I really like how your videos are made to tell a Story about a character while doing a challenge run, rather then the classic version where its more like a presentation of all the steps nessecary to beat the challenge. Double thumbs up from me for that. Please keep that style.
23 years, dozens of playthroughs, mods and videos from Morrowind, but it was only during your fight with Uthol I have realized that ash vampires have a third eye. Thank you I guess xD
""We shall reintegrate into society not as the monster they thought we were, but the monster they made us become!" Gotta say, I love the use of WoW music in the background, never get tired of the inn theme, and the Naxxramas ambience was a nice surprise.
Hey Background Noise. I was really excited when I heard your thoughts on rat-human behavior and I thought finally an excuse to chyme in. In the behavior world, the situation you describe with the elevator and the rat button are functionally the same. The rat pushes the button and sometimes gets food which is a variable schedule of reinforcement. When you press the button in the elevator it sometimes works making it another variable schedule of reinforcement. Even if one know that sometimes the button doesn't work it still has a similar effect on one's behavior. You can just rationalize your behavior way better than the rat. What I'm saying is we're all rats. Love your content and look forward to every new adventure!
Steven learning the Thu'um just to clear bad weather, but not knowing other shouts is somehow the most realistic thing in that scenario 😂 if im spending years of meditation to learn the word, then you can bet im learning something with utility- and not just the burn things or freeze things shout
I'd say there's a lot of utility to being able to spew a torrent of flame from your mouth, especially in as violent a world as the elder scrolls. the power of it would also be much greater than we see in game, since it was nerfed for gameplay reasons, so it would be pretty much just better than magic and entirely unlimited by magicka or anything. there's no cooldown, you can just speak the words over and over.
@kuunt6065 i hear you, but for a normal guy if you wanted something to damage people you could just learn magic or weapon training in a fraction of the time and be just as effective in combat by the time you learned the combat shouts remember, this takes YEARS of constant practice, and its heavily implied that the power of your thu'um is determined by how in line with Kynareth you are (see the story about Jurgen Windcaller being able to stand up to 12 nord generals without being shouted down) and it becomes a highly volatile combat tool now, summoning rain for your crops or clearing a storm at sea to make your travel times faster as a ship captain? that has some utility! and you wouldnt be defying the gods by just using it to prosper peacefully so thered be no volatility thats just my 2 cents :p
Rather fittingly given your origins as a Runescape creator, this run especially gave me OSRS region-locked ironman vibes - I love your restricted and semi-narrative runs like this! Thanks for the fun video JB!
Great vid like always. As a tiny piece of advice to help with future runs, especially limited challenge runs like this: The tower in Odrosal is one of the few places no enemies ever spawn (excluding the usual Dark Brotherhood assassins), so whatever 'resting' you need is far more safe than the rest of Red Mountain.
I know what you mean about elevators, see, I live in this small little box and there's this switch I press that gives me food. But sometimes it doesn't give me anything, and I'm pretty sure the switch doesn't work all the time, so I have to keep pressing it just to make sure it goes through.
15:00 Hearing someone actually say Morrowind’s crazy names remains one of my favorite parts of your videos. Can you post one, or a compilation of, your “Bonebiter Bow of Sul-Senipul from the wraith of Sul-Senipul for Sul-Matuul” ramblings as a short? 18:33 “Overhang”? “Porch”?
JBN is easily the comfiest, and most entertaining Morrowind content maker. Other stuff is of course great too, but the quality of the narration is unparalleled.
The funny thing about the intro is that this actually happened in 1561 Northampshire, when Steven Gonorrhoea Cholera (or Steve G Cholera) was exiled to Essex just for his name.
