Oblivion talk:Interesting Places

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Contents 1 New Page 2 Giant Nirnroot 3 Rename? 4 Giant Alo Vera 5 Movable Giant Objects from the IC Palace?

[edit] New Page

This is a new page moved from Easter Eggs, as discussed under that page's talk page and archived talk page. For now, the plan will be to move, doing only superficial edits, re-link everything, delete the original content, and THEN do any more extensive edits required.

After thinking about it for a while, and considering the nature of the discussion, I decided not to create these as sub-pages of the Easter Eggs page, since they're really not Easter Eggs in the classical definition of the term. --Robin Hood 17:00, 21 February 2008 (EST)

[edit] Giant Nirnroot

I have found one not far southeast of Vaermina's Shrine. Should I put it in the article? 77BeTa77 16:53, 1 March 2008 (EST)

I remember discussing the location of all the giant nirnroots somewhere before, but I'm darned if I can find it just now. Since this page includes giant items, though, I don't see any reason you shouldn't. I would put it either in the same bullet as the current giant nirnroot or as a new bullet immediately beneath. --Robin Hood 17:00, 1 March 2008 (EST)

No. The article lists the only Nirnroot plants that are exceptionally large in size (after checking the size of every single Nirnroot in the game, as listed in the construction set). There are a vast range of possible Nirnroot sizes, so only the ones that are clearly larger than usual are worth noting. The notes on exactly what size cutoff was chosen are buried somewhere on the site on a talk page if you really want to search for it. But the upshot is that I'm willing to bet that the Nirnroot you've found is smaller than the cutoff that was chosen. And changing the cutoff would mean that suddenly hundreds of plants would need to be listed, none of which anybody really cares about. --Nephele^Talk 17:04, 1 March 2008 (EST)

Amendment. The "official" list of large nirnroots is at Oblivion:Nirnroot#Outdoor. And that list provides the exact scales of the plants. The information on this page really should be brought up to date so that it's the same as the Nirnroot article (really it should probably just link to the list on the Nirnroot page). But as you can see on that list, none of them are anywhere near Vaermina's shrine. --Nephele^Talk 17:10, 1 March 2008 (EST)

[edit] Rename?

I was just wondering whether the page should be renamed to something like Oblivion:Anomalies or Oblivion:Peculiarities since (although there are a few interesting places mentioned in the article) many of the things mentioned on this article are objects and creatures rather than places, and I'm not really sure whether interesting is the way to describe some of them.--Willyhead 05:20, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

I'd agree it needs renaming but I'm not happy with any names that spring to mind... Oblivion:Interesting Features? Oblivion:Unusual Features? Not sure... –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 05:43, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

Yeah, when I first named it, I wasn't aware of the Unmarked Places page, or I would've chosen a different name. As Rpeh says, though, I'm not sure what to change it to. Certainly "unusual" seems to cover a lot of what's on the page...not sure from there, though. --Robin Hood (Talk • E-mail • Contribs) 13:58, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

It certainly is a tricky one to name since there's such a variety of things listed on the page. Many of the things on the page are jokes or secrets put into the game by the developers, so perhaps we could name it along those lines; something like 'peculiar secrets' (although that title doesn't really have a ring to it!). Other than that I can't really think of anything.--Willyhead 15:46, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Giant Alo Vera

Go to the Brina Cross Inn and, just as you leave, go to your right and then right again and jump over the rock. then go straight forward and next to the tree in your path and there will be an Alo Vera a little bigger than you--Drake3555 00:00, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

So there is. Its scale is set to 1.82 - so nearly double normal size. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 01:00, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Movable Giant Objects from the IC Palace?

All but the chair can be moved with the 'grab' function.

I've checked in game, but I haven't been able to move any of the items using Z. Is it just me/a PC version thing? I've moved the quote here until it can be verified. Vesna 20:50, 22 July 2008 (EDT)

Well I'm the one who put that there, and I was able to on the Xbox. There isn't an icon or anything for it on your screen, as you can't pick them up, but just like the some baskets that can't be picked up(there's one in the tutorial), they were still moveable. Darkle 20:54, 22 July 2008 (EDT)

I tried the same on PC, but those things wouldn't budge.... Strange. Vesna 21:59, 22 July 2008 (EDT)

I'd go check to see if maybe I was dreaming, or if it was just the one character. Or take a picture if I wasn't dreaming, but I'm about half a country away from my Xbox right now. Darkle 18:27, 23 July 2008 (EDT)

Definitely doesn't work on the PC and from the object type (static) I can't see it working on anything else either. You must have been dreaming! –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 13:40, 24 July 2008 (EDT)

Well I'll have to check when I get home then. Darkle 14:50, 24 July 2008 (EDT)