Skyrim = Fail
Sunday, January 15th, 2012 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoBecause I have a new, nifty computer that is capable of playing such things, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miome and I decided to pick up a game to play on while I was sick. Specifically, we decided on Skyrim/
I knew I wasn't going to take my first game seriously when I named the main character Chlamydia. This is a vast improvement over my first two name choices, which included Lady Humps-a-lot. Still, I did want to figure out the game controls and maybe advance the plot a bit to see how my choices would affect it.
Everything was going fine until I hit my first town of Riverwood. After putzing around until nightfall, I walked into town and I spoke with the first person I found, who happened to be the blacksmith. He gave me permission to use his forge. Okay. where the hell is the forge? I accidentally walked into the guy's house. Nope. In the process I stumbled across a trader where I could sell the huge amount of Imperial shit I had collected (note: do not automatically take everything in Skyrim, you will be come encumbered very, very quickly). I sold some stuff, somehow picked up a side quest, and then decided to explore more before starting it. In the meantime, I accidentally shot a chicken and earned myself a 60 gold bounty.
Still kind of flailing about , I finally find what I think is the forge. Or at least, I randomly find a grinding stone. I try to improve my weapon on the stone, but don't have the material. Okay, back to the trader to see if I can by the material. By now it's late at night, and I can't even talk to the people I'm supposed to be talking to because they have gone to sleep and locked their door. I could pick the lock, but I figured that was not the way to make friends in this game. Might as well do something until morning.
This is where things go south, because when I head back to the trader's this guy appears out of no where, runs up to me, takes a swing, and then runs away. WTF? I kind of ignore it and head back to the trader's to pick up some iron. I shouldn't have ignored it because as soon as I'm done talking to the trader the guy from earlier shows up and proceeds to bash my head in with a iron mace. Repeatedly.
I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. In fact, I was deliberately careful not to steal or hurt anyone (except for one unfortunate chicken). Hell, I even asked to use the forge before I touched anything. Obviously the way to die in Skyrim is to kill a chicken. Or something. I could not get rid of this guy and I could not get him to stop killing me. Every time I respawned he'd show up with his mace and beat me until I was dead. So I killed him instead.
Oddly enough, the trader didn't seem at all upset about this and continued to trade with me.
Deciding that I had had enough of this bullshit, I went to the inn to stay the night and hopefully figure out what the fuck was going on later. Bad idea. The entire inn came after me. I was not about to try and fend on them off so I ran out of town where I was immediately set upon by wolves. After killing the wolves, I saved and decided I was done with the game. I'll letmiome play it for a while.
Does anyone know where I went wrong? Was it the chicken? The fact that I took enough cabbages to feed a small army? They were in barrels and not red, so I didn't think it was stealing. Was it? I have no idea. All I know if that some villager went off his rocker and came after me.
Nice to see I still have my talent for getting killed in weird ways...
miome and I decided to pick up a game to play on while I was sick. Specifically, we decided on Skyrim/I knew I wasn't going to take my first game seriously when I named the main character Chlamydia. This is a vast improvement over my first two name choices, which included Lady Humps-a-lot. Still, I did want to figure out the game controls and maybe advance the plot a bit to see how my choices would affect it.
Everything was going fine until I hit my first town of Riverwood. After putzing around until nightfall, I walked into town and I spoke with the first person I found, who happened to be the blacksmith. He gave me permission to use his forge. Okay. where the hell is the forge? I accidentally walked into the guy's house. Nope. In the process I stumbled across a trader where I could sell the huge amount of Imperial shit I had collected (note: do not automatically take everything in Skyrim, you will be come encumbered very, very quickly). I sold some stuff, somehow picked up a side quest, and then decided to explore more before starting it. In the meantime, I accidentally shot a chicken and earned myself a 60 gold bounty.
Still kind of flailing about , I finally find what I think is the forge. Or at least, I randomly find a grinding stone. I try to improve my weapon on the stone, but don't have the material. Okay, back to the trader to see if I can by the material. By now it's late at night, and I can't even talk to the people I'm supposed to be talking to because they have gone to sleep and locked their door. I could pick the lock, but I figured that was not the way to make friends in this game. Might as well do something until morning.
This is where things go south, because when I head back to the trader's this guy appears out of no where, runs up to me, takes a swing, and then runs away. WTF? I kind of ignore it and head back to the trader's to pick up some iron. I shouldn't have ignored it because as soon as I'm done talking to the trader the guy from earlier shows up and proceeds to bash my head in with a iron mace. Repeatedly.
I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. In fact, I was deliberately careful not to steal or hurt anyone (except for one unfortunate chicken). Hell, I even asked to use the forge before I touched anything. Obviously the way to die in Skyrim is to kill a chicken. Or something. I could not get rid of this guy and I could not get him to stop killing me. Every time I respawned he'd show up with his mace and beat me until I was dead. So I killed him instead.
Oddly enough, the trader didn't seem at all upset about this and continued to trade with me.
Deciding that I had had enough of this bullshit, I went to the inn to stay the night and hopefully figure out what the fuck was going on later. Bad idea. The entire inn came after me. I was not about to try and fend on them off so I ran out of town where I was immediately set upon by wolves. After killing the wolves, I saved and decided I was done with the game. I'll let
miome play it for a while.Does anyone know where I went wrong? Was it the chicken? The fact that I took enough cabbages to feed a small army? They were in barrels and not red, so I didn't think it was stealing. Was it? I have no idea. All I know if that some villager went off his rocker and came after me.
Nice to see I still have my talent for getting killed in weird ways...
