The second official plugin for Oblivion is out now for PC users. It’s called The Orrery and its description is:

Harness the power of the stars. Rebuild the defiled Orrery and unlock the secrets of this Mages Guild Inner Sanctum.

It weighs in at 18 mb and costs $1.89. It’s about a 15 minute quest (spoiler type screen shot) that gets you access to the Orrery in the Mages Guild. This can be used by melee guys not yet a full member of the Mages Guild.

Content wise it’s more than the Horse Armor plugin. The question is that is this enough to justify the 1.89 price tag? It depends on your point of view. A less scrupulous sort of person would goto illegal means to acquire this plugin.

It’s not often that I’m called a liar. Basically I wrote something that another employee told me about. The GM Douche Bag of the hotel left this comment:

Great story, to bad it did’nt happen! For the sake of accuracy and integrity you should check your facts. As a reader I’m concerned that your site has a very narrow view of reality or generally just makes stuff up. To be credable and to keep my interest, lets open a dialogue here and debate the issues. Will you take the challenge?

No where do I claim that anything on this website (blog!) is the truth. I think that this type of site (whatever type it is) doesn’t really matter if it deals in the truth. In fact most people who come to this site probably don’t care if what I right is fact or fiction. Naturally I replied to the gm with this comment of my own:

Just makes stuff up? Not from my point of view. This is the second time I let my guard down. From here on in you have to be credible to keep my interest.

When I got in tonight I was told by the employee working that the gm had checked my site only to find that the hotel’s ip was blocked. The gm supposedly made a comment along the lines of “I guess I offended him.” Kinda sorta I suppose you did. But then kinda sorta you didn’t. I’m just able to do that kind of thing if I want to. Blocking ip addresses is just a defense mechanism.

Anyway let me do a quick blow by blow me responding to the gm’s comment. First up:

Great story, to bad it did’nt happen! For the sake of accuracy and integrity you should check your facts.

Welcome to the internet! Accuracy and integrity are something members of the press have to worry about. I don’t check my facts. If it sounds good I write about it. I think that your biased in the accuracy and integrity department as your the general manager of the hotel I work for. Bad press is still bad press even on the net. Which brings us to this comment:

As a reader I’m concerned that your site has a very narrow view of reality or generally just makes stuff up.

As a reader? Again I think your just a little biased worrying about my narrow view of reality since your the general manager of the hotel. I do admit the making stuff up thing did hurt. But again no where in my blogging handbook does it say I have to to write the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I deal with my opinion on things and second hand stories passed on to me by disgruntled employees. Next is the my favorite part:

To be credable and to keep my interest, lets open a dialogue here and debate the issues. Will you take the challenge?

Not to be a real pain in the ass nitpicker, but I think one should be able to spell credible before they even try to accuse someone else of not being credible. An open dialogue debating the issues here on my website? You forget that I deal in lies and that generally I have a narrow view of reality. Why on earth would I want to debate anything with you? I have nothing to debate. As I see it that hotel is broken. I’ve been there just a tad bit longer than you so I believe that entitles me to my opinion of things as I see it.

So no debate with me. Fix the hotel. Your in the position to do so. Get that place to treat employees like human beings. Show them some respect. And just maybe start giving out some raises. The only direction the hotel will go is down as long as you let the hotel’s employees be treated like indentured servants. Now feel free to openly discuss this here on my site. You have a chance to play pr to the people that do happen to read this that know exactly what I’m talking about. I’ll for a civil discussion. But I’m not up for a debate.

But I’m afraid to say the only way your going to change my lies and my narrow view of reality of the hotel is to change things for the better there. And believe me I’ll let you know when that happens. I’ll know because the other employees tell me their problems. I hear how disgruntled everyone is. I’m just the only one who seems to say anything.

I’ve got rumors. Who wants some rumors? And it’s all sort of related. The sheriff of operations is dead. Long live the sheriff. I often wondered what a person does when they get the “of operations” suffix attached to their title. I wondered what an “of operations” person does. Here at this hotel an “of operations” guy ran the front desk, housekeeping, and maybe engineering.

Well not any more. Housekeeping is now run by Jani or so the story goes. Which from the talk form the housekeeping employees this was a move that was needed. Management of housekeeping has been less than desired. Which not all of the blame can be pointed at the sheriff of operations. There are a few employees that were promoted that should not have been. And when you start letting family in and show that them special treatment over the rest you start to have some big problems.

Next topic. It’s time to say goodbye and rest in peace to TimeClock Plus. Which was chronicled briefly in No Punch, Time Travel, and Time Fixed. It’s been said that this biometric system has been kaput since the last pay period. So for at least two weeks now this system has been dead. Has any manger told anyone? No. As per the usual with this hotel employees have got to find out by word of mouth.

One final bit before I go. I will not ever refer to myself as a computer wiz to a guest. Never fucking ever ok? That kind of information is need to know and frankly that’s just not something the guest needs to know. So when you go and talk to a guest who had trouble with an employee that claims he is a computer wiz and who works weekends let’s make sure that you realize two things.

1. I don’t refer to myself as a computer wiz.
2. I never work weekends.

So simple even my niece and nephew knows the second point. The two points I expect the guy in charge to be able to handle. I’ll be grilling my niece and nephew on the first point as well. So when two kids between the ages of six and seven can grasp something the guy in charge doesn’t I begin to worry.

The third official Oblivion plugin called the Wizard’s Tower has been released for PC users. This one is 17.6 MB and costs 1.89 just like the last one. Here is the info:

Located high in the Jeral Mountains of Cyrodiil away from prying eyes, this add-on makes the Wizard’s Tower, Frostcrag Spire, become available. Packed with numerous useful enhancements, this structure will prove invaluable to magic-oriented characters.

Features:

• A fully detailed tower for you to explore
• A breathtaking view of Cyrodiil from the highest point
  in the land
• Simple furnishings including a bed for leveling up
• An indoor botanical garden with over 130 specimens…
  including Oblivion-native herbs!
• Summon Atronach Familiars that obey your commands
• Instant teleports to every Mages Guild in Cyrodiil
• New Spell and Recharge vendor in the Imperial City
• Fully upgrade the furnishings in your lair to suit your needs
• Upgrade to a fully functional Enchanting and Spellmaking station with no need to join Mages Guild
• Upgrade to a laboratory that buffs your Alchemy skill

I’m still waiting for some shit that adds more stuff for melee characters.