This is what I love about the game. You can totally ignore the quests if you choose to and still have an awesome time in the game. Angel is so obsessive about collecting ingredients for alchemy that she will stop defending herself in a fight and let the monsters hit her while she checks a flax plant or mushroom. Of course, her powerful shield potions make doing something like that fairly safe.

My main character, Zephyr, is an honorable assassin. (a mix between a ninja and Dexter, if that helps)

By day he blends into society. He wakes up, eats breakfast, and goes for a stroll. During this time he also watches people. He watches, he waits, and at night he strikes. He kills for a number of reasons. With a few exceptions, he murders all of the human races for no reason but that they are human. He also kills anyone he deems unfit for society (those he finds annoying), but only under the cover of night. He must stalk his prey before he kills, which can take all day. After the kill he hides the body, after removing the clothes (a memento of the kill, and for the occasional perverted delight). The actual kill must always be done with a bow, from the distance. He must find a place with safe cover that overlooks where the victim will be walking on their daily routine. Under last resort, he will resort to using either his bare fists or a blade to end his foes in their house while they are sleeping. This takes much of the pleasure from the kill, so this technique is only used on those who never leave their houses.

This whole process can take hours; to avoid monotony I mix in adventures, and travel to different cities on occasion. To me there is just nothing like crouching on a rooftop, bow drawn back, watching the target slowly walk into your line of fire. As the arrow flies by the butterflies come to a halt, and pure elation takes control. The target is struck, and is knocked back. The streets are still and silent, and one more life has been taken.

This is delicious!

My new character FitzChivalry Farseer has taken it upon himself to write an encyclopedia on all things cyrodillic and Oblivionised

whether that be on how blood grass looks, where it grows, how many blades you genrally find in a patch and it's qualities, to the inner workings of the magic schools, it will be in there. Hopefully I can scratch the surface in the first edition by the time TES:V is released.

A lot of it is of course going to be from the perspective of my character such as what Imp Gall tastes like (there is no bounds to what must be known) this is more an in game perspective rather than a logical and sensible perspective like the UESP.

I have even begun a journal with sketches of plants and creatures (even though they aren't that good )

I role play as a student who is studing the Shivering Isles, Its actually very fun.
Collecting oddities(From that one quest in Crucible, I have the expansion pack, obviously), items only found in the Isles, like ingredients and books and weapons and decorating my house with them. I don't know. It's hard to explain. It's fun through. I find myself talking to myself when I do this. xD