Day One, Part Two: Poking around

I arrive inside Leyawiin; to this sight:

A beggar: Bah! Nuts to beggars! All they ever do is leech off of the rest of us… Although I admit I’m not looking any better than they are now, with 17 coins and an apple.

I immediately start poking around for stuff to sell, and it promptly starts raining. While poking around, I spot this fellow just sort of standing in ankle deep water, as Argonians normally do, I assume.

He tells me a racial-insensitive joke about Khajiit (Jeez, is it just me, or is it that there are ALWAYS two i’s in everything? LeyawIIn, CyrodIIl, KhajIIt). I admire him for a while, after which he informs me that Dark Brotherhood Speakers will visit you in your sleep after you murder someone. I’m not exactly planning to do that, as this… Dark Brotherhood thing sounds kind of… Dangerous… too dangerous for a man of Grugzobs’ type.

Speaking of Grugzob, before entering Leyawiin, he was visited by someone known only as the console god. He allowed Grugzob to change his birthsign and his major skills, but once and only this once. As of now, Grugzob is born under The Lord, and not The Tower, giving him the Blood of the North lesser power, which allows him to restore his health 6 points for 15 seconds. He also has a 25% weakness to fire. Also, instead of having Heavy Armour as a major skill, his skill is now in LIGHT ARMOUR. The console god then disappeared, never to return again. EVER.)

After several hours of in game time of searching, I find my first ingredient:

Huzzah! Soon the septims will start rolling in, and Rosethorn hall will be mine!

soon after, I find a milk thistle growing on the side of the road:

Good… Everything is going as planned…

Or not. No matter how intensely I poke, I can’t find any plants. However, I see a wood elf, in armour, I might add, mulling about, so I approach him with the intention to ask about where plants tend to grow.

However, to no avail. However, I do remember, whether it was in the past life or in this one, being told that plants tend to grow around chapels. Thus began my wild running about Leyawiin searching for that darned chapel. I go east, look around, see nothing. So I walk north, same thing. I run around the streets, looking like a maniac, frantically searching for the chapel. Is it possible that there isn’t one in this town? I’m about to give up, when…

Huzzah! I’m saved! If I had a disease, I’d go inside, but I don’t, so I don’t. Instead, I walk towards it, go to the left of the entrance, and walk along the wall. I hop the fence to the graveyard, and find NOTHING. Abso-freakin-lutely nothing. Not even a measly fly amanita! So I walk around the other side of the chapel, and I finally find what I was looking for:

Huzzah! I walk up to the plant and, what with my degree in Tamrielic flora and fauna, I deduce it’s an Aloe Vera plant. I walk up to it and harvest it.

Jeez, these plants are big! They’re larger than I am, for Christs (Oh, sorry, Talos’) sake, and I’m an orc! We orcs tend to be quite large. I pay it no attention anyway, so I walk down the street and harvest the other Aloe Vera (can be seen in the screenshot before the previous one)

A bit further down the street is a lady, whose name I discover is Margarete soon after. Even though it’s approaching 7:00, I still stop to chat with her. I discover it’s worth my while:

Well, that’s good news. I’ll have to explore this ‘Blackwood’ and this ‘Niben’ tomorrow, as the street lanterns have been lit, so It’s a bit too dark to go to far out of town. However, I don’t see any danger in just taking a few steps out of the town walls for a second, so I move towards the closest gate out of Leyawiin, the west one. While walking towards it, I stop to chat with this fine Argo:

He seems a bit suspicious, and the only useful thought I walk away with is ‘Goddamnit, there’s a lot of Argonians in Leyawiin!”

(Sorry for lack of screenshots in next bit)

I walk outside to a helpful sight: There are quite a few ingredients out here! I pick some lavender, Milk Thistle, Bergamot, Aloe Vera, the ever present Fly Amanita, and these odd Blue mushrooms, which I find near the stables.

I think the horses have… affected the mushrooms in a way. Good thing I don’t plan on eating them.

Since it’s already quite dark, I practice my magic by casting a spell called Starlight, which lights up the area around me with an eerie green glow. Since I don’t want to go too further out of Leyawiin, I decide to go back into town, stopping to chat with a traveling mage. Entering Leyawiin, I ask where to sleep, and I’m pointed to the Five Claws Lodge, which is conveniently located down the street and to the left, around 10 meters away. So I go there.

The proprietor of the establishment is an Argonian. I’m not beginning to expect anything else as of now. We talk for a while, during which I discover he has Obsessive Compulsive and will not charge any money to sleep if the rooms guests sleep in aren’t clean. Hey, it’s his free time, not mine.

I sell him all the things I’ve collected, and, after a bit of haggling, I get to 91 gold. After buying cheese, apples, carrots, corn, and beef (I promptly eat the beef), AND buying a room, I’m left with… 51 gold? (I’m guessing, as I forgot to take a screenshot). It’s 9:30 when I’m finally standing, with my clothes tucked neatly into my underwear, in front of my bed. I take out something I managed to bring with me from Orsinium, which I call ‘the clock of waking’. I set it to allow me to sleep for 12 hours, after which I immediately plop into bed, and to sleep.