Gaming

My Faendal is now installed as steward at Windstad. I wanted a steward there so that I could get a carriage to leave the place quickly.
It's quite a tricky place to get away from due to the lack of nearby roads. The best way is to go to Solitude but I don't really like swimming that much and if I try to walk the other way to Morthal or Dawnstar I seem to encounter some areas with dodgy Navmesh where followers seem to get stuck.

I may stick with Faendal for the moment while I clear up that pirate quest that takes you to Dawnstar.

Oh, and I forgot to mention... In ESO I have now had my first experience of Crown Crates.
That's the shameless, money grabbing gambling thing that plagues most online games and should be banned.
Anyway I was given two crates as one of the login rewards so I summoned Pacrooti, or whatever he's called, and got him to deal me the gift cards and...
It was mostly rubbish that I didn't want.
There was one thing that appeared interesting to me (a particular dye stamp) but upon further investigation you could only use it if you had the paid monthly subscribtion.
So I traded all the unwanted items for a handful of Crown Gems. Whatever they are.

*goes off to google the possible uses of Crown Gems*

I thought only you could kill Lydia? and who's Malkoran???

I have learned, this very day, that my incredibly messy and bloated save games list is due to me using racemenu - every time you use it, you have to give your character's name to close it (some menus in this game really should have cancel buttons), and that saves your character as a "new" character. So I had multiple save "trees" for the same people and for some reason the newest are often towards the bottom of the list instead the top. So today I got a mod for that, that might work or might cause CTD, it seems to vary between users... And I also deleted some 3300 save files

I saw a comment about how the amount of save files doesn't matter as you only use one at a time, and "I have 11 MB in my saves folder".... Well, I had over 1 GB and with my computer running out of space and me not being able to decide on a new one just now, I kind of needed to empty it

I'm also trying to figure out how to get SSEEdit to work before I even try to install Creation Kit. Seems that once again, having your game via GOG makes everything trickier than necessary... Maybe I should just cave, get a Steam account, and buy the game again, from there. It's a small cost compared to the new computer I intend to get eventually, anyway.

Well, maybe I hit her somehow during the fight, but somehow Lydia was vaporised in my first play through and was just a pile of ash when I found her. Rayya was a dead body, and she was nowhere near me when she went down. Malkoran is a necromancer at the end of the temple thingy where you take the golf ball and move the lights in order to get the Dawnbreaker sword.  I'm a scummy thief assassin type anyway, they are all expendable 

Burglary postponed while I rearrange food into different storage, and try to place things on the dinner table and have them stand up properly 

Oh that Malkoran. But why would you have two golf balls?

And which/where is the command line in SSEEdit??? (I see fixes for my problem but have no idea how to apply them... *sigh*)

For standing things up, console might be a bit of use... Open console, click item, type (pressing "Return" after each row)
setangle x 0
setangle y 0
setscale 1

You might need to set the height too though or they'll end up in or above the table and then fall about anyway once they decide to correct themselves. For that it's useful to know your own location along the z axis, so type

player.getpos z

and then the table would be somewhere between 60-80 cm higher than the result you get, I think. Possibly 60-100... You might need to try a few times. If you want to bother at all.

Edit: So I basically googled "where the heck is that command line" (not quite), and found out that what I was supposed to do was put the line of code into the target field of the properties window of the shortcut to the exe. Clear as day. And while it kind of half way worked (if I open SSEEdit from the shortcut, it lists the correct path to the correct folder for the ini file but still doesn't FIND it and if I open the exe from it's original location the path is still wrong...) it doesn't actually work. 

I think that's enough trying to be brainy for one day. I did just have like a 36 hour migraine, after all. I think I'll go play now.  

Edit 2: Or maybe I should make me some dinner.  

one golf ball, two swords 

That math doesn't make sense...

Something else that doesn't make sense.... I went to see Balimund because I was supposed to run an errand (my vampire is getting a bit fed up with running errands for everyone...) and there's a thief in his house. Sitting by the fire drinking beer....

Balimund's apprentice is there too, and doesn't seem to mind the thief at all. And the thief isn't hostile, though seem to be slightly wounded... I am considering killing him, but I don't want to get a bounty for it...

Also, I have no idea where Balimund himself is.

Well there was a Dawnbreaker laying on the ground near the altar, which I picked up, then I took the one from the altar where it's supposed to come from  Maybe Indy was going to try and switch a replica Dawnbreaker with the real one, but I interrupted him and he died in the process.

So you're saying your dual wielding character just happened to find two dawnbreakers by accident?

Yep. I have looked it up and there is apparently a glitch that can be done to get two, but I didn't look far enough to see what it was. Mine just happened on it's own, so I don't know what it was I did to trigger it.