When I got home, I didn’t make a U-turn south into Varant after all. I actually headed north into Sildern and FINALLY, FINALLY did the quests there. Well, I didn’t complete every single quest in Sildern, but I did enough to get 75% rep with the orcs so I could do more quests for them.
The thing is, one of these quests left undone is a “liberate” quest – it’s so hard to resist the temptation to liberate the city just to complete the quest, but I know if I liberate one more city, I would bring the whole orc community down on me…
In any case, as of last night, my last save was back in Geldern. I’m now wondering if I should complete Geldern before heading down south into Varant. Might as well, since Geldern is the last city in Myrtana left for me to do. I might do it, I might not. I think I can learn one more “permanent skill” there, the one to be immune to “weakness”. I remember my level 41 guy had it but my current level 39 guy doesn’t – and my current guy has been to MORE places than my level 41 one!
Ah well, we’ll see how it goes tonight.