Did the needful in Solitude and started to make our way to the sawmill to pick up the two followers. We made it as far as the buzz stop when . . .

Yes! More like a no really. It was a letter of inheritance. ? (Lilly always appears behind you for some reason).

 

Right, on to the sawmill then. At least I have bit of good news - I've fixed my missing texture on the pillory (assuming this one had the problem ? ). And there is our first follower, Whysper.

 

Solitude Sawmill, Skyrim's largest pencil maker. 'Guaranteed to last a lifetime'.

 

More good news on the texture front. Harmonicas were missing a texture too.

 

Minor problem with the second follower. She's in here.

 

At least she should be in there. I broke in but there was no sign of her. ?‍♂️ So back in the summer did I move her location or uninstall her or am I getting her location mixed up or something? It doesn't help that I can't remember her name.

? I am fairy certain that I have a screenshot of her though.  I exit the game and look in my screenshots folder. Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancin'.

Success. There she is - Alina.

 

There she is - another Alina. ?

I trawl through 260 followers in XEdit but only find one Alina. I decide to invoke my motto "Never put off until tomorrow what you can postpone indefinitely". Alina can wait.

 

A quick swim across the bay and a check to make sure everyone agreed to follow.

 

We don't to wait long for our first dead body. Just the usual, common or garden Beaked Dinosaur Zebra. ?

 

We are almost at High Gate when we see three wolves chasing . . . the courier! ? We leap into action and slay the foul beasts but the courier didn't stop running and had disappeared by the time we were done. ?

I have a couple of mods which add couriers to the game but they just run about the place looking busy. Only Lilly delivers the goods and that was Lilly being chased by the wolves. There is a Lilly look-alike which is thrown up by one of the mods but whether it was her or the real thing who knows? What any courier is doing out here in the middle of nowhere in the first place is anyone's guess.

 

Into High Gate and we find this sleeping beauty. She claims to be from vanilla Skyrim ? [Click and drag to move] Lucky she is friendly as here level 100 is a bit more than out current level 30-odd.

 

Sanguine must be struggling to get decent staff these days.

 

We did High Gate without any trouble - never get an HSO villain in there. So outside I have think about where next when . . .

Why do LODs hate me?

I got rid of all this once upon a time. No idea how but I did.

 

I decided to do the Brinehammer. I knew an HSO villain will turn up here so I brought the gels onboard with me. Smart move there, champ. ?

The villain turned to be Sanguine's Puppy which is the weakest of the villains and easily dealt with solo. The bandits were few and weak as were the mudcrabs. The gels were plentiful and a ferkin' nightmare. Something broke and I couldn't get off the ship. Every time I tried to exit I got zoned off to an empty ship's hull. In the end I had to do a TCL to get outside.

 

Me still wondering where to go; LODs still hatin' me.

 

I did see a sea-horse.

 

We trudged back to Solitude to give the courier one last chance which she didn't take so time for a new plan. From Soli to DB then Morthal, taking in whatever off-road locations we see. While we were in Soli I used Are You There to bring Alina to me so we now have her with us, taking us to 17 gels plus Coda I think.