Enderal - Episode 5: Color of Your ******* Balls

[Vergil]

Episode 0: Introduction
Episode I: Nice Crisp Piece of Meat
Episode II: Temple of Elementalist Evil
Episode III: The Gods Delusion
Episode IV: The Bite of 8234
Episode V: Color of Your ******* Balls

Episode 0: Introduction
I recently beat Nehrim and looking up pretty much anything about Nehrim online leads you to dead forums and reddit posts talking about how much better it's sequel, Enderal, is. Considering Nehrim is a total conversion that uses one of my favorite games ever as it's base whilst Enderal still makes you deal with vanilla Skyrim combat... I'm not entirely convinced. But I've decided to find out for myself! I'm going into this mostly blind with some scant bits of advice I've seen over in the Nehrim + Enderal thread. Since I don't really know what's viable or how things will feel once I actually get my hands on the game I only have a broad idea of the sort of character I will be playing.

Like Nehrim I will be playing as a Half-Aeterna focusing primarily on magic. Maybe using swords occasionally but, since unlike Oblivion, you cannot effectively wield magic and a sword (not at all in the case of two handed weapons) together that's probably going to be out of the question. I've heard there are some interesting mechanics when it comes to summons in this game so I'd like to dip my toes into that but I'll also be focusing on elemental magic with a preference for lightning magic if possible.

I would LIKE to avoid using mods as much as possible but with Skyrim that's probably not going to pan out entirely. Since unlike Oblivion they opted to not give the Half-Aeterna a unique race and instead reuse base vanilla Skyrim Altmer ( ) I've gone ahead and installed a couple of cosmetic mods to make an elf that doesn't look completely ****** up. I'll keep a list of mods in this OP and update if (and let's be honest, when) I end up adding onto it as the game goes on. I'm going to try and avoid anything that touches gameplay but after wandering around the intro I can tell I'm going to want 360 movement or a lock on mod to make third person at all feasible...

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[Oyster Sauce]

sex mods

[Finarfin]

Lass uns spielen, indeed.
I'm looking forward to your LP especially since I've started playing Enderal myself and would love to see how much our gameplay and decisions differ.

[Marcus]

[Marcus]

@Vergil You ARE of course going to play the game in Hitler German (with English text), right? RIGHT?

[Finarfin]

@Vergil You ARE of course going to play the game in Hitler German (with English text), right? RIGHT?

He will.

[Marcus]

sex mods

****, ****, ****, I just remembered this game was made by Germans so of course you can romance the male companion as a male player character, ****, ****, ****.

@Vergil RESIST YOUR URGES! PLEASE DON'T SEX THE MALE COMPANION! BE STRONG! YOU CAN DO IT! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

[Marcus]

@Vergil You ARE of course going to play the game in Hitler German (with English text), right? RIGHT?

He will.

Mein Junge, ab jetzt wird in diesem Thread nur noch auf Deutsch geschrieben! ***********!

[Finarfin]

Nee, darf man nicht. Rosti sagt nein.

[Marcus]

Nee, darf man nicht. Rosti sagt nein.

Rosti ist selbst ein Deutscher. Hat er hier geschrieben: viewtopic.php?p=267753-german-is-the-th ... sa#p267753

Warum glaubst du wohl, dass hier alles so geschmiert läuft? Da steckt deutsche Ingenieurskunst im Code dieses Forums!

DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES!

[Finarfin]

Das ist mir schon bewusst. Nur steht ja vor dem Registrieren, dass hier Sprachen außer Englisch nicht erlaubt sind, es sei denn, man übersetzt diese, soweit ich weiß
I'm already aware of that. However, it says before registration that languages other than English aren't allowed here, unless they're translated, as far as I know.

[Marcus]

Das ist mir schon bewusst. Nur steht ja vor dem Registrieren, dass hier Sprachen außer Englisch nicht erlaubt sind, es sei denn, man übersetzt diese, soweit ich weiß
I'm already aware of that. However, it says before registration that languages other than English aren't allowed here, unless they're translated, as far as I know.

Darauf braucht man keine Rücksicht mehr zu nehmen: Nach dem sich die Leute hier das Let's Play von Vergil angesehen haben, werden sowieso alle nur noch mehr Deutsch sprechen wollen. There's no need to worry about that anymore: After watching Vergil's Let's Play, people here will only want to speak German.

*********!

[Vergil]

@Vergil You ARE of course going to play the game in Hitler German (with English text), right? RIGHT?

