Day One: Flowers, Wolves and Lutists

Boziik, in his favourite sleeping position.

The time is 6:11 AM when Boziik Gein wakes up from his peaceful slumber on the shore in what appears to be a very awkward position. He slowly stands up, wavering in his groggy state.

He looks like he’s been severely mugged, wearing nothing but ripped, ragged trousers and his favourite pair of boots. He doesn’t even appear to have his shirt on him, nor can he find it nearby. The bottle of mead in his pack potentially offers an explanation as to why he woke up on the shore with half of his clothing and all of his possessions gone. Last night must have been crazy. He digs around in his pack and manages to find a single green apple and 16 gold pieces…

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In case you missed the list within the synopsis, this is all I shall begin the game with:

Ragged trousers

Ragged boots

16 gold

Green apple

Nord mead

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So I’ve woken up on the shore, I’m not wearing a shirt, I’ve got enough food for a day and enough gold to maybe get me a room tonight if I can find an inn. This is gonna be one rough start!

I look around and notice a waterfall up ahead, and a deer casually mooching around on the other side of the stream. I contemplate swimming across and punching the deer to death for it’s meat, but decide against it because I really don’t want to swim across and get more wet than I already am.

I decide to head in the same direction I must have been travelling all night, and assuming I was taken by the water the same way the current is flowing, I walk with the current. It is not long before I spot a road, maybe 30 meters from the stream. I follow this road when I hear a sound. I drop into a stealthy, secretive crouch and search for the source of this sound. Then I see it! Two wolves howling their little guts out, not far from the road. Luckily, I’m headed in the opposite direction, so I skulk away, out of sight of the wolves.

Now I’m walking along the road, casually strolling, not consulting any maps and singing lovely folk songs to myself. I stumble across some flowers and decide to pick them and stash them in my pack. I stumble across some more flowers and decide to pick them and stash them. I stumble across some more flowers! I pick and stash them, too. Then I stumble across more flowers! By the divines! It’s flower city out here! Look! There’s some more flowers! And more! Before I know it I’m busting at the seams with flowers! Maybe I should become a florist… I also spot an old log with what appears to be Mora Tapinella growing on it. I manage to harvest some of that. By the time I’m finished harvesting, I am in possession of 3 Blue Mountain Flowers, 4 Purple Mountain Flowers, 7 Red Mountain Flowers, 2 Thistle Branches and 2 Mora Tapinella. Not too bad for my first two hours of game time.

I arrive in a city called Riverwood, receiving quite a few strange looks from the local townsfolk and the guards. I am slightly perplexed as to why they are flashing me these looks, then I remember that I’m flashing my entire upper body. Maybe I should find some clothing. Regardless, I make small talk with a few of the locals and am advised to stay away from Sven, and informed that the Riverwood Trader was robbed. How unfortunate. I notice a man named Alvor banging away at a forge, nearby. I talk to him and he decides to give me a history lesson on Riverwood. I politely ask him if I may use his forge. He says sure, but I don’t have any materials to use in the forge. I grumpily turn around and waddle away.

I stumble across The Sleeping Giant Inn, run by Orgnar and Delphine. Rooms here go for 10 gold a night, I discover, so I know I am set for a bed. At least for tonight. Orgnar lets me use his Alchemy lab, and so I experiment a little and manage to mix up a Restore Magicka potion and a Resist Frost potion. Damned Orgnar won’t even buy them from me though. He does, however, buy my leftover ingredients, which he gives me 6 gold for. I head over to the Riverwood Trader, and the clerk there, Lucan, is willing to buy my two potions. He gives me 26 gold for both of them. With my profits so far today, I buy myself some proper clothes and an iron dagger. I decide to head out on the path from the direction I came and see if I can find those two wolves from earlier and take them down.

Staring down the dead wolves.

Eventually I stumble across them again. I assume the sneaking position and creep towards them, but their bloodhound senses pick me up and they both charge at me, full pelt! I whip out my dagger and throw my arms every which way, praying to Akatosh that I land a few blows. Before I know it, they’re both lying on the ground smeared in blood and guts! Feeling very accomplished I skin them for two pelts. I notice a few more flowers a little further off the road and so I walk for a bit in search of a couple of alchemy ingredients. I pick a bunch of flowers when before I know it, the music turns dramatic and another wolf is upon me! I frantically hit every key in an attempt to whip out my trusty iron dagger and thrash at the mouse! Boziik then decides to take matters into his own hands and goes majorly badass on the wolf! The camera changes to a more dramatic angle and Boziik kicks the wolf in the teeth and thrashes his dagger through it’s skull (all in slow motion, mind you). I skin this wolf for it’s pelt and head back to Riverwood. On the way I stumble across Embershard Mine. I am tempted to investigate, but it’s getting late and I want to score that room in the Sleeping Giant before anyone else lays claim to it. I might come back here tomorrow. I also notice a dead rabbit, perhaps killed by one of the wolves I slaughtered. I grab the raw rabbit leg and stash it. I also notice a dead bandit on the side of the road! Jackpot! Poor guy was probably also killed by the wolves. I get majorly excited as I loot his corpse for an Iron Sword and Hide Armour, Boots and Bracers! I dual wield my sword and my dagger (like a boss) and trek the road back to town.

I arrive back at Riverwood and head to the Trader. I offer to sell him the clothes back I bought from him, but he only gives me 1 gold piece! One measly gold piece! I bought those from you for 6, you cheap scumbag! But alas, I buy myself a loaf of bread and head toward the Sleeping Giant Inn.

Once inside, I make small talk with Orgnar, the cook. He mentions that a boy named Aventus Avetino has been trying to contact the Dark Brotherhood. Woah, Dark Brotherhood? Already? Is Skyrim really trying to thrust me into the Dark Brotherhood on my first day? I’m done talking to Orgnar!

I pay Delphine the 10 gold for my room, and take a seat by the fire, hoping to enjoy a nice meal and a bottle of mead, when some guy named Sven walks in with his Lute. One of the locals advised me to stay away from Sven when I first entered the town, and now I see why. Nothing is more annoying that when a ratbag lutist walks in on you while you’re trying to enjoy your apple and mead. But alas, I bore the unbearable torture, then headed to my room to end my first day.

What a successful first day in Skyrim it has been! I am ending the day with an iron sword and dagger, full hide armour, a loaf of bread, a raw rabbit leg, a few mountain flowers and thistle branches and 3 wolf pelts. My gold total, however, is equal to exactly 16, so I haven’t made any sort of profit. At least I haven’t lost any, though! I pick up a book lying on the desk titled The Great War and begin to read, but get bored after the first page, so I put it back down and hit the sack, thus ending Day 1 of Boziik’s Fabulous Adventure in Skyrim.

Shut up, Sven.