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ALT They are like us but, but there are many things we cannot explain to them. (Someone comforting a dog sitting in a bathtub) "Fireworks won't hurt you." (Someone forcing a cat to take medicine by holding its mouth open.) "I'm doing this because it will make you feel better...!" (Someone pulling a fox's head out of a glass jar that it's stuck in.) "I'm not trying to kill you, I'm trying to help!" You cannot blame them for being scared. (Image of a person laying in bed, their eyes wide open. The bedroom door is open behind them, and a dark, long hand is pushing through.) Fear is a natural reaction to things which are unfamiliar and confusing.
ALT So sometimes I wonder.... (full page image of a shadow demon creeping through the door and up on the ceiling as the person on the bed remains still out of fear, holding their blanket tightly around them. More shadow entities can be seen peeking into the door.) ... If there are things out there that are beyond even our own comprehension. Things that may scare us.
ALT Things that are just trying to help. (Full page image of two shadow entities, one of whom is pulling a person out of their bed and across the floor by their ankles. It says 'Stop struggling, I'm saving your life!' The second shadow entity looks on worriedly. "Josh, you're scaring it!" it says. The shadow entity keeps pulling the person across the floor towards the door, even as they clutch their blankets and pillow for dear life. "Sorry buddy," says the shadow entity, "but this house is leaking carbon monoxide... You're gonna die if you stay here.")
ALT screenshot from tes iv: oblivion showing a nord woman called vilja
ALT "The first letter from Terry arrived in March 2010, only three months after the original release," Emma told Eurogamer. In this message, Pratchett mentioned how enamoured he had become with Vilja, specifically mentioning his appreciation for the way in which she would acknowledge small gifts such as strawberries. "He also praised the modding community as a whole, mentioning how impressed he was by the effort put into mods, and how much he enjoyed using them." Emma didn't know if this was the real Terry Pratchett, but she responded anyway and the two struck up a regular correspondence. Pratchett gradually started to make small suggestions of his own based on his experience with Vilja. "He described how he had been exploring goblin caves with Vilja, and how he wished that he could study the goblins without having to kill them," Emma said. "The day after, I made him a 'goblin peace amulet' to make the goblins non-hostile and allow him to explore their dungeons without having to kill anyo
ALT Eventually, Pratchett even started to write dialogue for Vilja based on his exploration of the goblin dungeons of Oblivion. This led to a regular contribution of voice lines for Vilja from Pratchett, to the extent that the majority of Vilja's Thieves Guild dialogue can be attributed to him. "Terry always had a very humble and polite way of suggesting things for Vilja," Emma said. "I always felt that I was in charge and never that he was taking over. I always felt inspired by his ideas and loved to try to make them come true." Together with Charles, the three worked on the "Packdonkeys" mod, which allowed players to purchase up to four packdonkeys from the Chorrol Stables. Pratchett delighted in the fact that his donkey, Chico, kept stealing carrots and getting him and Vilja into trouble with the Imperial Guard. The more involved he got, the more invested he was becoming. Vilja was no longer just a companion mod - she was a person who kept growing as he, Emma, and Charles worked on he
ALT One of the most important features that was added to Vilja was the lead-the-way function, which Pratchett had specifically requested to help with his Alzheimer's. "By that point Terry was already having serious trouble with his memory," Charles told Eurogamer. "The sort of short-term memory functioning needed to navigate the game world was a particular problem for him." Charles and Emma worked particularly hard on implementing this function, which enabled Vilja to lead the player out of the dungeon they were in. However, this wasn't an easy task. "Since I knew there was a real need behind that request I kept thinking about it," Charles said. "Eventually, I realised that another Vilja feature moved a special marker around to track when she changed locations. Once I had that insight, combining the two features at the technical level was fairly easy." Once the function was operating properly, Pratchett could simply turn to Vilja and select the "I'm lost!" option whenever he got stuck in
