Anyone try to read the Elder Scroll? : V

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:53 am

I did. I thought it was a nice response when I tried. At least my character was not permanently blinded. According to what I was told, some that tried to read it went crazy. I think it would have been a cool idea to give those that tried to read it have some kind of effect. Instead of being totally crazy, whoever tried to read it could have visions or nightmares that may protend something. Maybe a vision of a place where they could find a special item, like a Daedric weapon or one of those bugs in a jar. If they were speaking to someone in first person, that person's face could change. I guess it would be too much trouble to do.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:23 pm

Of course I did! LOL Especially, since I knew I shouldn't read it and that I could go blind hahahahaha Yea, I also thought there would be more dire consequences from reading it. However, I should have known there were none, since Skyrim is a game without consequences. LOL

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:17 pm

Well you didn't go permanently blind because you have "some" understanding of the scroll. The more understanding you have of it the less likely you will go blind.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:31 pm

Of course I did! LOL Especially, since I knew I shouldn't read it and that I could go blind hahahahaha Yea, I also thought there would be more dire consequences from reading it. However, I should have known there were none, since Skyrim is a game without consequences. LOL

How do you know what would happen when a Dovahkiin attempts to read the scroll?

What you read about is when mere mortals read it.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:10 pm

The temporary blindness thing was way cool. I've often wondered what would happen if you kept reading it over and over again. Would you go blind for longer periods?

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:27 pm

The temporary blindness thing was way cool. I've often wondered what would happen if you kept reading it over and over again. Would you go blind for longer periods?

It's only when you (partially) understand what you're looking at that you start to have the more adverse effects.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:40 pm

Would you go blind for longer periods?

Only if you don't stop by the time you need eyeglasses.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:40 pm

I think it hurt my eyes more than my characters...

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:46 pm

Should break into the Elder Library read the scrolls, and find out which games are coming out, when, and where they'll take place. And the guy who does so and goes blind, when he dies we'll make him a martyr.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:29 pm

It gave me a severe migraine

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:12 pm

Yeah I did but then the screen went white

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:22 pm

Yep, it gave off an interesting little light show.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:00 am

Least it wasn't like in Oblivion, how you could stare at the scroll all yah want.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:26 pm

Should break into the Elder Library read the scrolls, and find out which games are coming out, when, and where they'll take place. And the guy who does so and goes blind, when he dies we'll make him a martyr.

But before he can tell us, Vivec appears and murders him, and then vanishes in a flash of light.

Makes just as much sense.

Those scrolls have yet to be set in stone or even written for that matter.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:45 pm

Hmmmmmm ... wonder if anyone did NOT read it

:cool:

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:03 am

It made me go blind(my character) then I sold it to the Orc at the Archanium at College of Winterhold

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:32 am

Hmmmmmm ... wonder if anyone did NOT read it

:cool:

I didn't!

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:23 pm

I didn't!

Me neither. I have it sitting on the shelf above the alchemy table in Honeyside. That thing is big!

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:10 am

Yea, I also thought there would be more dire consequences from reading it. However, I should have known there were none, since Skyrim is a game without consequences. LOL

"I wonder what sort of consequences this will have... Oh wait, this is a Bethesda game" :lmao:

Anyway, i havent tried reading it, except at the time you must, but according to the book "Effects of Elder Scrolls" only those who gain knowledge from them go blind, and it requires training and preparation to do so. So it should act like in Oblivion, just see some cryptic glyph that makes no sense. Unless it gives a permanent or temporary buff like blessings? That would make it more interesting, an increasingly powerful temporary bonus that causes longer and longer blindness.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:29 pm

Nope, never. Never tried reading it, and I doubt anyone else did.
I never tried reading an Elder Scroll in The Elder Scrolls.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:57 pm

I read it because I knew Bethesda wouldn't break the game and have us not be able to see the screen anymore.

But I think your Oblivion character can look at it with no ill effects, because he/she doesn't understand it, and at most, just glanced at it for a second.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:14 pm

I read it, then it showed me a movie.

Spoiler

In other words the long, drawn-out, quest related cutscene.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:07 pm

I did. (...)

Are you kidding?

It was the first thing I did, despite having read about the consequences

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:41 pm

I didn't read it because it would make me blind.

I'm glad to hear there was something if you did it though. :tes:

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:43 am

Who wants to bet that if Skyrim came out earlier, say in the mid 90s, reading the scroll would have far more serious consequences, like a permanent stat decrease or something? There once was a time when you could have real consequences in role-playing games. Nowadays it seems that every game is made so that it is impossible to screw anything up...