Ya I spent my first week just following the red arrow on my compass around doing stuff haha. Then I realized my character was getting owned and I wasn't getting good attribute bonuses and went here and walaa.

Redguard-Swordsman. oblivion is sweet, make another lol.

Yeah... Unfortunately. That first zombie in the tutorial dungeon made me freak. Suddenly from around the corner there's just BAM - a freaking zombie. It scared the hell out of me, but I managed to kill it. Then I got outside of the tutorial dungeon and was all "Awww, pretty!" and walked up to the water and was ecstatic because I was finally playing Oblivion after waiting for it to come out for so long...

And then a Mudcrab killed me.

Which is kind of funny, because the first thing that happened to me in Morrowind was also death by Mudcrab. I guess it's a curse of some sort.

Lol yesterday I was playing and the sky turned dark and it was storming. I have over 300 saves and I've never seen it rain or even get cloudy. I was freakin out thinking I was going to get gang banged in the woods by some cyclopes or something.

Yeah. It was spring of 2006. If I recall my first character was an Imperial Battlemage named Brutonius. I had tons of fun with him for weeks, but I accidentally saved after eating a poisoned apple and there was no way to take that one back (no prior saves.) I learned a lot from that initial failure. My next character was a Breton, also a Battlemage, except I made a custom class this time. I finally beat every quest with him, and pretty much used him as my main character until that X Box got the red ring of death.

My very first character was a high elf who used blunt weaponry, because I'm classy like that.

He never made it past the tutorial dungeon; he was sentenced to deletion for the crime of being too ugly.

A female dunmer bard named Saphyne, born under the sign of the Ritual, took his place. She lasted for a while, but got dumped after encountering a very annoying bug.

The first mudcrab I saw terrified me! It was night when I stepped out of the sewers, on on that monitor everything was darker than it should have been (the monitor was dying). So I could barely see my hand in front of my face, and I heard this noise, and the battle music came up, but I could not see a thing. Then something started hitting me! I freaked out.

I so agree with you here, Mudcrabs are horrible! Sneaky little buggers, especially in high grass when you can't see them until they hit you! They still scare my sometimes... You're walking along the scenic route near the Imperial City, and suddenly something hits you in the leg and you jump ten feet into the air because it was so unsuspected. Soooo not cool.

its so funny to read this, after having gone thru the experience. because in the beginning u really treat everything as a life-threatening danger.

The first skull I saw scared me.

The guards still do.

I remember walking down a road when an Imperial legion soldier gets off his horse, un-sheaths his sword and begins running off the road. I wonder what was wrong with him, so I followed him over to a nearby pond where there rested a mudcrab. The Legionnaire charged. His battlecry; "HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE THE MIGHT OF THE EMPIRE!!!!!11". That mudcrab never saw it coming. :shakehead:

I just laughed my head off. As if that little crab was going to be the downfall of an entire empire. The guards take their job very seriously, they weren't about to take any chances with that thing. It was a threat to humanity itself. :rolleyes:

Maybe the guards are on to something. Mudcrabs have a sinister plot to overthrow the whole Empire! And we'll never even see it coming.

second that, as mudcrabs are some of the few beings constantly in and out of water. A unique ability (maybe Argonians are the only hope for the empire?).

Thats their plan: mudcrabs hide underwater (ocasionally taking a dump on shores) and when their numbers grow too much, they invade the IC.

That's why the Emperor saw no other option but to summon Oblivion Gates and die.

AHA! I got it! The whole thing is a conspiracy! The Emporer didn't really even want to have someone close the Oblivion Gates, and that's why he picked a random prisoner of no consequence whatsoever to hand this task to, because he new that person would get smushed trying! He was really trying to stop the Mudcrab invasion by spawning Daedra all over the place to kill all the Mudcrabs, because he'd rather have his city defiled by Mehrunes Dagon than a bunch of muddy Mudcrabs. He thought it would be a more dignified end to his great Empire.

NO - you got it wrong! the Emperor, in His infinite Wisdom, opened Oblivion Gates as safepoints for people to flee.

When the mudcrabs eventually found the Emperor's body, they'd think "mission accomplished" and return, victorious, to the waters.

But the Mudcrabs' original intent wasn't to kill the Emporor! They wanted to take over the Empire. So you're wrong, good sir/ma'am. :celebration:

(I shall now stop thread-hijacking, I'm so sorry! I just couldn't help myself. :banghead: )

I remember exiting the sewers, and commenting to myself "Good God, I'm going to need a new PC"!

My first character was a nord male, though I can't remember what his name is.
That was waaaaay back when I had Oblivion on the ps3.
We actually got pretty far, level 23 ish.
The best thing I remember was when I was in one of those oblivion gates where you have to go through tunnels to go upwards.
So I decided 'why can't I just jump up to the top?'
So using the ring glitch, I got my acrobatics skill to around 500.
Haha, good times.

I remember my very first character. Imperial male, blond, blue eyes. I walked all the way to Weynon Priory and got attacked by a highwayman on the way there. I managed to survive, somehow. I went on to do the Arena, and got killed a few times during the match against the three Argonians. I remember that it was at that time the message "your killing has been observed by forces unknown" showed up and I thought "bwuh?. I completely forgot about it until I finished the questline, then I went to bed to level up, and guess who came to say hello? I was so freaked out I actually jumped about a foot in the air. It was in Benirus Manor if I recall correctly.

I kinda miss that character.

Yep. Took vacation from work for it's release!
Same for other DLC.
Shivering Isles was different.....I did take the time off but ended up with tonsilitus. Score! Got my vacation time restored, got paid sick leave instead and got to play all day/night while barely being able to svck down plain broth!
Haha!

Oddly enough, no. I think my first character was a default male imperial... Or maybe a dunmer. I don't know. The wierd thing is, is that it wasn't really all that long ago that I got the game. Or was it? I don't even remember when I got the game! I certainly hasn't been years though like a lot of the other posters.

I made an Argonian. I saw their feet. I yelled, "What is this?!?!?" at the top of my lungs. I mad a Khajiit, did the same thing. I then remade that Argoian and just pretended they had wierd feet again.