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[Judas Maccabeus]

Hmmm, Shadowscale works.  It conflicts a bit with the background the game generates for us, but we can weasel our way around that.

Alright, the results of our character creation.



Our our answer to the background questions has made scholars like us more.  Yep, bookworm indeed.



And our stats.  We won't get health and the like until we actually get into the game.

It also provides us with a generated background based on the answers to those questions:

You might not ever have been a thief, for you had been raised and trained from an early age to be a cleric.  Until that fateful day when the caravan your master, Sauril Spellthar, and you were travelling in was waylaid by a orc tribe, you were content that your place in life was set.  Suddenly, everything you believed in was proved false.  The treacherous cleric you had put your faith in sacrificed you in order that he might escape the orcs.  Though you managed to survive in your new role as a captive of the orcs, you never again would trust a cleric.

You ahd grown up among the superstitious people in the backwater swamps of Black Marsh, and had believed that orcs were demons or daedra, but you found the tribe to be surprisingly civil.  They needed an Argonian to interpret the books they had found about the ancient orcish capital of Orsinium.  As you stayed with them and learned their language, you developed a respect for their primitive but noble ambitions.  Nevertheless, you knew that you needed the society of other Argonian people, so when the opportunity arose, you escaped.

Times were difficult all over Black Marsh, but you found that the dodging and dagger fighting skills you had developed in the orc camp allowed you to be a fairly successful thief.  One night, while ransacking a nobleman's townhouse, you came across correspondence between him and the former Imperial Battlemage Jagar Tharn.  You sold these to a contact you had in town for more gold than you anticipated they would be worth.  You did not realize their full value until you recieved a visit from Prince Voragiel in your room at the tavern.

He told you that Jagar Tharn had been magically impersonating his father for the past ten years, and only recently had the true Emperor been restored.  Loyal subjects like you were rare and the Emperor wished to thank you personally.  You travelled with Prince Voragiel to the Imperial City and there you were presented to the Emperor.  He was indeed very grateful for your service and gave you an ebony dagger.  He also asked you for a favor.

INTRODUCTION

[The intro movie.  Note that the first couple bits actually are when you start the game and not after character creation.]




Four hundred years after Tiber Septim's reign, the beginning will meet the end, and the bloody circle will close in the Empire of Tamriel.  The unworthy heirs of the Septim dynasty have allowed the parts of the Empire to weaken and crack.  Uriel Septim VII cannot repair what his ancestors ignored.



The provinces fight amongst themselves like neglected children, drunk with rebellion - and one indominable power hides itself, but not forever.


And so, the Emperor calls us to his chamber at an ungodly hour.

Spoiler: The Emperor's task (click to show/hide)

[I'm not entirely sure who the fellow on the right is; if memory serves, it's the new Imperial Battlemage, Ocato (the old one being the main bad guy of the previous game)]

"Excuse the gloom, but none may know of this meeting.  The nature of my trouble is darker still.

"Over a year ago, King Lysandus of Daggerfall died honourably on the field of battle.  He was as loyal a subject, ally, and friend as you are.  I did grieve for him.



"But his spirit does not rest.  With a spectral army he haunts his former kingdom crying for revenge.  I do not know why such a good and loyal man would be so cursed.  Perhaps you can find the answer, and close the marble jaws of Oblivion, bringing peace to his soul.  I ask this as your Emperor, and as your friend.

"I have one lesser request.  Several years ago a wrote a letter to the Queen of Daggerfall.  It never arrived.  The letter was of a sentimental and personal nature.  If you find and destroy that letter, I will be grateful.

"Now, my champion, rest well this night, for tommorrow you sail for the Kingdom of Daggerfall.



And we're back to darkness.

"I'd be ssssleeping a lot better tonight, if you hadn't kept me up sssso late!"

Anyway.  It should be easy enough to just sail over to Daggerfall City and start asking arou-

Spoiler: Starting out (click to show/hide)

Never mind.  That's going to complicate matters a bit.  Good thing Argonians are good swimmers.  Alright, let's see what we were able to recover from our ship before it went down.  The answer isn't all that much, but it's enough:





Clothes (no shoes, for some reason; Argonians can wear shoes in this game, unlike later ones) silver dagger, iron longsword, ebony dagger (hurrah!), spellbook, and two books (Special Flora of Tamriel [a very useful alchemical reference], and The Real Barenz-

Wow.

The game, by chance, started us with "The Real Barenziah, Part III".  I can't show you that one, because... well, I'm not sure what Oon-la is doing with an explicitly pornographic book in her possession. 

