The Red Mountain Challenge! (Morrowind)

[@MickyD]

Longest video on the channel yet boys so buckle in and get some tea! This is a Lord of the Rings inspired challenge that was suggested by a viewer so don't be afraid to suggest future ideas! This was a damn good one.

[@The_Bear_Adventures]

Loved the video, inspired me to do a Fargoth roleplay of what would have happened if the PC died to a mubcrab outside seyda neen and Fargoth found the body, opened the instructions from the emperor and decided to carry them out in honour of the friend that returned his ring.

[@ArchNemesis314]

It took Frodo 6 months

[@MickyD]

@@ArchNemesis314 Morrowind is 19 years old

[@The_Bear_Adventures]

@@MickyD Now I feel old

[@averagechadlegionary5824]

@@The_Bear_Adventures Maybe Fargoth was the Nerevarine the whole time..

[@symbiotesoda1148]

Imagine Dagoth Ur just sitting there and seeing Nerevar as a wood elf falling into the volcano after rambling something about a ring and saving the world.

[@Cypherwraith001]

Imagine his further surprise when Red Mountain detonates when the ring falls into the lava, and the Nerevarine gets carried off to safety by cliff racers.

[@vicegt]

@@Cypherwraith001 then we cut to him having 10+ endings.

[@lotoreo]

"Oh what a fool you are!"

[@pisscvre69]

oh forgive me but i am enjoying this

[@unluckybystander7555]

Dude I randomly made a wood elf character, then did the entire main quest, I’m so disappointed that I ended up keeping him

[@elarialialesleimmanis2350]

My favourite part of Lord of the Rings was when Frodo whispered, " I have desires," before killing the cat-merchant.

[@Sir_Kophagus]

Frodo: *END THE CATBOY*

[@averyzucco220]

That feel when you realize the volcano only like, knee deep.

[@DinoWolf123gaming]

more like one helms deep

[@nullvektor9922]

You wouldn't actually sink in a volcano, no matter the depth. Lava is much more dense than water. So this is unintentionally accurate.

[@drpureinsanity]

@@nullvektor9922 explain why gollum sank at the end of return of the king? Check mate atheists.

[@ByzanQueen]

@@drpureinsanity Gollum is actually just incredibly dense

[@n.r.4579]

​@@ByzanQueen Gollum Thiqq Queen CONFIRMED. Too bootylicious not to sink into the volcano

[@trippycollective1171]

Finding this hidden gem of a channel makes me wanna give morrowind a 50th chance.

[@twistedsquid7024]

It never got past its first chance with me. I really wanna enjoy it. It's just, janky in a way that's really confusing

[@hooliganic2506]

@Payton Cantrell what mod are we talking?

[@grimace4257]

@Payton Cantrell That swing and miss combat turned me off it. Granted when I was a kid I used to just fast travel to balmora and rifle through the boxes.

[@benzohhhhh]

It’s a very easy game after about an hour of KZbin lol, used to never make it through but boom, whickweak and marshmallow...

[@oddfutureplaylist]

Micky suffers through morrowind so we dont have to. 🙏🏼

[@doomfeast1102]

Sam: "I cant carry it for you, but I can carry you." Fordo: "What a grand and intoxicating innocence."

[@mordymountains1096]

Fordo

[@sophisticatedraccoon]

Fordo

[@thedawgfatha8137]

Fordo

[@Harobrogi]

Hodor

[@Brush421]

Fordo

[@orialtman6176]

One does not simply walk up the Red Mountain.

[@Green-Raccoon777]

"We have drawn his armies from the Ghostgate. For ourselves there is no hope. This is our final act to give Frodo time, time to end this evil that marshals before us." - Gandalf the White

[@CthulhuianBunny]

I think Tarhiel is your Gandalf: He's a wizard with a beard, a robe, and a pointed hat, and he falls from a great height.

[@houlmyhead9947]

Tarhiel the Dead doesnt quite have the same ring to it though (pardon the pun)

[@donnkasten4111]

That also explains the lack of direction, imagine how lost middle earth would have been of Gandalf died at the very beginning

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The only difference is that Gandalf scared his party away, then solo'd the boss, disappears for a while and then shows up with a new title and new gear. Tarhiel just falls and dies. He doesn't get to look anything, he gets looted.