You make great content, my friend. Truly a hidden gem, or a not-so-hidden-anymore gem. I love how you slide in these non-obvious jokes throughout and just think your overall sense of humor is very tuned & sophisticated, and I love it. You do a great job of aligning that with a narrative and it comes together into this wholesome & engaging watching experience that I really enjoy. Watching your content always makes me think about what other hidden gems there are in their own niche corners of the internet. Thanks for all your effort, I thoroughly enjoy it and hope you continue to produce. :)
I can't tell if you're unwilling or unaware that you can walk up to loot caches, pop open your inventory, and grab them from the world while Mundus is in stasis to avoid the funny dodge-loot dance. It is amusing to watch, though, so you do you.
I'm not sure if it was my comment you saw, but I'm glad you saw at least a comment about the distinction between magma and lava. As I was about to go to bed I heard you talk about lava in a cave and saying it was magma and i was like "what is the difference?" and researched it.
@JustBackGroundNoise re:buttons 5:47 You went about how humans press the button multiple times. It made me think of street crossings that allows pedestrians to push a button to cross. For larger cities, roads are so busy that crossings are automatically built into the programming like Times Square and Tokyo. For roads that arent as big as those locations but still have crossing time built into the programming, there might be crosswalk buttons nearby that do *absolutely nothing* my hypothesis is that these buttons are used as used as a distraction for humans. a way to make humans think they did something when they actually didnt. if there was *no button*, this would increase the risk of people thinking its safe enough cross in the middle of traffic. it also reduces jay walking as a person familiar with the area know there is no crosswalk button and will cross earlier.
For Tokyo, at least, the automatic pedestrian crossings will have buttons not to make people feel better but to activate a noise to play while the light is green. It's so people with vision problems can still use the crosswalk.
@-tera-3345 did you also know about how there are servos installed underneath that spin so people that are blind and deaf/hard of hearing know when to cross?
Looking at my subs' uploads and seeing this video title after going through a few Joov runs earlier was a bit of a trip. Well played, JBN, had to double check.
9:35 - "You failed eating [ingredient]." my headcanon says, the player character tosses the ingredient up into the air and tries to catch it in their mouth; if they miss, and it falls to the ground, theres no "5-second rule", so the ingredient is Lost, forever
Dude the elevator thing is so real. Some elevators keep the button lit the entire time the elevator's coming, some of them only keep it lit when you press it and then the light goes out, some of them look like they should be lit but they don't when you press it, it's all just to gaslight you into being perpetually unsure if the button registered your press or not.
Ive been watching and re-watching all your elder scrolls stuff for a while now and I just want to say your content is great. I really do enjoy it and ill be starting my first morrowing playthrough using some of the tips I see in your videos.
Scathecraw and racer plumes are one of staples to collect, iirc you get levitation potions from them (just starting the vid). For easy scathecraw, you find a lots in Ald'Ruhn exteriors (tip for other playthroughs). I like using alchemy from things I collect, usually to heal, fatigue, levitation and telekinesis (great stealing tool drinking 2 different telekinesis potions for yoinking stuff far away) and speed for exploration or skidaddling.
My favorite thing about these videos is he’ll drop the most profound knowledge about intricate lore that people don’t even have a surface level knowledge of, then immediately after he’ll be like “But anyway, I have no idea how to do/get this.”
I saw the title premise and thought it was Joov, but then realized he could never do this w/ Morrowind and actually looked at the uploader. What a rollercoaster, before I even clicked on the vid.
I gotta say, your channel name really undersells the quality of the background noise. Your videos are excellent and engrossing. Please pass on my regards to narratively spurious clone/cyborg. 😊
In Morrowind,enemy respawns are not time based,they're tied to the corpses. If you dispose of the corpse,the next time you load the cell,the creature respawns.
The Runescape side has reawakened with this challenge. Region-locked Morrowind isn't what I thought I'd see today. What's next, needing to gain a level in a skill before you can walk a certain number of units? Like some kind of Tile Man?
