Okay, that last line's creepy, but other than that: this seems pretty important, "her" telling him to say it out loud.
I'm figuring its an alibi, so whoever is messing with us can say that they were simply reacting instead of initiating.
That's one idea, but it runs into the same issue as creepy fey permission requirements: Why? What would the servant of a Daedric Prince, possibly on direct orders from said Prince, have to work around or obey regarding us? Was she skirting pissing off Azura who has dibs on us? Is there some kind of noninterference agreement or law in effect between or against certain powers?
What's especially strange about all this is that she offered us the apple before getting the statement, which seems to contradict most of the obvious "can't abduct us without permission" type things. I'm almost tempted to say she was fishing for a good show for her boss or a bet win condition or something.
Also, amusing aside:
"Couldn't tell ya pardner. Never did no formal schoolin' so it's all greek ta me."
I don't like this line because, at first glance, it's an outright lie. Nothing else she said, as far as we can tell, was a
lie, exactly, it's just that she was implying to be something she wasn't. But if she is a tentacled servant of the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, not knowing what's written on the apple she's handing us because she "never did no formal schoolin" is obviously untrue.
Unless, of course, she literally just doesn't read or write Cyrodiilic because she's a tentacled horror beyond mortal sanity. That amuses me, even if it still doesn't seem likely to be true because Daedra have existed since the dawn of time and these in particular sometimes read books.
More seriously:
: "Also, there's rumor of a new construction near Lake Amaya north of the Dren Plantation."
DAMN IT. We had more detailed information on the plantation than we thought.
So looking at a map, we've got some options. Originally I was thinking that maybe that fortress mentioned was the new "construction," as Applejack was "fixing it up" into a farm. But there's another option, and really only one other option.
Here you can see Dren Plantation on the lower left corner. Looking for a place to put a construction north of it, there really isn't one. Pretty much everything is manors or existing fields until they turn into volcanic outcroppings.
On the other side, it's a slightly different story. The land still goes volcanic pretty quick, but there's that nice outcropping jutting into Lake Amaya, as well as relatively clear land to the west and north of it. If there really is a new construction out here, it's probably on that outcropping.
If we're not eating the apple, I say we head for that land, or at least get a look at it from the lake. Go around the beach if you go, obviously; we know what happens when you swim, though getting there from the beach directly south of it might be doable.
Why are people so hostile to performing ANY kind of investigation before we eat the apple? It's not like it will vanish if we don't bite it immediately. Just see how the nearest average dunmer joe reacts first, at least.
I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but there is the question of what we'd learn. Supposing we show it to a random guard and they say it's a beating heart. Are we suddenly not going to eat the death apple now that we know something's off about it?
It's a tentacled trap, and we know it's a tentacled trap. It's not necessarily a trap we don't want to walk into, but it's not like we don't know the basics and it's not like there's many people who could tell us any more than that.
Maybe have it examined [Non-destructively] by an alchemist to see if it has any unsual properties.
-1 to this. Until we have a plan on where to find an alchemist, this isn't really a valid action. It's also unlikely to work, since while they
might be able to smell something off about it, for the most part alchemy is the art of breaking things down. An alchemist probably isn't going to be able to tell what's off or not about this apple without eating parts of it.
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