Oh god, Skyrim. I think I love you.
Yes, I think I am officially crazy in love with Skyrim. I played for like, 7 hours tonight just doing completely random shit and it was the best fucking random shit ever. EVER. It's extra fun when Alex is in the room. Sometimes he's got some A+ commentary.
But omg the greatest stuff happens.
Okay, so, I'm only at like, level 15 still! And I've been playing for about 29 hours total. Idgi cause Alex is at level 20 and he's been playing for 6 hours less than me. Anyway, I'm playing a Redguard and I named her Hanne because way way back I decided I would name my PC Hanne and well, thinking of other names is hard. I've only got like, 5(/6? I have Fus & Ro, all the rest are singles so far) shouts unlocked. The fire one? THE BEST. HOMG. Not only am I walking around occasionally dual wielding flames but now I've got a FIRE SHOUT?! ;safjalj FIRE COMING OUT OF EVERYWHERE.
I've joined the companions, but haven't done the Silver Hand quest yet because I'm not ready! I wanted to be a werewolf but Aela and Skjor just creeped me out ~meet me under the forge at night~ IT WAS CREEPY.
I've got my Lydia and my house and all my upgrades for it. For awhile I just left Lydia there but today I figured, what the hell, I'd start bringing her with me. Mainly because I was tired of being over-encumbered hehhehehhe. HOUSECARL, HOLD MY SHIT! >:] It's great. Except... for when we're both over-encumbered. But. Anyway. I love what she says about carrying my burdens? Lol just the way she says it makes me laugh. Like Fawkes in FO3 when I ask him to trade equipment. He's like, "YES, LETS." And it sounds so fucking sarcastic. Omg I wish I could find a video or something. SLAYS ME XD
So. Anyway. Bringing Lydia.
This leads to many (too many) saves. I save all the flippin time. I don't want her to suddenly die on me or something! Who knows! She could! (And she has!) And then who will carry my stuff!? But honestly, I didn't think I would like her as much as I do. I've got her in this badass dwarven armor and she's using this huge fucking dwarven greatsword and GDI if she isn't totally fucking awesome. Seriously contemplating using the amulet of mara on her LOL <3 She's great.
Oh. OH. Before I was taking Lydia around with me I had bought a horse because I didn't feel like walking everywhere. Well, while I was getting lost on the way to Ivarstead there was this group of people I assumed were bandits. I jump off my horse ready to fight (because wtf why can't I fight from my horse) and then I see they're labeled as guards so I'm like, "Oh, okay?" but these assholes are charging at me like they wanna fight! Except they all go right past me to my flippin horse! And there's like, 5 of them and they are just beating the crap out of my horse and I'm only like, idk, level 8 or something and I'm trying to kill them all with fire and it's not working and my horse is super injured so he goes running off. And they chase after him! And the bastards kill him! THEY KILLED MY HORSE! And by the time I catch up two of them are just standing over the dead body of my horse. And I'm like, WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!1 So. I go and start beating the crap out of them with my war axe and they're all "Wtf! We're on your side!" And I'm thinking, LIKE HELL YOU JUST KILLED MY FUCKING HORSE!!11 And I killed them. I mean, wtf.
Oh, and another older story: There's this one guy who's family tomb is being ~defiled~ by some guy? And you have to go in and kill him? Anyway, we're walking around and the guy's all "I can't stand to think of how he's defiling my ancestors" while I'm looting all the dead bodies and sticking my hand in every urn I find because GOLD COINS. LOL.
Okay. So. More current stuff.
-I accidentally joined the College of Winterhold (? Is it Winterhold? All of the city names sound the saaame.) I just thought I could like, you know, pop in and look around for a bit. And as I convince the lady guarding the bridge to let me in, the achievement pops up and I was like OH. Guess I'm joining then. HA and Mirabelle is all "Here's your robes and where you'll be staying etc etc" and I'm just like LOL UM NO. I've got shit to do lady.
-I accidentally stole some stuff from this guys shop when I was trying to talk to him. I tried to give it back! But I had no idea what I clicked on because I wasn't planning on clicking it, you know? So he sent mercs after me. Lol.
