Back to Two Worlds again, and I last left off in a cave mowing down skeletons, but after loading the save today, it kept crashing after fighting a couple more rooms of them. I proceeded a bit more slowly, quicksaving more often, and managed to finish them off without any more crashes. Only to discover that there wasn’t anything interesting in that part of the cave anyway. Oh well.

I explored a bit more of the map, finding the eastern army camp and doing a handful of side quests there, including one where I had to steal the camp commander’s underpants. After that and a couple more side quests I had left over, the only other ones left were ones that seemed to be bugged or were impossible to finish for other reasons.

So, needing new things to do, I crossed the river via the bridge south of Qudinar and started exploring the southern part of the map. I made it to the town of Ashos on the western side of the map, where there were yet more side quests to do. This time they were necessary though, in order to get the key that would let me into their temple. In there, I found the water stone I needed for the relic. Two down, two more to go.

Upon leaving the temple though, the entire town had been slaughtered by orcs, which I had to fight through to make it back to my horse. At that point there was only one thing I could do — break into all of the houses and loot all of their containers. Hey, they don’t need it anymore, and it’ll help me wreak, uh, vengeance, or something.

I’ve got a ton of alchemy components on me now, especially after clearing out the town, so the first thing I’m going to have to do next time is whip up some more permanent stat potions.

I’m also level 52 now, so there obviously isn’t a level cap at 50. Item level requirements are capped at 50 according to the patch notes though, so I might now be at the limit of how powerful equipment will get. I’ve also started trying to collect matching suits of armour, since apparently wearing an entire set of the same set number gives you a *huge* defense boost, and there are still monsters that can kill me in only one or two hits.