Stratelier
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So I broke into Skyrim yesterday. Some of the highlights:
- Chose a Khajiit as a character. Since they have claws that do 15 points damage, I've been fighting mostly unarmed for the first few dungeons (seriously, if it's measured on the same scale, Khajiit claws are about the same as an ordinary steel greatsword). But it IS a shame there aren't any perks for fighting barehanded....
- Generally able to one-shot wolves barehanded. I've also hunted down a fox and rabbit.
- So far specializing in Sneak, Archery, and a little magic. Haven't invested in any Perks yet, saving up for the bow zoom and extra arrow damage while sneaking perks.
- Approaching Bleak Falls Barrow, got in a major bow-and-arrow fight with the bandits. Kept moving, picked my shots carefully, and basically every arrow that landed near me I picked up & shot back.
- Got arrested and fined (5G) for picking the lock on a merchant's display case in Whiterun (I didn't take anything, just unlocked the case). Darn it, got a little sloppy there, I didn't realize I had been seen....
- Slew the first dragon solely using bow and arrows. Yeah, as if I'm going to go claw-to-claw with THAT guy...
- Ran afoul of some wandering "Imperial" thugs trying to bully 100G off travelers. Yeah, right, guys. I definitely couldn't take the three of them at once, but next time things will be different...
- Took out one of the bandit camps near Whiterun almost completely undetected. Their first guy I put down with just two arrows, never saw me. The next room had three (with one mage and a Bandit Chief) so it was trickier, but I dropped two of the oil lamps hanging from the ceiling and that by itself nearly cleared the room. Best part was I was hiding in a dark corner, bow and arrow drawn when the three of them come running up the tunnel checking for intruders ... literally within 5 feet of me and still they don't detect me.
- Ran afoul of two Giants near a bonfire NW of Whiterun. I was wondering if they were hostile at all, but then they chose to attack. Man those guys have a lot of HP. I must've ticked off one of their Mammoths at some point because it came after me too. Fled to the nearest rocky terrain I could find (no matter that it's a bandit camp, those giants sprint fast so the only way to flee them is via difficult terrain) so I can whittle them down with arrows. It took all night, but they finally went down.
- Accidentally got a 1000G bounty in the Rift for murder of a certain NPC. What happened was there was a wandering troll at about the same time they were passing through the area, so it diverted its attention from me to them, and in the ensuing fight I must've torched them along with the troll. (It was killing them anyway.) So when the Ivesgard guards suddenly attack me I was a bit confused. One of them attempted to arrest me (choices: jail or fight) but Lydia killed that guard while we were in parlay (seriously, the dialogue prompt was still onscreen while I was trying to figure out "what the hell is going on here?") and then another guard took me out. Well, at least I have one autosave from before that point....
Now I have noticed something interesting about the introductory level in Helgen: One of the reasons the first thing you do is flee inside the tower and wait for Alduin to smash a hole in it is so that the developers can replace the undamaged Helgen exterior with an on-fire-partially-destroyed Helgen exterior. And the trip through Helgen Keep is for similar reasons -- it also gives you your first dungeon to crawl through. I actually wandered my way back into Helgen instead of proceeding to Riverwood at first, and that's where I figured it out.
- Chose a Khajiit as a character. Since they have claws that do 15 points damage, I've been fighting mostly unarmed for the first few dungeons (seriously, if it's measured on the same scale, Khajiit claws are about the same as an ordinary steel greatsword). But it IS a shame there aren't any perks for fighting barehanded....
- Generally able to one-shot wolves barehanded. I've also hunted down a fox and rabbit.
- So far specializing in Sneak, Archery, and a little magic. Haven't invested in any Perks yet, saving up for the bow zoom and extra arrow damage while sneaking perks.
- Approaching Bleak Falls Barrow, got in a major bow-and-arrow fight with the bandits. Kept moving, picked my shots carefully, and basically every arrow that landed near me I picked up & shot back.
- Got arrested and fined (5G) for picking the lock on a merchant's display case in Whiterun (I didn't take anything, just unlocked the case). Darn it, got a little sloppy there, I didn't realize I had been seen....
- Slew the first dragon solely using bow and arrows. Yeah, as if I'm going to go claw-to-claw with THAT guy...
- Ran afoul of some wandering "Imperial" thugs trying to bully 100G off travelers. Yeah, right, guys. I definitely couldn't take the three of them at once, but next time things will be different...
- Took out one of the bandit camps near Whiterun almost completely undetected. Their first guy I put down with just two arrows, never saw me. The next room had three (with one mage and a Bandit Chief) so it was trickier, but I dropped two of the oil lamps hanging from the ceiling and that by itself nearly cleared the room. Best part was I was hiding in a dark corner, bow and arrow drawn when the three of them come running up the tunnel checking for intruders ... literally within 5 feet of me and still they don't detect me.
- Ran afoul of two Giants near a bonfire NW of Whiterun. I was wondering if they were hostile at all, but then they chose to attack. Man those guys have a lot of HP. I must've ticked off one of their Mammoths at some point because it came after me too. Fled to the nearest rocky terrain I could find (no matter that it's a bandit camp, those giants sprint fast so the only way to flee them is via difficult terrain) so I can whittle them down with arrows. It took all night, but they finally went down.
- Accidentally got a 1000G bounty in the Rift for murder of a certain NPC. What happened was there was a wandering troll at about the same time they were passing through the area, so it diverted its attention from me to them, and in the ensuing fight I must've torched them along with the troll. (It was killing them anyway.) So when the Ivesgard guards suddenly attack me I was a bit confused. One of them attempted to arrest me (choices: jail or fight) but Lydia killed that guard while we were in parlay (seriously, the dialogue prompt was still onscreen while I was trying to figure out "what the hell is going on here?") and then another guard took me out. Well, at least I have one autosave from before that point....
Now I have noticed something interesting about the introductory level in Helgen: One of the reasons the first thing you do is flee inside the tower and wait for Alduin to smash a hole in it is so that the developers can replace the undamaged Helgen exterior with an on-fire-partially-destroyed Helgen exterior. And the trip through Helgen Keep is for similar reasons -- it also gives you your first dungeon to crawl through. I actually wandered my way back into Helgen instead of proceeding to Riverwood at first, and that's where I figured it out.
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