-I killed the awful woman in the orphanage for that kid. I wasn't going to because I thought he was overreacting, but she was really horrible. I wasn't even sneaky about it. The first time I just used my fire shout on her lol but then I was like, will that get me in trouble? So I reloaded and waited until she went in her room and I axed her to death. And then tried to shove her body under the bed lmao. Worst assassin.
So then I went back to Windhelm to tell the kid, and then when I was leaving this Courier stops me (HELLO JASON MARSDEN) and he gives me this note
and I'm like, they know?
THEY KNOW!!
MY PROBATION WORKER? BUT HOW!!!!
Anyway.
Then I dropped a bunch of shit because I was over encumbered and Lydia was over encumbered. But I only dropped like, a shit ton of rings. And then the courier runs up to me and is all "OMG Can I have that armor you just dropped!!?" LOL "armor". okay. But seriously. Jason Marsden. For you, anything ♥
That last bit wasn't really important. I feel like this whole story will be less funny when I'm done telling it, but stay with me.
So I fast travel "home" which is how I currently think of Whiterun. I just kind of love it there. I make and sell a bunch of armor and work on cleaning out my inventory so I have space to continue to rabidly collect every piece of shit I find.
Then I got caught up in decorating my house, lol. Yeah. Like, five hours in-game time spent doing this. Painstakingly rearranging shit. Moving baskets and bowls so I can drop ingredients in them by my alchemy table. To make it look HOMEY. You know. LIKE YOU DO. Spent like 10 minutes trying to get this one jar upright, lol. Another 5 minutes slamming a book up against the bookshelf because WHY WON'T YOU FIT until I realized you had to click on the bookshelf and put them in that way. I put all the leather and smithing shit in the chest in my room because I never use it while I'm out and about and Lydia and I are up to our asses in random wolf/bear/goat/sabre cat pelts, it is ridiculous. Then one bedside table I'm using for jewelry and the other is for clothes, lol. I also had to grab a basket from downstairs to put all my stupid little notes in. (Like bounties, etc) I know they don't take up inventory space but I feel like they clutter it up. At some point I had an extra plate and I'm like "Lydia, do you want this plate? Do you have room? Or do you already have one? OH WAIT You can't talk to me YOU'RE A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER I AM LOSING MY MIND"
So, anyway. Near the beginning of this decorating ~adventure~ Lydia was constantly getting on my nerves, so I made her stand in her room and then
Lucille'd the door on her.
That was important.
Because I'm done reorganizing and standing by my bed and I'm all "OKAY I'LL JUST SLEEP NOW"
And of course, in the middle of the night I'm kidnapped by Astrid from the Dark Brotherhood. With my housecarl shut in her room. LMAO. Oh god. I died. Alex died. We were like, "WTF THIS GAME. I love you." Omg Lydia was probably dying. You know she was. Housecarl fail, amirite. Omg. Idk if she would have come with me if she was still following me, probably not, but still. Omg.
LOL And then Astrid is all "I'm not criticizing. It was a good kill." And I'm like, LMAO REALLY? DID YOU NOT JUST READ "So I waited until she went in her room and I axed her to death. And then tried to shove her body under the bed lmao. Worst assassin."
But you know, I was like, screw you lady! I'm not doing this shit for you! So I killed her. Actually, I beheaded her with my axe because I just got the perk that lets you do that. So now I guess I'm taking down the Dark Brotherhood. Okay. Sure. I was considering maybe thinking about joining up with them but look, lady. You don't tell me what to do, okay?
So I walked to Morthal and ended up investigating that burned down house in the town. And as I'm talking to the ghost girl she's like, "Want to play with me?" and I lost it. Because I realize (this is kinda the kicker)
I talked to a kid outside of of Aventus Aretino's house in Whitehelm who asked the same question.
And told him I would play hide and seek with him.
And he hid.
Like, seven hours ago.
Like, before I even took the quest to kill the lady!! And I did a lot of random shit before I decided to trek down to Riften to kill her. I FORGOT ABOUT THIS POOR KID WAITING FOR ME TO FIND HIM! XDD I hope he gave up. Or hid somewhere with a lot of food XD
OMFG. I think that is like, the best thing to ever happen to me. I flippin died. And I mean, FULL CIRCLE. THAT QUEST HAS TAKEN ME FULL CIRCLE XD I CAN'T EVEN. OMG. I just love it. I love it! Officially in love with this game.
