Gaming

Ahh, the Wabbajack 

Uhm, I think I just put it on my wall in Lakeview Manor...

Or do you mean while you're still in that dead guy's head? I don't think your ordinary shortcuts work in there...

Yes, I did mean in the "head" and all of my number keys didn't work afterwards back in the normal world.
Had to spend a few minutes reconfiguring it all and then had to work out why I was over-encumbered after the change of clothes.
Boots of lifting? Check.
Charmed Necklace? Check.
Heavy Hands? Check.

And the reason was that I'd forgotten that I also have a magic ring of mass. So I put that back on as well and now I can run again.

Ah, I see.

Banj wrote:

I now think I am close to the end

Yeah, well I don't think you know as much as you think you do Banj of the past. Because I know that the game carries on beyond that part. In fact it seems increasingly likely that this game never ends and you are eternally trapped and "get close to the end" only to continue into yet another chapter of gameplay... forever 

Sounds like No Man's Sky...

As much as I like the game, I really would like it to end soon. I want my drive space back to play other stuff that's waiting. I am fairly sure that I am nearish the end, it just keeps adding something new I need to do before it will end. 

I am not near the end.
But I do think I will probably have to go over that mountain next. 

Geralt is off doing some goat-sniffing again. "The nose knows."
And after meeting up with Eskel I've concluded that he doesn't seem to like climbing.
There we were, strolling along towards a ledge that I'm gonna have to get up, and he says, "Did I ever tell you how I got that horse?"
No, you didn't (and here I climb the ledge) but I suppose you will tell me now to provide a short commentary as we slowly track and hunt this beastie.
Sure enough, he starts the story and I turn to look at him and... he's gone.
I can still hear him talking but he's not here.
I jump back down the ledge to see if he's stuck like some kind of Lydia but no. He is nowhere to be found. And now his voice is quieter. So I climb up again and it's back to normal volume now so his voice is apparently up here.
I continue on without him but the story of the horse carries on and according to my headphones his voice follows just behind me and slightly to the left.
Eventually I sniff out another clue for tracking the beastie. The nose does indeed know.
And Eskel's suddenly there!
Scared me a little he did.
Into a cave the three of us go: me, Eskel, Eskel's voice.
We kill the thing and now have to get back to Kaer Morhen.
I jump down a double ledge and... he's gone again.
I backtrack a bit and...

 

Come on. Jump down. Climb down. Fall down. Do... something!
But no.
Maybe he's not part of this quest any more.
So I leave him up there.
I walk onwards alone and leave the cave through the only exit.
And Eskel's somehow there outside!
Do I want to race him? he asks playfully.
Not if you're gonna teleport around like that.

I played my Orc again for a bit yesterday, in Skyrim. It's fun to do things differently between characters, so he set off to Rorikstead and ratted out that redguard woman to the Alik'´r or Al'kir or whatsthem. Then I lured her to the stables and they zapped her. Didn't even bother talking to the prisoner - maybe he's still rotting away under Dragonsreach...

Anyway, I don't get why people online say they kill Saadia/Iman when you get her to the stables. They obviously just paralyse her. She still has the "talk" (or "pickpock") options rather than the search option. Not that you can actually interact with her at this point. But she's not dead.