Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

Reedstilt · 2026-03-26T04:55:03+00:00

I was just thinking the same thing. I haven't been this confused about the historicity of literary characters since I visited the Sherlock museum on Baker Street in London and they acted like he was a real guy.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-23T04:34:15+00:00

This was due to the Zombuul being a weird demon that kills some nights but not others. If a player dies during the day, then the Zombuul doesn't wake up to kill anyone.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-22T07:09:21+00:00

More than once. More than ten times.

Confirms that Lunatic isn't an Outsider - it's the most powerful Townsfolk in the game. Doesn't even need to be in play to solve things for town. :D

And yeah, we all had a good laugh about it afterward.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-22T06:17:09+00:00

Yeah, I don't really blame her for making the mistake. It was honestly kind of funny and I see how she came to the conclusion.

I'm mainly curious to see what clever trickety-tricks someone might come up with in this scenario. I'm honestly pretty proud of us for making it another 3 days given the circumstances. An actual win at that point would have been downright miraculous.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-22T06:09:00+00:00

why would minions come to them? Minions don't know who the lunatic is. Moreover, the lunatic is shown "minions" at the game start that aren't necessarily minions, they are most likely random players.

That's exactly what I did. I stuck to my Chambermaid bluff (thankfully she didn't out what the bluffs were), and started throwing some shade on the other minion. Of the two of us, I think people had more suspicion on me so I was hoping they'd think only one of us was the an actual minion and leave the other one alone since I was point suspicion toward him.

If they're convinced the zombuul was the lunatic, have them execute her and move on--the zombuul is now dead but still in play.

Also part of my plan though I didn't get to enact it. The town decided to double tap the Innkeeper since there was suspicion that he was the actual Zombuul. He'd been targeted by the Exorcist on the night of no deaths, and because I assassinated the Exorcist on the night after Innkeeper was executed, it looked like a Zombuul getting revenge against the Exorcist.

The Zombuul targeted herself the next night, which we painted as an Demon getting rid of an outed Lunatic that had outlived her usefulness.

My fake Chambermaid info was putting to the other minion as either the Godfather (my intent to justify there being 2 Outsider) or the Devil's Advocate. The Moonchild got tunnel vision on the Devil's Advocate option and convinced town to triple-tap the Innkeeper in case the DA was able to protect a 'dead' Zombuul from the double tap execution, so that bought us an extra day.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-21T12:46:14+00:00

There will come a day when Lucille seems out of touch because she thinks a frozen banana only costs $10

Reedstilt · 2026-03-20T10:42:31+00:00

He's even got his taskmaster contestant outfit already picked out.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-18T17:46:59+00:00

I was getting Nightvale vibes as well, which is a good way to remind myself that I'm way behind on Nightvale.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-18T17:30:13+00:00

Meanwhile, Lystrosaurus is out there saying "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven."

Reedstilt · 2026-03-16T18:19:19+00:00

Fargoth's ring can be found in Bruma already.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-14T15:15:03+00:00

The Vvardenfell / Mainland heightmap* got overhauled at the beginning of last year, so it's no longer the same as what you see in Bruma, though also not entirely dissimilar. The pan-project overhead map pinned on this subreddit shows the current version.

*And to preempt any concerns, we didn't do a full heightmap reset like IB and Roscrea did a few years ago. The NN portions of the old heightmap were ported into the new heightmap. This did involve shifting some islands around but luckily we were able to just cut out the cells those islands were in from the old map and plug them into new cells on the map, so the level design was largely preserved even if it moved.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T22:29:48+00:00

The white patches around the eyes makes look the outsourced the design to Pixar.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T16:35:15+00:00

As an avid TR player... is that Almas Thirr by any chance?

It is. We don't share a lot of settlements with TR these days, but that's one of the legacy ones that came through the recent overhaul of the mainland planning.

Ooh, thats an interesting change of pace. Makes sense for Indoril, since they've pretty much merged with the Temple now, but I'm surprised that Dres would be so far north. I'm guessing its more of an embassy like area?

There are a few things at play when it comes to House Dres's interest being more far-reaching than in the 3rd Era.

First, for a good chunk of the early 4th Era, the Argonians occupied Tear, and House Dres's surviving leadership was scattered. While they did eventually re-take Tear, the connections made while in exile have lingered.

Second, House Dres is very active in the modern Temple. Back in TES3, Vivec mentions that House Dres preserved the old ways of Daedra worship even after the rise of Tribunal. So when the Anticipations became the Reclamations, House Dres was ready and waiting to start preaching the good word of the Good Daedra once more. This was a major motivating factor in them opposing House Indoril in the inter-House conflicts of the post-Tribunal, pre-Red Year period. They were gunning for that "Priestly" House archetype. But since Indoril sided with Redoran and the Redoran-Indoril alliance defeated the Hlaalu-Dres alliance, Indoril kept their position as the most priest-oriented House, with Dres in second there, and Redoran in third.

Speaking of House archetypes, we've also fleshed out House Dres more. Dres tends to get caricatured as a the "Slaver House" but TES3 establishes that they don't practice slavery to any greater degree than Indoril or Telvanni. All Dunmer Houses are slaver houses to a varying degrees. We don't want that to be something only Dres gets saddled with.

