So, I didn't see anything on the forums like this, but I know I have some funny things pop into my head when I encountered things in the first play through. I'm hoping more people can add to this and make it a great thread.

1. When Kematu asks what Saadia offered me. "Did she appeal to your honor? Maybe some other base need perhaps?"

My first thought: Wait, I didn't get that dialogue option when I talked to her..damnit, she's hot.

2. Walking around at night for the first time, around Fellglow Keep, with the brightness level turned down for realistic effect. A skeever comes out of nowhere and attacks me.

My first thought: Holy @&^#!!!!, god#$&%#!!!!!!, omg....okay...whew... crap, where did I throw my controller...oh, there it is.

3. Looking around after killing the dragon priest near the portal to Sovngarde.

My first thought: Oooo, look, dragon statues, neat. I'll shoot one with my bow...holy crap, they're real dragons...sonofa...really Todd? Really?

Wow, look at those flowers.
ZOMG I CAN PICK THEM!

Haha, cool, a torchbug.
ZOMG I CAN CATCH IT!
... I just killed it. What have I done?!

I was new to TES, so pretty much everything blew my mind. Oh how I wish I was a newbie again.

My first dwarven centurion. I was like "cool statue" so I wandered over to it and hit the lever next to it to see what it would do...Needless to say my visit to the ruins wasn't very good.

Then I went to the Giants. "maybe they're friendly"....bam..."at least I'm a khajiit, now I get to see the moons up close".


I remember shooting at a torchbug with my bow. I thought I removed it from the world after I hit one because I didn't see it flying...then I looked down and saw its body rolling away. "oh....Cool!" I am the torchbug ranger...fear me.

Since Skyrim wasn't my first TES game I wasn't wowed as much but I got to say my first dragon fight was something. Blackreach was another thing that made my jaw drop. It reminded me of when I first stepped into Shivering Isles, it was like I was on an alien planet.

The first time I innocently slaughtered a chicken and the entire village went postal. "The natives are restless! Run for the hills!" How was I supposed to know that Nords are manically possessive of their fowl!?
And then there was the time a glowing green elk mauled me out of nowhere. I never did find the spriggan that did it, so for the longest time I pinned it on demonic possession. "The power of Christ compels you!"
And when I took the Steady Hand archery perk on, what, my third playthrough? "Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. Giant too close. GIANT WAY TOO CLOSE." One application of Steady Hand later... "I AM TIMELORD! BWAHAHAHA!" In short, very dead giant.

Well, I had been waiting eagerly for Skyrim to come out, as most of us on this board did. I was so pumped up
with anticipation that I had a hard time sleeping the night before 11.11.11.

When the day finally arrived my friend and I drove down to my local gamestore and picked up my Collector's
Edition Skyrim for PC with a free official gameguide as part of the pre-order deal. I rushed home, booted up the
ol' laptop and started the install. When it had finally installed I started up the game, saw the Bethesda Logo sweep
across the screen, and then clicked "new game"...

OH NO!!! The gamewas running on less than 7 frames per second. I was crushed. Demolished. Teared up. All the
while my buddy texted me that he was so excited and that he had entered Riverwood. This wasn't supposed to happen.
I knew that my laptop was plenty powerful enough to run the game... Freaking Bethesda! Buggy crap!

Then after about a week of searching for a solution, another friend suggested a simple solution which fixed everything!
Bam, I was running with 50 fps on medium settings. I was so happy... So, so happy... If anything, that little hiccup actually
made the game even more enjoyable. The problem was the nVidia Optimus technology, that switched between the laptop's
GPU and a lesser GPU to save the battery. Apparently, Skyrim wasn't optimised for this, so the game ran on the lesser GPU
instead of the proper one.

Heh. My first thoughts on Skyrim weren't too charitable. My old computer had one of the weird dual core bugs and was crashing during the intro. Finally got it running and fell in love with the landscape. I'd been playing Nords since Morrowind..my first thought was 'This is where I wanted to be from.'

The thread is supposed to be about funny stuff that popped into your head when you were on your first playthrough, not problems you had loading it lol,

Thought of another one.

1. Walking around Dragonsreach and running into the little snot-nosed Jarl's daughter. "You're a new servant, I take my tea with so and so."

My first thought: Why you little...and I imagined she was Bart Simpson and I was Homer Simpson.

First RPG ever so had a bit of a problem getting used to Lydia following me around everywhere. Left her in Breezehome to do some wandering around. Found the giant camp West of Whiterun so went to take a peek. Had absolutely NO idea I was going to have my a$$ handed to me like that so, on a reload, went back and got Lydia. Snuck back to the camp and was busy positioning myself high up on a rock when I see Lydia go charging in, boldly forward. *sigh* I get prepared for a short and sweet battle and start pinging the giants with arrows.

I notice soon after that I am the only one inflicting damage and think to myself, "Where the heck did Lydia go?" It's at that exact moment that I see her on the downhill trajectory from being launched skyhigh by one of the giants. It wasn't so much the fact that she was shot up in the air that made me laugh so hard...it was the three bounces she took when she landed that had me rolling!! Had to pause the game and get the tears out of my eyes before I could continue!

Walks into Bannered Mare, hands the innkeeper some firewood.

Looks around at all the stuff I can now take with their blessing.

Thinks to myself...that must have been some good fire wood.