[@paulchavez3039]

Fly, you fools!

[@copiumforthepeople]

Caius Cosades is exhibitionist Gandalf who is addicted to Skooma and steroids

[@fist_lorderino]

I had a good laugh !

[@BubblewrapHighway]

"I'm high, you fools."

[@bryanrippeon6199]

This is not how I remember the Lord of the Rings going down, but I ain't mad.

[@MickyD]

Director's Cut. We didn't have the budget for Gollum.

[@bryanrippeon6199]

@@MickyD Directors cut, in which Frodo summons a sword from hell and kills divine beings after crushing a whole bottle of grain alcohol.

[@ugadugaga4972]

@@MickyD nah bro, just summon a deadra

[@GranddukeofWales]

What are you talking about? This is exactly how it went.

[@BubblewrapHighway]

@@MickyD You misspelled Creeper.

[@Ilshidur]

Toughest enemy was the mountain itself, haha.

[@MickyD]

My worst enemy in school and in life, Geography.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

@Micky D i think you mean Geology. merrrrrrrrrrp

[@disssociated]

@@SobeCrunkMonster nah geology is the study of rocks, geography is the lay of the land

[@balboboogins2511]

@@disssociated a fellow man of knowledge

[@disssociated]

@@balboboogins2511 it brings great pleasure to see someone agree

[@TRussell148]

The Irish accent really adds another level of immersion to the whole Hobbit experience.

[@houlmyhead9947]

I wish they'd have picked someone other than yer man Jimmy Nesbitt to represent the Irishy hobbits. The mans a bit of a sprog irl lol

[@montypark8302]

Best part was when you were talking about the noble sacrifice and it looks like he's saluting.

[@mionfel1350]

2:48 I've played Morrowind for 100s of hours and I never knew that an enchanted battleaxe was hiding in that stump.

[@prettyokandy230]

same, at least micky d didn't know about the sword in suran guard tower until recently.

[@bc3f4a]

sameee

[@michalmartyniuk93]

Even better, in TES Online: Morrowind it's there too!

[@etherraichu]

"Go away. Will you leave me alone?!" Cliff racer: ">:3"

[@oleeiriksen4149]

I actually made myself some tea and relaxed while watching this and was not disappointed

[@MickyD]

Glad you enjoyed it! It got surprisingly tough near the end

[@oleeiriksen4149]

@@MickyD Yeah, I'm glad you went through with it anyway. I'm enjoying your videos!

[@MickyD]

@@oleeiriksen4149 Cheers! The world needs a few more Morrowind videos

[@vadimc2144]

So this is how you honour the Sixth House and tribe unmourned?

[@zedpwner]

i actually had my hand down my pants scratching my balls and i had to pause the video because of how hard i was laughing after he said that

[@point-five-oh6249]

It was roughly the distance from London to Moscow (Assuming you cross the channel) on foot, or about 2,900 km... on foot with tiny legs... and in rocky and arduous terrain. So...I believe it was roughly a year before they finally cast the ring down and Frodo still lost a finger and most of his sanity out of it.

[@lastresort3159]

The entire journey from Frodo's home to Mount Doom took about 185 days but when you deduct "breaks" it goes down to 119 days of travelling, give or take 5 days because I don't understand Tolkin's calendars.

[@point-five-oh6249]

@@lastresort3159 no, that cannot be correct. Because they left the day after Bilbo’s 111th birthday, so September 23, 3018. Then the ring was destroyed March 25th, 3019. So it was exactly 6 months. It was roughly a year for all the events of the LOTR trilogy events to unfold. Or exactly 11 months, one week, and 6 days.

[@lastresort3159]

@@point-five-oh6249 But they spent more than 2 months in Rivendell

[@point-five-oh6249]

@@lastresort3159 well sure, no journey is ever just getting from point A to point B. There’s always a detour somewhere. And it wasn’t like they just took off on the highway, they were trailblazing through mountains, swamps, haunted forests, etc. not to mention constantly being hunted down by the ring wraiths

[@lanabobana7687]

Frodo say that it was thirteen months to the day when they arrived back in the shire.

[@AFlyingTrout]

Better punchline Ra'Virr: "You have questions?" Micky D: "Yes. I need to... AXE you something."

