PREQUEL suggestion box (thread 6)

[KatenRala]

> Katia: Find Steve in your state of undress. Get close to him and tell him that you were really smitten by him. Caress him with your tail, his sides, thighs, and work your tail up between his legs. Hug him and smush your breasts against him and reach down behind him to squeeze his butt. Show him how warm and soft Khajiiti are. Whisper to him that you need a couple things: a bath that you can both take together so you can get to know each other better, and a bed where you can really get to know each other better. Peg him and while he’s distracted by your high level bedroom skills punch him firmly in the back of the head or better use a hard object against his head.

> Then find a knife and slip it up beneath his sternum into his heart. Dress in something robe-like and take everything from his house that is both easily carried and of value, especially septims and weapons. Finish your errand for Quill-Weave then leave Kvatch forever. If the Dark Brotherhood comes a-calling join them, and that way you’ll have at least two places to stay, Quill-Weave’s house and the Brotherhood’s hideout.

> Shower Quill-Weave with gifts and affection and learn how to survive a place as brutal as Cyrodiil from the Brotherhood.

> Then wipe the rotted Brotherhood off the map. Destroy evil with evil actions but goodness in your heart.

> No one will know that you’re a hero, but that’s okay. You can do the traditional heroics when you are strong.

[JJA]

Katia: Buck up. Your foamy beard creation skills, along with your talent for signpainting, are the nucleus of a business that is sure to bring you success. Just brew up some shaving cream for wizards, compose some jingles, put them on sequential billboards on the roads of Cyrodiil, and the septims will soar right in! Here's a sample to get you started:

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A wizard's chin

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(So goes the tale)

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Should feel as smooth

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As West Weald ale!

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Bruma Shave

(Thanks to Xevious for the typo of inspiration. Those who don't get the reference should try this link.)

[TheTurnipKing]

Clannfears, even the runts, resist fire 33% and reflect damage at 20%. Katia would be destroyed by one at her current level.

Without a silver weapon or magical weapon a summoned ghost would pwn poor Katia if she doesn't have the magicka to take it out.

Being that Sigrid is an alchemist, she can brew a poison so all she needs to do is nick Katia with a poisoned weapon, or trick our cognitively curtailed catgirl into drinking or eating something poisonous to kill her. Hell, maybe as Katia is feline all Sigrid will need to do is give Katia some aspirin "for a headache or pain," and let Katia kill herself with it.

Sigrid is too dangerous. If Katia is really bent on getting her things back or taking revenge on her, Steve is the only weakness I see, and who knows what he's capable of if Katia is aggressive towards him. I think Steve might, just might, help Katia get her things back, but no more.

That's why her default action is "run". We're not in there for direct confrontation: We're in there for loot. We take what we can get. The guild has a lot of targets of opportunity. We don't need to get them all. Retrieving ANYTHING is a success.

Still, we plan for probable encounters in advance to make sure Katia is as well prepared as she can be.

Then, we zergmind on anything unexpected we encounter. The default action when she's overwhelmed by ideas is to just run away, which should hopefully be adequate for dealing with the majority of unexpected encounters within the guild hall. At the very least it should buy her/us more thinking time.

In her defense, fireball is her first spell, and she did only learn it this morning. Can't expect her to instantly be an all powerful master of all magica in less than 24 hours can we?
She'll get there eventually, she just needs some more practice (on valid, living targets).

If we see the Clannfear, we run for the stairs. If we need to jump out a window to get away later that's fine. She did it earlier and while it wasn't a roaring success, we should be getting better at that now.

No magic within the guild. We're using a different persona without magic skills. Sigrid knows what to expect from the Khajiit mage. So we shouldn't be her right now.

[KatenRala]

@ TheTurnipKing

At least Kahjiiti are faster than many creatures.

But I worry that this isn't Kaz's dungeon for us, but a loot-filled trap, hence avoidance or recruitment of a third party to get what Katia herself can't. I'm positive that Katia can die if we don't plan well.

[Xeivous]

I feel ashamed that I misspelled Bruma...

I think I'll go sleep now...

[KatenRala]

I'm thinking if Katia can throw a fireball well she should be able to throw dangerously sized rocks too. A hit against Sigrid's face or her bug musk spray if Katia encounters her and can't easily run away might save her life. Plus a sack of rocks would make for a deadly melee weapon if Katia can't find anything better.