Time to equip the dagger and take a look at our character sheet:



Not too shabby.  We ought to be able to stand up to any of the monsters we'll meet in this dungeon, easily, especially since we've a decent chance of them not noticing us at first.



Our spells.  Not much, but we can get better once we're out of here.



First, though, let's save.  The most important thing to remember in Daggerfall:  Save early, save often.  If not in case you die, then simply in case you run into a silly bug, or the game crashes.

Next time on Daggerfall:  The first dungeon, Privateer's Hold!

[zchris13]

Is it time for the stabby stabby?  Sneak first.

[Judas Maccabeus]

_{"Lifts-Her-Tail"  You know you want to.}

...Considering the book it gave me?  I might as well have... 

[Free Beer]

How frequent are these updates going to be? Will the next update encompass all of Privateer's hold? Or perhaps until a major fork is encountered (like the huge room with the elevator)? How much control are you going to give to the audience?

[Judas Maccabeus]

How frequent are these updates going to be? Will the next update encompass all of Privateer's hold? Or perhaps until a major fork is encountered (like the huge room with the elevator)? How much control are you going to give to the audience?

Frequency is every few days... I don't always get a couple hours to play through a dungeon or the like.  I'll probably do each dungeon all the way through in an update... and I'll certainly exercise veto power if there's something I particularly want to do (or something I particularly don't want to do, though that won't come up very often), or if I feel the main plot has been neglected for too long (though being Daggerfall, "too long" is a decent amount of time).  In other words, feel free to make recommendations and expect them to be followed, but don't be surprised if it gets pushed back a bit in favour of something else.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Privateers Hold (privateers not included)


I usually won't go into this much detail with a dungeon, at least not picture-wise (we're up past 100 and that's just the first dungeon!  Well, okay, most of that was character creation shots I didn't use), unless there's something particularly interesting; this one is mostly to introduce you to a few enemies and show what dungeons look like in this game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's about 1:30 PM when we wake up.  There's only one way out of the little cave we're in, so that makes the next decision easy.



Around a corner, we meet our first door.  Note that the game gets the colour of Oon-la's hand wrong for whatever reason.



And behind that door, a rat.  Easily dispatched.  The only reason that I take a hit here is because I'm fumbling around trying to take a screenshot and fight it at the same time (I get a bit better at that soon enough).



The rat obviously isn't carrying anything, but near it, on a pedestal, is a bag (ignore the chest image here, it was a bag in the main view) with some cash in it.  Probably left here by... privateers?

Ssssoundss good.  I... eh... claim thiss in the name of the Emperor!  Yesss, that'sss right...



Upstairs, we come across a hallway, and opening one of the nearby doors, we meet our first real enemy:  An imp!  Well, it'd be a real enemy if not for the fact that the spells don't seem to take all that often.  A couple whacks from our dagger knock it down without any trouble.  Between the imp and some treasure in a cage behind it, Oon-la gets about forty gold.



Behind another door off the main hallway and down a staircase:  A thief.  If they get a shot in they can do a decent amount of damage, but between hitting them first and parrying what attacks come, I don't allow that.



Along with some more gold, our reward is:  Armour!  Oon-la can only use the leather greaves and boots (the first two, but at least the chain can be sold.  There's more gold in a pile on the floor behind the thief.

After a bat (not pictured, because bats are just as weak as you'd expect), we head further upstairs and find:



An archer, which despite me sneaking close and getting a couple shots in, stays up and gives Oon-la a nice whack with his sword.  We manage to kill each other at the same time...



Providing a lovely cutscene of our burial (at least we get a nice tomb) and a crow squawking on a nearby tree.  Yeah, best get used to this one, especially once we run across higher-level enemies.

Reload, and this time I manage to not jump up on the table like an idiot parry the sword with my dagger and bring him down.



Our reward is one of my favourite in-game books (though some copies of the various parts of "King Edward" would be nice), along with a shield and "leather" helmet to give Oon-la this look.



After going through a room with a couple rats (though one gets a lucky hit in), and up a ridiculously steep incline...



Oon-la runs across a thief.  Note our relative positions, and the fact that he hasn't noticed me yet:



Yep, a nice backstab helps make that problem fairly easy.



More armour for our trouble, and I like the look of this "leather" helmet better so that's the one Oon-la's wearing.

You humansss have sssuch odd fassshion sssenssse.



