My current roleplay has produced several over the weekend, both in combat and via the roleplay. It all started with this post I made in the wow moments:
I just had the most epic fight. It lasted half an hour. I was walking home in the dark to where my household and family were safely sleeping in Lakeview Manor. It all started when I spotted a Vigilant of Stendarr casting the blue alteration magic spell on herself. I thought: "Oh she is fighting an Atronauch, I need Fire Salts so I will give her a hand." I get over there and it's two pit wolves and an ancient vampire. On master. On a dead is dead playthrough.
The vampire just wouldn't die (in fact, I seriously wonder if there were two). We kept running back and forth around and in the lake. At one point we all accidentally went too deep and all stopped fighting. When the vampire tried to turn itself invisible towards the end I could see the pattern of the water where she was. In it all we stumbled across two hunter camps. Both hunters and the Vigilant fell in battle and were bought back by the vampire to cause me instant problems. A frostbite spider and another wolf decided to join in. I swear, I levelled up my archery and one handed twice each in that fight. She just wouldn't die. But neither would I. I knew there was a reason I lugged 100 or so health and stamina potions everywhere with me. I think I went through three quarters of them. So don't regret putting all those perks into alchemy and investing in alchemy enhancing equipment. Only that and Lydia helped me survive. And I'm sure at the back of her mind in that fight she was thinking: "Divines help me, my daughters are asleep not far from here."
Flash forward a few in-game days later to Morthal. That fight had been the most dangerous one of that character's Skyrim life so far, very close to her children. So far, that character had fought three battles against dragons, two of them in Falkreath. She was having serious doubts about how safe Lakeview Manor was as she walked around Morthal. As she was investigating the fire and uncovering the vampire plot, it occurred to her that this quiet little town would be much safer than her current place of residence once the vampire's had been wiped out. She eagerly agreed to do so when the Jarl asked her, raced outside to the angry mob, checked her map to find Morvath's Lair...then a guard screamed: "Everybody, get inside right now!"
Yes, a frost dragon attacked this quiet little town my character was planning to move her children to for safety, right as the angry mob were about to slay the vampires. My character was fuming, I was laughing. What happened to the angry mob I'm not sure as I only saw guards and Lydia as I raced around Morthal, but I did find Lami's body later. Once it finally fell it was late and my character was exhausted and disgusted, so she went to bed. Next morning walking home purely by chance she stumbled across the angry mob sans Lami standing by the cave having spent the entire night refusing to go inside. As she has backstory reasons to hate vampires, she cleared the cave before going home.
Picking leeks in the garden, I tried to decide what would my character would do about her child safety issue, I thought: "Well, nothing has actually attacked Lakeview Manor directly. Maybe it would be okay to stay." Then I heard: "...get enough gold...buy and island...retire...WELL LOOKEE HERE BOYS WE GOT OURSELVES A HERO!"
One dead bandit chief and two dead bandit outlaws later, she goes inside where Sofie begs to keep a snow fox. In my head, what happened was she marched inside in a high temper going: "Yes, you can keep the fox. Lydia, get all those spare nails and iron ingots out of that chest! I'm going to cook enough stew for two days now because tomorrow morning I'm going to Morthal, buying some land and building a house. Start packing, because we are moving at the end of those two days! I don't care how pretty the lake is here!"
