Interesting face-palm moment for me. (An ongoing thread)

[SomeNoobWithCE]

First off, my mod list... let's get this out of the way. I have just under eighty or so mods going on my game, some of them cosmetic but all of them are lore friendly. None of them are going to completely turn the game into an easy dance to Big Al and most of them Gopher has used at one time or another. I have done a lot of facepalm worthy things in this game. I mean, there are some really duh things you find along the way to the 'end' of Skyrim and then there are face-palm worthy ones. Some of these things you would think to yourself "Man, why did I think this would work?" and then when I can't answer myself I just reload and try it again. So with that said... let's get to some memorable ones.

 

So, i'm playing a Nord Blood-Archer template character that is going along swimmingly. I'm using the Better Vampires mod and I have been a vampire for just about 20 levels or so. This gives me, I feel, a good understanding of my class and how it's played with the Vampire set-up. Apparently, this gives me zero information or the common sense needed to realize that NPC's do not take very kindly to you draining blood from corpses not ten feet away from you. Take for example the time when Galmar Stonefist and me got into a tif because I decided to tap a vein on a dead Imperial soldier. Yeah, let's just say he didn't buy the line I gave him about bathing in the blood of my enemies. The other Stormcloaks, completely oblivious as to what was going on, decided to side with Galmar against the unblooded... which led to me putting everybody but Galmar down. Yeah, well... reload two ... needless to say I decided to wait till everyone went around the corner before putting a line in an arm.

 

Now, one of the interesting things about being a Vampire is the fact that you DIE in sunlight depending on what difficulty you have it set on. I of course play it as hard as I can possibly get it... which means direct sunlight kills you in a matter of seconds. So.. let's move on to my moment in Falkreath where I am smithing away happily so I can get a little higher in smithing to get improvements into the tree. Here I had it in my head that... well I need to sell all this and i'm encumbered... that's ok i'll just wait until Lod comes outside with Isobel and i'll sell everything to them and move along. The part I didn't realize was that due to my light settings with Better Vampires... the forge put off even more light which caused the shadowy area I was in previously to not be so shadowy anymore. I wasn't powerful enough to fog the area as a vampire, so here I am waiting for them to come by on the front porch so I can get unencumbered. Yeah, well, it's about this time a Blood Dragon decides to stop by to say hello to everyone. This puts me in a slight pickle as he's a fire breather and uh, yeah, i'm weak to fire. So I did what any self respecting vampire would have done in this moment! I popped an invisibility potion and hid crying in a corner hoping that Lydia and the guards can put this down.

I'm going to post more stories but for the time being let me give you these just to show you what a wild ride it's been. Skyrim has been out for quite some time now and it never ceases to amaze me how I always find my way back to walk through snow and ice to enjoy moments like this. More to come....

Edited July 4, 2015 by SomeNoobWithCE