So I left Ginis and wandered around until I found myself in Khuul, a rubbish little fishing village that seems to have slumped into the sea. Wandered into a shack and killed the owner for no reason. No idea why I did that at all. He wasn’t doing my any harm. Sometimes I worry myself, I must say.

Down on a jetty someone offered to give me a lift to the island of Solstheim. I was a bit worried as that’s a big new island that was added in the Bloodmoon expansion pack and thus is meant for high level characters. Not sure that level twelve Nord Knight counts. Thought I’d give it a go, though. After the boat arrived I wandered off into the wilderness, getting quite worried when a wolf ran at me. When I killed him in one hit I became less worried, I must say. Found a Barrow, which I picked my way around in the dark, because I wanted my shield out and you can’t carry a shield and a torch at the same time. I killed all the nasty things inside and then lit my torch to look around. Found a big new axe that’s dead good, but it’s a two-handed axe, meaning I can’t use a shield at all if I want to use it. Hmm. I’ll have to think about that.

After leaving the Barrow I wandered back to the large fort where the boat dropped me off. Huge maze-like place. However, as I’m an agent in the Imperial Guard everyone’s either deferential or friendly and I can use the beds, which is nice. The Captain of the place greeted me warmly and asked me to find out why the morale of the men in the fort is dropping so much. Seems to be a lack of alcohol, but I’ve not quite got to the bottom of it yet.