49. Risking it!

190 Hours 05 Minutes, 64458 Gold, Level 41, 157 Magic Items made, 25 Bunnies

Even after all that I am a sucker for loot! I can’t pass Valtheim Towers without having a go! I set a Fire Rune just at the entrance and fire some arrows to lure some of them down, only the Chief comes out and she’s the strongest but she’s a bit easier when not at close quarters. I cast Atronach and set Fire runes on the ground in front of me as I run back and forth since she’s following me the Atronach can hit her with Fireball and I get her in the end. One of the other Bandits was killed by the exploding rune and I am tempted to go for the others but chicken out!

On up the road just before the bridge across to the Brewery there are two Adept Necromancers, I am no match so I lure them once again over to the other side of the bridge and let the guards take care of them while I fire the odd Fireball and end up hitting a guard who goes to arrest me but since I am in the guild I bribe her! I get to Whiterun full of loot. The next quest is a tough one so I will need to prepare carefully for it.

I stock up on potions and find a really useful combination. Blue Mountain Flower and wheat makes a great potion which raises overall health by 76 for a short period of time and gives a 119 restore on top of that of course it will vary depending on the apparel you’re using but it also sells for a hefty price which is good and it gives the alchemy skill a worth while increase. I also do a lot of enchanting and smithing and increase to Level 41 before I leave to go to Solitude.

Along the way I kill the Ice Trolls at Labyranthian and get into a few scrapes in the Swamps at Morthal but nothing I can’t handle. I stop and buy all Lamis ingredients and sell a few of my recently made potions that I brought because I had bankrupted everyone in Whiterun! The swamps have respawned all their ingredients so I end up getting about 70-80 Deathbells, good haul.

I go see the Target who’s a slimy Argonian Thief and get a bit of info from him but I then have to shadow him to the East Empire Company Warehouse. This place is a gold mine, it’s absolutely full of stuff and of course my hoarding nature kicks in! I kill a couple of the guards as I am following him around the place (it’s huge) and when I fill up I go outside and up to sell. I can’t sell a lot of it because it’s stolen though so I go off looking for something to kill and reanimate so I will have a storage ash pile and I get more than I bargained for! A blood dragon comes down at me near Dragon Bridge and though it’s a tough fight I nearly have him when along comes a Dark Brotherhood Assassin! The Dragon ends up killing him and I get the Dragon but his body is too powerful to reanimate! There’s a road heading north so I go up a little bit and find a Wood Elf Drug dealer, I hit him with Fireball and get him to follow me intending to get him close to Solitude to use as an Ash Pile when due to me attacking him two Thalmor escorting a prisoner start attacking me! I kill them and the prisoner with Atronach and Fireball but use potions galore, just me and the Wood Elf still standing so I keep with my plan and lure him toward Solitude. Just up the road a bit from the city I kill him and find his corpse is too powerful! DAMMMMMNNNNN! I head back again and this time a Noble on a horse has stopped and his Imperial Guard starts attacking me, I get him and raise his corpse and get him to follow me, so I have an ash pile but not as close as I wanted but that’s that! I go back and steal the Nobles horse and when I get to Solitude the guards are all attacking!

I’ll get this quest finished yet!