He will.

Game defaults to English and that's what I'm playing in. Also don't speak for me silly billy.

EDIT: I figured it out I will in fact be playing in German

[Finarfin]

No Idea how you managed to listen to voice actors speaking into their 5 dollar microphones in UK and US accents with cartoonish voices.
Enderal German Voice Files

[Vergil]

No Idea how you managed to listen to voice actors speaking into their 5 dollar microphones in UK and US accents with cartoonish voices.
Enderal German Voice Files

Didn't see this until I already downloaded and decided to try out this
https://www.nexusmods.com/enderalspecia ... escription

If they work fine and the German voice acting you're pretending is leaps and bounds better is fine I'll probably keep it but the first couple of entries will have the English VA which I know is going to be very hard for you to handle on this English speaking video game forum

[rusty_shackleford]

(Please don't reply to this post and drag the thread off-topic)

LPs fall under the forum rule exception as the PbP subforums(I may not have posted this anywhere? I intended to, however. And that's what counts!) Treat the OP as the king of his thread.
See viewtopic.php?t=3560-play-by-post-rules for more info.
Thanks!

(If you disagree with this feel free to make a thread in site feedback, but I feel it's a good exception to allow LPs to go however the OP wants, as they are not typical discussions)

[Vergil]

Episode I: Nice Crisp Piece of Meat

Immediately after starting a new game we're met with a serene Fable 1 esque cottage in the middle of the woods with the sun scorching our retinas and definitely nothing bad at all going to happen as we talk to our vaguely simian looking father.

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We're off to a very bad start because we've already failed to find *something* so that's one failure under our belt. We have to go help our suspiciously absent mother and sister in the kitchen where our human-ape hybrid father begins to gas light us about killing our family.

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I guess he's just hangry because he starts sperging out about elk meat (combined with the appearance I guess our father is Joe Rogan in this universe) and we finally wake up out of this obvious dream sequence just in time for a quick recap cutscene because no one played Nehrim.

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Hmm, Narathzul Aranthael is looking a little different in this opening but I can't put my finger on it

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They would get points for copying Morrowind's opening if they didn't have about 10 minutes of preamble first.

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Our fellow stowaway asks if we blame ourselves for our entire family being killed while we're a toddler (?) and then asks us what our racial background is which becomes very funny when we pick the only race in the game with elf ears and he acts surprised by this revelation that we are Half-Aeterna.

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For Nehrim, the Half-Aeterna race opted to use a very popular Oblivion mod from back in the day called ren's beauty pack and their "mystic elf" race. This resulted in them looking like deranged anime people with scenegirl hairstyles but that was sort of charming and gave it it's own bit of flair in a game that uses so many assets from an existing game. Enderal however uh, doesn't do that.

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Obviously I'm not going to be able to live with this horrible leathery **** skinned abomination especially considering what my prior impression of these elves are from Nehrim. I've downloaded a few mods and spent an unhealthy amount of time trying to sculpt an avatar that will look slightly less like a horrible flesh homonculus
This is Verzul, the Half-Aeterna (and going off the intro half monkey) who I will be playing as

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Our touching introduction about how much we're detestable poorfags is interrupted by @Red7 reminiscing on the good old days when you could just rape a *****. Obviously being freeloaders we decide the best course of actions is to beat the **** out of these old sailors. Verzul suggests we murder these dockworkers in cold blood (plus, they gave majorrrr creepy incel vibes yuck!) so we don't have to worry about them waking up which Sirius doesn't appreciate.

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Unfortunately for Sirius while trying to find **** to tie them up Kreia a mysterious old woman shows up to troll him by saying he's irrelevant and knocks us out probably causing horrible brain damage.

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I'm really worried about that message in the top left. I guess this game will have companion approval mechanics and I don't want to **** up my relationship with him!

Oh.

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I deathly afraid of deep water in these games so being strapped to a dead **** and thrown into the sea is less than ideal! Even worse Verzul is having really horrible dreams due to getting his ******* head slammed into the door frame with the force.

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Wait wrong scary apocalyptic vision sorry

There we go

Next Up: We'll figure out how the hell Enderal handles Skyrim's classless leveling system and whether Verzul's adventure will end at the bottom of the ocean before it even begins.

