Today's session was a fun one. I even managed not to die even once. Not sure how, but hey.. I'll take it. I did take a different tack on the mage quest than I did last week, I tried persuading the servant.. I tried bribing him.. hell, I even tried taunting him. But I couldn't get any of it to work. Eventually I got frustrated, and went to attempt to pickpocket the owner of the Manor for his key. Which worked.. sort of. I mean, he felt me grab the key, and attacked, but I escaped without hurting him and ran my little Kahjiit ass ALL the way back to the Thieves Guild leader with Nerano's key. I also completed the first quest for the Fighters Guild (killing some rats)... and then I got myself really occupied with doing some Mages Guild quests.
In fact, I got so occupied, I did 9 of them. (I forgot about the mushroom quest I did last time, so I added it in to this total.) ... I went on a exploration jaunt to find some flowers for the Khajiit.. and found another quest along the way. Some fool had let his scholar friend go wandering off to investigate a beast noise, and the friend hadn't returned. So I went to find him. Fought my first two Kagouti... which was slightly dicey, but successful. Found the friend's book, and eventually, said friend, and took him back to where he was supposed to be. Along the way, I found the rest of the flowers needed. By the time I got back to town, I was level 2.
After that, there was a convoluted storyline of bets that needed to be cheated on to win, books that needed stealing for the guild-master in Ald-Ruhn, then said book needed to be put back.. yeah. It was interesting. However, it did get me, (with some work on my Illusion skill) both to level 3 as well as to Journeyman rank in the Mages Guild... which, for a non-mage, I think, is pretty good.
Plans for next week are to head to do the Fighters Guild quest (checking out the Kwama Egg Mine), another quest that's in a similar area, then head to Hla Oad for a couple of quests down there. I also have a couple of quests somewhere in the middle of the continent past a Dwarven Bridge I found while exploring today (which had a nasty bandit on top of it), and a quest for a guy in Fort Moonmoth. All in all, a successful day.
Finishing Stats: Level: 3 Quests completed: 12 Quest completion % = 3.52%
