LE An awesome idea for a unique dwemer quest

[iokuu153]

So I was walking through the Blackreach, and after killing one of those massive Centurion & looting it's soul gem, I had a thought: "What if instead of a regular soul gem powering the machine, it was a Black soul gem filled with a black soul?" So I thought of a quest that would start in Winterhold, with a man mentioning recent disappearances around a certain dwemer ruin. after you ask him about that, you make your way into the ruin, and as usual, fight throw some bandits, a ton of automatons and a falmer or two, you come to a completely untouched room, with a stair case leading up to a very nice looking chest. Just as you open to see it filled with some scrap metal, the floor opens up from underneath your feet and you fall into a cage reinforced by magick wards, preventing any spells or arrows from reaching out. You look around to see Yagrum Bagarn as sickly looking as he did in Morrowind, but still alive and kicking thanks to the corpus. A hooded man steps out of a doorway and says; "Oh perfect! A new test subject! Let's just hope your soul isn't as weak as the others." He walks over to a panel in front of you cage and presses a button. "Now this won't hurt a bit! It's only a sleeping gas. Night night!" Screen blurs and it jumps to a new room.

 

When you wake up, you find yourself striped of your belongings(besides quest items, to avoid any glitches), tied to a stone table, with the hooded man by your side with a nasty looking dagger in one hand and a large black soul gem in the other. "Now this WILL hurt. Quite allot in fact, but try not to scream while I absorb your soul, the sound makes me cringe." The man stabs you in the chest with the Dagger and your screen fades to black, then back as you seem to be peering out of the soul gem and looking at the world(this may be impossible, but it would be a very nice touch and it would explain the next part). He carries the black soul gem your housed in to an inactive Dwemer Centurion, and he opens up a compartment in the front of the Machine, removes the old soul gem, and puts in the black one your in! As the screen fades black AGAIN, he says "I have never seen a more active and powerful soul before you! I wonder just who you were."

 

Now, finally, we're at game play! So, when you return to control, the hooded man stands in front of you and You say "what did you do!?" He responds by "Well it looks like the voice box works, if a small bit metallic sounding. Now, if I release you, you will serve me yes?" You, still angry, say nothing. "I'll take that as a yes!" He pulls the lever and you are released. Your right hand has the retracted sword, and your left hand has a strange lightning weapon, and your shout button has that steam attack that the Centurions have. You act on impulse, and you kill him without thinking of the consequences. Now you are stuck in the middle of a dwemer ruin, in the body of a centurion, seemingly trapped forever. But then you remember Yagrum Bagarn, SO you make it your task to fight your way back to where you were captured, free Yagrum, and have him turn you back into your fleshy self.

 

Now this idea is very WIP, and I can't mod so I am at the mercy of the modders out there. I am not entirely sure what the reward would be, but maybe it could be some extremely good heavy armor forged by Yagrum Bagarn himself, but the quest alone, In my opinion, is awesome enough. I can't wait until the modding kit comes out in January. So what do you all think?

Edited December 3, 2011 by iokuu153

[Matth85]

Hm.... The concept isn't too bad. However, I am not sure how eager our good old Yagrum would be to do this. He is in infinite pain, and would be more interested in figuring out where his kin went, instead of causing chaos. Besides, the centaurion would serve him without black soul gems.

 

BUT, I can see a mage quest where some kind of mage have been working on Dwemer technology. He then needs a test subject to get this to work, and you end up in controll of one. You then figure out he trapped you like this, and you have to fight yourself through the ruins to find the mage, and then kill him for a control rod. Using the rod you could transform back, and now you have the ability to transform like you transform to a werewolf.

 

At least an interesting idea, I will give you that!

[iokuu153]

@Matth85 Like I said, it's a WIP idea, and would need some fine tuning. I included Yagrum mostly because I liked him so much from Morrowind, I would just like to see him return. Thanks for the Comment!