More Vivec really?

It's a natural progression from the discussion about bdsn.

.........................................well yeah thats true

but still.

Of course!

Of all TES characters, Vivec and his siblings are the ones I like most. I'd prefer there to be (or have been) a lot more like them. I don't get a sense of power or fantasy or companionship or personality from many other characters in the setting; the rest (excepting the Daedra, some of the nordic myth figures, and the odd one like Cyrus) essentially come off as peasants despite the dizzying scope of high fantasy presented.

Bloody peasants...

Give me more Nerevar, even if it means "invalidating" other peoples games by giving him a gender/race.

His adventures in Akavir would make for a great MK story.

Day 37: Note to self, don't drink the water. Dangerous amounts of Ka-Po-Dung. Tastes like netch leather. I regret eating netch leather still. I see a settlement on the horizon, hopefully they will have something worth taking and pawning. It's a pity they don't take gold coins. Who doesn't take Septims? Instead we've got these bone blocks stamped with some kind of Tiger or Dragon or something. I gotta admit, I have yet to meet a single blessed wood elf here. That's good. Nothing sets me off on a murderin' spree like wood elves.

For me, there's no need to tie him up and force him to answer my questions. I'd just take him to lunch, have a few drinks, and listen.

Ugh. Sanderson really gets me going. I'm not sure if it's just a bad reaction to being raised in the same Mormon society that he is very much a product of, or if it's the fact that Wheel of Time was my second favorite fantasy series before Robert Jordan died (RIP) and Sanderson took it over.
You've got the right idea, as usual!

On topic and especially on topic (because it concerns Vehk), I just read an article talking about possible metagame references throughout 36 Lessons including but not limited to the theories that the Lessons exist as lessons for the player and not Nerevar or the Nerevarine and that Vivec's Provisional House is the Construction Set along with his awareness that he's a fictional character and cutting sleep holes during fighting is a description of pausing the game by going into the inventory mid-fight.

I'm sure this has been talked to death on the forums in some manner, but I never really saw any of that discussion first hand. I'd be interested in knowing exactly how much metacognition exists in the Lessons. We already know there is a bit of it (Redguard graphic glitches).

I heard the faint sound of snow whales in this general direction, came to investigate, and was overwhelmed!

What I'd really love to see is the fight between Cyrus and the winner of the 2010 poll, which was "MK (Beneath San Francisco)" I think. Fight! Cyrus! Fight!

MK Beneath San Francisco? What's that mean?

There was a poll for people Cyrus should fight and the locations he should fight them. One of the choices was that he fight MK beneath San Francisco. The winner was Sload in Thras, I believe.

[Edit] Nope, http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1100753-fight-cyrus-fight/.

[Edit2] Never mind, it was Thras by the time the poll closed on the 4th. Additional votes cast after.

Is that anything to do with MK's visit with the http://www.imperial-library.info/content/loveletter-fifth-era-true-purpose-tamriel?

D'oh! That's ok, the Sload one would be pretty awesome too.

Nah, that the loveletter predates the poll by several years.

Where's the follow up thread to "FIGHT! CYRUS FIGHT!"? Did MK write the Cyrus v Thras story? Also MK said he grew up in the deep south. How deep exactly...

The bottom edges of the Lithosphere.

Ugh... MK just had to live in San Francisco didn't he? Now I'll never see Cyrus' fight.

What are these hidden Vivec voice files someone was talking about?

Hypothetically speaking, who would win that fight? MK or Cyrus?

I thought about it a bit and it really would be one word, now wouldnt it?
More.

MK would put on his Vehk face and talk Cyrus to death.

"The hell? Where in Oblivion am I, and who are you? Erm... why are you looking at me like that?"

"Hello crown-touched point of the edged, western dream..."

"Oh Sep's skin... not another one of you people."

"008001xxx12xxxx POTATO..."

"..."

"Disseniosporic-Impasse. Ascertain mnemoth sub-strain drift potential. Echaosis paradigm!

"I'm gonna run you through now. Okay?"

*Cyrus draws his saber and begins to run toward MK.*

"Wait! You haven't heard the full version of Numiatus! yet!"

*Cyrus stops a few steps from MK, his head cocked, perplexed.*

"Numa numa?"

*And thus MK begins to spout a litany of bizarre facts in a non-linear pseudo-narrative. At times Cyrus becomes angered and begins to raise his saber only to lower it upon hearing a word he understands, giving him the hope of comprehension just to have the thought dashed in another thousand words describing moths and fungus.*

*twenty minutes later*

"Wait. What's a coda?"

"You mean, C0DA?"

"I said that. Coda."

*This continues for another fifteen minutes.*

"Cool hat by the way. I think I'll make you eat it."

*MK raises his hand suddenly.*

"Wait!"

"Ugh... let's hear it..."

*MK pulls from his pocket a folded piece of paper*

"Hello, everyone. While visiting the demons of the Haight last night, I was handed the document that follows. I was drunk, so I cannot describe the courier, but I can verify that it is, indeed, from the One-hundred and fifty-first Era (!) of Tamriel from an author unknown to me, even in visions."

*The following words spoken and ensuing events are so horrific, they have been omitted by the author for fear of what the readers may do to themselves and others if in close proximity of sharp objects*

There would be no winner. They'd end up bonding over stories of Tamriel and going out for beers.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

Hmmmm..... I would have him explain every last piece of lore. And I do mean everything. Even things like the Loveletter. Then I would pull the trigger. So all those sercet's they would be my own.