourself in the third person like that. Say: "I was referring to my allergy to moonsugar."
You'll never confuse new posters this way.

[DestinedFateX]

You shouldn't talk about yourself in the third person like that. Say: "I was referring to my allergy to moonsugar."
You'll never confuse new posters this way.

Nah, he/she can speak however he/she wants to.

[LaserShark]

Yyyyeeeaaahh... I'm gonna follow for just another update or two, but I think I'm just about done with this adventure. Sending Katia back to square one again, due to Sigrid's social godmodeing, is a bit too much for me to stomach.

[ProphetLord]

I think Katia is pretty much incapacitated for the time being. Nothing we say or do is going to work until the effects of Sigrid's perfume wear off.
So until then, I think our only chose of option here is to

>Be someone other than Hammerfell’s easiest talking animal.

[Orion Dezagrats]

Wait...ALL YOUR STUFF?
That includes the amulet, doesn't it?
In that case...
Sigrid really let the cat out of the bag now. She's been pussyfooting around your questions and now she has you trapped like a game of cat and mouse. In all your nine lives, you never expected this to happen, but now she's pulled out the catnip purr-fume and it's left you with the whole curiosity conundrum. So, let's give paws to the situation fur now and get adorable, CATia.

Well SHELL! This MITE just BEE the worst thing that's ever hapPURRned to you, CATia! It's got to be RUFF, having been DOGged by all that misFURtune your WHALE journey.

>Spontaneous Firestorm: Happen.

[tronn]

I don't think that dropping the amulet and starting fires is a good idea, because
A) What it's gonna achieve? Sigrid is a mage, she won't be fazed by couple random tiny fires
B) It's kinda boring

I still think it would be better to persuade Stephen to help you, because let's face it, the theme of this game is that Katia can't manage on her own. She'll have to sneak in during day (lol) and steal her stuff back. That way
A) She'll get to go on an exciting sneaking mission
B) She has to rely on other people's goodwill, once again.
C) She'll realize that she has graduated from prostitution to thievery

That way the cat is miserable, we're happy, everybody wins.

[Kayito]

Not to rain on everyone's parade, but...

Katia won't just 'snap out of it' and attack Sigrid, because this wasn't a charm spell. Even if she did, Sigrid has shown some magical talent and Katia is rather inexperienced in this regard. Katia won't win the encounter. (Also... eye of fear again? Are you people stupid? She's already used it twice today and lost use of one eye for doing it. If she does it again, she'll be blind for a month.)

The only thing we could possibly do is cause a cat-burn-firefest, which would tip Sigrid off to the amulet, even as she douses the fires (mages from the last guild have shown remarkable capability to deal with the occasional misfired magic).

So play along with all of the catburns just fine... Burn off Katia's precious little magicka.

And when it's finished, Katia quietly comes to her senses and takes my vote from earlier. At least this way she feels good about herself, and that her (forced) donation meant something. Plus it's an easy way to get access to those books! Katia's been dying to read them since she spotted them! And you can't tell me Sigrid wouldn't love having a pet khajiit reading up on magic for a few days before winning her a ton of money in a silly dance competition!

(Also... ;-; almost took my vote... too bad...)

[PetPeeve]

Katia: leave the mage's guild whistling at all your good fortune, and tell EVERYONE all about it, especially people with high resistance to persuasion, and double-especially people with high resistance to persuasion that are thieves.

Edit: oh god, who fits the intersection of those two circles perfectly? GRO-UPP. We know already that he gets angry when the subject of the Kvatch mage's guild comes up, and how's he going to react to Sigrid getting in the way of him getting his rob on?

[Barkspawn]

Didn't take katia long to screw up again, Out of the well, Into the frying pan.
Nah/Asotil:Take over because you're the only competent protagonists.

[Lithonius]

Did you just give her your gold amulet? After eating all these foods with alchemical ingredients?
I sure hope that now, after eating lots of foods with alchemical ingredients and unshackling yourself of the amulet, no "accidents" were to occur, especially considering she's now covered in perfume (which as we all know, is highly flammable).

For once, it may be a good thing to cause an accident or disaster.

[Evil Argonian]

I was just referring to when Katia said she was allergic to moonsugar.

I know; I was responding to someone else who had called it the "red stuff" or something like that.

[conantheimp]

A while back, Asotil gave some crucial information on Sigrid. Look at the words he chooses:
"Bold and outgoing, strong and ALLURING. Skin as fair as snow, hair as gold as… gold. Her smile alone could light the darkest nights, her tears could shatter the stoniest heart. Yet BELOW THE SURFACE, there was something DARK and MANIPULATIVE, sad yet hopeful. LAWLESS yet noble. Oh how SCANDALOUSLY she could skirt the edges of every law, every regulation – following all the rules but playing her own, MYSTERIOUS game. She was something DIFFERENT. Something UNUSUAL. Something AMAZING."
The way I see it, she isn't what she appears to be. She can sound very persuasive, but that does not mean she is telling the truth. However, your inventory is now sprawled all over the table, the dinosaur beside you has dumped some stuff too for some reason, and either you get a hold of yourself or become a failure again and go back to your drinking extravaganza.

Looks like Asotil's criminal-scum-dar still works, but he is still in her thrall anyway. I think his reaction to knowing baout her little operation would be... interesting.

That said, I support all of these commands:

You know, suggestive pheromones and potions are sort of like alcohol...

Katia: Suddenly become extra generous. "Oh, my amulet would look so pretty on you!" Demonstrate this principle.

Oh, Sigrid! Such charisma!

With all that personality, good fashion sense and charm to spare, she seems almost REGAL in her bearing! She wouldn't be out of place if she were rubbing shoulders with the Emperor of Tamriel at all!

