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I finally bought Morrowind!
It runs kinda ok on my getting old pc, so I'm happy.

Here's the thing. Everywhere I hear about the "write your own story" gameplay. Meaning that you aren't obligated to follow the lead the makes gave you.
So, does this mean I can do whatever I want, and somehow the story will continue? I don't feel like working for Caius Cossades. But If I don't, will the story still progress?

Thanxs!

You can pretty much ignore the main story and do anything you'd like. If you want to finish the game, however, you have to either finally do Cauis Cosades quests, or take one of two "back path" routes (one of which is much tougher, the other of which is much easier but requires you to have fulfilled a number of conditions before it's ever mentioned) to the same goal.

What would the other routes be?
(spoiler)

Spoilers:
Kill Vivec, take his items, and have Yagrum the last dwarf jury rig them so you can use them

or

get a reputation over 50 and any of a dozen characters in the game will ask you why you haven't fulfilled the nereverine prophecies, then send you to talk to Vivec