Okay, that was crazy long. Apologies. Now I really need to sleep because I have to wake up early and bake CUPCAKES!!111 tomorrow!
But omg the greatest stuff happens.
Okay, so, I'm only at like, level 15 still! And I've been playing for about 29 hours total. Idgi cause Alex is at level 20 and he's been playing for 6 hours less than me. Anyway, I'm playing a Redguard and I named her Hanne because way way back I decided I would name my PC Hanne and well, thinking of other names is hard. I've only got like, 5(/6? I have Fus & Ro, all the rest are singles so far) shouts unlocked. The fire one? THE BEST. HOMG. Not only am I walking around occasionally dual wielding flames but now I've got a FIRE SHOUT?! ;safjalj FIRE COMING OUT OF EVERYWHERE.
I've joined the companions, but haven't done the Silver Hand quest yet because I'm not ready! I wanted to be a werewolf but Aela and Skjor just creeped me out ~meet me under the forge at night~ IT WAS CREEPY.
I've got my Lydia and my house and all my upgrades for it. For awhile I just left Lydia there but today I figured, what the hell, I'd start bringing her with me. Mainly because I was tired of being over-encumbered hehhehehhe. HOUSECARL, HOLD MY SHIT! >:] It's great. Except... for when we're both over-encumbered. But. Anyway. I love what she says about carrying my burdens? Lol just the way she says it makes me laugh. Like Fawkes in FO3 when I ask him to trade equipment. He's like, "YES, LETS." And it sounds so fucking sarcastic. Omg I wish I could find a video or something. SLAYS ME XD
So. Anyway. Bringing Lydia.
This leads to many (too many) saves. I save all the flippin time. I don't want her to suddenly die on me or something! Who knows! She could! (And she has!) And then who will carry my stuff!? But honestly, I didn't think I would like her as much as I do. I've got her in this badass dwarven armor and she's using this huge fucking dwarven greatsword and GDI if she isn't totally fucking awesome. Seriously contemplating using the amulet of mara on her LOL <3 She's great.
Oh. OH. Before I was taking Lydia around with me I had bought a horse because I didn't feel like walking everywhere. Well, while I was getting lost on the way to Ivarstead there was this group of people I assumed were bandits. I jump off my horse ready to fight (because wtf why can't I fight from my horse) and then I see they're labeled as guards so I'm like, "Oh, okay?" but these assholes are charging at me like they wanna fight! Except they all go right past me to my flippin horse! And there's like, 5 of them and they are just beating the crap out of my horse and I'm only like, idk, level 8 or something and I'm trying to kill them all with fire and it's not working and my horse is super injured so he goes running off. And they chase after him! And the bastards kill him! THEY KILLED MY HORSE! And by the time I catch up two of them are just standing over the dead body of my horse. And I'm like, WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!1 So. I go and start beating the crap out of them with my war axe and they're all "Wtf! We're on your side!" And I'm thinking, LIKE HELL YOU JUST KILLED MY FUCKING HORSE!!11 And I killed them. I mean, wtf.
Oh, and another older story: There's this one guy who's family tomb is being ~defiled~ by some guy? And you have to go in and kill him? Anyway, we're walking around and the guy's all "I can't stand to think of how he's defiling my ancestors" while I'm looting all the dead bodies and sticking my hand in every urn I find because GOLD COINS. LOL.
Okay. So. More current stuff.
-I accidentally joined the College of Winterhold (? Is it Winterhold? All of the city names sound the saaame.) I just thought I could like, you know, pop in and look around for a bit. And as I convince the lady guarding the bridge to let me in, the achievement pops up and I was like OH. Guess I'm joining then. HA and Mirabelle is all "Here's your robes and where you'll be staying etc etc" and I'm just like LOL UM NO. I've got shit to do lady.
-I accidentally stole some stuff from this guys shop when I was trying to talk to him. I tried to give it back! But I had no idea what I clicked on because I wasn't planning on clicking it, you know? So he sent mercs after me. Lol.
-I killed the awful woman in the orphanage for that kid. I wasn't going to because I thought he was overreacting, but she was really horrible. I wasn't even sneaky about it. The first time I just used my fire shout on her lol but then I was like, will that get me in trouble? So I reloaded and waited until she went in her room and I axed her to death. And then tried to shove her body under the bed lmao. Worst assassin.
