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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
It is possible, but very difficult, to escape from jail. It is difficult to see the benefit of such
an action, since you still have a Bounty on your head. But some members of the criminal
community feel it is their obligation to escape from jail as a matter of principle.
It is also possible to recover stolen items that have been confiscated from you upon your
incarceration. Such items are held in Stolen Goods containers near the jail cells. Stealing
things out from under the noses of jail guards is very difficult, but, again, some criminals
consider it a matter of principle to recover their ill-gotten goods.
Horses, Houses, Books, Containers
Horses
To ride a horse, activate it. Use the W, A, S , and D keys to steer the horse, and the
Mouse to look around. Activating a horse that does not belong to you is horse stealing, a
serious crime. To purchase your own horse, visit stables outside the towns. When you fast-
travel to a city, your horse is left for you at the local stable, just outside the city gates.
Houses For sale
Houses of varying qualities are for sale in each of the towns, and, once you own a house,
you can also purchase furnishings for that house from local merchants. To learn more about
houses for sale, visit the counts, countesses, or their agents in the town’s castle.
books and otHer docuMents
When you pick up a book or document to read, you can put it back where you got it
(select ‘Exit’) or put it in your inventory (select ‘Take’). If a book is already in your inventory,
navigate to it in your Inventory Menu and
Left Click to open it. Use the Prev and the Next
buttons to flip back and forth through a book’s pages. Use the
Mouse Wheel to scroll
up and down through a scroll’s text.
Special Skill Books improve your skills. Just opening these books produces a message
indicating which skill has improved. A book only improves a skill once; repeat readings
have no effect.
containers
Containers include things like chests, sacks, crates, barrels, dead bodies, and more. To see
what’s inside a container, direct your Crosshair over the object so the Purse icon appears,
then press
Spacebar . If the Purse icon is white, you’re free to take and use the contents
of the container. If the Purse icon is red, someone else owns the container, and taking
anything from the container is stealing, and a crime if you are detected. If the Purse icon is
red, and the container is locked, any attempt to pick the lock is stealing, and a crime if you
are detected.
Take things one at a time from a container by
Left Clicking them. Click the lefthand bag
to display your own inventory; click the righthand bag to display the container’s inventory.
Click the Take All button to take all things in a container, or click the Exit button (or press
Spacebar ) to exit a container. To place something in a container, display your own
inventory, and select an item to place it in the container.
Warning! Don’t leave things in containers you don’t own! They may not be there when
you come back for them!
Increasing your Skills
and Leveling Up
increasing skills
There are three ways to increase a skill:
1. Use it over and over. The lower the skill score, the easier it is to increase it by using
it. It takes much longer to raise a high skill by using it. Review your progress toward
increasing a skill in the Skills Display of the Stats Menu.
2. Buy training from another character. You can only train 5 skills points per level.
3. Learn more about the skill from special books.
raising your level
Increase the Major Skills associated with your class to raise your level. In order
to raise your level, you must improve any combination of your Major Skills by
a total of 10 points. Review your progress toward increasing your level in the
Skills Display of the Stats Menu.
You will receive a message and an Icon will appear on the screen when you have raised
your skills enough to raise a level. You must use a bed to sleep and meditate on what
you’ve learned in order to increase your level.
When you raise a level, you are given an opportunity to increase three of your eight
Attributes. Certain attributes may receive a bonus modifier, which is determined by which
skills you have increased since you last raised level. For example, if you improved several
skills that have Personality as a governing attribute, then you will see an appropriate bonus
modifier for Personality. Whether a skill is Major or Minor does not affect the modifier. In
addition, when you raise a level, your Health is increased by one-tenth of your Endurance.
Options and Preferences
You can access the Options Menu from the Main Menu when you load Oblivion or at any
point during the game, by pressing the
ESC Key . The Options Menu allows you to adjust
your gameplay, audio, video, and control settings.
gaMeplay
Using this menu, you can adjust the Difficulty slider and toggle certain features off or on,
including: General Subtitles, Dialogue Subtitles, Crosshair, Save on Rest, Save on Wait,
and Save on Travel.
video
You can adjust several Video settings from this menu. Changing your resolution
and adjusting your View Distance slider will give you the biggest improvements in
performance. You can also adjust Texture Size, LOD sliders, Grass slider, change Distant
LOD settings, and tweak your shadow, water and light settings. Consult the Readme.txt
file where you installed the game for more details on these settings.
audio
Use this menu to adjust volume levels: Master, Voice, (Sound) Effects, Footsteps, and Music.
controls
In this menu you can adjust Vertical and Horizontal Sensitivity, Invert the Y Axis, and
toggle Rumble. You can also reassign the Action Mapping for the game’s controls.
doWnloads
Select this option to download and view new content.