i drank too much skooma and got mad. i started running around punching orcs (thats why their faces are so smashed) and i assasinated the emperors sons while wearing a red hooded robe. but seriously, i was attacked by an imperial mage, who used his telekenisis to push me outside, i got up and i knocked him down and used his own staff to kill him... the thing was, a kvatch guard was walking by and saw me killing the mage and arrested me for murder. while he was taking me away i took of his glove and bit him, and running away i ran into an orc, who yelled "BY THE NINE DIVINES, ASSAULT ASSAULT!!" and proceded to pin me to the ground, and then i was taken to the imperial prison in a crate while wearing a straight jacket and whispering "orcs..... orcs.... orcs...."

:facepalm:

My Nerevarine, Dralor Ysguar, was thrown into prison for continually, and unintentionally mind you, disturbing the peace and well being of nearby villagers by way of magical experiments. He argued he was there first and that it's the villagers' fault for living so close to him, but that didn't go over with the Imperial Legion.. So he rotted in prison for quite a number of years before being sent back to his homeland.

I never bothered to give much back story to my Oblivion characters. Never really kept one long enough to give the effort.

I haven't played Morrowind, but I've got some answers for my Oblivion characters.

-One inadvertently threatened an Imperial guard and couldn't pay the fine.
-One was thrown in jail for "unicorn poaching." (He's pretty sure they made that law up.)
-One was caught stealing from a count in order to fund her skooma addiction.

My current Morrowind character ended up in jail because she had the misfortune of choosing the wrong day to go shopping in the Imperial City. A riot broke out and the guards pretty much rounded up everybody who got caught up in it, including my char. After that, we all know what happens.

My only serious Oblivion char (who is now gone for good) ended up in jail for starting a bar brawl. Not intentionally, mind you. It's all because of that obnoxious Nord who kept hitting on her and couldn't take a hint. She finally punched him out because he wouldn't leave her alone... everyone else then decided to fight. She was arrested for assault and disturbing the peace... didn't have the money to pay the fine so ended up in prison.

Yeah, but that's because Tharn personally did not like you.

My other Oblivion character was arrested for streaking

My redguard in Morrowind was arrested for consorting with the Thieve's guild and relaying imformation to them on government buildings.

My dark elf in Oblivion was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed himself.

I don't have Morrowind, so i'm just gonna say the one from Oblivion.

I showed my middle finger at the emperor

The usual - drunk and disorderly, possibly involving puking on a guard's shiny boots and insulting his mum. That bit is hazy though.
Then, next thing you know, I am doomed to save the world in Oblivion. In Morrowind, I tend to just wander off and not worry so much about saving anything.

on one of my other characters i was arrested for pickpocketing (i was in sneak mode for some reason and my cat came by and made me press the a button)

another time i was arrested for accidentally lockpicking someones store.... i pressed the a button to enter the store but it was closed so went into lockpicking mode and i accidentally pressed the a button instead of the b button :toughninja:

If the player was "lifting" on a prisoners ship he still wouldn't be called a prisoner..... Both are prisoners and that's it.... Besides... You actually get more thinking freedom...

You can deny it... but the player WAS placed by the gods in the prison.... The Emperor knows alot... He already knew he was going to die in sewers and would never reach Cloud Ruler Temple.... He also saw your character in his dreams.. not just 1 dream... more... If the player was really just a prisoner who was really placed in the cell by accident (wich is almost impossible) then the Emperor would have never trusted him.... and never saw him in his dreams.... and most importantly never entrusted him the amulet of kings...

This story can't be used in Morrowind....

I actually broke IN to the Imperial Prison, unfortunately they locked everything again before I was able to exit again.

I was a plot-device.

In my game play, NPC tend to be morons, and they assume the worst. This is no exception.


No, in my mind set, it does not at all.


Oh, I can deny it. Its called mods, and they do a hell lot better when it comes to integration from Intro to Main Quest.

With that said, they could have done this crappy intro ANYWHERE else. Hell, ya can sleep in an inn and they barge in your room, Picard use his cheap pick up line, and move a fruit bowl next to the ugly paint, which reveals a secret door. And that just one example if I would to use that crappy template.

MW: My argonian was arrested for spreading a few plagues here and there, and poisoned a few wells on the borderlands of Dres, just to see what would happen to non-scaled people when they ingested the poison or got infected with the disease. Why they sent him too Vvardenfel? The emperor was too busy looking for a wig to be bothered, and his papers got mixed up with the 'real' nerevarine's. So, my argonian got a free pass into the heart of Morrowind and joined the Telvanni, while the real nerevarine is currently dead or awaiting execution by means of disembowelment or to be dropped to the bottom of the ocean (which should have happened to my character).

OB: My breton...to be honest I have a hard time thinking of a way he would have been in jail. He was a nice guy, until he completed the MG quest line, then his mind started to splinter and took on multiple personalities until he found his way into the shivering ilse, and then saved Cyrodiil just to mess with Mehrunes Dagon. If the MQ started later, I would have started it just before I wandered into SI, so...I'll just say he was arrested brutally beating a horse to death (after completing all the guilds), mental instability, and resisting arrest, assaulting an officer of the law by throwing venison at the guards, and disorderly conduct

Some big ugly Nord came by and grabbed my dainty bosmer [censored] while I was shopping for herbs in the market.
I hit him with a paralyze spell, then cold cocked him upside the head, and finshed by stuffing ash yams in umm, one of his sensitive areas. I was about to roast those ash yams with a fire destruction spell, but the local authorites intervened.

Violation of the Levitation Act.

Oh, and in Morrowind, tax evasion.

i set hack dirt on fire

How... Original.

For Oblivion on my main my Character was Skooma Dealer from Morrowind. In Morrowind my main was at a local tavern in Skyrim and got drunk and ended up killing a man.

I started a fight with a redguard, I hate redguards, they killed my mother.

i was exploring a tunnel and i entered a door and fell into a prison... i believe the tunnel was called the sewers..... :toughninja:

I generally don't think about it, but it would probably be something to do with brawling.

Both, are truley good, good, causes man

Well, a case of mistaken identity can occur in either game. You can be mistaken for a criminal, a prisoner, or even a hero.

As far as your character's personal "excuse" for being there, that is entirely dependent upon the player, not the game. I like to think that I make some pretty good pretexts for my characters being in the Imperial prison. Likewise, one could make an absolutely trite excuse for being on the boat in Morrowind. It sounds to me as though you just have a personal attatchment to boats, and the promises of travel and exploration they imply. In Morrowind, however, such things are just illusory - you're trapped, you're a prisoner, and you have no more control over your destiny than a character in Oblivion...that is, until you leave that setting for the greater world.

Ya, I do not like the "I am frame" idea that people keep throwing at me. Its nerve-racking.


Everything in the intro is really just personal reference. Its not set in stone as to how ya can go about making ya toon there. Its more that the placement of WHERE the toon is place is the problem.


Except ya not me, so its not some crappy "illusion" that ya thought out. I got control of how my toon got into the story. Oblivion wise, I uses mod to control my destiny of how I got into the big mess of the Main Quest in the first place, because the way I see it, the intro for Oblivion nothing but pure crap and I do not even deem it worthy of using it for my story.