Achievement to pet creatures

Syldras

I know that the achievement in High Isle where one had to pet different dogs and cats and hug a horse (I think the name was "The best friends" or something like that) was very well received.

So naturally, I was very astonished (and disappointed!) that this wasn't continued in later chapters. Maybe ZOS can consider this for new chapters or even add this to the last two chapters retroactively?

I'd especially love to hug a watchling



play fetch with a tomeshell



and pet a dremora.



If that would be too difficult to animate, I'd also play fetch with the dremora and pet the watchling, of course.

I really hope this might be implemented.

Maybe introduce it as a superspecial new system or a chapter feature. Or even better: Sell it at full chapter price without a chapter. Recycling is good for the environment after all.

katanagirl1

I was with you until “pet a Dremora”. Lol

ESO_player123

Well, if I'm not mistaken, there is a dog you can pet in Skingrad. No achievements though. Just for pure pleasure of it.

EdjeSwift

ESO_player123 wrote: »

Well, if I'm not mistaken, there is a dog you can pet in Skingrad. No achievements though. Just for pure pleasure of it.

There's actually a random world event to save a pupper from stranglers and when you pet it at the end you get a bit of XP.

Syldras

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I was with you until “pet a Dremora”. Lol

You're right. That should be made a separate achievement: "Find the dremora you're allowed to pet." Proposing it to all other dremora will result in an immediate attack. So you'll have to roam all planes of Oblivion to find the right one. Another 10 hours of game content, wonderful!

EdjeSwift wrote: »

There's actually a random world event to save a pupper from stranglers and when you pet it at the end you get a bit of XP.

Oh, that one's new to me. I only had a necromancer, a deserter, two scholars and that weird wisp Bosmer so far.

EdjeSwift

Syldras wrote: »

Oh, that one's new to me. I only had a necromancer, a deserter, two scholars and that weird wisp Bosmer so far.

It's usually off the beaten path, I've seen it multiple times outside of Varen's Watch headed back to the Wayshrine after completing the delve/quest. It's not tracked, it's just a couple of Strranglers and a strange ball of Strangler goop in the middle where the pupper is being held.

ESO_player123

Syldras wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I was with you until “pet a Dremora”. Lol

You're right. That should be made a separate achievement: "Find the dremora you're allowed to pet." Proposing it to all other dremora will result in an immediate attack. So you'll have to roam all planes of Oblivion to find the right one. Another 10 hours of game content, wonderful!

EdjeSwift wrote: »

There's actually a random world event to save a pupper from stranglers and when you pet it at the end you get a bit of XP.

Oh, that one's new to me. I only had a necromancer, a deserter, two scholars and that weird wisp Bosmer so far.

It's new to me either. But there is also a performer with pets and a drunk orc lady that needs some guidance.

LaintalAy

The Tomeshell was my last pet aquisition.

I didn't like the others; they were all too flat.

ArchangelIsraphel

Syldras wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I was with you until “pet a Dremora”. Lol

You're right. That should be made a separate achievement: "Find the dremora you're allowed to pet." Proposing it to all other dremora will result in an immediate attack. So you'll have to roam all planes of Oblivion to find the right one. Another 10 hours of game content, wonderful!

I'd like to propose these additional expansions to the new "pet a dremora" system. Only one should be released per year, of course, because we wouldn't want too many hours of entertainment from petting dremoras.

-Give a dremora chin scratches

-Tell a dremora he's the goodest boy

-Take a dremora to the groomers (I recommend a french poodle haircut. Since most dremora appear to be bald, you'll need to grind for Resplendent Glue in order to complete your dremora's hair cut. You'll need 50 glue per strand. Guaranteed hours of fun! )

-Bring a dremora to obedience school

And remember, folks, always make certain your dremora is properly house trained to prevent them from destroying the furniture or the world as we know it. You wouldn't want them summoning oblivion portals in the living room, would you? Very messy to clean up.

Syldras

@ArchangelIsraphel

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

-Bring a dremora to obedience school

As a summoner, I have already done that... in a way. But the other points are interesting. Very interesting... (Note to myself: When in Port Telvanis the next time, visit the Great Library to research on dremora haircuts. Although the poodle thing sounds quite adorable, to be honest.)

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

And remember, folks, always make certain your dremora is properly house trained to prevent them from destroying the furniture or the world as we know it. You wouldn't want them summoning oblivion portals in the living room, would you? Very messy to clean up.

Oblivion portals in the living room are a very ugly thing, I'm speaking from experience! Although having them in the bedroom is even worse, if you ask me. Almost as awful as having a confetti horse suspended above your bed while you sleep and the whole thing going horribly wrong, the ropes tearing, and you almost end up getting crushed to death by confetti horse butt (Sorry, Gothren! I told you it wasn't intentional!).

