If you're not familiar with Blink, it's the best episode of Doctor Who and maybe one of the best things ever broadcast on television. I guess the moon landing is probably up there too. Anyway, it's the episode with the weeping angels, which look like the kind of sad lady statues you see in graveyards only whenever you're not looking, they move. Hence the advice when dealing with the weeping angels: «Don't blink.» They're terrifying.
Which is why I was hesitant to try Baba Yaga and the Labyrinth(opens in new tab), a quest mod for Skyrim Special Edition by modders Kreiste and wSkeever. At least the angels are limited to a location this mod adds to Skyrim's worldspace, rather than roaming the countryside at random. I mean, I hope they are.
The mod begins with the bartender of The Bee and Barb in Riften handing me a note, which sends me off to find a wild witch who lives in a walking hut. This isn't Quest For Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, so the hut's easy to gain entry to. It's also got some muscular wooden legs rather than the chicken legs Baba Yaga's home has in the original myths, but then this one doesn't belong to Baba Yaga. (Also it's using Skyrim's giant model.)
This hut's absent owner is a witch named Hagnes, and after some investigation I discover what she's been up to. Hagnes found a way to another dimension, a part of the Soul Cairn—the Oblivion realm you visit in the Dawnguard questline—and hasn't come back. A quick portal later and I follow, at which point it turns out the place Hagnes traveled to is a labyrinth with, yep, one of those creepy weeping angel statues in it.
Though the weeping angels here don't work exactly the same as the ones from Doctor Who, I still have to navigate this modest maze while
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