Just got off Skyrim and wanted to share a few more before I forget.
On my main character, who had just fast traveled back to the Dawnstar Sanctuary to turn in some quests I had kind of a cool one. First of all when she got there there was an awesome sunset. As some of you know the Sanctuary is right in front of the water, and the way the sunlight reflected off of it was just beautiful. And I don't even play on an HD TV!
Well while admiring the sunset she notices something flying around in the distance. At first I think it's a bird and ignore it. Then I notice it's circling the same area - which birds don't do. I look a bit closer and see dragon wings. Great.
So I take off across the water to kill the dragon, as my main character feels personally responsible to slay any dragons that appear. Only when she gets there, it's not just the dragon. It's 4 bandits too. Awesomely enough though, the bandits drew away the dragons fire long enough for me to weaken it - and in the process it killed 2 out 4 bandits. Did me a favor there as I might've been overwhelmed otherwise. Then after finishing off the other two bandits and weakening the dragon some more, I hit it with the Dragonrend shout to finish it off. It lands a distance away and I start running to catch up, only to find yet another surprise when I get there - two giants charging in at the dragon, who proceed to finish off the dragon in three hits between them. Not without a little help from a Fury spell, but hey it was awesome, and I didn't even use the spell until after they were already attacking the dragon. Mostly did it so they wouldn't pay attention to me until the dragon was dead, which worked. That was just a huge wow moment.
After a bit more running around the Sanctuary and after turning the quests in, I decide to load up my Orc two handed warrior save file and play on her a bit. So I do and I have her take a carriage to Riften as I want her to join the Dawnguard among a few other things. Well as I'm sure everyone knows happens when you enter Riften for the first time - she enters the city only to be intimidated - or attempting to be intimidated - by Maul. Well by this point, and after having spent about a week in Windhelm before this being treated badly and ignored by 99% of the population there - she's had enough of this plops. And so have I. She's the goddamn Dragonborn, and a warrior Orc, who is this scrawny little man to intimidate her?! So I save and decide to let a little anger out on Riften then reload. Well I killed Sapphire who came to defend him and then Maul, whose body unfortunately disappeared, but anyway. I look around, ready to take on all of Riften, but nothing happens. No guards attack, nothing. I check my stats menu - no bounty. And I mean I know people saw her do it - she's a warrior, not one for sneaking. She went charging in. So to double check I go up to the next guard I see. And what does he say to my Orc? "Welcome to Riften." And walks off. Like he's saying, "Thats how we do things here." That was just so fitting. Totally amazed.
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