Merchant Responses (You can help!)

Here are some lines for about half the occupations. I'll add more later.

Wise Women/Bookseller/Savant: You seek knowledge, i seek coin.

Don't Argonians usually use personal pronouns just like everyone else? Although they occasionally lap into plural.

Argonians are very inconsistent in Morrowind (as are, to a lesser extent, the Khajiit). We're basing their phonetics off of the spoken dialog in the game, where they refer to themselves as "this one" and others as "it" or "those ones."

Just a reminder that Khajit prefer to use their names if they are free.

So  a Khajiit in slavery would say 'Khajiit has many fine clothes to sell' or whatever. On the other hand, a free Khajiit (as most traders are) would say '(their name here) has many fine clothes to sell.'

For booksellers:

“A good book won't give up all of it's secrets at once.”

"Knowledge is power."

"Ah, a fellow scholar!" or "Welcome fellow scholar!"

"Seeking enlightenment and wisdom? I have just what you need."

Aurabelle

Just a reminder that Khajit prefer to use their names if they are free.

So  a Khajiit in slavery would say 'Khajiit has many fine clothes to sell' or whatever. On the other hand, a free Khajiit (as most traders are) would say '(their name here) has many fine clothes to sell.'

Names can't really be used in this case, since these lines are supposed to be generics for any appropriate vendor, regardless of characterization.

There are only seven Khajiit merchants in the game, so I don't think it would be too difficult to just sub their names in where appropriate.

Anyway, here are some suggestions.

Edit: Updated Argonian and Khajiit lines to be more specific

my idea of some lines (regular merchant:lets see if we can strike a deal)(mage/alchemist merchant:so you wish to buy some of my spells/potions)(smith merchant:you won't find a better deal anywhere else) that all i got for now

twentyenginerunner

Argonians are very inconsistent in Morrowind (as are, to a lesser extent, the Khajiit). We're basing their phonetics off of the spoken dialog in the game, where they refer to themselves as "this one" and others as "it" or "those ones."

They are mostly "we" in spoken dialogue. "We are not fangless, friend". "Blessed we are". "We greet you as a friend, welcome". "You bother us. Do not waste our time". They rarely refer to themselves in third person, although they do often use "it" for other people. That's my observations, at least.

I think allowing Khajiit traders use their names is a good idea, since they're the most memorable traders anyway (Ra'virr, Jo'basha).

There's a lore reason behind Argonians referring to themselves in plural. They constantly feel a mental, magical connection with the Hist (both trees and the Argonians, as mentally they're one and the same thing), a hivemind of sorts. They do see themselves as a separate being, but also they are a part of a greater mass. That's why when they talk to you, they will often say that "We greet you".

taerkalith

here's a quick sample of Argonian greetings when they really like you:

The words "this one" don't occur once in this list. Simple "one" occurs once and seems to be the usual English non-personal "one". On the contrary, "we" and "us" are quite common. Are you sure you aren't confusing the two types of beastfolk? "This one" is very common in Khajiitspeak.

That can probably be explained by different levels of how well they know the Imperial language. "We" and "this one" might be grammatical remnants from Jel, but more educated Argonians would speak more properly. I hope if any Argonian dialogue was rewritten this was taken into account :P

Argonian speech was discussed a lot during the idle banter project. In the end, everyone was instructed to use "this one," "it," etc. As far as I know, no one ever made distinctions between education level, Imperial influence, or anything else when it came to this usage (I considered having Huleeya and Nine-Toes speak more like Imperials, but never went with it). Having not seen the rewritten vanilla dialogue, I have no idea whether or not there are major conflicts.

"As I've said, 404 references of "this one" from a quick find all search of the scripts."

All Argonian scripts or all original scripts overall? Because I've got a suspicion that the grand majority of these 404 references are from Khajiit speak. In fact, there's only one reference to "this one" (and one "it") in your greetings list, and both refer to the player, not to the speaker.  "This one" in sense of "I" is strongly associated with the cat-people for me.

Not sure about entirely eliminating the world "I", since in all TES games Argonians also use it prominently, but I understand the reasoning. Dragomir's suggestion of varying the accentisms with the probable education/assimilation level sounds like a good idea, at least, in the future stages of this project. The Argonians are not the Borg, after all.

(Oh, and don't take my posts as said in a hostile manner, tone is hard to understand on the Internet).

Actually, if you think about it, a little weirdness or inconsistency is more realistic than a race where every member acts exactly the same.

chocomadzSmith - Nothing short of red mountain fire is gonna get through my steel.

I like that one a lot.

A few more, including suggestions for Creeper and the Mudcrab Merchant.

Here are lines for the rest of the classes (and Argonians/Khajiit), plus a few revisions to those I already posted.

Creeper

-You buy, creeper SELLS. (laughter)

Crab Merchant

-What's wrong? Crab got your tongue?

-Let's hurry this along, I heard crabs have limited life spans (muttering) [or was that rats] anyway, buy something or move along.