{"id":1208,"date":"2009-09-13T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:07:24","slug":"in-a-hostile-country-the-saga-of-cahmel-lets-play-morrowind-part-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#8217;s Play Morrowind, Part 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we last left our hero, he was facing a personal crisis of epic proportions. Here he was\u2014adrift in a sea of blasting sand and industrial sabotage\u2014powerless to carry out his given objective, clueless as to how he should proceed. He was in a friggin\u2019 pickle, is what he was in.<\/p>\n<p>Possibilities flickered through my head as I stared at that door, that demon door through which I dare not tread. Fighter\u2019s Guild? Yeah, not in this lifetime. Thieves? In my heart of hearts, I\u2019m a fighter, not a plunderer. Join another house? Yeah, so, should I go with the Boy Scouts\u2014make that Girl Scouts&#8211;or the Sith Lords?<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, for those of you playing along at home, that it was also nearing midnight in realtime. In part, I think this little detail accounts for the genius, the <em>brilliance <\/em>of my inevitable decision. It was a stroke of inspiration, really\u2014a brain-crazed epiphany that frothed to the tip of my skull like a fly that had stumbled into a fryer.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to pick a direction. And I was going to walk in it until I couldn\u2019t walk anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There was no way this could possibly go wrong.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo, yeah\u2026that\u2019s what I did. I turned vaguely eastward\u2014the coast was only a few miles away\u2014and began walking. Running, actually. It was during this period in which I slew most of my cliff racers.<\/p>\n<p>Really, composing a detailed account of this period would be folly. If you want a reasonable facsimile, here it is: I ran for a while, came to a cliff, walked around it, fought a cliff racer, fought his buddy, fought his buddy\u2019s girlfriend, and then walked to the next cliff to repeat the process ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, tell you what\u2014let me just give you a montage of screenshots. That should do the trick.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1206\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1206\" title=\"lp14-5sandy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, I&#39;m not saying I&#39;d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1207\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-1lava.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1207\" title=\"lp14-1lava\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-1lava.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-1lava.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-1lava-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And now we have ashen wastes, punctuated by bursts of steam coming from...lava!  Never let it be said the topography of Morrowind is bland and samey!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1209\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-3sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1209\" title=\"lp14-3sky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-3sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-3sky.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-3sky-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#39;m just gonna come out and say it: this game is still really damn pretty.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1210\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-4wasteland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1210\" title=\"lp14-4wasteland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-4wasteland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-4wasteland.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-4wasteland-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was one of my more pleasant morningsduring my journey through the wastes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first thing to break up the tedium was the discovery of an Ashlander camp.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-7ashlanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1211\" title=\"lp14-7ashlanders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-7ashlanders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-7ashlanders.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-7ashlanders-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, here we go. See, this whole time I\u2019ve been dealing with snooty, worked-up city folk\u2014people who\u2019ve been in their crowded (sorta) metropolitan centers too damn long, to the point where they\u2019re rude as hell and proud of it. Those arrogant city slickers, going around and insulting me\u2014they\u2019re not half as nice as these decent rural people, these salt-of-the-earth tribesmen with their ancient cultures and their hones religions. Simple, pleasant folk, removed from the stresses and inhumanities of decadent society. Friggin\u2019 <em>society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I walk into camp, extending to them the traditional Outlander\u2019s greeting of saying absolutely nothing while rapidly invading their personal space. They responded with a traditional Dunmer greeting, \u201cS\u2019pittetaut o\u2019ritdar Oad,\u201d which I believe translates to, \u201cMay your days be<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Wait. No, he was actually just telling me to spit it out or hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026in a charming, folksy way, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I could feel it. I really could. They might act all harsh and xenophobic at me, but I could tell they really cared. It was in the little things: like how, since I had only a few hitpoints left, one woman expressed concern by telling me to \u201cFind a healer and get out my sight!\u201d See, a coal-hearted city femme would probably, like, tell me to go and die in a gutter instead.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there was the interested way in which they stood back and watched me almost get killed by a giant beetle that\u2019d wandered into their camp.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1212\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8ashcamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1212\" title=\"lp14-8ashcamp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8ashcamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8ashcamp.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8ashcamp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hey, man, just running from a magic beetle. I only bring this up cos, you know, I mean, you&#39;ve got a sword and all, and...well, I&#39;m kind of almost dead here, and I could...maybe, just since you&#39;re in the neighborhood, and this is your...camp...no? Okay, that&#39;s cool too.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Myself, I blame hat envy.<\/p>\n<p>Another bit of texture arrived when I came to a den of Daedra-worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>I really, really don\u2019t want to get into a lecture about the tangled clusterfudge that is the Elder Scrolls cosmology. I\u2019m not a fan, myself. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the games are fantastic, but the actual mythology of the setting is pointlessly, unarrestingly complex. Suffice it to say, the Daedra are kind of like\u2026gods, but not really the pleasant ones. They\u2019re the ones whose followers aren\u2019t exactly eager to stick up cutesy bumper stickers. They\u2019re the ones who don\u2019t have any daycares named after them. They\u2019re not all evil, per se\u2014in fact, one of them is sort of your primary questgiver\u2014but they\u2019re just that little bit shady.