You know what's even more ridiculous? I have two stacks of them in my inventory. Five of them stacked and one of them did not. The difference? The five-stack were originally "unknown gems" before I had them appraised by Vex; the single item is the only one I've picked up since having the originals appraised. I imagine that when I get done I'll have 19 individual stones and my stack of 5. It also annoys me that I have to carry around up to 11.5 weight-units of the damn things before I can get the last stone and turn them all in, or whatever happens when you collect them all; and can't take them out of my inventory like you can if you're trying to collect multiple reagents for someone.
That's what I get for getting the first stone appraised immediately. I'm deathly afraid I'm going to miss one somewhere and have 23 of these things FOREVER.
Yeah, I'm somewhat certain that this is going to be the one quest that I don't finish, that isn't a repeatable bounty quest or the never-ending Listener quests.
Heh, this and "mine ore to serve your sentence" in Markarth. My quest line got bugged and in order to do "No one escapes from Cidna mine" I had to get myself arrested for something else... and since I busted out with the Foresworn, I never mined the ore...
Ore respawns periodically.
I left the king alive, because the "leader" for my quest was just some unnamed briarheart. My first clue they were friendly was when I rode up, and dismounted, and suddenly Shadowmere goes all apeshit on one and all the while he's screaming at me "I'm on your side! I'm on your side!"
I decided just to be an utter bastard in Markarth. At the slightest provocation, I'd kill whoever I wanted, or take their stuff, or whatever. It didn't matter, I'm the goddamned Dragonborn, and you're all my bitches, so eat sword. Don't give a shit, y'all gonna get STORMCLOAKED anyway before too long.
I'd have found that hilarious. The first time I set off the storm shout to see what it did, it was just me and my horse out in the open.
When I started playing I got caught up trying to climb the side of the mountain, following the arrow, it will not work.
Yeah, I had that same experience my first time around. The fast travel system will be your friend. Don't worry about the passage of time, just once you reach ivarstead, fast-travel back to whiterun, sell your shit (sleeping if necessary) then fast travel back to ivarstead and continue. I know it seems to defy logic, but this is nothing compared to how the rest of the game is going to be.Finally got to Ivarstead. What I had thought to be a quick jaunt down the road ended up being a two-dungeon delve where I leveled twice, died at least three times and collected a three-figure amount of various herbs along the way. The real kicker was that once in Ivarstead I couldn't find anyone to buy all the heavy armor and weapons I had been lugging around. Goddammit
If it had come out before my inventory stopped being important, I probably would have gotten SkyUI. Now it doesn't matter, I rarely, if ever, pick up anything. I own every house, have a full suit of daedric and 70k+ gold somehow weightlessly upon my person. Pretty much the only thing I carry is a change of clothes to switch from melee to magic user, and I don't need to sort that.
