Fun memory of mine from playing Morrowind when it first came out…

#1 was having a printed map that came in the game box that got used A LOT. No directional aids in game, and a quest giver would give you directions to a place like going to a southerner’s cousin’s house before GPS ("go west out of town along the river road, you will pass 2 dwemer ruins on your right and there will be a small path breaking off to the right. Follow that until you see the strange statue and look for a cave entrance to your west.” Yea, I needed that printed map and I basically wore it out playing the game).

#2 early on in the main story, the quest giver tells you he needs to look into some information and asks you to come back and check in “after 2 moons have passed”. Well, having been forced to read the book “walk 2 moons” in school recently at that point and having my teacher explain that “a moon” was a month because of moon cycles… I was shocked this quest giver wants me to wait TWO BLOODY MONTHS to continue the main story quests… I get to looking and sure enough there is a whole ass calendar system in Morrowind, so I tried to write down what month it was and wait to see when 2 months had passed… I became the top dog for the mages guild, fighters guild, thieves guild, etc… Explored basically the entire continent. Come back to him and continue the quest but now I’m powered up to fight a god on basically day 4 of the main story. I find out after this that the guy wanted me to wait two nights. TWO NIGHTS. not TWO MONTHS. TWO FUCKING NIGHTS. As in he meant “see the moon twice” not see it go through it’s entire fucking cycle twice. I never even tried talking to him for 2 entire fucking in-game months.

I should go back and replay Morrowind…