I've been getting so mad at Jenassa today. She keeps getting in front of me while I'm blasting enemies with fireballs. And when I cast Frenzy on enemies to make them kill each other, she jumps into the fray so they won't do it! I'm gonna send her back to the Drunken Huntsman just as soon as I'm able to unload all the junk she's carrying for me.
I had Brelyna, now my wife, serving as my follower for a while. For the most part she was good, but after I learned the spell to summon Frost Atronachs, she became a massive pain in the ass. Because she made it her life's mission to summon Frost Atronachs in tight spaces, hallways, caves and so on, so I couldn't go anywhere or do anything until it disappeared. It got worse when she started dual-casting them, making them last twice as long. And she would cast them when they weren't even close to necessary. Some enemy or animal I could kill in two seconds, Brelyna would summon a Frost Atronach to deal with it, and then I'd be stuck with the thing for what felt like ages. Finally I sent her home to my Whiterun house. Later I sent her back to her college dorm when she kept coming up to me while I was experimenting in the alchemy room and saying to me, over and over, "so you're off to find some staff now? I don't see the point of that!"
But the worst follower was Anska. By Sithis, what a gargantuan pain she was. I went to High Gate Ruin to find one of the Shallidor books for Urag, and found her there. Initially I thought "ok, let's work together". But omg. She kept shoving right into me, constantly. She wouldn't sneak, and she would make stealth impossible. She kept making snotty bigoted comments like "what do you want, little elf?" and "speak, elf!". And she would cast fireballs just EVERYWHERE and kept hitting me with them. Finally she made the mistake of hitting Jenassa with a fireball, and it was on. Jenassa just waled on her and I just sat back and watched the show. When it looked like Anska might win, I jumped in and finished her off rather than let her kill Jenassa. Needless to say, I failed her little scroll quest. It occurred to me later that I could have cast Calm on the both of them, but I hadn't thought of it at the time, and I enjoyed watching Jenassa kicking her ass. It was only later that I found out that I could have gotten a "Conjure Flaming Familiar" spell if I had completed that quest, and there's no way to get that spell otherwise. So I kicked myself for that. Oh well, in some future game maybe.
I think I might try J'zargo as a follower next, or maybe just try going without a follower for a while. Problem is, I keep hitting my carry limit when I don't have a follower to use as a pack mule, and since I'm playing a pure mage, I haven't put many level-ups into stamina. Well, I'll figure something out.
