Had a gut-wrenching narrow escape for Lydia the other day. Was exploring (looting) a falmer cave with my level 12 DiD character and Lydia. Reached the end to find a pair of dwemer doors, so we opened them and peered through to see what awaited us. The sight of much dwarven metal and loot guarded only by a falmer gloomlurker got us both excited so we both charged in. As we closed in on the falmer, the mist in the room lifted in time to reveal a dwemer steam centurion installed on the back wall. "oh god please don't come to life" I thought as I clashed with the gloomlurker.
As if it had read my mind it promptly lurched to life, and the next thing I knew my screen was filled with steam and my health was dropping like a stone. Somehow I managed to stumble out of immediate danger, barely alive and convinced Lydia was dead, I ran back towards the surface. However halfway back I was blown away to hear her clumping footsteps behind me. Not only did she survive, she disengaged from the fight too, the clever sod...
Haha, I remember that place. Fortunately for me, I thought it was very suspicious to only find one enemy in such a dark room filled with loot, so I sneaked around. I still got scared the bejeebus out of me when I suddenly noticed the centurion, I almost walked straight into its back while sneaking around and keeping the falmer within sight. It had already activated itself beforehand somehow. Oh, and it was my first Dwemer Centurion meeting.
