So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[kandrathe]

Eventually I figure she'll learn to do enchanting, but just not right now. She's got her alchemy. She's put in time in the mines, especially some of the gold mines that are around. She's flooded the market with lots of gold jewelry. Her smithing is getting decent. She'll disenchant something if it's got an enchant that she wants and will probably use, but other than that, she just doesn't worry about it much. She's holding on to all the soul gems she finds, empty and full, for when she wants to start up a new business venture though.

I've held off on alchemy, but recently found 3 different pieces of +20% alchemy gear.

Tonight I hit level 40, and 100 on conjuration and smithing. Just have to get another level to get the last smithing perk. I've almost saved every dragon bone and scale from the beginning, but lost three tonight due to a rapid despawn. Most of the time the bones are there for days/weeks. I fast traveled a short jaunt to Whiterun, and back within the same day but the bones were gone. Oh well. I still have somewhere around 60 bones and 60 scales, with dragons continuing to jump on me all the time. I killed my first Elder dragon tonight too. Way hard. Even with 60% fire resistance I was healing (Aela and me) all the time, and relying on a summoned storm atronach, and Aela to bring it down. Once on the ground, I switched to sword, shield, and more healing.

The Forsworn are harder.