when you find out mercers emptied the guild safe and stolen everything brynjolf says “by the eight” but later if you talk to him in irkngthand he says “by talos, mercer has a lot to answer for” which is probably just an inconsistency but also i feel like it could imply he’s excluding one of the other divines from the eight
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ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. You don't have to do anything anymore.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - But what's this? An awareness creeps up on you. A jumping, juddering sensation forces your head up and your eyes open.
LOGIC [Easy: Success] - You are moving. On a cart of some kind.
INTERFACING [Trivial: Success] - Your hands are bound. This is a *problem*. With your magic digits out of action, you're helpless!
RALOF (BLOND BRAID GUY) - There is a blond man with a braid in his hair sitting across from you. He tries to get your attention: “Hey you! You're finally awake.”
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - He has piercing blue eyes. Oceanic.
RALOF (BLOND BRAID GUY) - “You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there.”
LOKIR, THE HORSE THIEF - He gestures towards the meek looking man next to him.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Challenging: Success] - Imperial. Of the Empire. What Empire? *The* Empire. The great Empire of Men, centred at the Imperial City, in the Imperial Province of Cyrodiil. These guys used to rule the world.
AUTHORITY [Challenging: Failure] - Clearly they still do.
LOKIR, THE HORSE THIEF - “Damn you Stormcloaks! Skyrim was fine until you came along!”
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - His sudden anger is a thin disguise for terrible, terrible fear.
LOKIR, THE HORSE THIEF - “Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn’t been looking for you, I could’ve stolen that horse and been half way to Hammerfell.” He turns to you. “You there. You and me—we shouldn't be here. It’s these Stormcloaks the Empire wants.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Formidable: Failure] - Stormcloaks?
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Easy: Success] - Cool name.
RALOF (BLOND BRAID GUY) - “We’re all brothers and sisters in binds now, thief.”
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Brothers and sisters? Like he wouldn't trample over the lot of you for a chance to get out of here.
IMPERIAL SOLDIER - The cart driver speaks up: “Shut up back there!”
PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Easy: Success] - Silence.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Medium: Success] - You watch the snowflakes dance in the air.
SHIVERS [Easy: Success] - This land is cold. Bitterly cold.
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