> Katia: Collect a sack of rocks to replace your "machete." What's worse than a naked Khajiit is a naked, unarmed Khajiit.

[Kazerad]

I'm thinking if Katia can throw a fireball well she should be able to throw dangerously sized rocks too.

She has already commented on her ability to throw actual objects!

Also sorry for the relative radio silence lately, guys. I am pretty much finished up with school now so things should be picking up soon, barring any Unexpected Disasters.

Hopefully.

After getting another update or two out, it will probably be time to seriously discuss whether to lock the thread between updates. Not that you guys are doing anything wrong (barring several forays into khajiit penises, this thread has remained remarkably on-topic), but just to make it more manageable for everyone involved.

[KatenRala]

She has already commented on her ability to throw actual objects!

Also sorry for the relative radio silence lately, guys. I am pretty much finished up with school now so things should be picking up soon, barring any Unexpected Disasters.

Thanks for that.

Congratulations on finishing school. (:

May I ask your major and minor? I've a BA in Digital Media and a minor in Theatre.

[sabata2]

Kaz

Post an update and leave the thread open for 2~3 days. Then lock it.
Typically we catch your updates around then.

[TheTurnipKing]

@ TheTurnipKing

At least Kahjiiti are faster than many creatures.

But I worry that this isn't Kaz's dungeon for us, but a loot-filled trap, hence avoidance or recruitment of a third party to get what Katia herself can't. I'm positive that Katia can die if we don't plan well.

If Kaz wants to kill Katia, there's not much we can do to stop it.

But I don't think he does yet. If he kills her, who's he gonna torturemance? The best thing we can do really is put her in ridiculous and dangerous situations and try and ride the rollercoaster and come out at least a little ahead. The worst thing we can do is be sensible and boring.

[KatenRala]

If Kaz wants to kill Katia, there's not much we can do to stop it.

But I don't think he does yet. If he kills her, who's he gonna torturemance? The best thing we can do really is put her in ridiculous and dangerous situations and try and ride the rollercoaster and come out at least a little ahead. The worst thing we can do is be sensible and boring.

I'd still like to see Katia rest, rearm, reequip, and get into some shenanigans first that lets Katia grow as a character and become more powerful and confident in herself. Danger is fun but as is, Sigrid will turn Katia into a red stain on the ground if anything goes wrong because of Katia's inexperience and lack of intelligence and creativity.

I'd like to see Katia develop her friendship with Quill-Weave more. Maybe Katia finishes her errand, bawls her heart out at Quill-Weave about Sigrid, and together they go back to Kvatch. Quill-Weave cares for Katia. Katia may be able to get more magical training at Anvil's Mages guild. There's still plenty of time till Oblivion.

Back to the door problem, I think the wards of Kvatch's Mages Guild work only against magicka based fire and other attacks, as they didn't appear against physical attacks. It'd be classic Katia to start a serious fire out front and sneak in another way, and wind up burning the whole damn town down right before Oblivion.

[TheTurnipKing]

I'd still like to see Katia rest, rearm, reequip, and get into some shenanigans first that lets Katia grow as a character and become more powerful and confident in herself. Danger is fun but as is, Sigrid will turn Katia into a red stain on the ground if anything goes wrong because of Katia's inexperience and lack of intelligence and creativity.

Actually, I agree we shouldn't rush in immediately. It seems like we've got a couple of days, which we can use to sort out a few alibi's and whatnot. But we've got tonight to get through first, which might throw all of these plans to the wind. C'est la vie.

But I disagree about intelligence and creativity. She's pretty smart and this speaks volumes about her mental creativity.

And that's before you take into account the fact she's got an Internet Forum wedged in between her ears too.

No, her weaknesses are willpower and courage. I'm pretty sure we can learn to exploit that impressive ability to selectively ignore reality, though.

I'd still like to see Katia rest, rearm, reequip, and get into some shenanigans first that lets Katia grow as a character and become more powerful and confident in herself.

These are the shennagins of the Katia Managan.

There's no point in putting of the shenannagins that are right in front of us in order to go out and look for different ones.

[KatenRala]

Actually, I agree we shouldn't rush in immediately. It seems like we've got a couple of days, which we can use to sort out a few alibi's and whatnot. But we've got tonight to get through first, which might throw all of these plans to the wind. C'est la vie.

But I disagree about intelligence and creativity. She's pretty smart and this speaks volumes about her mental creativity.

