I jumped into the Oblivion world, finished off my shopping and decided to head out into the big wide world.
Soon after starting my run towards Cheydinal to pick up the next Dark Brotherhood mission, I discovered this wonderful place called Vilverin
It was occupied. At first, but I soon put rest to the many inhabitants, all of which were bandits and set about looking for the Varla Stone that I knew must be somewhere in the ruins.
I didn't find it. What I did find, however, courtesy of accidentally tripping over a pressure plate was a secret passageway. Then some more undead. Another 20 minute or so later, I got to the end of this section of the area and found a room which obviously had a leak.
Presuming that I had to jump into the water, I did so, and came back round in full circle. I ran round in circles for a minute or so, before finally discovering that there was a lever at the bottom of the pond that I had to pull that opened up into the next section, where - after killing a small horde of skeletons, surviving three traps and annihilating a skeleton warrior that I came across, barely losing health - I discovered the prize.
That's great.
The image fails to convey the giant steel ball with spikes that came down on my head the moment I picked up the Varla Stone.
Gareth the Dark Elf Warrior-mage achieved nothing in his lifetime. Cyrodil burned in flames shortly after his death and, frankly, I doubt he cared, as he was a murderous sonofabitch and hence doomed to an eternity in hell.
Lesson learnt: When not save-scumming, don't stop moving, because otherwise, as you pose for a picture, something is going to come up behind you and whack you, very hard. And when you're playing on moderate difficulty, with all traps insta-killing, that's a bad thing. A VERY bad thing.
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