Skyrim Apocrypha Sound Glitch
Kena Sugrue
I am playing Dragonborn DLC. I am currently going through one of the black books quests and even though I am not fighting my health bar keeps going down. I can heal back up to full again but it keeps disappearing. If I do not heal I will die in about 30 seconds.
I have no disease or nothing is visible anyway, no clue as to what's wrong. I can leave the black book quest or fast travel to a different location or rest for 24 hours but still the health disappears.
I had the same problem! I went into the "Sallow Regent" black book (and another one immediately after) to reset skills and change the power for sallow reagent. Struggled with trying to fix it for about an hour because my last clean save was 13 levels before. BOTTOM LINE:
I vaguely recall this happening to me (it was during the first black book quest, I think). I had enough health that it didn't really affect me, although the sound made by the spell was a bit annoying.
This also happened to me. It seems to be a glitch related to one of the quests where, when visiting Apocrypha, you take damage whenever you stray off the lighted path. (Sorry, forget the Quest name, I played this a couple months ago). For some reason, the game doesn't recognize that you're no longer in Apocrypha and continues to drain your health, making that annoying crackling noise that sounds like a burning fire.
Hello, dear friends and welcome to my first contest build. We know that Skyrim is full of glitches and tricks, which can be used to give us the interesting gameplay. I`ve heard a lot about the restoration glitch and today I`m going to use it to enter into pacts with Clavicus Vile. This build will be divided into 2 parts: before and after completing Vile`s quest. So, let me introduce
"- Ah, my nice little mortal! What do you want? Money? Wine? Love? No, you want POWER! Hehehe. You want to become a mage that can desintegrate an army with a single move of your small finger. I can give you all that you want, but I`ll take something in return... So let`s conclude the bargain. I know of a win-win situation for both of us."
The Warlock of Bargains was a scolar of arcane arts, but unlike other magicians, he did not want to study hard. Instead of training and learning, he was looking for other ways to become stronger. He collected ancient books and artifacts to make himself more powerful. Once he found knowledge on how to achieve power. Lord Clavicus Vile, the Prince of Bargains can give the young mage all that he wants.
A note from Warlock`s diary: "Clavicus Vile, also known as the child-god of the Morningstar and the Prince of Bargains, is one of the seventeen Daedric Princes. He is best known for granting wishes and entering into pacts with mortals. He is the Daedric Prince of Power, Trickery, Wishes, Serenity, and Bargains. His plane of Oblivion is known as The Fields of Regret.
Clavicus' dealings with Mundus are usually with individuals who wish to have something and, by summoning him, Clavicus gives it to them. However, he is known to take back his deals at inopportune times (for the summoner, not Vile). He loves toying with mortals, generally for his own entertainment rather than for any particular purpose, and has been said to be fond of mortals' souls. Clavicus has been known to split off portions of himself to create sentient objects or entities. While the permanent binding of spirits into objects is the usual process of creating Daedric Artifacts and Lesser Daedra, Vile's creations have shown more independence than that of most other Daedra's creations."
The normal rate is 3% of the total magicka. With 100% magicka regeneration, the character will receive 100% more of the 3% rate. However the mask adds 5 more points onto the natural regeneration rate, making the 3% regeneration 8%. So, the magicka regeneration will increase 100% of the 8% rate.
Thank you, Shadon! I love Daedric Princes too. If there were any other things with both buffs and debuffs in Skyrim, I`d made more Pacts. I wish you good luck too, your Lurcher is interesting and unique character.
Very creative work here Shainos, nice work! The various paths all sound interesting and powerful in their own way, and the flavour around the deals with Clavicus Vile was really the cherry on top. It could be interesting to see an endgame where you can rotate through the various pacts or perhaps combine them in some way. Even branch out into some warrior skills using the likes of the Lord or Lady stones! Something else worth noting is that I believe the Recovery perks in Restoration affect how much magicka you can get back from Equilibrium.
Only thing I would point out is that the presentation could use some proofreading, as there's a few spelling and grammar mistakes throughout. Of course it doesn't detract from the core idea you have here but it really helps to have an all-round polished product!
I`ve thought about the combinations of the pacts. Pact of desecration + pact of protection = OP mage with a lot of magicka, huge magic regeneration and a complete immunity to magic. Pact of protection won`t allow you to summon daedra, so it cannot be used with the pact of conjuration. There is only one combo: pact of desecration + pact of conjuration.
Could you please tell me more about the combination of Equilibrium and Recovery perk? I have only heard about the ability of Regeneration perk to amplify Equilibrium by 50%, so Recovery should empover this effect, shouldn`t it?
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