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Ooo, new thread. Shiny! </khajiit> @DarkRider from old thread: That's the next part, right? Can do. I like small lists, you like small lists, everyone is happy! (except Dagon. Dagon is not happy. But that's ok, right?) [edit] Oh look, ninjas!

Various semi-problematic Earth Kingdom stuff you may or may not already know: All of that aside, sweet dungeon. Nice atmosphere. Quite enjoyed the romp, even if my weapon and armor repair bill is going to be astronomical.

If I knew what more to give you, I assuredly would've done it. As to the other, just trying to give problem + solution and be helpful and all that. You know me. A few excessively minor cosmetic bugs while I'm here, which, as they are minor cosmetic bugs demand prompt and unwavering attention. Or...not. Maybe more towards not.

Yeah, about that. Leaving aside my last save was like 9 hours of playtime ago (oops)...

Alas. Actually, it was kind of cool. Ah, yes. So, I have the letter, read it, and Bruin's still going on about looking for clues, nor did I see any kind of journal update after having read it. The letter apparently marked somewhere on my map, which would be great except I have something like 30 places marked on my map but not yet traveled to, so I have no idea which one it is. So, er, help?

Could've sworn this got answered somewhere or other, but can't find it now, so:

Here's the guideline: At time of journal entry, do I have in the journal enough info to go to the task location, do the task, and then move on to the next part? If so, we're good. If not, we're not good. That's pretty much it, and I'm trying to only call you on places that isn't the case. Done now, I'll leave you be. (I've always wanted to use that smiley...)

You're in luck, I probably won't get to play RST for a couple days, so we can even things out a bit. Which is a shame, since I'm in the good part now. Well, yahbut, and what I'm going to say also applies to what I brought up earlier about journaling the various "villager tells you to go talk to Master Thatguy in Sumdood's House about the Pink Elephant Warrior" stages that currently aren't: - There's zero value add for the player here. Is the focus of RST sending me on cool quests, or is the focus of RST making the player play Trivial Persuit? The latter approach isn't rewarding the player in any meaningful sense, it's penalizing them by forcing them to run all over the place and waste a bunch of playing time where they're not having exciting adventures as a Blades apprentice. It'd be one thing if it was a maze or a treasure hunt or remembering some thing to start a sidequest, and on that note I'm kind of surprised you didn't use the secret black mesh to hide the minimap on the whole Void Warrior dungeon, but this? This is just some dude hanging out in public. - I don't need to have a post-it handy for exceedingly minor details like where to meet a dude in any other quest in Oblivion or most/almost all mods. Chances that I will expect to need to do this: basically zero. If this was 1991, well, ok. However. - There's an entirely non-impossible chance that I'm going to get distracted mid-speech and I'll miss something. Somebody walks in the room or the phone rings and I'm basically done and it's reload a save time. Or you could be like me generally, and never mind how much attention you were paying (and I was!), you'll forget in short order anyway. Or, supposing I have to stop right then and there, and I come back two days later and I'm like - I'm not asking for hand holding, here. Don't need a quest marker, don't need a big glowing red aura around the dude, I just want to know where he said he'd be. I'm asking for like 8-10 words on an existing very short journal entry. "Afterwards I need to meet Bruin at the stables" or some such. - I'm not asking for anything you aren't already doing in the same quest, and I quote: "I have collected everything on the horse seller's list at last. Time to return to the Floating Flask and report to Bruin." Which, you'd think I'd remember where he was, since I was just physically there doing stuff, and I was paying attention... Also, shouldn't that be the Foaming Flask? aaRCMQ03, stage 20. Milage may vary, I gather, but that's the thought process I'm using. Yeah, I dunno. Probably some crazy Oblivion thing, but I thought I'd throw it out there on the off chance anybody else ran into it, it won't just be the one crazy guy - it'll be the one crazy guy and whoever else reports it. That reminds me, though. Speaking of Bruin. It would be moderately helpful if I had a way to find/track the dude when he's riding his horse with me. He absolutely loves to go chasing off into the woods if he sees some random monster, and I'm forever turning around and going "Wait, where did Bruin go?" and then having to go off searching the hills for a few minutes. Sometimes he comes back, but sometimes he gets stuck deciding if he's going to mount his horse or not. There's something like 8 or 10 spots just on the road from ST->Bruma->IC, and another couple just going to Chorrol, so it's not an infrequent occurence. Re: other two, ok.

@Ysne - Oh, I found it long since. All I had to do was fall off a mountain... A couple more oddities. Why do I attract them? I dunno.

Spoiler tags are fun!

A few random things I ran into:

A few small issues/bugs/things/stuff in 1.0.3. I'm about halfway through the bit with the Earth Warrior, for reference. I have a couple of more substantial critiques, but I'll raise those not here or now.