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Oblivion character imprisoned for 617 yearsYou were caught sneaking
You were caught sneaking
What?
That’s the story according to theUnofficial Elder Scrolls Page Twitter account, which twote last night about a character they put in jail for 225,000 days.
— UESP (@UESP_net)May 21, 2020
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Honestly, it sounds like the kind of talentless non-adventure character I’d play, if there were anything to do once you’re in there. Did you ever playSpace Rangers 2? That was anElite-ish 2D space game that had, for the hell of it, a detailed text adventure game if you got sent to prison. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t like to see something like that in a game with an Elder Scrolls budget.
Oblivion is set in the year 433. Once you account for the series' awkward calendar, that’s 200 years earlier thanSkyrim. This hapless convict is pictured in the year 1050.
The hero we all kind of are right now.
He was rattling his bars when you yelled a wolf off a cliff. He was eating slop when youfought Thomas the Tank Engine. He was befriending his 9th Morgan Freeman when youfound a really good axe. And he’ll be there for another 417 years after you eat the last dragon’s brains and push Ulfric into a cauldron or whatever happens when you actually play the main plot. I suppose this is the price you pay for not following Emperor Picard.
I’ve only ever spent one night in jail in Skyrim (and can’t even remember for Oblivion). My Redguard character was casually walking back to Windhelm when the guards flipped out and shot her in the eye for no reason. A story came out later. Some spurious accusations that I’d menaced a chicken days earlier. They released me the next day, probably freaked out that I’d survived. It was all a bit too real to be honest.
They had it comin'
I rolled with it, but I normally reload a save when I get arrested because it’s just faster and less dull. Plus the guards always magically intuit that 85% of what I’m carrying is stolen. They have some sophisticated apple tracking systems in Tamriel. Maybe that’s why the farmers never have time to harvest their crops.
The hosts of the Twitter account, and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls pages it represents, have put in tonnes of work over the years to collect and organise the series’detailedbackstory and settings. I’ve relied on them myself in the past so it only seems fair to point you in the direction oftheir Patreon page.
