So, I'm decorating Heljarchen Hall when I run out of large antlers. Time to go hunt I figure, but before I'm ready to do so, I step outside my front door just to drop off my decorating materials into that chest beside the carpenter workbench.

Just as I step outside, a deer barrels straight into me all like, "Bro! Watchyerself!" and then just pimp-walks away from me. So, this is exactly what I'm looking to hunt, but all I've got on me right at that precise moment is a pickaxe, robes, and some decorating crap. "Whatever, it's just a deer." I tell myself as I begin pursuit, pickaxe in hand.

So, I'm chasing the thing and it's night, so it's quite dark, and because I can't one-hit it with my pickaxe, the chase starts to go on a little longer than I'm comfortable with. At this point, I figure one of two things will happen: 1) I'll finally make the kill or 2) I'll run afoul of something or someone quite hostile that I won't be able to dispatch with a pickaxe and some leather strips. I ultimately decide to continue the pursuit concluding: "Worst-case scenario: Before I kill the deer, I'll run into some real baddies in which case I'll simply turn around and haul it back to the house." No biggie, right?

Wrong. The chase goes on and I can see in the darkness ahead of me that the deer has suddenly stopped. "He must be stuck on something!" I say to myself with much elation, as I raise my axe back and charge headlong towards the deer....

...and just as the axe is about to come down, the friggin' deer leaps out of the way. My arm swings at thin air and the rest of me falls directly into a pit of spikes just outside of Halted Stream Camp. Seconds later, I'm dead.

Most. Embarrassing. Hunt. Ever.

i would make a refrence to a certin bear....but i wont

The prey trapped you there, that was some smart deer.

I love reading your posts.

Now this could be worse, how about you survived the fall but had not cleared the halted spring camp, you are so happy you survived you press save.
You then pass the load door to the camp overwriting the auto save. Now you are in the middle of an bandit camp with an robe and an pickaxe.

Love it!

BTW I never expected that a side benefit of HF would be increased pickaxe combat! My son told me I could dual-wield pickaxes to get stone pretty fast by "attacking" it, which I didn't know about before this. So then some random vampires show up while I'm quarrying... use what ya got!

Lol, that is one smart Deer.

Wow smart deer i would say you got out foxed but it was a deer

You wanted a deer, the deer gave you one at the bottom of the pit . Not sure if it has large antlers though.

Shoulda brought a bow..... or a horse

^{Did the deer go "meep meep" too?}

Glorious!

That's pretty much the best Skyrim story I read so far

I thoroughly enjoyed your story. Please, tell me more!

Oh deer another shaggy dog story

....right into the Acme spike pit.....

Awesome read.

I lol'd. =P

Final score:
Deer: 1
Dovahkiin: 0

Great story!!

Yeah

Somewhere in the myriad alternate realities of Skyrim, there exists one where my character's head has been mounted to a tree in some thicket. That deer and his family are doubtless enjoying their new decoration.

ok

Most epic hunt ever, I would say.
Hircine is proud of you.

This is pretty funny, though I would have just gotten up and walked away after that

And now I don't feel bad for murdering that exact deer you were just talking about. It's too devious to be left alive!

Edit: nvm, I killed the Lakeview deer.

This was entertaining, you don't draw by any chance? Making cartoon strips of this could be even more funny!