The personality boost was the only reason they too k the effort to drop you off on red mountain rather than just ending you when you got off the boat ^.~
> cliffracers don't levitate, they fly Well... considering that their feathers (what feathers, btw, they seem to have membrane wings?) are the ingredients for levitation potion that does kinda imply that they do in fact levitate.
A lintel is a horizontal beam that spans openings in a building, such as doors, windows, and fireplaces. Lintels support the weight of the structure above them and prevent sagging. They are often made of brick, stone, timber, or steel. Purpose Increase athletics Support Lintels support the weight of the structure above them, such as the bricks above a door. Prevent sagging Lintels prevent the structure from sagging under the weight of the material above them. Structural integrity Lintels are required when work compromises the structural integrity of a building.
At this point, you have proven that literally anyone can satisfy the Nerevarine Prophecy and that the Daedra know what they're doing even less.. Azura and the Box might hold a lot more weight than once thought.
If you name your character after a dialog topic every time someone says your name you can click on your name as a dialog topic. I don't know but maybe the adventure of John Wraithguard might be able to break the game.
![I.N "HALLUCINATION" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n5B5q1Hwt_U/mqdefault.jpg)
You think Stephen Corpus has it bad? Wait until you meet Saul Cairn
You've never even met Carl D. Harbour. People think he's a hellish dimention.
Funnily enough my wife's brothers name is Saul Carenn and I never considered calling him soul cairn. Thank you for the idea
I really like how your videos are made to tell a Story about a character while doing a challenge run, rather then the classic version where its more like a presentation of all the steps nessecary to beat the challenge.
Double thumbs up from me for that. Please keep that style.
This! It's what I like most about these videos :D
If you want more of that you should check Vik St Varlik's challenge runs. They're using challenge runs as an excuse to have mini-stories.
Every Video tells a great story !
I've been trying to find a way to put this exact sentiment into words, and you just nailed it completely. I love these videos so much!
This happened to my friend Dave Covid a few years ago (he also hates his full first name, David)
"Hey double Vid!" Lol
Clearskies shout cannon in morrowind
With all the cliff racers you have slain on the mountain you must have been mantling st jiub
Jiub senpie notice me uguu. -JBN probably :3
In Morrowind, eating lead paint chips levels your Intelligence!
23 years, dozens of playthroughs, mods and videos from Morrowind, but it was only during your fight with Uthol I have realized that ash vampires have a third eye. Thank you I guess xD
""We shall reintegrate into society not as the monster they thought we were, but the monster they made us become!"
Gotta say, I love the use of WoW music in the background, never get tired of the inn theme, and the Naxxramas ambience was a nice surprise.
Hey Background Noise. I was really excited when I heard your thoughts on rat-human behavior and I thought finally an excuse to chyme in. In the behavior world, the situation you describe with the elevator and the rat button are functionally the same. The rat pushes the button and sometimes gets food which is a variable schedule of reinforcement. When you press the button in the elevator it sometimes works making it another variable schedule of reinforcement. Even if one know that sometimes the button doesn't work it still has a similar effect on one's behavior. You can just rationalize your behavior way better than the rat. What I'm saying is we're all rats. Love your content and look forward to every new adventure!
Steven learning the Thu'um just to clear bad weather, but not knowing other shouts is somehow the most realistic thing in that scenario 😂
if im spending years of meditation to learn the word, then you can bet im learning something with utility- and not just the burn things or freeze things shout
I'd say there's a lot of utility to being able to spew a torrent of flame from your mouth, especially in as violent a world as the elder scrolls. the power of it would also be much greater than we see in game, since it was nerfed for gameplay reasons, so it would be pretty much just better than magic and entirely unlimited by magicka or anything. there's no cooldown, you can just speak the words over and over.