Wouldn't you agree, Katia?

Wait, didn't Sigrid say that was cured venison?

>Katia: Blackout sequence #3

Katia: The cat, alongside all your valuables, is out the bag now, huh? Don't forget to hand over that amulet as well. It would look super good on Sigrid.

Also take note of how flammable the room is. Couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting something that'd go up like tinder.

Clannfear: Ally yourself with the bipedal cat lady, and name yourself Tom Clanncy.

>Give her your necklace you selfish pussy!

Sigrid: What a great plan, now you got that Numbskull Khajiit under your thumb! That perfume sure is effective, and simple too... Just Imp gall and Troll fat mixed together in a liquid solution... you like to mix it in Cyrodilic Brandy. Oh! She's leaning in to sniff you , like most do. Should you send her to rob the orphanage or send her on a suicide mission, like last time!

Katia: doesn't she smell goo... go.. Good? It's almost like tak- taking a sip of cold be- beer... -black out-

TL DR? Sigrids perfume has an alcohol base... For what ever reason... And katia's low tolerance causes her to black out from one big wiff!

Katia> Take off necklace and give it to Sigrid. The amount of puns that people will say in between this update and the next causes you to make the Kvatch hall explode.
Mythic Dawn member> Hear explosion, summon Daedra. It must be party time, and you're late!

According to a tragedy in black, a book I read while playing skyrim, if a summoner excepts a gift from the creature it summoned the control over the creature is broken. Even if the personality of sigird was able to get the clannfear to give her what ever was in his possesion, his normal hostality will override her ability to charm him and he will attack. This could be enough for katia to snap out of it and retrieve her stuff.

>Katia: Donate Amulet, you useless weak-minded kitten. Fur all you've done, you're on a path to mewling out of the night in a puddle of your own and someone else's bodily fluids. Again. You're hardly a mage, you've got two spells, one that is pawsitively unusable and the other is hardly capable of killing mudcrabs, fucking mudcrabs. Not to mention you were too much of a scaredy cat to kill one of those chitinous shit-heads with your axe, my grandmother is less of a pussy than you and she's gotten several painful diseases! I used to be proud of you, despite your meek and kitten like ability to do anything. You were going somewhere you useless ball of fur, but now I see that you've gone upon the path of least resistance right into Sigrid's trap. You're going to die as a whore with her throat slashed in the gutter or as an ogre's wife.

Katia: Isn't it sad that Sigrid's beautiful ivory neck is unadorned with jewellery worthy of her glamorous visage? If only you had something to remedy that deficiency, something to show Sigrid how much you adore her... Purhaps your amulet? Don't paws, rush over and gift it to her - lace it straight onto her neck, then step back to admire the the flame of her beauty! She'll be the cat's whiskers wearing it.

Of course, your depth purception is not so great at the moment with your injured eye (your hand-eye coordination must simply be pawful), so you may well drop the amulet down her shirt, or get the cord tangled up. But a wonderous person like Sigrid will surely forgive you.

[Evil Argonian]

Katia: leave the mage's guild whistling at all your good fortune, and tell EVERYONE all about it, especially people with high resistance to persuasion, and double-especially people with high resistance to persuasion that are thieves.

Edit: oh god, who fits the intersection of those two circles perfectly? GRO-UPP. We know already that he gets angry when the subject of the Kvatch mage's guild comes up, and how's he going to react to Sigrid getting in the way of him getting his rob on?

THIS.
Katia> Go out, run into Gro-Upp, tell him about Sigrid, her huge pile of coins and shinies, and about how she asked for everything you had and you gave it.

Gro-Upp: Oh, no. NO. NOT AGAIN. Sigrid is NOT going to steal from one of your business clients AGAIN. You're going to march right up in that guild when she's gone, take all the shinies, AND return your client's items. Just for the sake of business. And also you're going to take that Cyrodiilic Brandy stored in that wierd bottle with a nozzle a plastic oval thingy attached by a string, and drink it, bottoms up.

Sigrid: Go back into the mage's guild after your shopping trip. Run into Gro-Upp. Be under such a huge effect that you start hailing him as lord.

EDIT: Also, @dragonchris
The book says it's for summoned Dremora, not summoned Daedra. There's a difference. I'm not sure what really is the limit though.

[Merth]

THIS.
Katia> Go out, run into Gro-Upp, tell him about Sigrid, her huge pile of coins and shinies, and about how she asked for everything you had and you gave it.

Gro-Upp: Oh, no. NO. NOT AGAIN. Sigrid is NOT going to steal from one of your business clients AGAIN. You're going to march right up in that guild when she's gone, take all the shinies, AND return your client's items. Just for the sake of business. And also you're going to take that Cyrodiilic Brandy stored in that wierd bottle with a nozzle a plastic oval thingy attached by a string, and drink it, bottoms up.

Sigrid: Go back into the mage's guild after your shopping trip. Run into Gro-Upp. Be under such a huge effect that you start hailing him as lord.

also

Gro-Upp> You've finaly maxed out your luck at 100, congrats. Now you're simply pumping endurance and strength, because you know the value of good health, and fucking ripped abs.

[Cobalt]

Oblivion Client: Crash due to too many mods running in the game all at once.

[Katia Managan]

You shouldn't talk about yourself in the third person like that. Say: "I was referring to my allergy to moonsugar."
You'll never confuse new posters this way.

You are correct I will talk about myself in the first person from now on, I was letting too much of the customary Khajiit dialect through I guess.

[John Rochard]

Katia : Use all your willpower and try to snap out if it. If that doesn't work, well maybe catburns will outpower the spell !

[Katia Managan]

I know; I was responding to someone else who had called it the "red stuff" or something like that.

Ah, ok, sorry for the misunderstanding