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On my adventures I came across a ghostly headless horseman. I was surprised and decided to follow him. He just made it to some tomb and disappeared. There were some skeletons but nothing of interest.
Later I found a man who needed help returning to camp. We took a short walk to a camp full of people. Then he revealed he was a bandit leader and they all attacked me. And thy all died.
I came upon a fort filled with bandits. I cleared it out no problem. When I exited I found a man who wanted me to clear the fort of bandits and open the front gate. Both of which I already did. So that was an easy quest.
Next I enter a dungeon and a woman asks me to help her find treasure. She stands around while I fight Draugr to find a way to open a gate. We get in the final room. It's a trap! She runs towards the chest and the floor raises her up, right into a MASHY SPIKE PLATE. The raised floor revealed a stairwell leading to a Word Wall with the second word of Animal Allegiance.
The next bandit hideout I stumbled into was complete and utter devastation. Falmer had broken through a rear wall and slaughtered all the bandits. So I slaughtered all the Falmer. On my way out, some more bandits arrived and assumed I killed the others. So I killed them, too.
Next I climbed to the tippy-top of a mountain and met a Stormcloak captain who wanted my help retrieving a Dragon Priest mask from the dungeon. He seemed a little shady, so I pickpocketed him. He was an impostor. So I killed him, lest another, less intelligent, traveler fall for his tricks. I noticed the Word Wall was right there up on the ruins' battlements. I climbed up some nearby rocks and used Whirlwind Sprint to jettison myself onto them, getting to the wall before I should have. Hehehe. I dropped back down and entered the dungeon. I fought through Draugr and ghosts of the cultists, eventually getting to the final chamber and killing the Priest.
My Conjuration was finally high enough to do the College quest, so I went there and started it. All I needed to do was summon an Unbound Dremora and get him to agree to do my bidding. Doesn't sound dangerous at all. I had to “kill”/banish him two times before he gave in the third time I summoned him. I had him bring me a stone from the planes of Oblivion, and returned that stone to the mage. He needed it for something, I don't know what, but he gave it back. I took it down into the basement of the college; lo and behold, it was the item that could be placed in the Atronach Forge.
I continued my travels and found a very large Forsworn camp. By the word wall were two Hagravens working on a Briarheart. I killed them and got the second word of Become Ethereal. I jumped off a nearby waterfall and met a Bard ghost. Apparently he jumped but didn't survive. He played me a song that increased my Speech.
During my previous adventures, I decided to go for the break-out-of-jail achievement. Since I'm such an upstanding member of society, I saved before hand. I walked into Riften and killed a beggar to get arrested. I picked the lock on my door and fought the guards. It took me a minute to remember that I could still use magic. My fists weren't doing any good, so I lit everyone on fire. Once I broke out and got the achievement, I loaded my previous save.
Also today, I did a wee bit of modding with the Creation Kit. Awwwww yeah. B)
I changed the one-handed perk Savage Strike. The description says it makes standing power attacks do +25% damage and adds a chance to decapitate your enemies. That sounds like it would make some attacks be an instant kill; what it actually means is that it adds a decapitation animation that randomly plays when you kill an enemy. I was disappointed to say the least when I found out the truth. I modded it to have a 5% chance to do a critical hit for... well, enough damage to instakill anything. While I was running around killing things to test it, I never once saw it work. I changed the chance to 100% to make sure I did everything right and tried again. It worked. It worked real good. Once I had my fun killing everything with a single power attack (and learning my modification did indeed work), I changed it back to 5%.
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