So then I went back to Windhelm to tell the kid, and then when I was leaving this Courier stops me (HELLO JASON MARSDEN) and he gives me this note
and I'm like, they know?
THEY KNOW!!
MY PROBATION WORKER? BUT HOW!!!!
Anyway.
Then I dropped a bunch of shit because I was over encumbered and Lydia was over encumbered. But I only dropped like, a shit ton of rings. And then the courier runs up to me and is all "OMG Can I have that armor you just dropped!!?" LOL "armor". okay. But seriously. Jason Marsden. For you, anything ♥
That last bit wasn't really important. I feel like this whole story will be less funny when I'm done telling it, but stay with me.
So I fast travel "home" which is how I currently think of Whiterun. I just kind of love it there. I make and sell a bunch of armor and work on cleaning out my inventory so I have space to continue to rabidly collect every piece of shit I find.
Then I got caught up in decorating my house, lol. Yeah. Like, five hours in-game time spent doing this. Painstakingly rearranging shit. Moving baskets and bowls so I can drop ingredients in them by my alchemy table. To make it look HOMEY. You know. LIKE YOU DO. Spent like 10 minutes trying to get this one jar upright, lol. Another 5 minutes slamming a book up against the bookshelf because WHY WON'T YOU FIT until I realized you had to click on the bookshelf and put them in that way. I put all the leather and smithing shit in the chest in my room because I never use it while I'm out and about and Lydia and I are up to our asses in random wolf/bear/goat/sabre cat pelts, it is ridiculous. Then one bedside table I'm using for jewelry and the other is for clothes, lol. I also had to grab a basket from downstairs to put all my stupid little notes in. (Like bounties, etc) I know they don't take up inventory space but I feel like they clutter it up. At some point I had an extra plate and I'm like "Lydia, do you want this plate? Do you have room? Or do you already have one? OH WAIT You can't talk to me YOU'RE A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER I AM LOSING MY MIND"
So, anyway. Near the beginning of this decorating ~adventure~ Lydia was constantly getting on my nerves, so I made her stand in her room and then
Lucille'd the door on her.
That was important.
Because I'm done reorganizing and standing by my bed and I'm all "OKAY I'LL JUST SLEEP NOW"
And of course, in the middle of the night I'm kidnapped by Astrid from the Dark Brotherhood. With my housecarl shut in her room. LMAO. Oh god. I died. Alex died. We were like, "WTF THIS GAME. I love you." Omg Lydia was probably dying. You know she was. Housecarl fail, amirite. Omg. Idk if she would have come with me if she was still following me, probably not, but still. Omg.
LOL And then Astrid is all "I'm not criticizing. It was a good kill." And I'm like, LMAO REALLY? DID YOU NOT JUST READ "So I waited until she went in her room and I axed her to death. And then tried to shove her body under the bed lmao. Worst assassin."
But you know, I was like, screw you lady! I'm not doing this shit for you! So I killed her. Actually, I beheaded her with my axe because I just got the perk that lets you do that. So now I guess I'm taking down the Dark Brotherhood. Okay. Sure. I was considering maybe thinking about joining up with them but look, lady. You don't tell me what to do, okay?
So I walked to Morthal and ended up investigating that burned down house in the town. And as I'm talking to the ghost girl she's like, "Want to play with me?" and I lost it. Because I realize (this is kinda the kicker)
I talked to a kid outside of of Aventus Aretino's house in Whitehelm who asked the same question.
And told him I would play hide and seek with him.
And he hid.
Like, seven hours ago.
Like, before I even took the quest to kill the lady!! And I did a lot of random shit before I decided to trek down to Riften to kill her. I FORGOT ABOUT THIS POOR KID WAITING FOR ME TO FIND HIM! XDD I hope he gave up. Or hid somewhere with a lot of food XD
OMFG. I think that is like, the best thing to ever happen to me. I flippin died. And I mean, FULL CIRCLE. THAT QUEST HAS TAKEN ME FULL CIRCLE XD I CAN'T EVEN. OMG. I just love it. I love it! Officially in love with this game.
Okay, that was crazy long. Apologies. Now I really need to sleep because I have to wake up early and bake CUPCAKES!!111 tomorrow!