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[QUOTE="Writeous"]can u play the game as a vampire..?lusitanogamer

Yes, you can but as your vampirism progresses, people start avoiding you & at a certain point, you can't go out in daylight anymore. If you progress enough, people start chasing after you. It makes missions harder to complete although you are almost immunue to any disease.

Yeah, but can't we get a normal appearance by feeding on a victim?

Yes, you have to feed regularly or your appearance starts changing.  If you've fed within 24 hours, you don't have any symptoms. 

can u play the game as a vampire..?Writeous

Yes, you can but as your vampirism progresses, people start avoiding you & at a certain point, you can't go out in daylight anymore. If you progress enough, people start chasing after you. It makes missions harder to complete although you are almost immunue to any disease.  Oh, and you acquire NightEye (kind of like nightvision).  If you check your character's appearance in the menu, you're kind of scary looking.

I think it's random.  The first time I played Oblivion, I became a vampire after purchasing the small house at the waterfront (in the Imperial City) - and sleeping there the first night.  My character had a dream, then woke up as a vampire.  I'm playing a 2nd time through and I'm at the point where I've finished the main quest, all the guild quests and I just purchased the houses in Skingrad, Anvil, Burma, and in the Imperial City.  I slept in that same waterfront house and still haven't been turned into a vampire.

I thought it might have something to do with Count Hassildor (the vampire) in Skingrad but I went to visit him and he didn't say anything about it.  I went to see Roland Janseric in the Imperial City (the vampire hunter), finished his mission, but still no visits from vampires.

If you have the money to burn, go with the Onkyo receiver & a new set of speakers. Mafia could probably tell you more about that receiver.

Sorry for the unorganized reply - I'm trying to kill this stupid Minotaur in Oblivion while browsing the forum... 

also..could the 5.1 speakers i have connected to my htib now be used with the receiver? i have the samsung htq45 right now for my surround soundJockss2

Oh, I didn't see that you already had the samsung htq45.  The speakers in the htq45 would probably be inadequate for that Onkyo receiver.

2 sets of these for a 5.1 system (these are for the L & R front & rears) 

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ohajdfRitl6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=37900&I=107MON40B

This subwoofer:

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ohajdfRitl6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=12300&I=107PSW505

And this center channel speaker

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ohajdfRitl6/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=12100&I=107CS1B

That's a similar setup to what I have at the moment. 

You can find some speakers at Crutchfield also. You didn't mention your budget but there are speaker packages (5.1 or 7.1) from Polk, Infinity, etc. in the Speakers section: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ohajdfRitl6/cgi-bin/ProdGroup.asp?g=12700