[Skyrim Torture Chamber Mod
Gildo Santiago
Upon your arrival, you meet a rather brazen bloke Razelan. Keep him at the forefront of your mind. After showing your invitation to the Thalmor bouncer and exchanging pleasantriess with the Ambassador, Malborn urges you to create a distraction so that you can sneak out. Grab a Colovian Brandy either from Malborn or the waitress and hand one to Razelan. With his eyes wide, he pledges his loyalty to you, his best and most trusted friend.
Ask him to create a distraction and slip out the back with Malborn. If you're concerned about replenishing your health, you can snag some food from the party at no penalty. Once you retrieve your gear from the chest, it is up to you to fight off the Thalmor guards in the back.
You'll have a few melee types and a wizard to contend with. Proceed ever closer to the quest marker, picking up various potions along the way. You'll encounter more enemies outside, but your main goal is to head into Elenwen's Solar to fight Rulindil and remove his Interrogation Chamber Key. Use it to gain entry into the torture chamber and pilfer the Thalmier Dossier: Esbern from the chest.
After reading the dossiers, you will be instructed to leave the Embassy, via the trap door in the torture chamber. You will need the Trap Door Key. You'll need to wait for the guards that come in with Malborn, to try to keep you from escaping. Kill the guards and loot the key off one of their bodys. (Note: If you level up while your here, you will need to take care of that before you can leave.) Then open the Trap Door and leave.
The Reeking Cave, as this place is called, is home to a Frost Troll, but by this point you will have reunited with your followers (if you had any to begin with). Simply return to Delphine at Riverwood at this point to complete the quest. You'll find her in the basement of the Sleeping Giant Inn, which is accessed through a false panel in the wardrobe of the room closest to the front counter.
I've seen effective methods for leveling Summoning, like spamming a Bound Sword on a crag in front of a giant; my question is whether or not something like this will work for Destruction spells. Does the Destruction spell have to actually hit the target or is it enough for it to be done in its vicinity? Does it level faster if you use it on or close to "difficult" NPCs like giants, as opposed to "easy" NPCs like Skeevers?
Destruction magic needs to hit its target, and it depends on the amount of damage done. The more damage you cause, the more experience you gain. Even still, leveling it is especially slow, so you will want to take advantage of all the possible boosts before power leveling that skill:
The best way to do it is to find an essential NPC and roast them for a while. Bonus points if you use destruction in one hand and restoration in the other hand (to level both at the same time!). If you don't want to waste time training it this way, I would suggest getting the rune master perk and using lots of runes while you go dungeon exploring. Runes are fairly high damage and you can cast it ahead of time and allow your magic to regen before proceeding into battle.
I know the most common is vilkas of the companions, but i find it easier to actually pick a stormcloak or imperial camp that is in enemy terriitory (no bounty if say a stormcloak camp by solitude) and each one has an essential commander that cant die and regains health quickly. also in between periods where they regin health you can recharge magika and just leave when your done with no bounty and easy xp for destruction and also can be done at any time inlike the one time with the companions.
The Destruction skill tree actually needs to damage to level up, so doing it on something that is unkillable will work best. Or if you just want to do it on the go, your best bet is to do quests and burn people alive?
Based on my research on destruction experience over here, what you want to do is maximize base magicka spent per second. The simplest way to do this is to get 100% destruction cost reduction... then spam your most expensive spells. If you don't use free destruction spells, you should work out a way to rapidly fill your magicka (such as the Equilibrium spells, magicka potions) or more mundane ways to fill the bar (increase maximum magicka to increase absolute regen rate, sleeping).
In Reddit /r/Skyrim, it has been recently reported in this post that jumping on the blacksmithing forge's fire will increase your destruction level. It appears that every time you jump in the fire, you cast a destruction fire spell on yourself.
After you become the master of the Dark Brotherhood, you will have the option to furnish the sanctuary. One of the features is a torture chamber. Use your destruction (and restoration) spells on them.
Well, a good thing to start with is leveling enchanting (involves iron daggers and confidence!) and getting a chest piece, a helm, a ring and a necklace. Enchant each one with 25% destruction spell cast reduction. Then, just use your free destruction spells to pound away at shadowmere (dark brotherhood questline)!
