Sorry to interrupt Nona’s story once again. It’s not the weather this time; it’s Vorstag. The man won’t behave. In the last episode, when Nona gained a level, he suddenly started refusing to use the armor that she had so painstakingly crafted for him and switched back to his old goat-pauldron thing. When I checked him out using the console, I realized that his class had changed, and he was no longer proficient with heavy armor (or one-handed weapons, for that matter). Thinking it was a bug, I simply changed him back.
Well, it was a bug, sort of: what happened was that the Unofficial Skyrim Patch team decided to change his class to match his starting equipment. Except that the class they picked only fits the armor he starts with, not the weapon and shield he’s carrying. (There’s actually no class type in the game that fits his initial equipment set well.) In any case, I don’t want to have to readjust his class to match the equipment that I made for him whenever Nona gains a level, and I certainly don’t want to play without the Unofficial Patch, so I’m going to live with the change. It's an annoyance, though, because Nona can’t afford to make a whole new set of equipment for him at present.
I’m therefore going to cheat a bit. I’ll sell the steel armor and pretend it never existed; I’ll ditch the elven sword, and I’ll create an elven battleaxe—Vorstag prefers two-handed weapons now—using the console. I’m not skilled enough to make a proper set of light armor for him: I’m certainly not going to put him in Thalmor-style armor—that would be horrible—and while Bosmer armor is a possibility, I’m not sure that Vorstag and Nona’s relationship has reached the stage where they can be seen in public wearing matching outfits. When you see him next, therefore, he’ll be wearing his original goat-pauldron thingy and using a two-handed weapon.
Also, there most likely will be some sort of weather change at some point—I’m considering switching to Pure Weather (I still like RLO’s weather, but the light during severe rainstorms in RLO is so dismal that it’s nearly impossible to take screenshots that come out; and Pure Weather has the advantage of being compatible with Pure Waters). OK, I lied. I wasn’t able to avoid the subject of weather entirely.
There should be some actual new “adventures” up within the next week. Thanks for reading!