March 4th, 2025

Mostly just more Skyrim but I do have a thing to say regarding stuff I've done in Arknights. I have Ines at m9 now, meaning all 3 of her skills are maxed out (skills cap out at mastery 3, so m9 just comes from add all those mastery levels together). This isn't super necessary, her s1 only gains starting SP and some damage from mastery (though it does mean you don't need to use Bagpipe to have her deploy with her s1 ready), but all her skills are good and I think it's worth it. My Penance is potential 6 (the maximum for that) and I could m9 her, but her s1 is kinda junk and mastery is expensive to the point where I don't wanna do it just because I like the operator. Same with her second module, it's not bad but it's much worse than her first.

Circling back to Skyrim, I actually do have a little story I wanna tell. I pickpocketed for I think the first time ever in Skyrim, which isn't really that notable except for the whole process that happened afterwards, because the thing I stole (a garnet) is actually really easy to launder. You just take some silver and turn it into a ring. So I went and got some silver, went back to Whiterun to make it into an ingot, and went to make the ring. The first try I dumped all the garnets I had, picked up the stolen one, and got called out by the guard, so I reload. Second try, I just try to make the ring, but it doesn't use the stolen garnet and I don't wanna transmute more silver ore, so I reload. Third try I go and hide, drop all the garnets, pick up the stolen one, and then go back to the forge. But when I try to use it I get told that I can't use it while I'm in combat. I think what happened is that the guard "saw" me and was "alerted," but because his combat AI didn't see me he couldn't actually do anything, resulting in this weird quantum state where I was both detected and not. So I reload again and just fuck off to Halted Stream Camp (the bandit cave where I got the transmute spell that enabled all this buffoonery) and used the forge there to craft the ring. It's technically a loss in value compared to the raw components but who even gives a shit, I was crafting rings anyway for the experience points.