PREWORD

Well hello there people, as you can very well see, I'm trying to do something pretty unusual here. Someone might remember I said something about making a Morrowind BR. Well, after a long time I decided to actualy do that. I got Bloodmoon (second expansion for Morrowind), a very cool expansion indeed and almost immidinetly found material for an awesome "BR".

Actualy, what you will find here is more of a Morrowind:Bloodmoon fanfic with pictures. But heck, I hope you still like it as a first try at BR-ing Bloodmoon. Besides, we've all got bored of WC3 and its BRs are so damn hard to make good since report-material games are so few and far between... to cut the long story short, I hope you will enjoy this one and I want some comments badly!!!

Knowing some people (some of them I really respect when it comes to BR-ing) said my writting style is my biggest problem I tried to change it to make it more fun and interesting... I hope I did a good job... after all, you'll get to comment it and tell me your opinion.

Also, in commentary of my last BRs I've seen some people asking about my other BRs, I'll add the links of my other BRs here until I make a little page of mine where you could find links to all of them. So here are links to my state-of-the-art BRs (I won't bother posting the links to my simple beta BRs as these are too numerous to post here):

BR#1 - PWNAGE & 20 Accursed HP - GOLD
BR#2 - GGG!!! (Go God Gammit!!!) - GOLD
BR#3 - The Toad Wars - GOLD
BR#4 - A Beautiful Battle Report - GOLD
BR#5 - A Frozen FFA - GOLD
BR#6 - One Wet War - (it isn't gold but I assure you you'll like it ;))
BR#7 - John - GOLD
BR#8 - A Classic - GOLD
BR#9 - TOLERANCE - GOLD

What more is there to say? Nothing as far as I recall... enjoy yourselves people!

Giga

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MORROWIND

Okay, I'm quite positive there are some people who never heard of Morrowind or of any of its expansions. Its okay, most people who are in "BR-ing bussiness" play mostly strategy games (or at least I like to think so) and they don't hear a lot about RPG games... especialy hybrids of RPG, FPS and adventure games...

Morrowind is truly the most perfect RPG game there is, it is set in Elder Scrolls world (Redguard and some other games were also set in this universe and lately there's cellphone game set in this wonderful universe) in a massive island named Vvfandel. It is literaly huge, bigger then some MMORPG worlds and gives, IMHO, the best possible single player experience, over 500 hours of gameplay and literaly impossible to get old due to the fact there are hundreds of thousands of mods for Morrowind thanks to Elder Scrolls Construction Set that comes with the game.

It has two expansions so far but we certenly hope for more, these are Tribunal and Bloodmoon (I have both). While Tribunal only brings one huge city into the gaming world while Bloodmoon introduces a whole new continent (smaller then the original Vvfandel of course) called Scrym. A harsh cold land where this story is set.

Morrowind can be played in third person or first person. You upgrade your skills the same way as you do in Ultima Online - by sheer practice! Every now and then you get a level up which enables you to upgrade your prime stats (strenght, endurance etc.), all to have a better and more powerful hero. Classes are practicaly made by players (you can chose some templates but making your own "class" can be a lot more fun and much more customizable).

You gather items, solve riddles, work the storyline, join great houses, thieves guilds, guilds of assassins, warrior guilds, barbarian tribes, religious cults etc. All in all, it makes for a real powerful game that can be played for a long long time until finished. At the end, its extremely brain-easy, not as simple as Diablo, much more subtle and much more interesting but still simple, in short, it won't make your head hurt after a few hours of hardcore puzzle-solving.

What more can I say? Oh, the game gives you two possibilities if you don't like to be mere mortal (and there are about 8 races to chose from, all customizable in hair type and face type and of course, clothes) you can always become a vampire, a werewolf (this option came with Bloodmoon) or even download some mods and become a lich, a death knight, an amphibious being etc.

Not to mention the fact you can literaly buy houses, there are mods that allow you to have your own galleon and sail around with it, get high on the local drug called scooma, visit strip bars, buy tamed rats, read tons of books and perform tons of quests for tons of people. Even if there wasn't an awesome main storyline in the game it would still be an extremely long-lasting experience all in itself.

Finaly graphics are awesome and so are system specs :(... although you can play it (somewhat slowly thou) on weaker machines...

Okay, now that you're acquainted with Morrowind we can get to the actual "report"...

Bedtime Story

We find ourselves high among dark clouds.

The cold wind blowing on us makes it obvious we are above a very cold and very harsh land. As we slowly levitate lower we are capable of seeing this land as if on a map, it is Solthsteim, a cold island northwest of the huge Dark Elven land of Vvfandel. In this frozen country of maniacs, barbarians, wild beasts and winds that cut to the bone, a bloody fest is going to occur soon.

This is what we came here to see.

As we go lower our eyes fall upon a warrior walking alone in the snow. He is wearing a metal armour of local barbarians - the Nords. However he isn't one of the local Nords - the Skaal. This we can see almost instantly, his walking is not like that of a Nord, he is wearing the helmet of Imperial Royal Guard, a magical one at it, in his hands are an ebony shield of huge might and a weapon called The Sunder, small but extremely powerful hammer capable of destroying almost anything.

He is an outcast, a person condemned for multiple murders and crimes against the Empire and its citizents. He escaped to Solthseim a long time ago, to escape the claws of bounty hunters, assassins, king's sheriffs... and to get richer then before on barbarian riches and knowelage.

However he is no longer the same as he was before... after spending months in the cold, frozen forests of Solthseim, he has changed, was no longer fully himself any more... he didn't seem to care... he lives on pillaging and stealing and seems to lack a need for food as he eats only when he feels like it, how he sustains himself in these horrible wastelands is beyond people who ceasesly track him... but none of those who were believed to have got him ever came back alive...