And that's before you take into account the fact she's got an Internet Forum wedged in between her ears too.

No, her weaknesses are willpower and courage. I'm pretty sure we can learn to exploit that impressive ability to selectively ignore reality, though.

I agree with what you mean by Katia's imagination skills, and she draws almost as good as Kaz, which means she draws about as good as god. (I would like Katia to get a sketchbook and see her drawings.) I should have clarified that I meant the creativity that benefits people in combat. Her intelligence is on shakier ground to me, since she has no context to what we say, Katia will sometimes ignore us and do something that isn't bright when she should have listened and paid attention to why the voices are telling about something at that moment. She has some sense, she just isn't savvy.

It's my bedtime. Good talking to you TheTurnipKing and I'll be visiting the board tomorrow. (:

[Lirian]

Gah... Kaz... prequel withdrawls... need update...so bad..

[DestinedFateX]

We should try to teach Katia new techniques:

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Katia: Let me teach you a new technique Katia:

First you must meditate due to your inexperience with the technique. Stand up and close your eyes, then raise your right arm up and lower your left arm. Rotate your right arm clockwise and your left arm counter-clockwise. Keep your mind clear and begin to visualize the energy/Magicka gathering around your body. Use the rotation of your arms to focus the energy onto the palms of each of your hands, and after a minute or two, open your eyes and pull your arms backwards into a chamber-type position while "holding" onto the energy/Magicka you have focused onto your hands. You had to meditate and keep your mind clear because the shear amount of power you gathered would drive you mad if you had not done so. Finally, thrust your palms forward, sending a powerful surge of pure energy at your opponent. This is the Hadoken (or Wave Surge Fist), it is unbelievably more powerful than your standard fireball. In order to use it without meditation you will have to fully master the technique via frequent practice.

[TheTurnipKing]

I agree with what you mean by Katia's imagination skills, and she draws almost as good as Kaz, which means she draws about as good as god. (I would like Katia to get a sketchbook and see her drawings.) I should have clarified that I meant the creativity that benefits people in combat. Her intelligence is on shakier ground to me, since she has no context to what we say, Katia will sometimes ignore us and do something that isn't bright when she should have listened and paid attention to why the voices are telling about something at that moment. She has some sense, she just isn't savvy.

It's my bedtime. Good talking to you TheTurnipKing and I'll be visiting the board tomorrow. (:

It's worth bearing in mind that not every voice is helpful.

[PumpkinMan]

It's worth bearing in mind that not every voice is helpful.

And that the same voice isn't always helpful in every situation. Gets kind of confusing.

[Darcwolf]

ok here is how i see it. katia you need to go to the town guard tell them what happen BUT point out that everything that was taken was NOT yours but was in fact Q-Ws stuff. even the coins since you are in town to also buy a book but since you didnt have the money on hand you had to earn it in witch case even the gold you earn is Q-Ws so in other words you signing that agreement is in fact not a legal document since you cant sign away the belonging of other another person.

[Iarei]

And that the same voice isn't always helpful in every situation. Gets kind of confusing.

KATIA, EAT A BEAR. GAIN IT'S STRENGTH.

It's o.k. Kaz, we know it's hard to draw those abs for whatever it was Katia slept with this time. No need to rush. But yeh, after the first three days people are more or less repeating themselves, or others.

[Evil Argonian]

Katia: (because we all know you're about to get drunk) wake up with that guard you rescued. Tell him he owes you a favor.

[SallowFace]

We do not all know that she's going to get drunk. She's broken before, but she's been getting better. Whoever says she hasn't has the memory of a goldfish. She might get drunk, in which case it will be regrettable but not altogether unexpected. But there is a major portion of her subconscious that is urging her to stay away from that bottle.

[Evil Argonian]

We do not all know that she's going to get drunk. She's broken before, but she's been getting better. Whoever says she hasn't has the memory of a goldfish. She might get drunk, in which case it will be regrettable but not altogether unexpected. But there is a major portion of her subconscious that is urging her to stay away from that bottle.

And I'm part of it. But just cause I want that to to happen doesn't mean I expect it to. I fully expect her to drink it.

[Froggy22651]

Katia: Honestly, you've got nothing to lose at this point. You're worried about being perceived as a slut, but look at yourself: you're alone, crying in the rain, and trying so hard to conform to this idea of normal. Guess what, Katia? There's no such thing as 'normal'. Normal is this unattainable idea that you are convinced is real, but I assure you, it's not. Look at the people you've met. You've met a soldier with drug problems, an attractive lesbian Argonian who lets strange khajiit sleep in her bed, and an orc with an unhealthy obsession with his own muscles.

