SureAI

Is there a way to turn quick travel back on? I absolutely hate not being able to get back to town without covering the same territory over and over and over and over and over...ad nauseum. I don't want to burn a 100+ gold piece rune to get back to town. Either runes need to be made cheaper and much more available or quick travel needs to be activated. This is becoming a deal breaker for me.

You could, I guess, but usually the mapmarkers lie in bad locations. You would be stuck in walls when quicktravelling...
Better to use the "coc" cheat if you really have to.

I thought of my own workaround. Does anyone know the RefID for the Varla stones/teleport runes? I can just spam myself a bunch and then teleport at will.

You are looking for the Object ID, not the Ref ID. The object ID is 1BF020.

Great, I'll use it if I run out of stones. So far, I've been able to buy enough without resorting to cheats. The archmage had seven one time and then I reloaded a save and she didn't have any. I've got a small handful of them though, so I'm good for a while.