<\/p>\n<p>In Morrowind, worship of the Daedra is sort of doubly taboo, since the locals worship three pseudo-gods called\u2026you know what, I\u2019ll come back to this stuff later. Suffice it to say, there\u2019s a lot of good reasons Daedra-worshippers would set up shop in these isolated, ruined temples, and none of them have to deal with evangelizing the local scribs. There\u2019s a lot of these sort of cult centers you can stumble across while exploring.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019ve been around the block a few times, and I know what I can expect in Daedric ruins. At the best, I can expect priests and warriors, ones who can probably send my guts home in a kitschy tribal basket. At the worst, I can expect high-level demonic baddies who wouldn\u2019t take the trouble to pick my charred organ bits off of the floor.<\/p>\n<p>These facts in mind, I of course decide to go exploring. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>I go through several creatively-laid-out rooms, swimming through a flooded section to get to the altar room. When I got there, I was beset upon by two honest, genuinely surprised, and probably well-meaning cultists. To everyone\u2019s surprise, I managed to take them out. Go Team Housebreaker, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>On the altar, there\u2019s some offerings. A couple gems, specifically, worth quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Now, momma didn\u2019t raise no fool. When you see valuable offerings just <em>lying there<\/em> on a sacrificial altar to a forbidden god, taking them will <em>not work out well for you<\/em>. Like, if you take a shiny quarter from the collection plate at church, you might get a dirty look from your grandma. If you take Dagoth Ur\u2019s bling, he will <em>end your ass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1213\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8malacath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1213\" title=\"lp14-8malacath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8malacath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8malacath.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-8malacath-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And yeah, before you dash off to the comments section, I know it&#39;s Malacath.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So of course, being prudent, I use a speed buff before I steal the stuff and run for it. I just manage to escape a summond baddie.<\/p>\n<p>My path of theft, destruction, and being uncomfortably eyeballed comes to an end when I wash up on anisland just off the coast\u2026an island home to a little city I like to call\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-9sadrith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"lp14-9sadrith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-9sadrith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-9sadrith.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-9sadrith-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Sadrith Mora.<br \/>\nI call it that because that\u2019s what the city is named. In case it wasn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last left our hero, he was facing a personal crisis of epic proportions. Here he was\u2014adrift in a sea of blasting sand and industrial sabotage\u2014powerless to carry out his given objective, clueless&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,268],"tags":[152,300,151],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-play","category-lets-play-morrowind","tag-cahmel","tag-lets-play","tag-morrowind"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#039;s Play Morrowind, Part 14) -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#039;s Play Morrowind, Part 14) -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When we last left our hero, he was facing a personal crisis of epic proportions. Here he was\u2014adrift in a sea of blasting sand and industrial sabotage\u2014powerless to carry out his given objective, clueless&#046;&#046;&#046;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rutskarn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Rutskarn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Rutskarn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rutskarn\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rutskarn\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9\"},\"headline\":\"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#8217;s Play Morrowind, Part 14)\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208\"},\"wordCount\":1305,\"commentCount\":5,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cahmel\",\"Let's Play\",\"Morrowind\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Let's Play\",\"Let's Play Morrowind\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208\",\"name\":\"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let's Play Morrowind, Part 14) -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/lp14-5sandy.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?p=1208#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#8217;s Play Morrowind, Part 14)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"Games and essays by colonies of mutant rats, for colonies of mutant rats.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9\",\"name\":\"Rutskarn\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rutskarn\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ChocolateHammer.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.chocolatehammer.org\\\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let's Play Morrowind, Part 14) -","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let's Play Morrowind, Part 14) -","og_description":"When we last left our hero, he was facing a personal crisis of epic proportions. Here he was\u2014adrift in a sea of blasting sand and industrial sabotage\u2014powerless to carry out his given objective, clueless&#46;&#46;&#46;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208","article_published_time":"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":768,"url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rutskarn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Rutskarn","twitter_site":"@Rutskarn","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rutskarn","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208"},"author":{"name":"Rutskarn","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9"},"headline":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#8217;s Play Morrowind, Part 14)","datePublished":"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208"},"wordCount":1305,"commentCount":5,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg","keywords":["Cahmel","Let's Play","Morrowind"],"articleSection":["Let's Play","Let's Play Morrowind"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208","url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208","name":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let's Play Morrowind, Part 14) -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg","datePublished":"2009-09-14T07:02:16+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-16T01:07:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lp14-5sandy.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1208#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"In a Hostile Country: The Saga of Cahmel (Let&#8217;s Play Morrowind, Part 14)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/","name":"","description":"Games and essays by colonies of mutant rats, for colonies of mutant rats.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e80b3ddb8bafad4b67a860408bbbe2a9","name":"Rutskarn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/98018b1b99db63608152b837781e02e6101b82894a7d4a79128a12777b84825e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rutskarn"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.ChocolateHammer.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}