In short, he is an evil man, his eyes are dark and expressionless, almost as those of a fish, a shark. He is vicous, plainly dark soul... his name is Giga.

This time however, he seems to be heading in some particular way. It is a gloomy day and its hard to say what time it is but we know it is about three o'clock in the afternoon. Giga seems not to care about time, he's running at full speed, almost without a need for rest, towards south. He passes snowy fields and comes into a green land, albeit a very cold one.

At this time Giga's destination becomes obvious, he's heading to Fort Frostmoth, only imperial outpost on Solthseim. Fort Frostmoth is a weakly defended fort, its walls were breached not so long ago by some unknown creatures. It has gaping halls in its walls, making it an easy target for anyone skillful enough at sneaking.

And Giga indeed is gifted for sneaking. He was born under the sign of Shadow, this makes it possible for him to become invisible for as long as a single minute. He can use this ability once every day. As he slowly approaches the fort, his frame becomes more and more transculent, he becomes invisible to all but our eyes and we follow after him carefuly.

He's moving slowly towards one of the gaping holes in the fort walls. As he sneaks thru the rubble Giga notices Imperial Soldiers all over the fort's courtyard. They're ready and alert indeed... but not for this kind of intruder. As the man we observe slowly makes way into the courtyard nobody is aware of his presence. Giga approaches a single wooden door, the entrance into fort walls, and opens it so slowly that it almost looked like wind opened the door.

Before a soldier can get there to close the hard wooden door Giga slips inside and we follow him. Quickly after we're in the door behind us closes with a loud shut and sounds of locking can be heard. Guards are making sure these doors don't open until they want them to. Although he is practicaly imprisioned Giga doesn't seem very put off by this, he simply goes next to a few barrels and waits.

'And waits without a sound... finding no better solution, we decide to wait with him.

After no less then four hours of almost motionless waiting Giga seems to stir. We speechlessly behold what is about to occur.

Before our terrified eyes we see a man that is no longer himself, before us we see a man turning into a werewolf. That is what seemed to be Giga's secret, he got licantrophy on this cursed island and now he was doing something terrible. He was unleashing himself on people in Fort Frostmoth.

What comes is going to be as bloody as anything you've ever seen. The monster walks up the stairs, into upper parts of the wall, where there is a path into the Imperial Cult Church. Giga knows his way very well thru Fort Frostmoth. However, even thou his mind is no longer purely his mind his insticts are still there, he knows very well his way around... only now he is a beast and not a man...

The wolfman slowly walks into the Imperial Church, he sneaks without making a sound, slowly approaches the door and sees a young priest, Jeleen, as he talks to an acolyte of Imperial Cult - Marissa.

Old priest behind Jeleen is the first to notice the horror looming at the door. He yells but his voice is almost instantly disentegrated as terrible fangs rip apart his neck. The old man falls on the ground without making a sound, Jeleen and Marissa are doing the only thing their fear allows them to do - flee.

However they make a fatal mistake, they flee into the tower, making it extremely hard for them to escape. The wolf instantly follows, old priest's meat is still hanging from its jaws. Jeleen is the first to die of the two, the bloodlusted werewolf coughts his leg and drops him on the ground. Before he could scream horrible claws rip apart his back and as he slams on the stairs, drowning in his own pool of blood, fighting for a breath that wouldn't come, he prays, he prays for venegance on this foul beast...

Then a single guard finds himself in the way of the beast, proud man hits the beast once, the abomination that was Giga only a few minutes ago screams and doubles its effort to kill the guard. The man tries to fall back but furry claws find their way to the exposed skin of his face. He screams and falls to the ground, he was dead before he knew it...

As the guards final breaths leave his body the beast goes after Marissa. Only a few months ago Marissa was captured by Nord barbarians. She was saved by a warrior whose name she would never knew. As she hears the sound of dog pawns get louder and louder behind her she prays. She prays so hard for deliverance, she prays for her nameless warrior to appear and save her from this beast as he once saved her from the savages.

She would never know that her nameless warrior was the same wicked abomination behind her. The very same one that would in the next few seconds catch her and rip open her back, causing her to die in horrible pain.

As that-which-is-Giga-only-during-days left the dead body of Marissa it realized that everyone who knew it was here was now dead. With silence of a fox it moved thru the room on the second floor. It slowly approached one of the two doors, the opened one. And peered in.

A guard was there. Standing with sword drawn, ready to fight. He heard the noise and was ready to sell his life dearly. He raises his blade and attacks the beast, shouting ancient imperial battlecries as he is doing so. His first strike misses and hits the chair. He desperately tries to draw his sword out of the tough wood but fails.

The monster digs its teeth into his neck and soon, he is surrounded in blackness... forever...

As the body of the warrior falls on the ground followed by clanging of metal Giga starts devouring his flesh. In just a few minutes the werewolf is satiated and feels no hunger any more. It leaves that floor, content that it hasn't aroused the alarm. The escape would be much more diffitcul if everyone knew about the animal under their nose.

Werewolf comes out of the secondfloor and watches from the walls the empty yard of Fort Frostmoth.Without ever being spotted it turns and jumps of the walls. The silent thud isn't heard by anyone except Giga himself. The attack was successful, the werewolf's insatiable apetite is satiated and now it can peacefuly return to the cold woods of Solthsteim.

We follow the beast deep into the woods. It goes to a hill and starts howling at the moon. Here we will leave it to its thoughts. We return among the clouds and leave Solthsteim, Giga and Fort Frostmoth.

We may only find out so much and live...

The End