why, what happened?

Yay for violence! If you really wanna find snotty neighbors try out Cheydinhal haha or talk to some of the Counts.

Since you at least delivered the amulet before telling Jauffre to find some other champion, he has Baurus seek you out.

Baurus manages to catch up to you at the Tiber Septim Inn. After springing for a pair of ales, Baurus outlines the proposal: The Blades have some sketchy details about Mythic Dawn sleeper agents. He gives you the partial dossiers the Blades have been able to piece together, asking your help to continue ferreting out these sleepers and ensuring they don't live to attack the hero who is trying to help locate and install the new Emperor.

Having just a touch of civic duty and feeling intrigued by the challenge, you accept. The darker side of yourself decides you will not only track down and eliminate these sleepers of the Mythic Dawn, but you will enslave their very souls into black gems - you know, just for fun.

You begin to study the dossiers as Baurus wishes you luck and slips out of the tavern.

* * *

Do you see the potential of a large self-generated storyline here? Why stick to the game?

I'm currently going through my first roleplay of Oblivion and am enjoying it immensly

His name is Sh'lakk a great Argonian archer who fell from grace in the land of Argonia and was exiled. It is only known to few why he was exiled and even less that he was exiled at all. He travelled to Cyrodil and is now in the service of Leyawiin, Clearing out dungeons of monsters and bandits, Running errands from Bravil to Leyawiin and hunting black bows. He spends his relaxtion time sparring in the White Stallion Lodge or just reading a book.

Just last night he was contacted by Lady Numeen and her Husband to act as a guard during one of their many strolls and while taking a meal with the count and countess. It is no secret that Argonians are no longer safe in Leyawiin and the lady just wanted some piece of mind. It all went off without a hitch and Sh'lakk is looking into it as a professional career rather than freelance.

well em i sorta cheat a bit i use fast travlel BUT im starting a new rp charcter im gonna be serious with.

This idea is genius Acadian! You can use all the main quest NPC's as contractors! It would be like the main quest from the normal person's perspective.

You can clear out bandits (people who have sided with Mehrunes Dagon in his upcoming invasion) set up bases ( with the companions mod) find heroes to close the gates and recruit soldiers to the cause. You could also eliminate sleepers, try to convince counts to aid the movement, raise money since no one is funding this movement (atleast it seems like that) training to gain favor with the mages and fighters guild... the options are endless! I am going to make a rp out of this ASAP

i guess this guy found sth to do while rp'ing an idle person:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHiIeBsc9E

unbelievable...

First of all i'm not rich in the game!

- Spend my coins on arrows and to repair my armor
- Pay to the trainers for lessons
- Plundering fort's (from bandits, vampires) I usually sell armor from looting
- Fighting in the Arena for money
- I speak every week with the night mother to earn 200 coins
- Practising with my bow
- Finding new locations on the map
- I don't use a horse i always at foot to increase my athletics
- Gain every month my salary from the Fighters guild
- Hunt on Bandits
- Steal from the rich an use it for myself or i give it to the beggers
- Hanging out in Olav's Tap and Tack and the The Drunken Dragon Inn
- Hunting on Deer
-.............

So many things, Tobias runs naked around waterfalls
Discover new magic, killing rich people, walking around, defending citizens, and so much more lol.

OP:

Decorate your house with mementos of your adventures. I spent hours and hours doing this, because doing a simple thing like placing a vase on a mantelpiece can be hell to do. Apparently all my characters are klutzes You can start on one shelf/display with your newbie gear starting with those prison rags and progress around the room with stuff you got as you became better, or you can arrange into groups like alchemy stuff, deadric quest stuff, and fighting stuff.

Liswen actually started collecting rare books since early in her campaign and now as an interesting collection on the shelf in the foyer. But it was a nightmare getting them in there. I twitch my mouse and they all come falling out of the shelf again!

Oh and I find it very fun to take screenshots of my characters doing things in the realm, especially with pose mods. In fact I just made one:
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af122/frodo_kun/More%20Liswen/LiswenReading.jpg
"Dar Ma's Diary or Springheel Jack's? Liswen browses her collection for a good book to sit down with."

A lot more screenshots in the link my sig.

Acadian:

That killing sleepers quest sounds like fun!

DAMN!!!!

Riden, my Breton, spends his time in a small room in the Oak and Crosier, not rich enough to get the Countess of Chorrol to give him a house. But here's a breakdown of some activities Riden does.

- Make his room in the Oak and Crosier nice with his sword and armor.

- Go down the the local stables to see if his horse is doing okay.

