After leaving Forgotten Lair I decided to run all the way to Markarth to see how my game coped. It coped very well, thank you. As I approached the bridge outside Markarth I noticed that the khajiit kharavan was in town so I stopped only to have a guard run up and arrest me for a 40 septim bounty. ?‍♂️ "It's a fair cop but society is to blame". So fade to black and the next thing I'm standing outside the prison.

 

One of the first things I notice is Ghorza has the same problem as the rest of the DoS orcs. I knew she would have but it still annoyed me. Anyway I had a quick run around town selling loot, discovering a new follower in the Hag's Cure and failing to save Margret.

 

I enter to the inn to see how many followers I have in there these days. While I'm there I nip into one of the side rooms to sell skooma and when I return to the main room, I find this:

A guy has been murderised and nobody bats an eyelid. The place has gone to the dogs since I was last here. ☹️

 

Into the Treasury House to sell some skooma. Over-staffed much?

 

"You aint nothin' but a house dog"

 

On to the keep. "Bloody hellfire! There's not many of them in a pound." ?

 

Time for my second annoyance. This is because one of the mage robes from the SAM armour/clothing mods has the missing mesh. I thought I'd swapped all the mages to a different one but I must have missed Calcium, or his sidekick, in the esp. One more for the 'to do' list.

 

"Spiderman, Spiderman,

He can't do a spider like what I can".

 

I decided to do New Zealand (sp?) while I was down here. He's new.

 

Too many cooks spoil the broth?

 

Time for annoyance number three. I visit the temple to see how many followers I have in there and . . . ?

Why or how she looks like this, I have no idea.

She used to be perfect. XEdit shows nothing; nifskope has the correct paths etc, etc. ☹️ I know this because I exited the game to check. When I reload I have this:

Who, where, what, when, how? My PC decides to go for a new look while I'm busy elsewhere.

 

I also notice this. I know the solution to this is simple but I have only done it a couple of times and I haven't done it in years so I'm going to have to refresh my memory before I do it. Where did I put my 'to do' list?

 

I've had enough of Markarth by this time so my plan is to leave and head to the Lover's Stone, Blind Cliff Cave, the Milk place and Karthwasten.

Just outside Markarth gate is a shady, buys stolen goods type guy from a mod so I stop to sell him some loot. I turn around and . . .

Here we go. Forsworn attack. There is a troop of Silver-Blood mercenaries who live outside just to my right plus several more stationed up and down the road. There are also sundry passers-by and guards. It shouldn't involve me so I wait for the looting.

 

The mercs didn't last long. I enjoyed watching this. The was a guard on the steps outside the gate who stayed there and just stuck with shooting his bow - he actually saw off more forsworn than the mercs and the guards who dived in. At one point there was an unsaddled horse appeared to the left of the carriage and was looking the part for quite a while but eventually dropped. Then a saddled horse come running in from the direction of the stables, gave it big licks briefly before turning tail and galloping off back to the stables. One of the forsworn sent a fireball up its arse to help it on its way.

Eventually I did some looting and left them to it.

Oops.

 

I almost forgot. While I was in Markarth I enlisted a male follower from a mod. We were attacked by one of the usual lone nutters before we left the city - my man was shit and got flattened and I had to deal with the nutter. I left Markarth and there was no sign of him. ? Fuck him, I'm not going looking for him.

 

Into Left hand Mine and lo! he decides to turn up. To be fair he may be shit at fighting but his camp beds are something else.