Another imp goes down so easily I don't even bother getting a screenshot of him (once again, his spells do nothing), carrying our first ingredient!  Let's see if Special Flora of Tamriel has anything to say:

"Domica Redwort is a herb grown by many residents of Valenwood for their beautiful and showy flowers. They attain a height of about three feet and have feathery leaves; the flowers are usually bright red. In addition to their beauty, they are said to have magical abilities to enhance the appearance of anyone who carries or wears one of the flowers."

Thisss doessn't look quite like it.  Besssidesss, that imp did not ssseem very attractive.

A pedestal in this room opens up a nearby bookcase, behind which is another small cache of cash.  Through another door:



A nice, big room.



Heading down a staircase to the platform in front of us puts us face-to-face with this fellow, a Skeleton Warrior.  He's the toughest enemy we've had so far, but Oon-la manages to parry all his attacks in between chipping off various pieces of bone.  Not much on the body, though.



Going up the staircase on the other side puts us back in the room with the thief I backstabbed.



Backtracking, another passage from the platform leads to a dead end and a (soon, also dead) orc.  Being an orc, he's a bit of a tough fight as well, but Oon-la can still deal with him.



This reward would be very nice if we could wear plate, but it'll still fetch a nice price when we reach a town.



And we're full up after it.  Fortunately, the exit isn't far off.

The two doors down the big staircase don't lead anywhere particularly interesting either.  So where do we go from here?  Well, there's a way from down there, but that's not where we're going.



Back upstairs, there's a throne and a lever.  Pulling the lever...



...causes the throne to start rising up.  Of course, it's kind of useless without us on it, so after pulling the lever again to bring it back down, jumping onto the part that rises, and pulling the lever a third time:



Brings us up here.  Now we can continue out!



After a short trek up a hallway and another dead rat... ooh, that imp doesn't see us.  May as well just sneak up to it and-



Oops.  There's also a bat and a rat in there, and while all three are individually rather weak, we need to do this properly to prevent them from ganging up on Oon-la with her low health at the moment.



Better.  Killed the bat first through the door, then made sure the imp and rat could only go at Oon-la one at a time.  Here you can see what happens to an imp and a rat when they're julienned by an ebony dagger.



That same room contains the exit!



Ah, the fresh High Rock winter air.

I hate it.  It'sss too cold.

Well that's your problem.

Now, it's decision time!  I won't always give a direct decision like this, but often I will.  Our choices:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We're at where the red lines cross.  What Oon-la's boat was doing in that long, narrow bay I don't know (Ignore the name up top, that's just where the cursor is, it's an unimportant temple that we're not going to).

We should get to a town to sell things off and possibly figure out what's going on.  Our choices:



Gothway Garden is close (only one in-game hour), but small, and unless we camp for the night and go there the next day we won't heal any.  Chesterwark is the closest decently-sized town.  And, of course, we can always head off directly to Daggerfall City itself.


Just for reference, here's our current stats screen and log:



Oon-la will look less stupid once she has new clothes.  Note that the armour we have right now is our maximum.  We should pick up a few nice magical versions later on, but we'll be sticking with this for quite some time.

[zchris13]

Head to the medium city.

[Aqizzar]

Yeah, Chesterwark is nice.  However...

Why in God's name did you forbid plate armor?  Seriously, how many times do you want to die?

I've always wondered how the ship could crash all the way up there.

[Free Beer]

I suggest stopping over in Gothway Garden to sell off the loot / buy supplies, then raiding a tomb on the way to Chesterwark.

Oon-La needs to ditch those pants ASAP. They clash with the rest of her outfit.

[Killas[SiN]]

I suggest stopping over in Gothway Garden to sell off the loot / buy supplies, then raiding a tomb on the way to Chesterwark.

Oon-La needs to ditch those pants ASAP. They clash with the rest of her outfit.

Seconded.
You might want to get a bunch of healing items, as you are supposed to be "shadowscale". Don't forget, thievery early on is good, as it builds up a foundation for your adventuring. Just don't break the game.

[Uber dwarf2.0]

I'm sorry for the minor derailment but can you please tell me how to get the Dos box verson to run?I followed bethsda's guide but all that came up was a message stating that I placed my CD in the wrong drive. If you could please write me a guide or redirict me to a website that has a correct guide that'd be great

[Judas Maccabeus]

Aquizzar:  I'm not entirely sane, no.  It's still possible to make it regardless, though it'll certainly make things a challenge in later levels.  I'm used to dying in this game, though, so at least it won't bother me quite too much.

