Gaming

Onwards!
To the next quest where I can-

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*tries again*
"Login failed. An unknown error occurred."


MMOs!

Valence wrote:

MMOs!

Since installing this is the first day I've had without struggling to cope with my inventory slots.
I don't know what to do with myself.
I suddenly feel the urge to look around the house to find 70 boxes and 100 random items that won't all fit in just so I can have my necessary fix of daily frustration.

sounds like my livingroom....

I'm logged in again!

Ooof! I died.
That's my first death in ESO and I didn't like it.
Managed to resurrect myself (and it probably cost me something from my inventory) but all my armour was wrecked and needed repair and all my weapons ended up drained and in need of charging and repair and.... Damn Dragon!
I'm glad I won't be fighting another one any time soon.

Anyway that finished that particular too-much-teleporting prologue quest and now I can get on with my normal journey to Ebonheart to see if I can get myself a free room.
The nearby views look a bit ominous...

 

...but I'm sure it'll be a nice place when I get there.

I remember Ebonheart from Morrowind, I recall it had a big dragon statue, or some kind of statue, but I haven't explored enough to see if it's there in this too. Plus I was kind of distracted by someone who started following me around and whispering at me. They didn't seem to believe I was a real player cos I was walking around slowly.
They kept asking if I was human or a bot.
I said nothing.
And then they attacked an NPC.
Strangely he whispered that he killed it "for me."
Weirdo.

I casually pretended to look at my map and he scooted off.

 

You should have said you were a bot.
And erm... there's a chance he was hoping you were actually a female player, because your character is female... So now you know what that can be like...

The opposite happened to me once - I was playing Runes of Magic I think, and a male character when a stripped down to the underwear female character ran up and started "dancing" or something, around me. Until I barked "I'm a woman, dammit" and they left.

I thought of lots of clever and witty things to say... fifteen minutes later after I'd quit.
I did momentarily wonder if he was distracting me in order to pickpocket all my stuff but thankfully you can't do that with other players. But being robbed would have solved my inventory problems.
I have to admit that his sneaking skills were pretty good. None of the guards noticed what he was doing. I was quite envious.

Well if he levelled up his skills by sneaking after women, I'm not sure we should be impressed...

I keep finding new things in Skyrim, still.
My khajiit joined the Dawnguard, which led me to Serana (the first NPC to actually apologize when she walks into you, instead of sounding like it was your fault!) and castle Volkihar (which I have previously only seen from a distance and not actually known what it was).

I'm not sure my finding Serana quite played out like it should... I was googling stuff at the time, mostly because I wasn't sure whether the gargoyles would come to life or not. And saw some mentions that... didn't happen. Oh well, I found the word wall and hopefully my vague memory of going back to Whiterun to store some loot is more correct than my other vague memory of storing stuff in a chest in a cave, where I subsequently couldn't for the life of me find it....