Spoilers!!! eval! I still have to meet Martin or enter an Oblivion portal

lol....you've been avoiding the main story altogether, eh? :p

yea, my game crashes pretty regularly. It was crashing REALLY regularly till I killed some Sun Java processes that were running int he background. jusched.exe and something else. It still crashes, but is much less frequent.

hehe yeah well considering i have xfire, msn, zone alarm, logitech mouse, printer software, windows update, java, fraps and probably some more (and thats just in my taskbar) I'm gonna kill a few of them It crashed about 5 mins into loading up earlier and just crashed again, so I'm taking a break to type this lol.

Anyway just had some fun. My first Arena fight after grand champion was mino lords. 3 of. ouch. But i did it, for a handsome sum of money I'm nearly at the 15k I need for Cheydinhal. Finished off a couple of minor quests including Sins of the Father and the one with Thoronir. In fact, being lvl 17 was VERY rewarding with Thoronir; the 'helper' at the end fight dropped this:

http://www.pevilsplace.co.uk/Oblivion/niceloot.jpg
http://www.pevilsplace.co.uk/Oblivion/ebony.jpg

Just need the helmet now (and a shield, but that one kinda suits anyway, and is damn nice statswise)

And I look damned awesome on my black horse now

http://www.pevilsplace.co.uk/Oblivion/steed.jpg

Also returned to the chestnut wild horses to find they were all paints now. And the 'spoiler' creature got killed earlier

I havent found much ebony at all. Just alot of daedric stuff.

I noticed. bitch lol. No more Daedric shield for me, its gonna be on display. I just made the money for my Cheydinhal house but not enough to properly furnish it yet, so all my stuff is staying at my Bravil house for now.

Found quite a lot of Elven stuff in a few caves that I explored tonight, did a few more random quests etc. Just generally been running around and getting places bookmarked on my map.

One thing I wanna know: where does Dremora factor in? I would assume Dremora = Daedric, however in the strat guide it lists that, like in Morrowind, Daedric is the top heavy armour. However, this Dremora stuff, while nice and clearly gorgeous looking, is only really middle range. Ebony beats it by a long shot. Then again, its in a table with when it becomes available too; this could mean by lvled monsters (Daedric is apparently available at lvl 20, which I just reached) but it could also only be a listing of the stuff thats on sale. Even in the big lists, theres no mention at all of Dremora Longsword etc, only Daedric Longsword. Either way, I want my Daedric stuff!

Anything else I find thats cool (i.e. not steel or iron ) is being kept to make sets to display