Last couple days have been both awesome and frustrating as fuck. First of all, I decided that the heir to the throne could stand a couple more days of praying, once I saw where Kvatch is on the map. Bloody hell, that's a long walk. I want a horse, and some better gear, so I'm paying a visit to that fort where I kicked some ass yesterday.
Everything goes well at first. I kill 4 or 5 goblins at once, then meet a nastier, red, kind of gobbo: Fallen Ones (modder liked Diablo, what can I say? :D), including a boss:
He was really hard, especially becauseI can too encumbered (fatigue mod caps your max fatigue depending on how much weight you have, instead of walking around fine then suddenly picking some crap up and stopping movement totally) and without enough potions.
Still, the chest he was guarding had a nice surprise:
Really nice silver sword. Unfortunately, that was the end of the good news. I kept exploring the cave, but a bit ahead I found a corridor with around 2 Fallen Ones, 2 FO Shamen, and 2 normal gobbos. Problem is that the Shamen are *hardcore* and summon even worse headless zombies.
I try to do something about them, but it's just impossible. I decide to get the fuck out of there, but they follow me. I burn my last potion of Restore Fatigue to just hightail to the main entrance. I manage, but I know they're still after me, so I just keep running until exhaustion, slowing down only to recoup a bit, right until the little inn before the Imperial City. I spend a couple hours there calming down, eating, and resting, then decide to get a little more gold by fishing a bit for some poor sod that got injured. I mean, how hard can it be, right?
Answer is "too hard". The fucking fish try their hardest to eat my balls, and I can't survive for shit under water. I say "fuck this nature shit" and hightail back to the comfort of the city. I sell whatever loot I could get, then decide to make a bit more money by fixing some local merchants' problem. They're concerned one guy's undercutting most of them way too much for him to be legit. I follow some little bugger around for a couple hours, listen in on his meeting with his supplier, and then follow HIM to his house.
I'll have to break into the house. not what I signed up for, but what the hell, maybe it'll be fun. I hear crime is an aquired taste. Unfortunately, I'm *really* low on lockpicks.
I manage to get in, and search around the place. Nothing upstairs, but the basement is a doozy. Skulls and bones everywhere, a crapload of assorted clothes all over the room. What the hell kind of thieving op does this guy run?
Oh. Apparently, it's not so much thieving as "robbing". Graves, by the looks of it. Gah. This will be messy. I just hope the fucker's not a necromancer, I've had my fill of zombies for a while.