Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Windhelm is depressing. It's always dark and snowy, it's segregated, and its walls lead to it feeling pocketed.

I want to MURDER every guard that asks me that.

I used to want to do that, then I took an arrow to the knee.

So, I'm somewhere in the North Western corner of the map in a dungeon. It didn't appear to be tagged in any quests, & it's the deepest one I've found so far. I recently dinged 20 & find the first couple levels full of bandits. Outside of one mage, non prove a challenge & I either snipe them with a flaming bow or slaughter them outright with my exquisite dwarven greatsword of fire.

Next couple levels, spiders as I get deeper. No problem there, me & Lydia (when she wasn't stuck behind a trap) have no issues.

Then some draugers. The melee are getting tougher & the mages are now summoning sh*t against me. Heavy uses of potions twice, but no issues. Also, no saves.

Then I sneak up a staircase & a figure rises from a throne. I'm unseen, so I light the @#%^er up with my bow. I sneak back, remaining completely undetected while Lydia goes and dies on his sword. I fire another arrow, get another critical & he's at all of 90%.

Huh.

Switch to GSWD, Yell at him, charging attack. 85%.

Then the @#%^er yells at me, I lose my sword and he proceeds to bum rush me while I scramble to find it. I'm now at 20% health after two hits. Switch to bow & run away. Kite him in a circle and snipe him for 25mins (thank christ he didn't have magic or ranged)while Lydia intermittently gets up and dies some more. Eventually kill him. Loot treasure till I can't walk & look for Lydia.

No where.

Drop some stuff, go look for her. She's dead with an arrow in her chest. She's fully loaded on loot too.





(Poll is busted, apparently. Immediate after I posted it there were all ready 20 votes.)

Edited, Dec 3rd 2011 9:46am by Omegavegeta

I used to laugh about an arrow in the knee jokes... but then I took an mace in the face

I'd resurrect her.

I'm lazy like that.

Blackreach is by far the scariest and most badass dungeon ever.

I did finish the main quest line now, it seemed anti climactic but I think I'm going to finish up the college quests and I'll take a little break and start a new character.

Yeah, it's very confusing.

Some races, like the various elves and the Khajiit, have their own unique accent which everyone from the race shares. It would make sense if someone from Cyrodiil had a different accent than someone from Skyrim, but at this point, I can't tell an Imperial from a Nord because both are switching accents like it's a sport.

I mean, I get that Skyrim is supposed to mimic Northern Europe, but there should be some kind of consistency to the accents. Someone from northern and southern parts of Skyrim should either be using the same accent or different ones. As it is right now, two people from southern Skyrim could be using two different accents - accents identical to the ones found in northern Skyrim.

It's one big pile of what the hell.

Come to Dragonsreach to discush the ongoing hoshtilities, like the rest of the "great warriors"?

Edited, Dec 3rd 2011 9:47pm by Mazra

Yeah, it is. He sounds like a young and mildly irritable Sean Connery.

By the way, I was curious what the word 'Dovahkiin' got its inspiration from, so I looked up some Nordic words. Dovah in the game means dragon, so I'm guessing 'kiin' means 'kin'. Dragonkin. Dragonborn. Would make sense. But where does 'dovah' come from then? Well, 'duva' means 'dove' in Swedish. Flying thingy, though not exactly a dragon. I don't recall 'dovah' meaning anything in Danish either (never used the word myself, at least), so I turned to Norwegian.

Stumbled across an old Norwegian dictionary where the word 'dova' appeared. It means (or meant) the backside of a horse...

So, yeah, Dragonborn or Descendant of a Horse's ***.

Potato tomato, right?

Edited, Dec 4th 2011 2:57pm by Mazra

In my defense I did just get the Cannibal Ring and wanted to test it out a little.

I finally got my skill level high enough to pick up the Expert tier of Destruction spells. Thanks to Enchanting I can cast Destruction magic for free. I've been abusing the hell out of the Wall spells and loving it every second of it. I also finally found another Blacksmithing Philter so I finished off my Deadric Bow and added 68 Ice and Lighting damage to it with Enchanting. My bow skill is mid 50s and it still one shots pretty much anything but bosses while Sneaking.

Finally, I found my "wife" from the "A Night to Remember" quest. I was not amused and had to kill her to get the ring back.

SpoilerIt's not that bad, as long as you know they're there. Out of combat magicka regen is pretty darn fast for pure mage types--at least, ones who invest in proper gear LOL.

Edited, Dec 4th 2011 3:06am by Ravashack

It's not like catching a cold or having to go in to work. If you want to avoid playing, just don't play. A little willpower goes a long way.