Free Beer:  No kidding.  Fortunately, I find something quite a bit better in the very first store I set foot into.

Killas[SiN]:  No thievery right off, at least, if nothing else since I don't want to damage my reputation in Daggerfall too much.  The thievery will come, though, of course.

Uber dwarf2.0:  Hmmm... that seems odd.  Make sure all the files are in the right place, the "dfcd" folder might be misplaced or missing.  Not having access to your computer, I couldn't go in to look at what might be wrong (and it probably wouldn't be all that good an idea to give such access to a stranger, after all. :p ).

Taking a bit to upload all the pictures, after that the next part will be ready.

[Kishmond]

1) The first step is to install DOSBox. Launch its setup program and install with default options.

2) After DOSBox is installed, navigate to its entry in the Start Menu (DOSBox-0.73) and then select
�Configuration,� and then �Edit Configuration.� If you have used DOSBox before, it may be best
to run �Reset Configuration� first before running �Edit Configuration.�

3) This will open up Notepad with the config file displayed. Look for the section [dosbox]. In this section will be a setting �memsize=xx.� Change the value of xx to 32 (i.e. memsize=32) and then save and close the file.

4)The next step is to extract Daggerfall from the archive. The archive is a zip file named
�DFInstall.zip.� Using a zip program such as Winzip or Winrar, open the archive and choose to
Extract. You want to extract the entire contents of the zip file to a directory on your C:\, such as C:\dosgames. So, when you chose Extract, the program will ask for a path, enter C:\dosgames. This will create the folders C:\dosgames\DFCD and C:\dosgames\DAGGER.

5) Once the archive extraction is completed, DOSBox must be launched to start the installation
process. Use the DOSBox icon on your desktop or the entry in the Start Menu to launch it.

6) Once launched, you will be presented with a window containing a command prompt ( Z:\> ).

7) As DOSBox is a virtual environment, the locations to work with must be mounted within the
virtual environment. First, you must mount the location that contains Daggerfall's files to a virtual
C within DOSBox.

8) To do this, type this line in at the command prompt
mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000
Press enter to process the command. This will map C:\dosgames to virtual C:\.

9) Next, you must emulate the Daggerfall CD-ROM for the installation and running of the game.

10)To this, type this line in at the command prompt
mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall
Press Enter to process the command. This will map the files in C:\dosgames\dfcd  to
virtual D:\, which is acting like a CD-ROM with the volume label of Daggerfall (needed to run the
game).

11) Once the two locations are mounted, at the command prompt type
D:
then push enter and the prompt will change to D:\>.

12) Next, type:
INSTALL
Press Enter and the Daggerfall installation program will launch. At this
point you can move your actual mouse pointer into the DOSBox window and click once. Mouse
control will be handed off to DB and will work within the Daggerfall installer to select items.

13) Now, agree to the terms and then select "Install the Game to Your Hard Drive."
Then select "Change the Install Size" and set it to "Huge."
Next select "Yes, This Install Size is Fine."
The installer will suggest C:\Dagger as the installation directory. Install the game to that location.
Select "Yes, I want to install the game here."
Following this, confirm the choices by selecting "Go ahead and install the game."
The install will begin.

14) After installation, Daggerfall will offer to configure the sound card. At this point it is important
that DOSBox be running in windowed mode and not full screen. If DOSBox is in full screen, hit
ALT + Enter on the keyboard to place it back into windowed mode before choosing to configure the
sound card.

15) Choose �Yes� to configure the sound card. Another program will appear. There is no mouse
support in this program so the keyboard arrow keys and the Enter key will need to be used.

16) Press Enter while �Auto-Detect� is highlighted. Next, press Enter while �Detect� is highlighted.
This will detect an emulated Sound Blaster 16. Navigate over to �OK� and press Enter.

17) Navigate down to �Select MIDI� and press Enter. Select �Sound Blaster 16� from the list and
press Enter. Press Enter again to select the default Port of �388.� Navigate to �OK� and press
Enter.

18) Navigate down to �OK� on the menu and press Enter twice. This will save the config and return
you to Daggerfall's installer. Select OK and the installer will exit and drop you off at C:\DAGGER.

19) At the command prompt, type:
DAG213
Press Enter. This will launch the patch to update the game to 1.07.213. Answer �YES� to both prompts when the patch asks for confirmation.

20) Once the patch is done, the game may be started. At the C:\DAGGER> prompt, type:
DAGGER
Press Enter. Daggerfall should now load.

