Daemarian Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 never met it...I can't think of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad_Skeelz Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 To answer the question of "what do all those nasty carnivores eat?" I ask you to go to Ald'Ruhn turn your music off and regular sound way up, and listen. Do you hear it? Sheep my friends, sheep! The Redorans seem to have a giant sheep flock around Ald'Ruhn, invisible to the naked eye. "But how do these invisible uber-sheep support the predator population?" you ask. I have several proposed answers to this: 1) Kagouti, Alit, cliff racers, and possibly nix-hounds (as stated previously they seem to be grazing) most likely all have superb senses of smell. They simply need to find the general location of the flock and wade through chomping until they hit something. Sheep are generally stupid animals and this tactic would almost certainly bag a few. 2) This ties into the "Where are the Alit's eyes?" and "how do they reproduce?" questions also. In the movie Tremors2, there are a species of creatures called "Screamers", similar in appearance to the Alits. They have no eyes, and hunt using heat. I beleive the 2 "eye-holes" on an Alits snout are actually heat receptors, allowing them to get an infra-red like picture of their surrondings. Using heat, they would be able to hunt the invisible sheep with ease. Also, the Screamers were asexual. They would eat and eat until they had enough resources to basically cough up a duplicate of the "mother" screamer. Since Alits have no obvious gender or reproductive organs, this method may be logical for them as well. On the Redoran houses, I beleive they are made from giant magical mushrooms, since the Manual states something about Mushroom houses. It might of been referring to the Telvanni but I have made no extensive travels in their district, so I cannot confirm this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 Magic mushrooms are definitely Telvanni. And sheep? You'd better tell White Wolf. He likes sheep. I can't say I hear anything that sound like sheep to me - sea lions perhaps, or hippos? The problem with the invisible sheep is where is the grass? Or is that invisible too? I have to postulate tiny bugs in the system that are the staple diet of most creatures. They are too small for the human eye to see on the small screen but they sustain the cliff-racers, alit and the like. The cliff racers do not attack you for food. Have you seen them devouring a body? They are like disturbed bees, aggressively defending their territory. Another reason you can guarantee the existence of bugs (even without the Bitter Coast sounds plug-in) is that the corpses do lot lie around and decompose. They are eaten and not apparently by the creatures we know in Morrowind. Maybe the rats? Except, there don't seem to be enough rats to dispose of all the cliff-racer corpses I leave behind. No. The plants nurture insects. Several species of Morrowind are insectivores. The carnivores get most of their meat from scavenging the corpses (making them necrophagous). I am still working on how they digest the armour etc of my fallen human assailants. Does anyone have ideas on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 Perhaps you should look around for my old "The Phantom Sheep" thread, Malchik... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pack Rat Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 I must say that the "sheep theorie" gives more proof to my theorie... I was always quiete interested in the construction "the Ghostfence". But I reallydidnt quiete understand the use of the fence. We hear the story about the fence protects us from Dagoth Uhr and his maddness, but let's face it people. From his looks Dagoth is a sissy. He has quiete the womans voice, he got hair like my sister does, the mask thing is problably just an attempt to hide his mascara screw-up. And his army, the man has more troops outside the fence than he does inside.I believe it was not the tribunal who built the fence but it was Dagoth.We all know that the fence is just up the hill from Ald Ruhn. Bad_Skeez gave us the theorie of the invisible flock. How do you stop an invisible flock? Guards, no good, they cant see them. How do we stop an invisible flock then? With a fence, lady's and gentlemen... We all agree that its just awfull to have a flock of sheep in our backyard that just keeps sh*tt*ng the place and eating our lovely flowers. i think that mister ( mister=just a rumor ) Dagoth builded the fence to keep the flock out of his backyard. When we kill him, we all get to a moment where we stand in front of him, the fence is deactivated since he's dead and doesnt care any more that a bunch of sheep keeps sh*tt*ng in his backyard. so far my theorie about the fence and the sheep... Any comments, my dear collegues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesaynothin Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 How does vvardenfells ecology work without a central water supply? Back then, people could definently not convert salt water into fresh water, and their seems to be no rivers or anything to far inland. Their are no streams from mountains at all? and how come there arent ever puddles? After it rains, everything is nice and dry. So confusing.... :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 Perhaps you should look around for my old "The Phantom Sheep" thread, Malchik... MB, I have reviewed the chronicles of the sheep. I remain sceptical. It is quite clear that in a country such as Morrowind with high levels of ambient magic strange events are to be expected. A glitch in the space-time continuum from an alternative dimension could be responsible. Or maybe Mistress Therana miscast while searching for spider sounds, I wouldn't put it past the old bat. She must be in a permanent sulphuretted high with all those rotting kwama eggs around. I find invisible sheep that feed on nothing - difficult to swallow. (Unless there is plenty of mint sauce, that is.) My suggestions could be wrong too (shows totally false humility). Sadly, I don't buy the chameleon sheep theory. However, I will maintain an open mind and wait for further evidence. Unless - idea!!!!! Could it be the invisible sheep are part of the invisible orchestra that follows you around wherever you go? Do they play t-ewe-bas, do you think? This requires immediate investigation. d-RAM Beeeehro may know. BTW, as a matter of interest, where are the spiders? Mistress T may be several trumpets short of a brass band but she knows of them. She's seen them somewhere. And spiders eat bugs which adds force to my insect theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pack Rat Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 How does vvardenfells ecology work without a central water supply? Back then, people could definently not convert salt water into fresh water, and their seems to be no rivers or anything to far inland. Their are no streams from mountains at all? and how come there arent ever puddles? After it rains, everything is nice and dry. So confusing.... :blink: another point... Just a little question, am I the only one who sleeps in morrowind? or do they all sleep when I sleep, did anyone examinated that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 Sleep - Dagoth Ur has banished sheep, I mean sleep. The NPCs keep telling you about it. I'm not quite sure why things don't return to normal after you've killed him, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acinonyk Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Ok, i just read this post after a long time being away from the ofrums(well, about 2 weeks, off and on), and i just read that my post was closed-minded. It took me awhile to remember exactly what i had posted but then it hit me. i did not see it as closed minded, i saw it as quite a bit of a laff. i didnt mean to offend anyone, just that no one else had posted. I apologize, and just kindly remind me if anything likethat happens again, which is a fair possiblity. <_< that said,i have something constructive to add to the post. QUOTE (wesaynothin @ Oct 26 2003, 02:33 AM) How does vvardenfells ecology work without a central water supply? Back then, people could definently not convert salt water into fresh water, and their seems to be no rivers or anything to far inland. Their are no streams from mountains at all? and how come there arent ever puddles? After it rains, everything is nice and dry. So confusing.... requoted someone there they could just set up a solar still, get some saltwater in a pot, put it over a fire with a glass pyramid shape over the top of it, pure water would run down the sides as condesation for collecting, also there may be underground wells,and there are a few lakes in the area, rivers too. beats me how ald'ruhn and molag mar (thats the one above it right???) survuive, no water there, but then again how do desert arabs survive in the deserts today? more questions than answers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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