Dragonborn.

I sat down at my computer after having my tea, a rather nice pizza as a matter of fact. I decided to do a quest or two in Skyrim (the new Elder Scrolls game like you didn't know). At least I set off with the intention of doing a quest or two. Yeah, those plans went right out the window.

So what happened is just an amazing example of why I am totally loving Skyrim.

I load my game and my character is just outside the small settlement of Rorikstead (in the west of skyrim) and I set off on my way towards the start of my next quest. Then I hear a tremendous roar and before I can turn to see what it was that's about to rock my world, a menacing dragon rushes over me and lands over a hill in the distance. Me being a fool decide to go and see if it wants to be friends. It didn't.

Now I didn't expect to be fighting a dragon about two minutes after loading up the game so I was a little in shock. Anyway after my initial attempts to make contact and see if it would like to be friends and drink some mead didn't go over so well I decided an axe to the face is what it needed. A ferocious battle took place draining my already limited inventory of potions (I was meaning to get more) anyway after a handful of hairy moments I finally bring it down with help from Roriksteads guards and Lydia (a companion you can get fairly early on in the game).

This guy carried me for most of the fight

I then go and start walking to the quest location (forgetting I need to re-stock my potions and such) and I get to a place and just start looking around and just thinking of the hard work that the Bethesda dev team put in to making this game look as good as it does. When I hear a familiar roaring sound, I turn around to see what I think is a bear just leaping at me. Then I see it just hit the floor. Then I look up.

Bear attack?

Oh good. . . wait.

OH! F.....

This second dragon encounter barely even 10 minutes from the first one. It was tough. I only had the basic healing spell you get as default and my charm to defeat this guy. The following 15 minutes were a real challenge and amazingly fun. I had to pull every trick out of the bag, unfortunately I couldn't use Lydia as a damage sponge as I fell from a cliff and she took a while to catch up with me. I resorted to the “hide behind a rock” tactic, healing every chance I could and just by pure luck I was able to kill the second dragon.

But things like this happen all the time in Skyrim, not just dragons ganging up on me but interesting side quests, hilarious and intriguing characters to talk to and tons upon tons of that all important loot .

So lets sum it up, I loaded up Skyrim, defeated not one but two dragons within like five minutes of each other. Then to top it all off, I went and caught a butterfly.

-James