Yes, it was a sad day in Skyrim for all those people who could remember
the previous episode.
Poor chicken. Poor Balbus. And not so poor Bandit Chief that caused all the death, including his own.
I was thinking of giving the bandit's body to my noisy neighbour the necromancer. He'll love that, won't he?
Unfortunately after I'd looted him out and gone inside to stash all the goodies in the chest, I went back outside to find his body had gone. Maybe super efficient steward Brelyna had cleaned up the crime scene.
So, sorry Mr. Necromancer.
Of course that does leave Balbus's body and I'm not giving that away as a present.
We need a funeral of sorts.
So I dragged his body to my log pile to act as some kind of pyre...
Cremation it is then. Perhaps a fire breath shout will do the job. "Yol!"
Oh, yes. I forgot that that shout is delivered with substantial force and poor Balbus's body was launched down the hill.
Quick, get him back!
So I dragged him all the way back up and set him up on the pyre again (which took some time cos his legs wouldn't point the right way!) but once in place I decided that the fiery magic of the Flame spell would be a more gentle send off...
That's better. Now let the soundtrack play
Kyne's Peace
and let us hold your fabulous fork aloft...
...and may it stab all your favourite ingredients in Sovngarde. It's what The Gourmet would have wanted.
Elsewhere my chicken was indeed gone. So I bought another!
I bought two actually but there's only room for one under the cow. The other now runs around outside the fence.
Now back to more orthodox quests. I'm off to talk to you-know-who-spoiler-person.