Life After Questing: Day 445

A few days have past since you were last here and in that time I have added a North wing to Lakeview manor and added a load of furniture inside the house.  However in that time I felt a little lost, I felt that silent call to quest and so today I've decided to finish a quest I've been meaning to for over a year now: collecting all the Dragon Priest masks.  You see the thing is you can't just give up questing for good, it's like a Nord giving up alcohol and we all know that will never happen.

So you join me at 8.30am on Fredas the 7th of Sun's Dusk and I'm am currently outside High Gate Ruins after receiving a tip off ages ago about there being a source of power here and maybe even a Dragon Priest. I am fully kitted out in my Ancient Falmer armour and attempting to fight off any enemies with a Dragonbone Greatsword; a two-handed weapon that I am not great at using.

As soon as I enter the ruins I find a dead Draugr on the floor which makes me wonder if I may have fleetingly visited these ruins before but as I continue through to the next room I meet a woman called Anska. She's just stood there doing nothing as if she has been waiting for me.  We talk and I discover that the ruins are the home of the tomb of the long dead priest Vokun (jackpot), and that she needs my help retrieving a scroll from within the tomb.  This essentially means that she's too chicken to go it alone and wants me to kill everything and get attacked by everything instead of her.  However I am a nice guy (only been to prison once and that was a stray fireball during a Dragon attack), so I offer to help.

We head into the next area and get attacked by three Draugr that I dispatch of quickly and we continue deeper into the ruin.  As we delve further it becomes apparent that I'm a little rusty at ruin exploration as I set off a trap and get a face full of wooden spikes but Anska actually killed a few Draugr.  However rusty my exploration is, my puzzle solving skills are as sharp as ever and after taking less than a minute to solve a lever puzzle we are on our way again and into the catacombs.

After dispatching a load of Draugr Deathlords, a generic Dragon Priest and saving Anska's ass countless times we arrived in Vokun's Throne Room.  Vokun attacked us but it would seem he is not as big as he was made out to be as he went down like a sack of potatoes.  In the chamber behind I found a word wall and learnt a new word for the Storm Call shout.  I explored the room some more for more loot before I realised that Anska was still following me, waiting for me to pick up the scroll she came here for off the table next to her and personally hand it to her.  Why are all the citizens of Skyrim so lazy and useless?

With that part of the quest completed in just a mere 10 hours I left Anska to her own devices inside the ruins and headed outside, where I had an Ale and some vegetable soup and headed off home, up the road my second build Winstad Manor.  Only to get there to find a Giant attacking my house, so had to kill him before I could properly rest for the night.


It's been a long day and quite a proportion of me doesn't actually miss questing after today.  I think I might just have to stick to being a normal man about the house kind of guy.  Today has made me realise one other thing actually: it's a good job that potions don't have a use by date.