[@SimoExMachina2]

There is a small side quest near Fields of Kummu where the reward is an amulet of slowfalling. Combine that with the Scrolls of Sudden Death (Icarian Flight), and you have an express way to the Red Mountain opened all up.

[@kharak6204]

or just get that high acrobatics skill until you can walk on walls

[@pisscvre69]

ah the fields of kumu, as big as a sandbox and not even a field LOL

[@mw5549]

To do: - get a one ring mod - plant hostile orcs and goblins on the way to the mountain - get a kazadum mod and travel through it - find a fellowship and do aifollow player 0 0 0 0 to get them to follow (fargoth will be one of the hobits) - whoever plays Sean Bean/Boromir has to die on the way. - Caius Casades plays Gandalf Comment with more suggestions for ultimate adventure below:

[@MajinObama]

Caius isn‘t Elrond? At least I think he fits him in 1-2 ways.

[@mw5549]

@@MajinObama yeah I'd go with you on that. Gimly can be that weird dwarf guy on the spider legs

[@zttvs]

Max W why u gotta disrespect the boy yagrum bagarn like that

[@fantasywind3923]

I'm actually surprised nobody made a full scale Lotr mod for Morrowind :) of the scale of say Tamriel Rebuild mod, everything would work excellently, the goblins from the Tribunal (if they could be transplanted from Mournhold sewers to Vvardendenfell, I know little of the modding capabilities), what with the ashlands and Red Mountain being obvious place for Mordor setting. Are there some famous Morrowind Lotr mods out there actually? Haven't seen much of those (at least not for Morrowind).

[@gators2728]

I would like this comment but you are at 69 likes…niiice.

[@bishoptrees]

I love how you looked at a full set of masters alchemist equipment and took the fire salts...

[@jazzlaugh6578]

I've always imagined Morrowind's climate is warm, but different kinds of warm. Like, spanning from 97% humid shitty swamp and dry desert heat

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The swamps are where the argonians are and the khajiit are in the dessert

[@TheModernHermeticist]

This is how Tolkien envisioned it.

[@nathanielsmith8338]

“I have desires”😂☠️😂☠️😂☠️

[@MajinObama]

Fargoth Ur, the Darth Jar Jar of Morrowind.

[@guerilla_food]

"what is a front door? A miserable little pile of secrets!" Love that SotN reference

[@red_menace1829]

Eh

[@ananousous]

But enough knocks... Have at you!

[@PasserMontanus]

I remember that 4chan maymay!

[@Sercer25]

Frodo's last words: 'Oof, oof, huuu.'

[@nat040496]

This video just makes me sad that we STILL do not have an Elder Scrolls style singleplayer open-world LOTR RPG.

[@chapocademesquit]

Shadows of Mordor still does it nicely

[@justsomedude5727]

One that takes place in numenor would be badass

[@immasword]

Lord of the rings online is pretty good

[@houlmyhead9947]

@@chapocademesquit i would recommend the second game. The nemesis system is 👌 plus the DLC are actually great. Monolith still knocking it out of the park years down the line

[@kremit6479]

Caius Cosades seems more like the drug addiction version of Aragorn, I mean he is the head if the blades in Morrowind, so it kind of makes sense in that regard.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

he can stop whenever he wants

[@morzemus1805]

More lore accurate than Shadow of War

[@jackdaniel3135]

“Do you have questions?” “I have desires.” That’s some Mac from Always Sunny level of quip delivery my dude.

[@ugadugaga4972]

"Frodo reaches the gates of mordor. He flings himself over with a temporary spell. Poor frodo.......he didnt realized or wore off when he landed......"

[@gabrielvazzoler]

Just found out about your channel, this is awesome, thanks for keeping Morrowind alive!

[@wiiblewobble]

Uncle Sweetshare is clearly Tom Bombadil.

[@mrvercetti13]

" What is a front door? A miserable little pile of secrets." I love it!

[@Sirkento]

The best part about this? Pippin narrates the entire thing🤣🍻

[@Kainlarsen]

Wait a minute... Icarian flight is supposed to make you go WAY higher than that. Very strange.

