Trouble Getting Through Doors - No Problem!
If you experience the Iron Door Problem, where you can't walk through doors in Alyeid Ruins because "this door is opened remotely" and the pushblocks / pressureplates / levers don't work or you can't find them because they aren't there... go to the console and type TCL, which enables No-Collision aka NOCLIP mode, so fly through the doors. (see Oblivion PC codes for reference)
Type it again in console to disable it. If you need an NPC to follow you, they cannot travel through walls, however, if you have their NPC item code (which can be found here at the greatest oblivion site of all time =) then you will be fine). Just simply walk through the door, and spawn that NPC on the other side with you and all will be well.
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Hidden Quest for Treasure
There is a little side quest that doesn't show up in your quest log but leads to a pretty awesome ring. From the tower that contains the entrance to the Ruined Pale Pass Fort, descend the path to the frozen lake. Rather than following the path as it continues to the south, turn north. Climb over the rocks, and walk around the debris of the fortress; up against the rocks, next to a big mushroom, you'll find a barrel containing a crumpled note and a rusty key. Do you see the second tower west of the one we've just visited, somewhat higher on the mountainside? Climb up and enter it. Now, see the bush below and ahead of you? The chest is under it. It contains and old key.
The next container is near the path. From the statues, follow the path up the hill to the south east. Where the path turns straight south, you'll see, off to your left, a curving section of stone wall and some large gray rocks. The chest containing a forgotten key is behind the rocks.
The last one is tricky. Its high up in the mountains at the south end of the vale, and its not near the path. Return to the door to the Serpents Trail and head southwest. Initially, you'll find the slope too steep to climb, but further west it becomes more gradual and you'll be able to make your way south to a great gray outcropping; the chest is half buried in the ground in front of the outcropping. Inside you'll find the Circlet of Omnipotence, one bad ass ring.
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Have the Imperial Guards Jack the Pirates
If you simply don't like the pirates attitude towards you in the Imperial City, talk to all of them including the first mate while the siege on the waterfront is active and Imperial Guards are everywhere, especially near the pirate ship. From there, run onto the ship and the pirates will pull out their swords and try to attack you, but here's the Elite Imperial Guard to the rescue.
They slaughter every single pirate there without taking a loss, giving you the freedom to raid their ship for all its worth without worrying about pirates attacking you. This will however make it impossible to receive a quest to save the bloated float from the pirate attack, because the pirates will in fact be dead. The quest isn't all that great anyway, I'd much rather see the pirates get jacked by Imperial Guards any day.
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Get Recruited into the Dark Brotherhood without a Murder Charge
Get recruited into the Dark Brotherhood without getting caught by the Imperial Guard for murder. Wait for the Umbacanno quest called "Secrets of the Alyeids" where you have to travel to a distant ruin and help Umbacanno reach the Throne Room. Anyway, as you get there, there will be a visual disturbance relatively near to Umbacanno outside the ruin. Umbacanno will actually talk to somebody and that will give away this Chameleon'd persons location, its the ambushing bastard Claude Maric.
Talk to him and he says "no hard feelings, it was only business" after he tried to have you killed by 3 heavily armed cronies. Waste no time taking sweet vengeance, carve him up like a succulent turkey and take his belongings, and of course this "murder" will be watched by an unknown force. The Imperial Guard doesn't do anything to you, but when you fall asleep, you get a visit from the Dark Brotherhood. Vengeance, no fines, and a new quest line, you cant beat it!
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