oof
i realized something important during this run, which is that 1) it's possible to accidentally get a fortify health effect on your chest piece so strong that removing it will instantly kill you, 2) if you get this effect then all your loads become dead loads which is convenient, 3) if this happens and you don't carefully prepare for it, then you're basically fucked because you have to unequip your chest piece to equip the ebony mail and to start sheogorath's quest. so during the run i had to quickly think of a way to unequip the chest piece without dying. i remembered you get a brief period of invincibility during killmoves, and i wondered if you could use that to unequip it by starting a killmove and entering the inventory at the same time and amazingly IT WORKED. then all i had to do to get sub 5 was to do this again while starting the sheogorath quest, but my brain was not working anymore and i choked it