[@elcid6301]

He was weighed down by alot of items

[@BoToChris]

@@elcid6301 Actually, his fatigue was too low.

[@Lunam_D._Roger]

@@BoToChris No, encumbrance *definitely* affects jump height. I'm not sure if anyone has managed to put together what the jump height formula is through data point collection yet, but as far as I know it's still not something we really have access to, unless someone over on OpenMW development figured it out, and I wouldn't be suprised if they did, I remember seeing a thread on it awhile back, but I didn't see any conclusive formula proposals. Even so, though, it's very-much agreed upon that encumbrance affects jump height/distance, and it's very easy to see. Go into game, set your acrobatics to some high number with console commands, and then give yourself varying levels of encumbrance. You'll see a very clear effect.

[@Evan_Schaefering]

@@Lunam_D._Roger It's a mixture of both problems. Encumbrance definitely affects jump height but, as with pretty much everything else in Morrowind, fatigue also plays a major role in the calculations. I'm not exactly sure which has the larger role overall, but both are extremely noticeable, at least in regards to the Scrolls of Icarian Flight. It just so happens that he had both low fatigue and high encumbrance effectively creating a worst of both worlds scenario.

[@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989]

@@BoToChris Yes.

[@skochko9876]

This guy is a legend. He is pushing this game to the limits of challaenges and exploration in 2021.

[@joelsweeney4024]

This is a genius idea! Ive gotta try this, do you mind if people do response videos to you challenges?

[@MickyD]

Go for it dude!

[@joelsweeney4024]

@@MickyD haha thanks, great video btw, watching it now. I think il give myself a time limit of maybe 7 days or something, prevent me from grinding around Oh and permadeath

[@svlanifructis7114]

Local skooma addict believes himself the chosen one; jumps down a volcano, leaving the local population confused.

[@JustDaZack]

Challenge runs are always a great joy to watch.

[@Mr_Kiwi_the_Wizard]

Watching his later video I'm still unsure if he knows low fatigue affects jump hight.

[@bankasai3120]

I'm unsure if he know fatigue effects basically everything

[@kaylaa2204]

So believe it or not, The Elder Scrolls has loads of lore about climate, some of which has never appeared in games but content outside the games, and Bethesda has said they often refer to climate when designing environments So the lore says that Morrowind tends to be more on the temperate to hot side, I think thats mentioned in the in game book "on Morrowind" even. But for obvious reasons its even hotter near Red Mountain. I saw one source when fact checking myself that noted the cloud movements indicating a southerly wind, but this is not stated in any official material as far as I know. However a southerly wind would explain why the souther coast of Vardenfell is more habitable, implying that it would be cooler, and the north coast would be a little hotter. The southeast coast is wet and warm. An NPC when you ask about geography says its climate is similar to Black Marsh You are correct that an active volcano does not necessarily mean a region will be hot, but in this case, it is

[@bryceaidukaitis4136]

Was totally waiting for you to have the Caldera naked guy follow you into Mordor as your trusty Sam.

[@vadimc2144]

So this is how you honour the Sixth House and the tribe unmourned?

[@pieterpuk7684]

Epic fucking journey. I love watching you struggle through Morrowind severely underlevelled and relying on everything and anything you can get your hands on. Reminds me of the way I played my first playthrough of it.

[@brofenix]

NICE JOB!!! This was my favorite video of yours so far ^^

[@severignbuchanan2040]

I think you not swiping the Grandmaster alchemist kit in Caldera physically hurt me

[@HamTheBacon]

Why? Unless you plan on making potions i havnt found an NPC that will buy it, creeper won’t, if anyone knows who buys them would love to know.

[@aquaop1]

@@HamTheBacon Isn't Quality Health Potions marshmarrow and wickwheat? I mean the health and levitate potions aren't too hard to make 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@HamTheBacon]

@@aquaop1 idk much about Morrowind, i’m more of a fallout person myself, haven’t played Morrowind in years.

[@honorsonnoble-savage4563]

@@aquaop1 racer plumes and trama root which are both plenty in ashlands are very best ingredients for levitation potions tho he definitelly should have got some sort of slowfall spell/amulet considering he mainly died from falling.

[@dracofirex]

@@HamTheBacon Pretty much any alchemist will buy the alchemy stuff and the potions. Get friendly with the Telvanni, they are very useful!