21) Each time you want to run Daggerfall, you will need to start DOS-Box and enter these
commands:
� mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000
� mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall
� c:\
� cd\dagger
� dagger
Each of the above commands is followed by a press of the Enter key.
That worked for me on Vista. Cleaned up a bit as the instructions were horribly mutilated as I saw them (for example, every '\' in the page was missing).

[Judas Maccabeus]

Like Tomb Raider, only without the mammary glands

Another split decision.  Eventually going to Chesterwark is in everybody's plan, so we'll end up there in this post.  We'll be hitting Gothway Garden and a tomb on the way, though, mostly because desecrating people's final resting places is fun and profitable.

Spoiler: Gothway Garden (click to show/hide)

Reckless gets us there in about an hour or so, rather than having to wait until the next day.  It doesn't really mean anything since we're not currently under a time limit, but there's nothing dangerous in town so we don't need the healing.



Still foggy.



Oon-la flags down one of the locals for information, though he... doesn't quite seem pleased.



He's still kind enough to show us where to go, though; most people are in this game.  You might have to bug them a few times before they mark the map.



All the pertinent stores are nearby, fortunately.



Compare the prices.  Going to this rather upper-class store is getting us fleeced, so...



Well, this place still doesn't give us near our due, but it's still decent (Gothway Garden has better, but I didn't feel like bothering to remember which one).



And that's how much for a horse-drawn cart.  It's not hideously expensive, and it will come very, very much in handy for lugging things around.



Like so.  Note that I also bought Oon-la a skirt, much better than the pants she was wearing earlier.  She could probably do a bit better, though.

That's it for Gothway Garden.  Now, back to dungeon crawling!

Spoiler: The Woodwing Graveyard (click to show/hide)

Travelling cautiously takes a bit longer, but heals Oon-la of all wounds, restores magicka and stamina, and so on.



All those skills we've been using have increased, raising Oon-la to level two.  Oon-la gets 9 health and 5 ability points to distribute, both one off the maximum.  I put all the points into agility to help her avoid getting hit, rather important for her.

Yesss, that'sss right, make me ssound like a coward.



The tomb is a fairly small one, as most of these are; just a couple rats, and the pictured thief who gets an arrow shot in on us.  I knew what was happening, but I stopped to take a picture anyway; it's not like she killed Oon-la or anything, so it's all good.

You aren't the one with an arrow sssticking out of you.



The loot isn't anything to phone home about, the holy relic is nice but there's better.



Ah, well, time to leave.  That's the message you get when leaving a dungeon after you buy a wagon; choosing "yes" lets you stuff things in and loot more if you run out of room to carry them, without running the risk of the dungeon resetting.

Spoiler: Chesterwark (click to show/hide)

Chesterwark!  The sign sometimes has news, rarely anything very interesting, though.



Not everyone's helpful, but I eventually find out where the important places are.



Nnnnnnno.  "Incense and soft music" stores (that is, stores whose descriptions begin with that, not stores that sell incense and soft music; the Iliac Bay has a fairly low population of New Agers) are bad places to sell at.  May as well check out the other stores in town.



We can ride the cart around, and it's a bit faster than walking (slower than running, but uses up less stamina).  There's a couple of banks next to each other on the way to the pawn shop, but we don't yet need banks.



Much better, this place lets us sell off some minor odds and ends.  I also head to an armourer to sell off all that nice armour...



And buy some gauntlets to complete the set.  As you can see, Oon-la ends up with around 4000 gold all told, not too shabby.



Next up:  The Mages' Guild.  They don't have a wonderful selection of spells, but we can get this one cheap.



Magic items... not so much.



Joining won't get us magic items right away, but it does let us use the Spellmaker, which is perhaps even more important right now.  Oon-la can patch up the gaping hole that is her not having a healing spell.



Like so, though it's a bit of a weak one for now.  And since Oon-la's Restoration is an "outstanding" 7%, a practice spell to fix that problem slowly over time.  Which she proceeds to do, and then:



A quest, and a very, very, very nice one at that.  You'll see.



Loitering gets the enemies to us right away.  I don't get a shot of the fight, since a) there's three of them to deal with and b) they last all of five seconds before Oon-la downs them all (though she takes a couple hits herself in return).



And they're loaded.  This is from one of them; the other has about the same amount, the third only a few but still enough.  Fortunately, one can access a wagon straight from the guild itself, so we don't have to worry about weight.



