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Roleplaying myself in Morrowind

After a 10 years break from Morrowing, I have started a new playthrough. It has a roleplaying idea of sorts behind it: my character is myself and he acts just as I would act if tomorrow I'd wake up on that ship with Jiub. What does it mean in practice?
Most importantly:
0. DEATH IS DEATH
If my character dies, the playthrough is over. Full stop.
What else?
  1. No sources of information outside of the game, but my character can rely on my (his own) memory.
  2. No combat abilities. I would not know how to hold a sword or shoot a bow, would not even dream of trying that in a real combat situation. So my character is magic-only (I am an IT person, that's just like magic anyway). With a bit of speechcraft and mercantile, I consider myself not bad there :)
  3. No alchemy, because it's broken.
Mods in use - Morrowind Rebirth and GCD (galsiah's character development). And a few graphic mods. And OpenMW.
I am really enjoying the challenge so far, every encounter requires a lot of caution and planning, especially since my character is a glass cannon (and a pretty bad cannon at that, for now).
And thinking "what I would really do if I found myself in that situation" opens a completely new perspective on the game.
This blog is a diary of my Morrowind character - myself - in the wonderful land of Vvardenfell.


The screenshot below captures my stats at level 4 - a good illustration of where I'm going with this character.



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