Hour 53: Purple Haze

Whilst in Cheydinhal, I decide it's high time I completed the 'A Brush With Death' quest. I think this was the first quest I received, after exiting the sewers at the start of the game. Everyone in town's always talking about Rythe Lythandas, a missing painter, so I head over to his house and his wife lets me into his studio. I then magically enter one of his paintings, and find them there. He needs help retrieving his magical (Daedra-enchanted) paintbrush, which allows him to paint from inside the canvas, from a thief. I traverse the beautiful dreamlike terrain:

It's filled with 'Painted Trolls', drawn by the thief. Although I'm given some turpentine by Rythe to help slay them, I kill them easily enough without this. It takes 1 Kindlebolt and 2 Immolates to bring them down, or 5 (!) Immolates without Kindlebolt. I retrieve the paintbrush and all is well.

Whilst I'm completing old missions, I may as well finish the 'A Brotherhood Betrayed' quest, which I started back in Hour 8 (Vampire-Hunters and Thieves). I return to Bruma, and to Olav's Tap & Tackle. In Hour 8 I wrote that I was unable to persuade Olav to give me the key or any more information, but I find I already have the key now, so I must have gone back at some point and forgotten to mention it. In any case, the quest involves tracking down the murderous Raynil Dralas, who used 'vampire-hunting' as a ruse in order to kill two of his friends, so that he could claim for his own a magical amulet which they'd discovered. All the detective work in this quest was quite enjoyable, and in the end I tracked down Raynil and enacted swift fiery justice upon him.