[@AncientSlugThrower]

A drunk wood elf took out a Dagoth. At level 1.

[@disssociated]

I’ve been playing game of the year edition for 16 years and I’ve never gotten the dark brotherhood guy to wake me up in my sleep

[@bravemoon2124]

Wow, a journey to remember. Kinda sucks how casually I used to play this game for the previous five hundred times

[@diogenesthegamer]

The amount of times I was yelling in my head, that you'd do everything so much easier if you just waited for your stam to fill up....

[@codypeoples613]

I only just found Mickey and it's cuz I was doing research into doing my first ever morrowind run. This dude gave me a good luagh glad I found ya recently.

[@NationalDevin]

The thing about Post Ebonheart DLC Morrowind is that, really, you're NEVER alone.

[@contrabardus]

"Just because it has volcanoes does not mean it's like hot...temperamentally." I would contend that Morrowind is indeed terminally pissed and ornery.

[@Mike-ok6vy]

you should totally try this one again with the multiplayer mod and get a sam in here with ya!

[@adamosbond1809]

The ease with which Mickey can kill my boy R'aviir on every playthrough makes me worry about his mental health

[@FatJack210]

Elijah Wood-Elf

[@gators2728]

This was wonderful. Its so cool that I found this old video today.

[@RamadaArtist]

"What is a front door? A miserable little pile of secrets." -Frodo the Impaler

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Rewatching this makes me thing that challenge would be interesting in Oblivion. The ring has to be the ring of burden from the mages guild quest and the volcano is inside the big oblivion gate near Bruma where you get the great sigil stone. So basically start in the tunnels under the Imperial City like usual, then start the mages guild quest as soon as possible and do the Cheydinhal recommendation quest to get the ring, then do the main quest while being under the evil weight of the ring, and at the end throw it in the lava in the big gate.

[@WojteK_the_holy_ghost]

im writing that down

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

"Cliffracer, F*ck Off." is my favorite cover of Seagulls, Stop It Now.

[@HamanKarn567]

Battle for Middle Earth is great. Imo still holds up well.

[@oldgamerchick]

Thank you for a good laugh. Can't believe the predicaments you get into. Thank you for sharing your adventure. 🙃☕❤❤❤❤

[@Harrisonhimself]

Elijah Would? WHAT DO YOUR ELF EYES SEE?

[@dustinsc2023]

I laughed so hard had my hands down my pants and was drinking tea when he said both !

[@valiktoma2542]

Great job Beebo Fargeths, you saved Seydaneen. Now hold my skooma and pass me the jumping scrolls, watch this...

[@paigemalloy4276]

This is like a gamer version of putting on The Office. Comforting nostalgia with some dry humor make for excellent background entertainment

[@randomcarbonaccumulation6478]

The Hobbits should have taken the Scrolls of Icarian Flight to Mordor

[@GeoffTheOddball]

There's a set of orcish armor in a crate on the top floor of the creeper house. You can take it without being reported or attacked.

[@bigdre.]

4:27 me who just opened a beer and put my hand down my pants (simply for comfort)

[@KertaDrake]

They really didn't think out how much the assassins could break the game if Tribunal was turned on right away. They are basically gold fountains!

[@controllerspixelsplayers9202]

Caius Cosades is for sure Gandalf if Gandalf called it quits and started hittin the pipe a bit too much XD

[@_Tzer]

Okay someone needs to make this a speedrun category.

[@cchase92]

murdering Ra'virr was always first stop in my original playthroughs

[@elcid6301]

Poor Khajiit

[@mharr]

I Have watched this video monthly for over a year now. I don't know why I capitalized the "H" there, I could correct it but instead I'm writing about it. Bush did 9/11

[@OscarDaOtter317]

Elijiah wood elf, amazing

[@HamTheBacon]

I would love to see you play Empire of Sin Micky D, I have a feeling you would get a kick out of Frankie Donovan. Also this idea is awesome and i have another for you, you could remake Russel Crowe’s Fightin round the world, hand to hand and unarmored build, fight every NPC that insults you, or talks to you, or looks at you, or walks through your shot, pretty much fight everybody. Fun maybe?