@kuunt6065 i hear you, but for a normal guy if you wanted something to damage people you could just learn magic or weapon training in a fraction of the time and be just as effective in combat by the time you learned the combat shouts
remember, this takes YEARS of constant practice, and its heavily implied that the power of your thu'um is determined by how in line with Kynareth you are (see the story about Jurgen Windcaller being able to stand up to 12 nord generals without being shouted down) and it becomes a highly volatile combat tool
now, summoning rain for your crops or clearing a storm at sea to make your travel times faster as a ship captain? that has some utility! and you wouldnt be defying the gods by just using it to prosper peacefully so thered be no volatility
thats just my 2 cents :p
Rather fittingly given your origins as a Runescape creator, this run especially gave me OSRS region-locked ironman vibes - I love your restricted and semi-narrative runs like this! Thanks for the fun video JB!
Great vid like always. As a tiny piece of advice to help with future runs, especially limited challenge runs like this: The tower in Odrosal is one of the few places no enemies ever spawn (excluding the usual Dark Brotherhood assassins), so whatever 'resting' you need is far more safe than the rest of Red Mountain.
I know what you mean about elevators, see, I live in this small little box and there's this switch I press that gives me food. But sometimes it doesn't give me anything, and I'm pretty sure the switch doesn't work all the time, so I have to keep pressing it just to make sure it goes through.
15:00
Hearing someone actually say Morrowind’s crazy names remains one of my favorite parts of your videos. Can you post one, or a compilation of, your “Bonebiter Bow of Sul-Senipul from the wraith of Sul-Senipul for Sul-Matuul” ramblings as a short?
18:33
“Overhang”? “Porch”?
JBN is easily the comfiest, and most entertaining Morrowind content maker. Other stuff is of course great too, but the quality of the narration is unparalleled.
I love that all these morrowind runs never get old! Keep them coming!
The funny thing about the intro is that this actually happened in 1561 Northampshire, when Steven Gonorrhoea Cholera (or Steve G Cholera) was exiled to Essex just for his name.
Something about wandering around Red Mountain with Outset Island playing in the BG is sending my sides into orbit
You make great content, my friend. Truly a hidden gem, or a not-so-hidden-anymore gem. I love how you slide in these non-obvious jokes throughout and just think your overall sense of humor is very tuned & sophisticated, and I love it. You do a great job of aligning that with a narrative and it comes together into this wholesome & engaging watching experience that I really enjoy. Watching your content always makes me think about what other hidden gems there are in their own niche corners of the internet. Thanks for all your effort, I thoroughly enjoy it and hope you continue to produce. :)
Next prisoner: John Brainrot.
Sent straight to tiktok.
But what is tiktok in elder scrolls?
@@patrickaycock3655 The tiktokwork city of Sotha Sil.
I can't tell if you're unwilling or unaware that you can walk up to loot caches, pop open your inventory, and grab them from the world while Mundus is in stasis to avoid the funny dodge-loot dance. It is amusing to watch, though, so you do you.
And once again, *THANK YOU* for adding subtitles. it's been a blessing
Can't get enough of your stuff! Though the eating the glass and ebony made me think that dentists in Morrowind have their work cut off for them.
I'd eaten the scrap metal too. Must be just instinctive loathing response when you see it in a box, that's why he didn't eat those.
I always love these. Fun challenges, good characters. They make good watching whilst eating dinner.
never been this early to anything in my life thanks for the content!
Your character is like one of those people on weirdest addictions who ate rocks.
I wonder if its a trait of nirn that raw glass always tastes like blood.
The awning you're thinking of is probably closer to an archway
I like that you included Subtitles in the video. Big thumps up 👍
I'm not sure if it was my comment you saw, but I'm glad you saw at least a comment about the distinction between magma and lava. As I was about to go to bed I heard you talk about lava in a cave and saying it was magma and i was like "what is the difference?" and researched it.
Oh, we joovin now :)
Movin', Groovin', Joovin'.
@JustBackGroundNoise
re:buttons 5:47 You went about how humans press the button multiple times.
