Only had time for the first bit of MSQ...

Dear goodness they need to sort out their quest jingle settings so we don't get the cheerful fanfare every time. Or maybe just make the whole patch one giant quest from start to finish.

Geode is presumably only mostly dead, but regardless, I'm a bit confused about this "new tactic to drain the victims' aether" approach because that means the life force they were previously draining to run Living Memory is another thing again. Plus previously the people sacrificed to run the Garlean Resonance-imbuing machine were being drained of their aether but still apparently ended up as corpses rather than dust.

Also it really bugged me that the other Oblivion guy who died wasn't referred to by his name. They're a small organisation; surely everyone knows everyone.