I could not find anything to do with rampages, so if this exists already, blame the fact we don't have phsycic search engines that can tell exactly what we need.
I thought it'd be fun if we all shared our stories where, in-game, we decided at that moment to snap and murder everybody in sight.
My favourite was when when I was playing Oblivion. I had reserved the save game I was playing to take a more infamous role - keeping a "good" save-state aside, in which I was just starting in the Imperial City and determined to be the good guy - and was in Cheydinhal after completing a Dark Brotherhood assignment. I can't remember what made me do it, but I'd proabably been rumbled by the guards on my previous quest, and a guard came up to me and asked me to pay a very easy fine (perhaps I'd stolen some small, unuseful item for giggles).
I naturally refused to pay up and twatted the man over the head. Oddly enough, not sure if this happens to any of you, but this guard, though of no actual story interest ever within in the game, is one of those unkillables. That is to say, cold steel slicing through his flesh only rendered him temporarily unconscious. Of course, more guards rushed to the scene, and I quickly despatched them. I then proceeded (deciding to load the old, "good" save state later) to rush around Cheydinhal, cutting down anyone in my way. I rushed into houses, murdering NPCs important to quests, stealing valuables, and generally being a total git.
I finally decided to give myself up and yielded to the invinci-guard. I obviously couldn't pay the fine, so was sent to jail.
Ah, but the tale doesn't stop there. My lock-pick skill was low at this point, but nevertheless I still picked my way out of the cell, killed the guards, retrieved my equipment and made a hasty dash for the Imperial City to - well, I'm not sure, but probably to kill some people there, for giggles again. This venture found me fighting to the death in the middle of Talos Plaza, having massacred the civilians in the area and proceeding to take on guards, captains and at one point even a civilian trained in magely arts (my memory for names is terrible, so we'll just call him "dead"). After deciding that I couldn't possibly continue to fight, I gave myself up to one of the guard captains - no way was I being led away by some raw recruit.
Most prison sentences in Oblivion, in game-time, usually don't last as long as they nowadays would, but the sentence was still pretty long for an Oblivion one. I did hard time (I decided I'd had enough of jail-busting for one rampage) at the pleasure of, well certainly not His Majesty the Emperor of Tamriel, him being dead and his heir somewhere else (won't spoil that for the oddsbodikins' who still haven't played this game yet); possibly at the pleasure of the burly inmates also there, for, I believe, a year and a half.
My stats were lowered, I hadn't gained any of the prison experience the game said I could, I had a large notoriety rating, nobody trusted me, and I'd ruined the chance to do several quests. However, I still had that "good" save from way back. I could just use that and rectify all the damage I'd done.
I smiled, deleted that save, and continued on the one I'd started with, going on to redeem myself and become the Champion of Cyrodiil, with my fame points far outranking my infamy points by the end.
Sometimes you just have to love video games.
I thought it'd be fun if we all shared our stories where, in-game, we decided at that moment to snap and murder everybody in sight.
My favourite was when when I was playing Oblivion. I had reserved the save game I was playing to take a more infamous role - keeping a "good" save-state aside, in which I was just starting in the Imperial City and determined to be the good guy - and was in Cheydinhal after completing a Dark Brotherhood assignment. I can't remember what made me do it, but I'd proabably been rumbled by the guards on my previous quest, and a guard came up to me and asked me to pay a very easy fine (perhaps I'd stolen some small, unuseful item for giggles).
I naturally refused to pay up and twatted the man over the head. Oddly enough, not sure if this happens to any of you, but this guard, though of no actual story interest ever within in the game, is one of those unkillables. That is to say, cold steel slicing through his flesh only rendered him temporarily unconscious. Of course, more guards rushed to the scene, and I quickly despatched them. I then proceeded (deciding to load the old, "good" save state later) to rush around Cheydinhal, cutting down anyone in my way. I rushed into houses, murdering NPCs important to quests, stealing valuables, and generally being a total git.
I finally decided to give myself up and yielded to the invinci-guard. I obviously couldn't pay the fine, so was sent to jail.
Ah, but the tale doesn't stop there. My lock-pick skill was low at this point, but nevertheless I still picked my way out of the cell, killed the guards, retrieved my equipment and made a hasty dash for the Imperial City to - well, I'm not sure, but probably to kill some people there, for giggles again. This venture found me fighting to the death in the middle of Talos Plaza, having massacred the civilians in the area and proceeding to take on guards, captains and at one point even a civilian trained in magely arts (my memory for names is terrible, so we'll just call him "dead"). After deciding that I couldn't possibly continue to fight, I gave myself up to one of the guard captains - no way was I being led away by some raw recruit.
Most prison sentences in Oblivion, in game-time, usually don't last as long as they nowadays would, but the sentence was still pretty long for an Oblivion one. I did hard time (I decided I'd had enough of jail-busting for one rampage) at the pleasure of, well certainly not His Majesty the Emperor of Tamriel, him being dead and his heir somewhere else (won't spoil that for the oddsbodikins' who still haven't played this game yet); possibly at the pleasure of the burly inmates also there, for, I believe, a year and a half.
My stats were lowered, I hadn't gained any of the prison experience the game said I could, I had a large notoriety rating, nobody trusted me, and I'd ruined the chance to do several quests. However, I still had that "good" save from way back. I could just use that and rectify all the damage I'd done.
I smiled, deleted that save, and continued on the one I'd started with, going on to redeem myself and become the Champion of Cyrodiil, with my fame points far outranking my infamy points by the end.
Sometimes you just have to love video games.
