After bashing my way for three hours last night I finally made it out of the catacombs -but I absolutely could not kill all the baddies so I just started running and all of a sudden a portal appeared with Marbaneus that took us back to Aleroth. I did save right at the start of the battle and may go in again today to see if I can run - freeze - kill - run - freeze - kill - run (you get the picture) And I probably forgot other stuff down there also, but oh, well

Syd,
After a while you'll be thinking how easy they are to handle. But you did the right thing, you've completed a big quest and can now do more, uh huh, more. Before leaving the little village, make sure you talk to each person there. Use the filter on your journal that will help you with your quest.
You're doing great, I spent weeks down in the boneyard, I was such a chicken. It really hurt my feelings that they didn't like me-but I got even!
There are 4 levels in the catacombs and you had to find them all to have M....help you in time.
Make sure to use your alt key to survey an area, it will highlight those little goodies you may miss by sight.
Now, go to Ortho, let him repair your stuff, get potions, or make them whichever you're doing and happy hunting-sounds like it's orc time. Here orcie, orcie <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />
Ingie
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Learning and Playing Morrowind-great game
Playing GhostMaster-a truly fun game

Yep, and when you want to go on, head south down the path out of town.For the time being, you might want to leave one of your teleporters by a bed, so you can come back in a hurry. When the path forks, don't go north (leads to a tough area for you right now).

Oh man, no dwarf ale that I remember but I'll look see again in the inventory to make sure. Otho is not too keen on me - I think I may have asked him one too many questions.

I had a lot of fun in those catacombs I'm ashamed to admit I went looking for trouble

Ok nickie, I'll leave the teleporter by the bed. Don't go north? Okay but I can guarantee that I have no clue which way north is <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" />

After you cross a bridge you can go up or down - up is to the cursed abbey, and you probably don't want to go there until you level up. And it won't make sense to you now, but don't go to the castle until much, much later, after you've done a lot of other stuff, because it immediately kicks in the main story line.

Syd,
You guys are doing great.
Playing GhostMaster- a howling good time

Alrighty then - I slashed orcs and made my way to the Blue Boar Inn - I just found out I was robbed arrggghhhhh - sneaky bugger. Anyway, is there anything to do in the poor section of town besides talk to the residence? I talked to the girl at the inn so I got the quest to take the letter to her uncle -

Oh, just thought of something - do I need to clean out all the orcs? I mainly concentrated on the ones that were blocking the path - I ventured out into the nether regions once or twice and did some in but there are still a bunch hanging around.

Syd,
You're going town-literally!
Yep, you need to get rid of the orcs you'll be finding more, but should try to clean them and other things from around the village back, front sides, as you level you can go back.
Have you met Maria? Talk to everyone, you may be able to find the drunk pickpocket that took your stuff-the rat-I found once and he gave me back my lockpicks.
You're having fun and that's the main thing.
Just talk to everyone and SAVE, find safe places to sleep and stash your goodies and a good person to trade with.
I love reading what you all are doing, it's like playing it again!
Thanks so much for sharing
Ingie

There are a couple more things to do there, but you might want to head to the farmlands to get some easy quests, and the fort to pick up a couple you will need.

Had to surface for a bit and relax my clicking arm. Trying to level up by only killing orcs and other assorted small critters takes a lot out of a person.

I did make it to the farmlands - didn't know I was there until I talked to one of the farmers however Now I just need to find the barracks and deliver my note. The milkmaid said it was on my map but darned if I can find it. Also where does this Dr. Whatshisface go to? I tried to follow him after he talked to the soldier but by the time the game let me move he was gone. Guess I'd best do another door to door sweep

Found the barracks and delivered my note and got another quest. I keep getting killed by these stupid bees however arrrggghhhh

Try picking up repair skill and deadly gift in the warrior category. Deadly gift is really nice when you pick up scorpion traps, mines, and something else. Use the scorpion ones when there are alot to kill and then follow the scorpion.

Don't worry about the doctor yet - you'll run into him (or his house) in a while up north near the trader's market. The bees and wasps are annoying, aren't they? Did you get the quest to see who is poisoning the crops?

Syd,
Also, did you get the quest about the poor farmer whose son was killed by the trolls,
Oh, there is so much there!!
Ingie
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Playing GhostMaster and Morrowind-both GREAT

Good merceful heavens people, how many quests does this game have???

I talked to the two guys in front of one of the houses last night - somehow missed them the first go around and the one talked about the trolls (I think it was trolls) killing his son. Better check to see if I have that on my quest list. I took the love letter to Gareth and talked to the General who gave me a note to visit Captain Matix - which I did (of course I also brought along a whole legion of orcs that were chasing me and let the soldiers kill them - told you guys I was a whimpy wizard) He got ticked off because I'd opened the letter from the General (I didn't but he said I did) so I have to blow up the supply line and am lugging around a barrel of explosives. Sure hope it doesn't go off on it's own). I found the way into the mines through that guy's house but there is a big sucker down there that I cannot figure out how to kill yet so I headed back up to farmland where I found another teleporter and talked to those two guys.

No quest to find out who's poisoning the crops and I didn't find anyone hiding in the barn that I remember - I killed a nasty that followed me in there however.

Also I went back to have Otho repair some weapons and he's gone, flown the coop, left the building. Does he do that or is he just out on a walk and will return? If I can't find him what do I do? Do I need to find another town and look for a weapon repair man?

Acornia I acually found a scorpion trap but had no idea what to do with it. I also have four trail traps that I'm not sure what to do with either. I'll try to get those two skills from the warrior - I don't seem to be having much luck getting skills for some reason. I'm still not too sure what I'm doing when it comes to that. If you are the correct level how come when you click on them they don't appear in the center box? Does that mean you are never destined to use them?

I did finally discover that you can move the map around and I found where the red flags were so I know where the supply train and the Dwarian Inn are. Not that I'll be able to get there anytime soon - but I know where they are now <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />