Gaming

I've now googled the broken icons and it seems it's not just me. So I guess reinstalling would make no difference.

Never had that.
Yet.

...the only really weird, game-breaking thing I experienced was a point early in the game when an entire cell failed to load in and it left an enormous square hole in the landscape.

Apparently that one is a bug that has something to do with too many clutter objects in certain places.

Well, others who had the issue had it with the same items, I can only remember clogs. All items were ordinary clothing things I think, no weapons or armour, so people didn't care much. I guess Bethesda didn't either if they haven't fixed it (sounds like it's the exact same icons that are broken...)

I have lots of ordinary clothes. LOTS!
And I did find some clogs the other day and the icon was there for me.

That was all after a muchly redone (and redone again!) quest where I tried and tried and tried (and tried!) to keep these two idiots alive...

 

And they walked sooo slow despite their apparent eagerness to go and fight to the death. Their own frequent death.

Anyway... I want to do a bit of Skyrim stuff tonight so...

EDIT: A thief just ran up to me and.... gave me 500 gold!
Another good reason to strut around in Nightingale armour.

And I just had a rather tricky random fight where I had to resort to health potions. Twice!
It was kind of dark so I didn't see exactly what it was that started it but it ended up involving several high level Bandit Marauders. Both Arissa and Borgakh were down to the last few pixels of health before I managed to kill them all (yes, I know Arissa's immortal but she still stops fighting when her health is low.)
Anyway, after my victory I got out my torch and wandered around all the bodies to try and work out what had been going on here. There were two normal bandits, at least three marauders (I'm sure there was a fourth but I couldn't find the body) as well as the big bandit chief in heavy armour. Also there was a dead stag, one dead farmer (oldish guy with long grey hair), another dead farmer who was apparently a werewolf! And... a poor dead torchbug that was still glowing.

It was obviously the torchbug, then, starting it all.

Go on....
Take it...
The kid's asleep...
She won't hear....

 


For this stealy job I switched to my Boots Of Silent Fascination rather than my usual Hide Boots Of Lifting. Yes, it leaves me over-encumbered but I'm sneaking around slowly anyway and it's more important to be silent rather than quick.

So I grabbed it. The kid didn't notice.
And then I heard the door go downstairs.

Amren walks in.
I hear him repeatedly saying "You need to leave now!"
OK, OK. I'm leaving.... slowly.
"You need to leave now!"
I'm coming down the stairs as fast as I can! And I'm not wearing the right shoes for a fight. Can I just pay the bounty and...
"You need to leave now!"
I turn at the bottom of the stairs and I see Amren. He's talking to the cat.
"You need to leave now!"

I guess he got confused between cat and Cat Burglar.
I escaped.

A forsworn ravager that merely goes "stop it!" when I shoot him?
Well, he's dead now. Never turned hostile... Maybe I should have tried talking to him?

Edit: And now a forsworn pillager casually leaning against the rock wall while I'm right nexk to him stealing his amethyst...  

I guess whatever's going on with the forsworn might explain how I could pick off 4 of them earlier without anyone of them reacting? But it seems very very wrong. *scratches head* 

Oh. Apparently the forsworn here are friendly if one helped Madanach escape the mines. Even if you killed him after...

I killed all of them anyway.

I only helped Madanach because it helped me to do so at that time but I plotted to "remove" them all at a later date.

Meanwhile I just got ambushed by a Thalmor gang and one of them had some serious spells going on. After that I thought I saw three more further down the road, they were far enough away that I couldn't tell so I gave them the benefit of the doubt and continued to walk along behind them.
We all walked peacefully, yet watchfully, for a while until they led me on the road towards a narrow area trapped in by tall rocks then all three turned round and... they were Cultists!


EDIT:
*tries numerous times to find the entrance to Fort Sungard*
It's on the northern side, isn't it?