It made me think of street crossings that allows pedestrians to push a button to cross. For larger cities, roads are so busy that crossings are automatically built into the programming like Times Square and Tokyo. For roads that arent as big as those locations but still have crossing time built into the programming, there might be crosswalk buttons nearby that do *absolutely nothing*
my hypothesis is that these buttons are used as used as a distraction for humans. a way to make humans think they did something when they actually didnt.
if there was *no button*, this would increase the risk of people thinking its safe enough cross in the middle of traffic. it also reduces jay walking as a person familiar with the area know there is no crosswalk button and will cross earlier.
For Tokyo, at least, the automatic pedestrian crossings will have buttons not to make people feel better but to activate a noise to play while the light is green. It's so people with vision problems can still use the crosswalk.
@-tera-3345 did you also know about how there are servos installed underneath that spin so people that are blind and deaf/hard of hearing know when to cross?
Looking at my subs' uploads and seeing this video title after going through a few Joov runs earlier was a bit of a trip. Well played, JBN, had to double check.
I was waiting for the punchline at the end from the moment you revealed that Stephen was becoming a vampire, it's too perfect with his backstory
Keep doing what you do. Thank you for all you’ve already done
Your video about Mr Corprus is keeping me occupied while recovering from my own case of Corprus (a cold). Thank you.
9:35 - "You failed eating [ingredient]."
my headcanon says, the player character tosses the ingredient up into the air and tries to catch it in their mouth; if they miss, and it falls to the ground, theres no "5-second rule", so the ingredient is Lost, forever
Training on the heart while dagoth watches is such a power move
wait, steven corprus is the same guy as the nord guy that STARTED as a vampire.
Love your content man, i know your channel will keep growing with gems like this. Can't wait to see how you finagle this one.
Please never stop making TES content
Dude the elevator thing is so real. Some elevators keep the button lit the entire time the elevator's coming, some of them only keep it lit when you press it and then the light goes out, some of them look like they should be lit but they don't when you press it, it's all just to gaslight you into being perpetually unsure if the button registered your press or not.
The Twitch streams are a good time.
Great video. It’s a little strange hearing Stardew music in Morrowind.
I think that structure at 18:30 is commonly referred to as a "portal" by architects.
:P
19:10 Never played Morrowind. But your videos are so entertaining that it doesn't really matter!
Always enjoy these videos. Never played Morrowind but it’s great to see the Bethesda elder scrolls game I didn’t get to play
Gotta appreciate that Stardew Valley music in the ebony mine.
Lore knowledgeable joov, Is that you?
Joov could never be this entertaining
The most unbelievable part of the elder scrolls universe is that a pair of glass boots would be light.
15:00 Combining the Ashlander name shenanigans with Gronks poison dialogue is amazing :'D
Perfect timing! I was just wondering when next you’d upload. These videos are perfect for days where i’m feeling anxious or stressed.
Ive been watching and re-watching all your elder scrolls stuff for a while now and I just want to say your content is great. I really do enjoy it and ill be starting my first morrowing playthrough using some of the tips I see in your videos.
Scathecraw and racer plumes are one of staples to collect, iirc you get levitation potions from them (just starting the vid). For easy scathecraw, you find a lots in Ald'Ruhn exteriors (tip for other playthroughs). I like using alchemy from things I collect, usually to heal, fatigue, levitation and telekinesis (great stealing tool drinking 2 different telekinesis potions for yoinking stuff far away) and speed for exploration or skidaddling.
At some point in time I'm going to need your average "Sul-Senipul"s per video
a sul-senipul counter, maybe
My favorite thing about these videos is he’ll drop the most profound knowledge about intricate lore that people don’t even have a surface level knowledge of, then immediately after he’ll be like “But anyway, I have no idea how to do/get this.”
I saw the title premise and thought it was Joov, but then realized he could never do this w/ Morrowind and actually looked at the uploader. What a rollercoaster, before I even clicked on the vid.
Nice new upload! always a blessing!