Here's the other nice thing about the quest, the magic item that's the reward.  It isn't pre-identified for us, but there's the "poor man's identification":



Putting it on.  Sometimes that's not enough, if the enchantment has to be used (and/or it's something that can't be worn), but in this case, it's very clear:  This one boosts Luck.  That is a very nice one to have; keeping it on all the time will wear it out quickly, but putting it on when there's something potentially valuable to be looted or a tricky skill check to be made is a good idea.



It's 6 PM, and wandering around town in the dark potentially invites attacks; may as well get an inn and spend the night.



There, Oon-la gets both a quest and a room.  After resting for four hours, getting mana back, then doing some more Restoration practice, it's time to spend the night.



Also, more practice, since the monsters in this quest aren't too bad, unless it's giant scorpions.  After finding a good place upstairs to wait for the monsters to show...



...

Giant scorpions.

Okay, I deserved that one.



Oon-la kills two, runs for her life to rest up at the inn (good thing we've got all day to do it), noticing all the way that they're even showing up outside... finally, healed up;



Unusually, no message when enough are killed, but after a while they stop coming.  Going back to the innkeeper confirms that they're all dead, so there's the reward.



Our next quest.



The temple isn't too far away; the symbol there is, indeed, Kynareth.  Even if you haven't asked someone which god the temple in a town is dedicated to, just seeing the sign can tell you if you know what the symbols are (Dibella is a flower, Mara is a knot, Akatosh is an hourglass, etc.).  Inside, the Apprentice gives us a wall of text.  tl;dr version:  We can go to the Oracle in another town, or ask the noble directly.  Since we'll have to go to the oracle anyway as things stand, may as well go straight there.



This lovely woman.  Talking to her causes her to come along with us, and apparently removes fifty years from her age.  Escort quests in Daggerfall (as they were in Arena before it) are refreshingly reasonable; since the escortee doesn't actually physically show up while you're travelling, they can't get hurt, so they only way to fail is to take too long (which won't come close to happening most of the time) or die.  They're no more difficult than a regular quest.



Back in Chesterwark, we easily find the noble's house... and engage in a bit of petty theft when inside.  Some very valuable petty theft.



Oh, and finish the quest.  Reputation with one of the "big three" courts is always welcome, since it helps with the main quest.



We have enough money now to deposit some in the bank, as well.  Doing so is free; the other bits aren't.  No need to worry about those at the moment; letters of credit are only necessary for truly large amounts of money, loans will be most useful should we choose to commit massive bank fraud later on, and houses and ships have costs in the hundreds of thousands of gold, well out of our current budget.

Since Chesterwark doesn't have an alchemist, necessary for getting rid of some of the loot we've gotten, it's time to move on.  There also happen to be three more places to raid along the way to Daggerfall City.

Spoiler: The Hearthhart Graveyard (click to show/hide)

There's a nice trail of three small graveyards between Chesterwark and Daggerfall City.  This is the first one.



The only notable bit.  Why didn't I get an Open spell?  I can just break the door open, that's why.  It's not always ideal (I'll definitely want a spell to deal with magic locks), but it works most of the time.



I finally get a picture of a bat.  Two of these and a couple rats are all there are to talk about here.  The dragon scales are the best there is to have for loot, along with some piles of gold.



I must say I'm impressed with the Iliac Bay's postal service.  As soon as I come outside of raiding a graveyard, there's a messenger waiting for me.  Neither rain, nor sun, nor dead of night, nor vicious fantasy monsters (well, at least when they do this at more dangerous places), will keep them from their deliveries.

Dear Oon-la,

I heard about your accident at sea, and feared the worst.  Now that I've heard you're alive and well, I would like the opportunity to meet with you and discuss our beloved Emperor's mission in the Iliac Bay.

Allow me to introduce myself.  I am Lady Magnessen, the Emperor's agent in the court of Daggerfall.  My position is not so official as an ambassador.  None but other agents of the Emperor know of my true affiliation.  The Iliac Bay is rife with rebels against the Imperial throne, so your discretion is required.

For the purpose of our meeting,  I will take a room at an inn, the Lucky Ogre in Longwell of Daggerfall, for a month.  After that, I will no longer be available.  I will expect you as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Brisienna, Lady Magnessen

That little plot hook, as you can see, isn't all that urgent, so if there's anything else you want to do, so long as it remains in Daggerfall itself (or one of the nearby kingdoms), that's quite fine.

[Free Beer]

I suggest Oon-la resolves the plot hook, then leaves the province of Daggerfall. That way, we won't have to worry about things like "ethics" and "morals." What's the smallest province in the game, and is it plot-relevant?