For conjuration you will need to have completed the quest pieces of the past. At Mehrune's Shrine after the quest there will be 2 unbound Dremora. Kill them both and represent cast soul trap on one of the bodies. Because the Dremora have eternal souls it counts as if it were still alive aside from not getting the soul.
To level up destruction just dual cast flames on Shadowmare since she is 100% resistant to magic and always friendly. Fire does the most damage out of the three elements available so it gives the most exp. Another neat trick I learned by accident is when you train with someone, you can immediately use the shout ice form to freeze them solid. Because it doesn't do any damage it doesn't turn them hostile. Enter sneak mode and repeatedly tap X for pickpocket. It will eventually open when they began to thaw. Take your money and bam you can train again. Works on all NPCs like when buying a house or training or any of the like.
You can summon a familiar and then attack it to level both conjuration and destruction. It will turn on you after a second, but even with low-level destruction spells it won't reach you (at least at the low levels I was doing this).
This will only work if you haven't already joined the companions. When you first join someone will take you outside to hit him. Simply keep hitting him with spells and he will just keep telling you to use your sword and he won't do anything. This is effective because as soon as you stop attacking he will sheathe his weapon so you can wait 1 hour to regain your magicka.
Two atronach (frost seem to have more hp being only CQB) and an AOE spell (using chain lighting). You do need to have twin souls perk, but with killing two at a time I'm getting 1/4 of xp bar at lvl 60 destruction.
First I want to be clear about what I mean by torture. There are legal definition we can use. One comes from the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which the United States is a signatory. According to this international agreement, torture means intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering (Kreimer 190). This concept of torture was directly applied to videogames in a California law signed in 2005 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A more recent game of discipline and control is the crowd-funded Prison Architect by the British game developer Introversion. Still in alpha release, Prison Architect is a Sim-style game in which the player designs and manages a maximum security prison. The game begins with the player tasked with building an execution chamber, complete with an electric chair, which is what you see me buying here.
The second type of game featuring institutional sites of torture are games of confinement and its corollary, escape. If in games of control, prisons are information spaces, which the player navigates through a series of menus and layers, games of confinement and escape use the prison as a treacherous but navigable space. The player assumes the identity of an often unjustly imprisoned inmate, attempting escape under extraordinary circumstances (a research experiment gone wrong, an invasion of demonic monsters, and so on). The survival horror franchises The Suffering and Manhunt are well-known examples of these games of confinement and escape. Portal and Portal 2 also fit this model. Unlike the objective omniscient perspective afforded by games of control, games of confinement tend to be first-person shooters, with a subjective point of view.
First, I want to revise the thesis of my earlier research on torture, that suggested a verbal response of some sort was the goal of torture in videogames. Here, with the Nazi-style pageantry and towering portrait, clearly power is on display. Torture is a show. The fact that I calmly explored this room without fear of attack, taking these screenshots as a tourist might photograph interesting monuments, suggests the wanting-to-be-seenness of the torture chamber. On one hand this resonates with the viewpoint that torture is not simply about getting a confession or intel. Torture is about intimidation, a performance of power.
Even contemporary games that graphically depict torture rather than architecturally evoke it emphasize scarring techniques. Some of the torture implements at your disposal in Grand Theft Auto 5 are a wrench and a sledgehammer, clearly the tools of a scarring technique.
Makes a pretty good trivia question, too. We have learned that the happiest place on earth has been home to an awful lot of graveyards, but a medieval torture chamber? Try this one on your favorite Disneyland trivia lover and see if they're stumped:
(You need to stipulate like that, because torture scenes there are aplenty. They would include dunking the mayor in POTC, forcing Wendy to walk the plank in Peter Pan, and the queue for Spider Man on a hot day.)
Some of the scenes in the older versions of Snow White's Adventures would have qualified, but those have mostly been scrubbed. If we're restricting ourselves to gloomy dungeons with implements of torture sitting around, then there is one and there is only one. It's in the Sleeping Beauty Diorama (aka the SB walk-thru).
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