Because I keep getting sidetrack in this huge and glorious land. I love this game! Im rping as an assassin/theif thats sauve....pretty much an evil Indiana Jones lol. Im only lvl 15 and I feel like I havent even touched the surface. I keep finding all these cyrpyts and daedra dungeons that I barely escape from. I keep trying to rise up in the theives guild, hlaaha,, and the morag tong...but dammit I keep seeing a cave out in the distance or a road I havent taken and then im off who knows where. Yes it fits my rp charector and im having so much fun, but dammit lol sometimes I wish I had more willpower to stay the course.
Ow Wells...even if someone could spare some willpower all my gold go towards repairs and skooma and drinks hehehe.
I guess what im getting at is....damn I love this game and everyday even though I would like to finish it one day.....I keep seeing some new path or cave and I smile and say here I go again

I'm playing a similar character right now. He's a rogue-ish Dunmer who wears light armor, sweet talks whoever he can, and uses a Steel Tanto/Dwarven Crossbow when he can't. It's pretty fun being a Thief-Adventurer out for profit. I get sidetracked alot too.

I was walking to Hla Ood from Balmora when I spotted an Ancestral Tomb yesterday, and since it was raining out pretty hard I decided to take shelter and see what I could find in the crypt. Luckily I always carry 40 silver bolts with me, reasoning that this would be enough ammunition to deal with any paranormal foes I might encounter in a single excursion (as my Steel Tanto can't hurt ghosts, it's unenchanted). Anyways, inside this random ancestral tomb I found a nest of vampires that moved super fast, and the only weapon that I really had that was effective against them were my trusty silver bolts. Even with sneak attacks, bad pedaling, and dodging it was an incredibly challenging fight for my level 10-ish character.

As I was killing the very last vampire I heard my crossbow go 'click', because I'd run out of projectiles. So I rushed forward with my Steel Tanto, stabbing wildly, as quick as I could, determined to finish off the vampire before she could use her drain spell on me - she collapsed just before it went off.

It was quite the adrenaline producing encounter, I must say. And it was 10x more interesting than what I was actually out there to do (collect a debt for a Hlaalu nobleman) which just proves that it really pays to explore in Morrowind. The loot wasn't that great to be honest, but the vampire dust more than paid for the -40- silverbolts that I'd had to frantically fire, Van Hellsing style. Of course, now I carry 70...

Very nice. I had a similar experience yesterday. I was at 3toes I believe the argonians name was and he was talking about mapping out the region. Well I thought since hes a fellow blade and to make up for stealing everythinh in his house that wasnt bolted down and the instance when I about killed him because of misinformation on a murderer, I thought I make it up by filling out my maps. I was near vivec and came across a tomb ive never seen before, I didnt know how in my playthrus I could have missed this tomb, well I said here we go again and entered to find what goodies the dead left behind.
Bad mistake...
Came across vampires and I engaged one not knowing he was a vampire and summoned my dagger and started going to town. Well didnt know it but grabbed another one who came up behind and started paralyzing me. Thank God I had one paralyze potion and ran away after I killed one and summoned my bow and peppered the other from far away....or tried to because she was so damn fast. I running backwards in the dark, running it walls and such and barely killed her with only a sliver of health for me.

Sufficed to say since my charector is more of a lover than fighter and him surviving that was more of a fluke, he hightailed it outta there lol.

Yeah, the weird glowing eyes, scary voices, and crazy-fast movements of Morrowind vampires are alot more frightening than Lord Harkon and his transformations could ever be, personally...