- Works as an alchemist in the Chorrol Mage's Guild. He doesn't travel much but goes around to the forest for new ingredients and maybe some food.

- Once a week, he rides his horse down to the Imperial City to sell potions and poisons to the local markets for some gold. Does quite a bit of shopping with that money as well.

- Training his more...unique spells(Midas Magic Spells). Goes to local caves to train his magical abilities. Not to mention his swordplay that Riden holds so dearly.

- Visit his friend and mentor, Midas, in the Imperial City once a week on his way back to Chorrol.

- Of course the mundane things like eating, sleeping, drinking, and tidying up. Not very fun but tidying up is out since Riden lives in a hotel room.

- Goes around to Ayleid ruins once a while to study their contents like the statues and Varla Stones. Not to mention it's very good practice to keep his fighting skills in shape.

- Go around town to talk to friends in the Mage's Guild like Teekus.

- Test new spells on unsuspecting bandits and maybe trap a few animal souls.

Riden, my newest character(which will be the topic of my first Oblivion Fan Fiction I will finish), is a Mystic Swordsman. He's very strict on swordplay with magic instead of magic with swordplay. Usual practice is on summoned creatures or bandits. Riden tries to scrounge up 40,000 gold for the house and its expansions. His work as an alchemist provides him with lots of money but most of that is spent on soul gems and food. However, he rarely does quests as he doesn't like working for somebody he doesn't know without substantial pay.

I never have the inclination to roleplay, I see it as a constraint. But if my character did have a role then I guess he goes about his quests each day, for guilds, Black Hand, MQ; but when I'm done with that I tend to do my thieves guild stuff, like fencing stolen goods. I see the thieves' quests as spring cleaning, I guess my character is more a thief than anything else, as I use my Sithis goods to help with those quests.
Man, you;ve really made me think what kind of character I play... I am going to build on this tomorrow!

my elf arwynn enjoys long walks through the woods,drinking heavily and poking dead things with a stick.or a sword.killing bandits,marauders,outlaws,and especially vampires.they burn nicely when killed.using anything as a pincushion.loves beheading low life scum and nobility alike.made lucien lachance flee in terror.and theres nothing like killing everyone in the tavern and enjoying a frosty cold one over there still twitching corpses."borrowing"the legions horses and teasing them as they give chase.killing the adoring fan never gets old.nor does torturing whats-her-name,her maid at battlehorn.chick needs to realize its ARWYNN'S castle.TKmastery makes it even more fun to mess with people.laughing at the nimrods who say it musta been the wind with an arrow sticking out of their chest,or musta had too much to drink with their buddies head on the rolling on the floor. knocking the chancellor out over and over again and slaughtering the imperial legion.Making Wrath of God spell and wreaking general havok upon the populace of cyrodiil.so much to do.wonders why all she gets is 5k a week for her efforts in the DB.why not more contracts!?!leading the frost titan into bruma and watching as it kills all in its path,or summoning the balrog to do the same.the list goes on and on and on and on.......................................

Au contraire! My male characters do this all the time.
I decorate my house with objects from my conquests, and more importantly, cool backstories.
I have a regular schedule, must eat twice a day.
Have only pushed the MQ so some Oblivion Gates open up.
Uses the SI for alchemy purposes... occasional dungeon-diving, but no MQ.
My archer hangs out with Imperial Guard Archers and exchanges tips. The Archery Club. Not on good terms with the sword and board-ers though.

I agree. It's really important to do what you wanna do, but my advice would be to not focus on marked quests and look around. My Breton Paladin enjoys deer and bear hunting in the Colovian Highlands, while my High Elf Battlewizard likes to search the lands for ingrediants. I also have a Wizard who collects rare books and travels around the land looking for them. These are just some of the ideas which I enjoy doing. ^_^

Well depending on who I'm playing, I have Mzaar'Rhashi, my Khajiit. Since he is a loner, sneaky, and a obvious Kleptomaniac (He is the Grey Fox after all) He has two different personalities, his fake-self during the day, and his real-self at night.

Daily Schedule:

-Walking around his hometown of Leyawiin, or sometimes traveling by foot to another city for a couple days.

-Practicing Archery on apples and skulls behind his humble house.

-Wandering the countryside for a dungeon or cave to loot.

-Eating lunch in the Three Sisters Inn.

-Shopping for weapons, or reading and training.

Nightly Schedule:
(While wearing Grey Fox Cowl)

-Stealing items from shops.

-Pickpocketing Gaurds.

-Mugging travelers

-Raiding countryside farmsteads

-Hunting.

:cheat:

good times, good times . . .

