((Okay, yeah, too many pictures this time, and it was probably too long. It just took so much time to get to an actual choice about something, and this particular choice is one of the bigger emotional gut-punches of the game ( Read more... )

((Jarl gets his first real taste of potions today, with their many and varied effects. There are a couple of ways potions in Morrowind differ from the potions in other RPGs, details that can have a dramatic effect on how you use them. And, since potions are for most practical intents bottled spells, these things apply to Morrowind's magic system in ( Read more... )

((Jarl's latest posy-picking adventure can be found here, for all and sundry. Also, as I say there, I'll be moving Jarl to Thursdays so I don't have another unexpectedly long shift coincident with needing to spend all afternoon and evening getting the post in order. I worry the quality may have suffered ( Read more... )

((Welcome, welcome, readers from Chocolate Hammer! We're in the swing of things, so this post is to bring you up to speed.

"My Name is Jarl" is a Morrowind Let's Play, posted weekly to the sages_of_chaos livejournal community on Wednesdays. Sages itself is a play-by-post dressing-room RPG with a cross-fandom polyglot character pool and a loose semblance of ( Read more... )

((Jarl is back again, doing some of the starting quests around Balmora. Our guiding Sages have put us on track with Caius, and had us join the Imperial guilds in town. For now, we're undecided about the temple and the Great Houses, but we're sure to form clearer opinions as we learn more about this strange and wondrous land. Also, we killed some ( Read more... )

((The latest installment of Jarl is up, so go have a look ( Read more... )

((Jarl is at it again, with your weekly dose. This time, he's off on his first dungeon crawl. *sniff* My little baby's all grown up and cleaving heads in twain! Got a tissue?))

((Whoops! I can't believe I forgot to update with the link to part three yesterday when it went up. Oh, well ( Read more... )

(( Part Two is here, and features one of the things I especially like about Morrowind's design, the way character creation is handled; you step off the boat, and have to tell the guard where you're from (prompting you to choose your race, sex, face, and hair). Inside, you're prompted to choose your character class and special power, and this takes ( Read more... )

(( This is the first post to Sages, introducing our as-yet unnamed hero and soliciting the basics of character creation. Exciting isn't it?))