Cool. Broke my rule and looked at a video of how to get to the Meteorite Staff. Of course, with my TOTAL lack of any sense of direction, after I was transported to this completely new part of the world, I needed to pause frequently to see what direction I needed to go based on the video. Somehow this hostile world around me did not pause as I tried to figure it out, and I rode fast past where I needed to go. Somehow found my way to the staff, got it right before I was killed, woke up still in this hostile environment with no map of it, could not fast travel out, so I jumped on my horse and tried to ride around fast to try to find a point of grace. Lots of BIG bad monsters chasing me, chugging health flasks, found a merchant but nothing too interesting, just ran around avoiding stuff when I found a point of grace and I stopped there.
I was pretty happy with myself when I ended up being escorted to the Roundtable Hold without having done any reading or searching on how to get there.
I don’t know how long this game will hold me, but I have to admit a sense of accomplishment from just about any advancement in the game. I’m one who NEVER plays on Hard mode, LOL