[@gm2407]

So you needed 3 more Wood Elves (Hobbits), 1 Breton (Aragorn), 1 Nord (Boromir), 1 High Elf (Legolas), 1 Dunmer (Because we don't have any Dwarves so these were close enough geographically) and 1 Vivec (Gandalf).

[@nic4811]

Close to home to my current playthrough Current is bosmer and I still don't know how I managed to get to a high level 50s+. But it was a slow slow start definitely one of the tougher races to start out as.

[@Imperfectcelll]

I'm very glad I found this channel

[@chadadamssr]

Thanks bro, i needed motivation to start it again... Morrowind is a curse! It will stay with you FOREVER!!!!

[@yourethehippopotamus9266]

I remember trying to do this a decade ago, well, without the ring as I was just trying to see if I could get there. I remember there was a full set of glass armor you could steal somewhere near the red mountain and I grabbed a ton of scrolls along the way. I failed miserably, but I'm glad to see someone years later prove it possible and I'm glad I didn't actually have to do it.

[@toomeyeh1]

16:16 I remember thinking this exact thing. Morrowind was the first game I got (I was like 11) and it was so unbelievably difficult and scary (watching now it looks so jank, but at the time it literally felt like I was getting chased by the most terrifying specters). Seeing the stilt strider was always an unclenching of the bhole moment

[@nodubshere6589]

I slowly pulled my hand out of my pants like frfr i was like this man read my mind

[@Maltozombie]

Here's the first game: *dies in dungeon* Here's the second game: *walks 15 steps* (then dies in dungeon) Here's the third game: walks up mountain, throws in ring. Even the fuckin' mushroom trees walked in that game.

[@subtledemisefox]

There's only one "Return" ok? And it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi!

[@MadastheHatter13]

Fuckin aye.

[@johngerity]

18:10 and so it begins. Ever play the first South Park game ever made? Remember the turkeys? Turkeys.

[@MickyD]

I sadly did. I want to try it on the channel sometime. I remembered there was a kart racer too.

[@hideakiakio6698]

Imagine Fargoth finding out someone stole his ring just to jump into red mountain with it

[@charlesprichard5235]

My favorite part of Lord of the rings was when Frodo murdered a guy for his sword

[@Sirkento]

Dude this is really good stuff

[@roachdoggjr2883]

Gotta swim up river to get that athletics up quick

[@egglordthenosferatu3479]

Apologies, but seeing our intrepid Elijah Would Maybe, with his black assassins armour and bowl cut, as he decided to take the final plunge, all i could think was: "BALDRICK! I HAVE A MOST CUNNING PLAN!" And then the credits rolled: The sound of hoofbeats cross the glade! Good folk, lock up your son and daughter! Beware the deadly flashing blade, Unless you want to end up shorter! Black Adder! Black Adder! He rides a pitch black steed! Black Adder! Black Adder! He's very bad indeed!

[@JoKad17]

Rip Elija Would Maybe. He made the most noble sacrifice of this age, to free Morrowind and redeem his race from the reckless hatred of Fargoth.

[@utahwerewolf9932]

Morrowind and LotR combined, just take my money

[@MegaMawileTheNommer]

So a fun thing about Ald Ruhn. Join the thieve's guild, talk to Angoth The Jeweler at the Rat In The Pot (Its between the mages and thieves guild). His first quest he gives you makes you fight a pretty weak battle mage in the mages guild of Ald-Ruhn, but also gives you free reign to loot the mages guild with NO ONE around.

[@rebelrouzer5318]

Mickey D is climbing...red mountain.Seeking energy, strength and finger and footholds. Mickey D is climbing a mountain,why is he climbing a mountain?To hug the mountain,to envelop that mountian and to make love to the mountain.

[@854gehx7]

Me actually drinking tea when he called me out

[@BlitzedPort]

In Mickey D's thickest accent: it's time to put the patient under. Get out strongest anesthetic. Basement Nurse gives him a bottle of Jamison.

[@evo2542]

Reason you couldnt jump over the ghostfence with the flight scrolls is because you were fatigued. If you had a full bar of endurance you probably would have jumped straight to the top of the volcano your first try.

[@stockicide]

"He's just having to make the most noble sacrifice of his life." Oof. Oof. Huhn!