Skyrim VR... Day 23

Dragon Bridge didn’t seem like a particularly friendly town, not too many people looking for assistance or willing to give me the time of day, though one lady did ask me to do something about her hubby’s hooch problem. Apparently he’s stashed it nearish by, but I couldn’t see on the map an easy way to get there, so I headed off in the other direction.

A way up the trial I came to a rundown temple, and a goddess spoke in my head about how I should restore her temple to its former glory by placing the strange gem I had found in the hands of her statue.

Since it seems par for the course to do whatever a strange voice says in my head, I did just that.

The gem rose up and a shaft of sunlight came down and lifted me up into the sky… it was a little weird, hovering up in the air like that, especially in VR.

So anyway, this goddess told me that her temple had been defiled by a necromancer and I should remedy that with all possible haste, and to do that I should bring the light with me.

We floated back down to the ground and I went looking for the entrance.

At first I couldn’t find it, but apparently I was just blind… it was just at the base of the temple, not at the top where the statue was.

I went in, and so begun a rip-off tomb raider style puzzle where I had to align the gems to bring the light through each of the different rooms in the temple.

Along the way there were some ghostly baddies, but they weren’t particularly perceptive and my arrows would often one-shot them, or 2-3 shots if I didn’t hit their head.

Still, there was sufficient quantity of them to keep me busy for a good long while.

I remembered to save every so often, which was just as well, because I had a CTD half way thru the temple, when zoning into a new section.

Still, I got to the end and defeated the necromancer and took the sword that I had been sent to retrieve and headed back to talk to the statue.

Sofia and I floated back up into the sky and we had a little chat where she told me how awesome the sword was and that I should use it to spread her good name by my good deeds.

I hadn’t decided if all my deeds were going to be good or not, but I guess so far they have been leaning moderately toward the good side.

So I figured I should actually swap this sword in for the times I do some melee fighting (which isn’t often, TBH), but y’know.

I tried it out on a nearby fox which it set on fire (is that evil?), took the pelt, and went on toward my next quest.

Now this was getting into the arse end of Skyrim, there was a sign post pointing in all the OTHER directions but apparently there was nothing in the direction that I was headed for my next two quests.

However I got waylaid by a castle full of bandits and a new sword to try out… and went full melee this time just to test it.

It was rather satisfying, if I were to be honest, swinging the sword around and setting bandits on fire.

When I had cleared the castle and its various rooms, I headed off down the road and saw something that looked like an abominable snow-person (it looked a lot bigger in the headset…).

Apparently it wasn’t quite that exciting, just a snow troll, but at first I was all like YETI! And wondering if it was going to be like a giant and full of yeet power. I didn’t actually find out if it was full of yeet, because it died before it got to me… my arrows are pointy.