ArchangelIsraphel

Syldras wrote: »

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

And remember, folks, always make certain your dremora is properly house trained to prevent them from destroying the furniture or the world as we know it. You wouldn't want them summoning oblivion portals in the living room, would you? Very messy to clean up.

Oblivion portals in the living room are a very ugly thing, I'm speaking from experience! Although having them in the bedroom is even worse, if you ask me. Almost as awful as having a confetti horse suspended above your bed while you sleep and the whole thing going horribly wrong, the ropes tearing, and you almost end up getting crushed to death by confetti horse butt (Sorry, Gothren! I told you it wasn't intentional!).

Now that does sound quite inconvenient! Although I am sure the recipient of such a well intended gift will be quite grateful to survive until their next birthday. Just think of it as a way to celebrate life!

It does remind me of that one time I accidentally discovered that one could make more flaming camels by stableing a flaming camel with regular camels. Who knew they were combustible?! Certainly not me!

Although that does raise a question, there are so many creatures in Tamriel who are perpetually on fire, yet they do not receive as much affection as regular old cats and dogs. Surely there must be someone out there who wants to risk life and limb to give one a hug?

AlienSlof

I could get right behind petting a dremora...

The ultimate hard-core achievement: pet a xivilai and live to tell of it!

Syldras

@ArchangelIsraphel

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Now that does sound quite inconvenient! Although I am sure the recipient of such a well intended gift will be quite grateful to survive until their next birthday. Just think of it as a way to celebrate life!

Well, the moment the ropes were breaking and both me as well as the horse crashed into Gothren's bed, he yelled something like "By Mephala's right teat!" (or maybe it was the left one... too bad was too distracted to fully remember... that might indeed make a difference in interpretation...), which can, according to context, be an expression of astonishment, anger or joy. I thought he was angry for this little mishap destroying his expensive rootwood bed, but then again, I might have been mistaken (although I rarely am, of course!)...

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

It does remind me of that one time I accidentally discovered that one could make more flaming camels by stableing a flaming camel with regular camels. Who knew they were combustible?! Certainly not me!

What happens if flaming camels are stabled with ice camels? We have to find out!

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Although that does raise a question, there are so many creatures in Tamriel who are perpetually on fire, yet they do not receive as much affection as regular old cats and dogs. Surely there must be someone out there who wants to risk life and limb to give one a hug?

Yes, I'm bothered by this too. All those poor creatures receiving little affection because they're highly aggressive, permanently on fire, emitting lethal toxins or electric shocks or made of caustic green neon jelly... Something has to be done about that. Although I'm absolutely sure that there are many people who would love to pet these animals on a regular basis, if their special nature wouldn't be highly life-threatening. Maybe one could invent some kind of protection... a special armor that decreases the wearer's risk of getting killed by these effects by a few percent? Of course, thorough testing would be neccessary.

ArchangelIsraphel

Yes, I'm bothered by this too. All those poor creatures receiving little affection because they're highly aggressive, permanently on fire, emitting lethal toxins or electric shocks or made of caustic green neon jelly... Something has to be done about that. Although I'm absolutely sure that there are many people who would love to pet these animals on a regular basis, if their special nature wouldn't be highly life-threatening. Maybe one could invent some kind of protection... a special armor that decreases the wearer's risk of getting killed by these effects by a few percent? Of course, thorough testing would be neccessary.

Absolutely! Very thorough testing. And of course, with the Three Banners War at its peak in the current moment, I find that there are plenty of Aldmeri Dominion and Daggerfall Covenant... volunteers available. I do hope your latest guests enjoy the time they'll spend with you!

TheMajority

I support the new Telvanni pet-a-dangerous-creature or thing with tentacles expansion 100% please include more tentacles im allergic to fire for some reason it keeps burning me idk what im doing wrong

Syldras

@ArchangelIsraphel

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Absolutely! Very thorough testing. And of course, with the Three Banners War at its peak in the current moment, I find that there are plenty of Aldmeri Dominion and Daggerfall Covenant... volunteers available. I do hope your latest guests enjoy the time they'll spend with you!

Oh, I'm sure my current guests are enjoying their stay very much! I haven't heard any complaints lately. Also the usual nightly screaming has ceased. It certainly helped that I hired... well, something like a steward for my guest rooms. In case any of the guests misbehaves, I just tell him to take care of it. In case you're wondering, he's an orc; I can't really memorize his name (as I usually don't care for these kinds of banalities), but I think it was something like Bash go-Bonk or so. Anyway, as soon as it's getting noisy now, I send him downstairs. It truly helps, it's amazing! Now with this assistance me and my Bosmer apprentice have much more time for important issues, like research, experiments, discourse over scientific matters, drinking tea and bathing. Isn't that wonderful? And yes - bathing. One cannot overemphasize the importance of bathing! Always gives us the best ideas for new things to research. Do people bathe where you're from?