[Vergil]

[Vergil]

@Vergil RESIST YOUR URGES! PLEASE DON'T SEX THE MALE COMPANION! BE STRONG! YOU CAN DO IT! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

We'll see what happens. He's no Kim that's for sure.... mein klein blume... vgghhh

[Finarfin]

This whole chimpout would've never happend if you just would've given him EIN SCHÖNES KNUSPRIGES STÜCK FLEISCH!

[Kalarion]

For Nehrim, the Half-Aeterna race opted to use a very popular Oblivion mod from back in the day called ren's beauty pack and their "mystic elf" race. This resulted in them looking like deranged anime people with scenegirl hairstyles but that was sort of charming and gave it it's own bit of flair in a game that uses so many assets from an existing game. Enderal however uh, doesn't do that.


Obviously I'm not going to be able to live with this horrible leathery **** skinned abomination...

Pity, it would have been fun to watch a Bogdanoff brother playthrough

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Have you considered spoiling the entire playthrough post, rather than each picture? Clicking each pic spoiler individually isn't much of a problem when they're not directly related to your narrative of the LP, but if I'm going to be wanting to see them anyways I'd rather click once to get everything (and once to hide everything again).

[Element]

The tavern songs were much better in German imo. The wording of the English translations is awkward and the singer has an accent.

[Finarfin]

The tavern songs were much better in German imo. The wording of the English translations is awkward and the singer has an accent.

The female versions are sung by Lara Trautmann (who is German) and male ones by Jip van Kakerken (dutch dude)

Edit: the English ones I mean, german ones are sung by jerryl and lara trautmann

[DagothGeas5]

For Nehrim, the Half-Aeterna race opted to use a very popular Oblivion mod from back in the day called ren's beauty pack and their "mystic elf" race. This resulted in them looking like deranged anime people with scenegirl hairstyles but that was sort of charming and gave it it's own bit of flair in a game that uses so many assets from an existing game. Enderal however uh, doesn't do that.


Obviously I'm not going to be able to live with this horrible leathery **** skinned abomination...

Pity, it would have been fun to watch a Bogdanoff brother playthrough

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Have you considered spoiling the entire playthrough post, rather than each picture? Clicking each pic spoiler individually isn't much of a problem when they're not directly related to your narrative of the LP, but if I'm going to be wanting to see them anyways I'd rather click once to get everything (and once to hide everything again).

I think that would look quite nasty and make things very squeezed, so to speak or "lose importance", in a way, as if they are just hidden away, whereas I think Vergil's opinion and writing should get front and center.
Some images being left around would decorate the writing well in my opinion though, I quite agree, but there are often many to better explain the scene or make things more humorous as well, so I myself think this is as best that can be done.

[Marcus]

@Vergil still no update - what's going on? Will you only post one entry per day? That would be very painful.

[Vergil]

For Nehrim, the Half-Aeterna race opted to use a very popular Oblivion mod from back in the day called ren's beauty pack and their "mystic elf" race. This resulted in them looking like deranged anime people with scenegirl hairstyles but that was sort of charming and gave it it's own bit of flair in a game that uses so many assets from an existing game. Enderal however uh, doesn't do that.


Obviously I'm not going to be able to live with this horrible leathery **** skinned abomination...

Pity, it would have been fun to watch a Bogdanoff brother playthrough

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Have you considered spoiling the entire playthrough post, rather than each picture? Clicking each pic spoiler individually isn't much of a problem when they're not directly related to your narrative of the LP, but if I'm going to be wanting to see them anyways I'd rather click once to get everything (and once to hide everything again).

I considered that but my main concern was the post being made obscenely long to scroll through with all the images on display at once and if you're on mobile it's easier to just show the images as they appear. If it annoys enough people I'll change it up thought.

@Vergil still no update - what's going on? Will you only post one entry per day? That would be very painful.

4U

[Stack of Turtles]

I think Dagoth is right; you should perhaps leave some images at 'base level' outside the spoiler for dramatic or decorative effect, but otherwise spoiler only the images like you were doing.

[Finarfin]

Maybe a Header and then the rest are small until the end where it is the same size as the first screenshot, to basically mark the Beginning and the End of the Episode. But I am sure Vergil will do a good job, this is his first LP after all and he will improve.

[Stack of Turtles]

Maybe a Header and then the rest are small until the end where it is the same size as the first screenshot, to basically mark the Beginning and the End of the Episode. But I am sure Vergil will do a good job, this is his first LP after all and he will improve.

real HQ ****** remember DORK

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I remember watching Gopher do a Let's Play of Endereal. The prologue music was pretty eerie and the "piece of meat" scene was a little unnerving.