Nothing yet, but I might have to accidentally kill someone to get into the DB =)

He-Walks-Alone is always in search of new people to feed from, being a vampire.* He will mark a potential victim; talk to them, get their disposition up and case their house. Then, in the middle of the night, he glides in like a shadow and drinks his fill.
He spends the rest of his time exploring the wilderness, hunting for lost treasures and generally being sneaky. He enjoys long walks on the beach and sniping town guards from the shadows.

*I don't take his vampirism to the realism it deserves, given that he contracted it in Morrowind, where the vampires cannot blend into normal society. I ignore this fact because I'm not disciplined enough to force isolation on him when there is a built-in alternative.

These are a few of my favorite things to do:

* Ride my horse and enjoy the scenery
* Deer hunting
* Filling soul gems with my soultrap bow (I like the sound it makes when trapping the soul)
* Cleaning out vampire lairs (the OOO mod has a great blade for doing this which also makes cool sound)
* Gnarl hunting to collect amber for amber arrows. Sometimes ya gotta kill a lot of Gnarls to fill a quiver

And, one of my absolute favorites is running around the countryside until I get a bunch of bandits, mauraders, and creatures chasing me and then either heading for an Oblivion gate or a group of guards. I then hop up onto a rock and watch the battle. Once I rode Shadowmere all around the Oblivion Gate near Fort Sutch with an angry mob of level 25 daedra chasing me. It was riot, wish I had a movie of it!

Interesting thread.

My new character has a routine and a Job.

A young khajiit sent by his family from elswyr to make his fame and fortune, soon realised the 20gp his family gave him wouldn't last long in the Imperial City so found a job as the city Ratcatcher (1gp per rat tail).
Has a daily schedule:

Up at 6am, breakfast (when funds available), changes into work clothes (patched shirt, sack trousers, leather boots, iron dagger, torch etc). Heads to sewers and proceeds to catch rats, occassional goblin & mudcrab & avoid anything nastier.
At lunchttime if not in a murky part of sewers will eat lunch. About 3pm (or if packs are full) heads to nearest exit.
Finds nearest water to wash self, work clothes and change into better city clothes. Heads to market to sell rat tails, any other trinkets and buy/repair etc.
Then finds a place to sleep (dependant on money a hotel or a free bed somehwere). Then walks & talks amongst the populace, occassionaly visist arena etc. Has an evening meal somewhere.
Then Bed around 9pm and start over on another part of the sewer.

He does however get Loredas & Sundas off work and just spent Fredas evening (his first weekend off) sitting by the fire at Vilverin debating on entering the ruin or visiting a new city, looking at the two dead bandits behind him he decided to travel and visit Bravil for the weekend
even though he is not wealthy and is saving up for a house the nice woman at the Office of Commerce promised to sell him. On the way fought a bandit and a wolf or two...not too bad.
But with Bravil in the distance he came across some deer prancing down the road which he enjoyed and ran along with when up comes a bandit who told him this was the last mistake he'd make and proceeded to chase and kill 2 of the deer. This upset the young Khajiit who abandoned his usual policy of avoiding combat whenever possible and several arrows and flares later slew the bandit. He now awaits me near Bravil gate.

Ordinary character, struggling for money but a lot different and a lot of fun, will soon know the imperial sewers well.

This is way neat! How clever to hunt rats for profit in the IC sewars at low level! :goodjob:

When Buffy was a student at the Arcane University, her Advisor, the battlemage Boderi Farano, would send her off to map out the sewars to improve her bow, magic and repair skills. A smelly job, but it did produce results. Buffy graduated as a mystic archer, specialized in illusion.

Day job?! I think not =)

Camarilla is waaay to spontaneous and absent minded to hold down a regular job. She doesn't have regular sleeping and eating hours either. Sometimes she sleeps during the day, and sometimes she doesn't sleep for a few days if she's found something that holds her interest. Then she'll chill out at an inn or at home for a day or two afterwards to catch up on sleep until something else catches her fancy.

Collecting ingredients is fun. I love walking around the general Leyawiin-Bravil-Imperial City route and looking for ingredients. With some mods that add more creatures, monsters and NPCs (some hostile) in the wilderness, it's so fun and good training for your character. Whenever I get fully encumbered, I'll go to a city and mix up some potions from my ingredients and sell them.

It's great; fun, profitable, and it trains your Mercantile + fighting skills. I always do this to level up my new characters, as well as to get a general feel for them and how to play them. And with my older characters we do it just for fun.

... but yeah, just general meandering can be really fun, if your character is the type of person to gather ingredients, want to train their skills, exploration-oriented, etc. Something that causes them to want to be out in the wilds, just doing nothing in particular.