Standing order: Collect every alchemy ingredient we come across
( not vendor ones ) provided we can do so legally.
You're pretty much doing that already, just like you're jump/running all the time. You guys just don't leave town much.
Very little consensus on what to do right now. I'm going to give it another day or two and if we don't get some agreement I'll probably just pick some things being proposed and we'll have a short update. Thing like "heal" and "collect ingredients" sure, we can do those things...but they don't make an update. "Don't do X" suggestions are fine...but again, I can't make an update about not doing things. ManofPaper's suggestion about approaching Dagoth Ur is valid, but Michael's not going to do something that drastic with only one person thinking it's a good idea.
Some of the "ask questions" suggestions we can do, but Hugo...let's be honest: you're metagaming and all you're going to get is fluffy flavor dialogue. Sure, obviously given the game so far...there's been a
lot of fluffy flavor dialogue, and I can certainly add that in but it's not going to advance the game at all. This is Morrowind, and I haven't even played these other games you're referring to, so they're not going to be relevant and all I'm going to do is do a web search so I have a clue what you're even talking about and then have an npc tell you that they don't know what you're talking about either, because obviously it doesn't work that way.
Talking to Eddie about Trebonius wanting to kill the Telvanni councilors...ok, sure...but again it's going to be flavor text. And I apologize, but...please could you guys apply a little common sense? You've never even spoken with Trebonius, and you've never seen any order. Plus, that particular quest, "if" we are to assume the questchain exists and follows vanilla (wild assumption, granted, but...) not only would it not even be live until somebody gets very deep into the mage guild quest tree, that quest kills characters who are crucial to the main quest. Now, yes...I acknowledge that obviously the game we're playing here doesn't necessarily follow the PC game. But I think it's not a huge stretch to guess that the "kill the councilors" quest probably hasn't been issued. And if it has, and somebody is acting on it, you have mach bigger problems than just conning Eddie into teaching you magic. But whether or not it has...what exactly are you suggesting you tell Eddie?
"Hey, Ed...somebody I've never spoken to might or might not have put out a hit contract on the council. I have no evidence of this, and I don't who who would have been given the hit contract, if it exists." What value does that have to him? Finally, keep in mind the general Telvanni attitude towards murder, and remember that Morrowind is a place where it's completely legal to have people assassinated, provided you go through the proper legal channels...do you really expect them to be surprised? Do you really expect Eddie to say?
"Oh, ALMSIVI! What a huge shock! As a former member of a House known for subterfuge and murder, it never occurred to me that our enemies might engage in subterfuge and murder in a province where it is perfectly legal to do so! Yes, I am grateful for this great insight, and surely the council will reward me for bringing this to their attention, despite having absolutely no evidence of it, despite the fact that the source of this information is someone I just met today and have no reason to have any faith in except that they were referred to me by someone who is either a skooma addict or an Imperial spy, and despite the fact that he's given me absolutely not one shred of information that could possibly be used to prevent such an attack, should it hypothetically come to pass."Come on, guys. Think a little, please.
So...after all the above, all we really have is a suggestion from Xanmyrl to go do general adventuring stuff, and several suggestions from GlyphGlyph. GlyphGlyph is the only one of you I really feel is taking this seriously right now. Now, I'm not trying to encourage or discourage following up on any of his suggestions. It's my intention to remain neutral here. But his suggestions are the only things I see since the last update that seems like have any thought behind them. I'd just like there to be more consensus rather than only one person making serious suggestions and a bunch of fluff suggestions that either haven't been thought out very well, or that....even though they're perfectly reasonable (heal, etc) just aren't substantial enough to do much more with that write a single one-line about.
So, again: I'm going to give this some more time before the next update.