Aravi and Kharjo are still in the Reach. They’ve had some adventures.
First I have to tell you about the Lover Stone part 2. I saved and went to bed after they killed the vampires. So when I started up again it was time to leave the area.
Aravi went
straight down. In case anyone doesn’t remember that spot it’s a long, vertical waterfall. Not
near vertical. It’s really just straight down.
Aravi was not bothered at all. Apparently those tiny little bumps on the sides of cliffs look like an escalator to Khajiit. She didn’t take a single point of damage, just hopped her way down and onto the bridge.
Excuse me while I wipe my hands. My palms are sweaty just remembering.
Then they took a wrong turn and ended up in Karthwasten. That little adventure went just like it did in her video. “Give me a reason not to put a dagger in your chest,” says the idiot. Moments later Aravi pulls her sword out of his.
Outside they had a brief exchange with the landowner. Then a blood dragon attacked. Aravi is now using an Elven bow, leather bracers of Awesome Archery (or something, it’s a big marksman bonus) and has made some excellent poisons from the ingredients in her greenhouse. The dragon was down very quickly. The only casualty was the landowner himself. He didn’t want to take on the Silver-Blood mercenaries that closed his mine, but it must have seemed like a good idea to attack a blood dragon with a steel dagger. Luckily he had already given A&K their reward.
By that time they were carrying a load of junk so they headed back to Markarth. Their evening arrival caused no vampire attack, but then they entered the Silver-Blood Inn.
A crazy guy came out of nowhere and attacked Aravi. Kharjo stepped up and instantly flattened him. Aravi had a WTF moment. Everyone at the inn went back to their business, stepping around the fresh corpse.
It was a Silver-Blood mercenary. Aravi and Kharjo killed all of the ones that joined the scuffle in the mine, but they didn’t explore the whole place afterward. (I remember why Aravi does not enjoy mines.) I guess if there are any left after their boss is killed they must head back to Markarth. That was a new one for me.
A&K are presently heading toward Lost Valley Redoubt. I’m really looking forward to this.
Oh, also the carriage driver at Aravi Manor is a hothead. (I couldn’t remember if she has a carriage, but she is protective of her animals so I thought another pair of eyes out there would be better. To shout ‘help’ and the like when danger approached from that side.) The last time they went home there was a wolf attack.
Aravi really couldn’t do much because her horse and some crazy Nord were dominating the front yard battlefield and she was worried that she’d accidentally kill her own chickens. After the Nord stopped screaming insults at the dead wolves he calmly walked over and climbed back up on the carriage. Wow.