Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20161101184239

The time has come! Having recovered from the inconvenience of being zapped to another dimension by a treacherous guy with red eyes and a hoarse evil voice (who could have known?), Emperor Uriel Septim VII made the dubious decision of entrusting me, a Dark Elf Assassin with a shady past, with a mission of the utmost importance.

I have to placate some ghost (I hope they sell holy water around those parts) and find some lost letter (judging by my experience from Arena, the letter is probably split into 8 parts that are kept in 8 different dungeons). Then it seems I was caught in some offscreen storm and ended up in some dungeon. And this is where this misadventure shall begin.

The only challenge thus far was to get used to looking up and down (didn't have such fancy stuff in Arena), also the new running and crouching mechanics. Combat seems somewhat easier and more manageable now, even if I am mostly facing rats and flying rats (bats). Exiting the dungeon confronted me with something that I feel would often happen in this game - not knowing what to do next. So I travelled to the nearest town to check my options.

I felt an urge to try out my old thieving ways and found out that pickpocketing and breaking into houses has suddenly become much harder. I also found out guards can appear out of nowhere. Instead of surrendering, though, I tried my Ebony Dagger on them (I got it from the little quiz that I did while creating my character's backstory) and I killed a bunch of them before running away (using the new "run" button). So yeah - my first contact with civilization did not go very well.

Went to another town and this time decided to play it nice. So I did what I used to do in Arena - asked people for rumors. The only thing I learned was that some shopkeeper needed help - since I had nothing better to do, I went there. The guy's wife was apparently kidnapped and he wanted to me to travel to some place and pay up some ransom. But, he also mentioned the option of not paying the ransom and finding an alternate way to free her.

When I arrived to the other town I got a letter, which I suppose is the beginning of the elusive main quest. I will go and meet with that lady as soon as I finish my current thing. Speaking of which, I went to the house in question (it was locked, of course, forcing me to clumsily break in) and met some shady dude... I wanted to be a noble hero and all, so I refused to pay and was confronted with some thug. Killed the thug and found a note on him, telling me the location of the missing wife. When I left the house, there were more guards out to get me, so I had to resort to dagger diplomacy again (well, so much for being noble). The dungeon with the missing wife was close by, so I decided it wouldn't endanger answering the letter I got. I went to the dungeon, fought centaurs and other nasty stuff. Found the wife after a while and took her back to her happy husband (so, I am a nice guy after all).

I went and met the woman who sent me the letter. She identified three kingdoms as the main players in the bay, so I suppose my focus should be on them. Daggerfall is obviously the closest capital city, so this is where I'll be going next... hoping to find some answers.

(another glorious day for the Daggerfall postal service)  