It's time to grow the fuck up and realize that no one can define you except yourself. If you think you are filthy whore, then you will always be a filthy whore, and no amount of name changes will change that fact. If you want to succeed at anything, you need to stop being so damn afraid of yourself. If you want to be Katia Managan, then be Katia Fucking Managan and all that it entails. Don't pity yourself and your circumstances just because it doesn't fit your close-minded definition of normal. No one you've met thus far is your own brand of 'normal'. If you learn from the mistakes you are making along the way, life will get better one day, though it may be far off. If you want that, if you really truly want that, then grow the fuck up and realize that life isn't going to make things easy for you. Your job as A REAL PERSON is to figure out how to make things work in spite of this. I've got no answers for you. You have to find those yourself.

That search for answers is called life. Grow the fuck up and start looking for it.

This...may be the best piece of advice ever given to Katia. She spends so much time worrying about what others think about her, tries so hard to conform to this ideal she's got in her head as to what is normal and respectable, that she's stifling herself. She's not trying to be what she wants to be; she's trying to be what she thinks she SHOULD be, and it's unhealthy.

Katia is a kind-hearted young woman with good intentions. She's loyal, she's got a quirky sense of humor...and she's scared all the time. Constantly worries about embarrassing herself, failing. She hates herself. She thinks of herself as trash, as hideous. She left the land of her birth, all her possessions, even her own name, in an attempt to reshape herself. It's not rational, and it's not good for her.

She needs to accept herself. All of herself. You get a little liquor in her, and you see the side of her that she fights so hard to suppress: the side that likes to party, take risks, enjoy life no matter what others think. The Khajiit 'don't-give-a-fuck' side. Maybe a part of the problem is that she's grown up surrounded by humans, rather than her own species.

She needs to lighten up, or she's going to be miserable for the rest of her life. Yeah, yeah, I know: "making a cat cry". But come on. This is getting depressing.

[KatenRala]

This...may be the best piece of advice ever given to Katia. She spends so much time worrying about what others think about her, tries so hard to conform to this ideal she's got in her head as to what is normal and respectable, that she's stifling herself. She's not trying to be what she wants to be; she's trying to be what she thinks she SHOULD be, and it's unhealthy.

Katia is a kind-hearted young woman with good intentions. She's loyal, she's got a quirky sense of humor...and she's scared all the time. Constantly worries about embarrassing herself, failing. She hates herself. She thinks of herself as trash, as hideous. She left the land of her birth, all her possessions, even her own name, in an attempt to reshape herself. It's not rational, and it's not good for her.

She needs to accept herself. All of herself. You get a little liquor in her, and you see the side of her that she fights so hard to suppress: the side that likes to party, take risks, enjoy life no matter what others think. The Khajiit 'don't-give-a-fuck' side. Maybe a part of the problem is that she's grown up surrounded by humans, rather than her own species.

She needs to lighten up, or she's going to be miserable for the rest of her life. Yeah, yeah, I know: "making a cat cry". But come on. This is getting depressing.

Katia's an alcoholic though, and drinking is destructive for her. Maybe she should try a little bit of skooma and have fun. I'd like to see her have a good time (rather than cutting to black) and not care what others think of her, heck maybe people will like her more if they see her having fun and not being uptight about it.

But she needs to remain in some sort of control instead of just blacking out. I bet some khajiit in town has a stash of the good stuff, or even just some moon sugar, and an experienced user will make sure that Katia takes only enough to loosen up.

Katia, though she doesn't realize it, is an artist, and I think she would get a lot of enjoyment out of it. She could even illustrate Quill-Weave's books.

We don't need to see Katia's party trick (I imagine it looks like break dancing though, dodge the yo-yo) or screwing, just having fun with her life and with others.

Wizarding also makes her happy, and she should pursue it seriously and be good at something for her sake, not for others.

[Froggy22651]

Well, I didn't mean she needs to self-medicate herself. In fact, that's a very bad thing. Her drinking problem is part of her suppression: drown her fears in alcohol so she doesn't have to face them. No, what I'm saying is she needs to loosen up and accept herself. Stop worrying about what everyone thinks of her.

I've been in her state of mind before, and it doesn't lead anywhere pleasant.