"Listen, Stephen doesn't agree with his sentence, but he respects the institution of imperial injustice, just as Talos intended." makes my day
that killing the heart by rhythm instead of artefact or CHIM seems most appropriate for it, really
now was the nord named after the corprus or the corprus named after the nord?
Pacifist morang tong
This is the third time I've been getting ready to go to bed.. only to see a new video.
Grateful for these weird and quirky vids about a weird and quirky game.
JBN, you're my favorite YT channel of 2025 so far.
I have never seen Mastrius not crippled and on the floor. I expected it to be a free kill on the sleepy boy.
Finally, Extreme One-Chunk Morrowind
I gotta say, your channel name really undersells the quality of the background noise. Your videos are excellent and engrossing. Please pass on my regards to narratively spurious clone/cyborg. 😊
babe wake up new jbn morrowind challenge just dropped
Seeing this made my day
4:35 Journey before destination, Radiant!
MacGuffin yes that one sul-Matuul ^.^
Hope you enjoy yourself when making the vids, and I enjoy your content.
Stephen's a growing boy and needs more iron in his diet!
“All you can eat ebony buffet” 👀
In Morrowind,enemy respawns are not time based,they're tied to the corpses. If you dispose of the corpse,the next time you load the cell,the creature respawns.
The Runescape side has reawakened with this challenge. Region-locked Morrowind isn't what I thought I'd see today. What's next, needing to gain a level in a skill before you can walk a certain number of units? Like some kind of Tile Man?
The personality boost was the only reason they too k the effort to drop you off on red mountain rather than just ending you when you got off the boat ^.~
The worst part of this challenge is the absence of "NEREVAR..."
I believe the thing outside the mine IS called a portal.
18:35 I'm sorry but portal was actually the first thing that came to my mind
I'm a simple man. I see morrowind and hear music from Stone Tower Temple, I like.
26:26 That's actually something I never thought.
What if what you (Nerevarine) did to the heart at the end, is what also happened to the dwemer?
I was in the middle of watching the ONE video of yours i havet watched and hoped we got another one soon. And by Azura!
Oh look, portals!
Nice story anyway! Good work Jbn
Eating hundreds of kilograms of mineral to become smarter sounds like such a nord thing do to
Poor guy, I love him
For a Nord, your glass transmutation skills are quite impressive.
> cliffracers don't levitate, they fly
Well... considering that their feathers (what feathers, btw, they seem to have membrane wings?) are the ingredients for levitation potion that does kinda imply that they do in fact levitate.
Wow saved the run by not cheesing that dude
We Joov'in? Yeah we Joov'in
A lintel is a horizontal beam that spans openings in a building, such as doors, windows, and fireplaces. Lintels support the weight of the structure above them and prevent sagging. They are often made of brick, stone, timber, or steel.
Purpose
Increase athletics
Support
Lintels support the weight of the structure above them, such as the bricks above a door.
Prevent sagging
Lintels prevent the structure from sagging under the weight of the material above them.
Structural integrity
Lintels are required when work compromises the structural integrity of a building.
No. You eat lintels. Lintel soup is a thing.
@@patrickaycock3655 Heh. And lintel soup can also increase athletics, esp. if you grind them up first.
Its called a Portal hood
18:32 In germany I think we would call it Überdach or ,,Portal"
Always love the videos, it makes me want to do my own runs
Sameee
More sleep material
Yes please
Aldo is really cool build
7:20 never knew about this side quest
falsely exiled behind the ghostfence because of corprus, just to become a vampire instead...
Many doors ed boys! gets you a like immediately!
At this point, you have proven that literally anyone can satisfy the Nerevarine Prophecy and that the Daedra know what they're doing even less.. Azura and the Box might hold a lot more weight than once thought.
If you name your character after a dialog topic every time someone says your name you can click on your name as a dialog topic.
I don't know but maybe the adventure of John Wraithguard might be able to break the game.