#babylonbirdmeat

Do you have any fun facts about those deep cave insects?

I haven't played Morrowind! I have played Oblivion a lot though, and Skyrim to a lesser extent. I am planning to get Morrowind eventually (though it will have to be on Xbox for me because I can't get into PC emulators).

In Oblivion I used to play an "evil" character, with the intention of a long, satisfying dark journey across the world, but I eventually got distracted by the old-school gameplay (you really have to experiment with the character skills to do well) and got really into my Dark Brotherhood and assassin activities. In Skyrim I just like running around as a weirdo and accumulating a massive collection of extravagant jewelry and weapons, along with a collection of daedric artifacts which I have no idea how to activate.

So like I've never played these games, but I saw a tiny bit of a trailer for the newest one and there was a deer masked killer (?) and I need to know: Who is that? I was once a deer masked killer so I wanna know who my kindred spirit is here

the short answer; there is a whole cult of them

Anyways thanks for getting me into the game and, indirectly, giving me a big, semi-long term project to work on! I've been having a lot of fun playing and I'm already enjoying the process of compiling the clothing information!

I'm really touched my comic was able to inspire you to check out the games and put in that effort to document it!

I mean, that's certainly an aspect of it, from a spirit worker's perspective. Basically, if you want a spirit to work with, put in the time and effort to find one yourself, right? Plus the spirits offered are always suspiciously eldritch and "cool"-sounding, like Ancient Tree Bear Elemental Spirit or whatever. (Saw an actual listing for that once.)

But the larger issue, the practical issue, is that it's a SCAM. It's taking advantage of people who don't know better (and some of them probably should) and asking them to hand over Actual Money for this invisible thing that they're allegedly going to be sent via the ether or the astral realms or whatever. And there is no way to prove the seller has done this or that the promised entity has ever arrived. You just have to take someone's word for it. Sometimes there's a digital image and a description, but that's as much as you're likely to get as far as guaranteed deliverables go.

And I'm sure - I am DEAD CERTAIN - that if a customer complained like, "Hey, you said I was supposed to dream about my spirit familiar when they arrived but it never happened," the seller would be like, "Welp, you're just not spiritually open / sensitive / powerful enough, or the spirit didn't like you and left, so I guess that's that. No refunds."

I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that there are probably practitioners out there who help people develop their spirit working skills so that they can find their own companions or reach other states of consciousness and what have you. That seems like a good and logical service to provide, because it helps people learn and further their education, provided the person in charge isn't taking advantage or charging money to spout useless buzzwords. (See: any paid service that deals heavily with the Law of Attraction.)

But charging someone on the internet Actual Money to allegedly "send" them a Vampire Blood Elf Familiar (again, an actual listing I've seen, $250 bucks and it's yours) is basically an NFT. The customer is being given a nonphysical commodity that's essentially invisible, can't be proven to exist, and has no real value, but they're being TOLD it has intrinsic value in the community where they circulate, so they have to believe that it does or risk feeling really really stupid for parting with their cash to acquire it.