I'm not sure where this topic would be most welcome, as this is my first visit to the Morrowind forums, so please bear with me. I would like to know the exact quote to the topic "unrest in the Imperial City"--IIRC every character that was given that topic to answer said the same thing word-for-word. I've had a plot bunny for a fanfiction, and while the exact quote isn't necessary to jot down a few notes, I would like to have it just in case it proves useful (and because it's interesting for its own sake, as well).

If you're wondering, the reason I'm not booting up my copy of Morrowind to search for it myself is because I'm a console player and my X-Box is showing its age (as is the game itself, which I bought used at least eight years ago; it either freezes or tells me that the disk is dirty at least once every twenty minutes now, and I'm tired of rewalking the same path again and again because I didn't manage to save in time to make any progress).

Just opened the CS:

Jobasha says, "Things are bad for man and Khajiit. The provinces war with one another, never smelling the common enemy in their midst. The Empire spreads its troops far and wide with strict orders to do nothing. Children no longer respect their elders. People no longer respect the law. Corruption is everywhere. There are no heroes like there were in Jobasha's grandmother's day. All this fuss over the Emperor's illness is just a symptom."

Sjoring Hard-Heart says, "Uriel Septim was never a strong Emperor. And now he's finally dying of age and illness. A coward's death. They say Ocato makes the real decisions. They say Uriel's heirs are really Daedra or shapeshifters planted by Jagar Tharn. They say the Emperor might pull back the Legions to try and protect himself. Some of the generals in the Legions have one eye on Uriel Septim and one eye on the throne. At a time like this, only the Imperial Guilds with strong allies will survive."

...and everyone else says, "Uriel Septim is sick, and wizards say his heir, Geldall Septim, and the younger Septims, Enman and Ebel, are just doppelgangers placed in the household during Jagar Tharn's tenure as Imperial Battlemage. They say the Guard charged a mob demanding destruction of the false heirs... lots of folks were killed."

Thank you. That third one is the one that I had in mind. I have to wonder who those wizards were, exactly, who made those claims about the heirs being doppelgangers...

Thank you also for providing the other two quotes. They weren't exactly what I had in mind, but again, part of my reason for asking about this was simple curiosity. Also, the nostalgia of these quotes is awesome; I remember the hours I spent before Oblivion came out trying to figure out what would happen when Uriel died of natural causes, based simply on quotes like these.