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Despite finding a wayshrine that would return me to that familiar town I decided to push on with this Prologue quest to get it out of the way. They're a bit odd cos they force you to fast travel to distant places you haven't been to yet that are all filled with other quests that you aren't doing yet. I've ended up in a strange valley then the middle of the Alik'r desert on the other side of the continent and now I'm way up north and can see Windhelm in the distance!
And for part of it I had to find and enter a series of temples but one of them seemed to be at the back of a big fortress/castle thing populated by lots (LOTS) of baddies.
I foolishly tried to get through it and got surrounded several times and my health was struggling (for the first time in this game.)
I escaped with my life still intact and then found a group of other players fighting their way through so I tagged along with them even though I wasn't doing the same quest they were.
I still couldn't find a path through so retreated again and decided to do some sneaking round the outside walls. And then I found the really easy path that I was supposed to take that doesn't go anywhere near that castle and it's big fighty quest.

Well it was fun fighting in someone else's adventure for a while.

I finished Stray 

But I now need to replay it to find the couple of things I didn't find 

Short cat.
That's one of the reasons why-

Oh, hold on a moment- Er, what? What are you saying to me?
No, man-with-shiny-face-and-beard, I do not want to duel with you in the middle of the market place. I'm just trying to offload some loot, deconstruct armour and maybe make a couple of potions to free up some inventory slots before going to the bank again. OK? Good, good.

Sorry about that. Where was I? Ah, yes. The reported short length of Stray is one of the reasons why I haven't thought about buying it yet. I certainly do want to play it 😸 but I'd want it to be much less than full price.

Erm... Hold on a moment again-
NO, man-with-shiny-face-and-beard, I do NOT want to duel with you in the middle of the market place.

I wonder if that's what's happening with all those fights I keep seeing.
But the guards wouldn't get involved then, would they?
I'll probably have to google.

I didn't know Stray was such a short game but I guess that just means I don't have to feel too bad about not being able to fit any more games on my computer. Though after uninstalling Plague's Tale and some others I know have just over 30 gigs free...

And I did google the fighty fights in ESO but most results were so old I wasn't sure they were still relevant. According to them it was easy to accidentally hurt guards and also once a noob had gotten a bounty the guards would keep attacking until the bounty was paid which it couldn't be because the noobs couldn't get any quests done since they kept getting attacked by guards, etc...

Also there's supposed to be a setting that prevents you from harming "innocents". Which seems like a good setting, to me. Just the other day I finished a short quest, told the quest giver I was done and then shot her in the arm. But she forgave me. This ONCE. Next time she spoke she said "Hey, you're that person who hurt me!"

I might lose that particular quest, though. It's attached to a small cottage in Riverwood, but I already have another small shack mod there. And the quest is kind of meh - mostly because the dialogue is silent but then once you finish the dialogue options the characters suddenly go "hmm?" or something in a loud voice, and it just becomes very jarring when they can't say the main stuff out loud.

I think I'll also need to look over where I have mod homes now, so I don't download too many for the same small areas. I think I have one on either side of Ivarstead for instance.

And yesterday I got the KS hairdos one which has like a thousand hairs so I also got another mod that limits the m by 75% or so... Though if I want NPCs to use these hairs I apparently need a gazillion more mods for that, too...

Stray took me a little over 9 hours, and there were still a handful of things I didn't find (and I spent a while exploring the explorable areas and taking screenshots every so often). So it's longer than Hellblade for a normal playthrough, though there is an achievement for completing the game in under two hours, so I guess they are similar lengths if you just run straight through the story and ignore the side questy stuff. 

EDIT - And it's about 6gb

Charlotte wrote:

Also there's supposed to be a setting that prevents you from harming "innocents". Which seems like a good setting, to me. Just the other day I finished a short quest, told the quest giver I was done and then shot her in the arm. But she forgave me. This ONCE. Next time she spoke she said "Hey, you're that person who hurt me!"

Then she told you that you gave her just the shot in the arm she needed?

Well after googling I can confirm that I've never seen a duel. Apparently someone puts a big flag in the ground and then a ring appears in which you have to stay during the fighting as everyone stops to watch.
Glad I didn't accept. Twice.

I think the fights I'm seeing are a result of people getting caught stealing or pickpocketing (accidentally or otherwise) and then having to flee from the guards seeing as you can't rely on telling everyone you're the thane or quickly going back to a previous save.

There are no mod shacks here but the next thing I want to do is to look into that free room quest. I think I'm a couple of levels away from getting a reward of a 30 slot storage chest so I need somewhere to put it before that happens but the inn is in another town so I need to make the journey there. I was sort of on my way there the other day when I picked up this Prologue quest which started off in the same general direction but I didn't realise I'd end up being teleported all over the world.

Yes, I also didn't want to download that massive hair mod.
I found a cut down version that only offered about 20 of the styles and that seemed a bit more manageable.

I found a lite version but it seemed to have some bugs, which is why I opted for the version that reduced the number available to me but at the same time still required the original mod.

And Banj, I have no idea what shots she needed... Measles, mumps, rubella, covid or ataxia....