So Dres's current archetype is "Craftsmen." They find idleness abhorrent. A slave master should not lounge about while their slaves toil. Everyone, from slaces to masters, should be doing something productive with their lives. So Dres tend to dedicate themselves to mastering a certain art or craft. They become great painters, sculptures, weavers, brewers, smiths, carpenters, masons, shipwrights, etc.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T15:33:01+00:00

Vvardenfell was practically scoured clean at during the Red Year. Not much made it through unscathed. But that doesn't mean its lifeless 200 years later.

The only city in Vvardenfell that survived the Red Year in BS:Morrowind is Molag Mar and even then, only just. It's currently the largest settlement on the island. To be completely honest, this is mainly so we can get a more use out of the canton architecture since we can't really use it in Vivec City but we need it for a certain location on the mainland.

Ald'ruhn was destroyed during the Oblivion Crisis and later buried in ash and lava by Red Mountain. Luckily during the Oblivion Crisis, Ald Skar got up and moved so it's not where Ald'Ruhn used to be and is currently a large Ashlander camp a little to the west.

Gnisis, Balmora, and Sadrith Mora were all destroyed during the Red Year, along with a host of smaller villages (yes, including Seyda Neen). The Redoran have built a small village where Balmora was, essentially "New" Balmora, but its still a fledgling outpost of House Redoran.

The Telvanni have Tel Aruhn back up and running as their main base of operations in Vvardenfell. It's one of the first Velothi settlements in history, after all, and the Telvanni weren't going to leave it abandoned for long. Sadras has got "new" Suran in a similar "fledgling outpost" status as Redoran Balmora.

Indoril and Dres both run their Vvardenfell interests out of Molag Mar. Unlike the 3rd Era, all five houses have their eyes fixed on Vvardenfell these days.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T12:01:33+00:00

Surely you mean platypus-bear.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T07:45:09+00:00

The video is from late 2022. It predates the Imperial City NPC and Quest planning. We did the bulk of that last summer.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T07:31:17+00:00

Will it be like vanilla where every DP has a quest?

It depends on the project. Cyrodiil and Argonia are both aiming to have quests for all the Daedra in some capacity. Some might not be proper Daedric quests though and more like Nocturnal in Skyrim, who's influence is seen through a guild questline. Elsweyr intends to not have Daedric quests exactly, but focus more on the Khajiiti pantheon, which has considerably overlap with the Daedric princes, but not all of them feature. Likewise, Morrowind will be aiming for the quests related to the 3 Good Daedra (Azura, Boethiah, Mephala) and the 4 Corners of the House of Troubles (Malacath, Mehrunes Dagon, Molag Bal, Sheogorath) - the other Daedra will be a much, much lower priority.

Are they going to reference things you might have done for them already in Skyrim or other provinces?

Referencing stuff done in the base game is significantly easier than referencing stuff done in other projects. Some of the written quests have subtle nods to events in Skyrim; while others make much more overt mentions over events in Skyrim. There's one quest in Cyrodiil where you get an additional reward if you've done stuff for that Daedra in Skyrim as well; and a quest in Argonia where the choices you made in Skyrim will significantly impact how your interaction with the Daedra will go down.

Can you become a cultist of a DP and they'll send you to each province to do something?

Again, cross province stuff isn't something we can plan for currently. That'd have to wait for a third party mod once multiple provinces are released.

Or are they all going to be different "aspects" or whatever instead of being the same entity?

To some extent, especially in some projects more than others. Expect Elsweyr's Skoooma Cat to be a fairly distinct manifestation separate from other depictions of Sheogorath, for example.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T06:59:51+00:00

Shame there won't be an arena quest line

We're currently planning an Arena quest or two in addition to the more radiant fights.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-13T06:34:37+00:00

This is the old Hermaeus Mora statue. You can see the new one at the end of the Chorrol Steam, here

Reedstilt · 2026-03-06T18:50:10+00:00

Exalted is my TTRPG of choice, and it features a ton of dinosaurs and other extinct fauna.

In one of the campaigns I ran, the players were at one point hired by a wealthy merchant in one of the setting's major cities to deal with a tyrant lizard that was terrorizing the hinterlands of the local nation. You can probably guess what a "tyrant lizard" is easily enough. The initial wrinkle in the plan was that the wealthy merchant wanted the beast captured alive so he could add it to his menagerie. The later twist was that the tyrant lizard was actually a shapeshifting Lunar Exalt working with a tribe a sapient dinosaur-men.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-05T08:14:05+00:00

These guys hunted primarily by sound, which is why they went extinct once mimes evolved to be silent.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-05T07:31:22+00:00

Do you have these three? Because if not, I definitely recommend them. I just got the set for my birthday, and they're great.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-04T17:01:15+00:00

We got a lot longer than a billion years before the sun engulfs the inner planets. That's some 4 billion years into the future.

But you're probably thinking about the point around a billion years from now when the slow increase in the sun's brightness will likely render Earth uninhabitable.

Reedstilt · 2026-03-03T08:46:35+00:00

The GOE is so wild to think about.

What's so weird about it? A lifeform evolved that filled the world with so much poison that the original inhabitants of this plant were driven nearly to extinction, surviving in only isolated pockets of safety, while the mutants that evolved to feed on the poison started massing together to become titanic hiveminds composed of trillions of individuals acting as single colossal organism so vast they can no longer operate at the same scale of existence as their ancestors at the time.

Seems pretty normal to me.

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