I was making my way from Windhelm to the Reach to take care of some CW business, and had a couple stops to make in southern Eastmarch on the way to finish up some favors for residents of the city. By the time I went west and hit the tundra it was getting dark and I was loaded down with loot and so was my buddy Stenvar so we decided to make a pitstop in Whiterun to unload some stuff and get a good night's rest at the inn. (Well, I got a good night's rest... poor Stenvar just sat in a chair outside my room, but such is the life of mere hireling. )

Anyway the next morning we take off across the tundra, forgoing the roads in order to take the shortest possible route to our destination. I see a commotion on top of a nearby hill, a mammoth charging and rearing up. We sneak around to get a better vantage point and also see a giant beating at something with his club. After they're done and wander away we go up the hill and there's a dead bandit. And I think, why in the world would a bandit mess with a giant and a mammoth?

Then I turn and see that the hill overlooks Halted Stream Camp, and now the mammoth and TWO giants are down in front of the camp beating the crap out of something or someone. The two giants actually go IN the camp and there is more crazy club swinging mayhem and then they leave. So we go down there and sure enough they have killed every last bandit who was outside in the camp, one of the bodies is actually floating away in the nearby stream and I have to run after it just so I can loot it in the fine old Skyrim tradition. But still I'm wondering what prompted the giants to go after them like that.

We go in the camp and that's when I see the mammoth skeleton laying there with blood on the ground all around it, and that's when I remember that this is the camp/mine where the bandits in residence also have a sideline in mammoth slaughter.

Apparently the giants had had enough of these lowlifes targeting their herd, thank you very much, and decided to go teach them a lesson. I happened along just in time to witness all the fun.

That had to be awesome to watch!

So I was out for a stroll in Skyrim, can't remember where or why, but all of a sudden a little fox runs out from the shrubs at the side of the road and stops right in front of me, just there looking at me. I'm frozen to spot staring at it, thinking to myself "look at how close it is, its so tame, can i pet it?" As quickly as it came it scampered away back into the undergrowth and I'm back to reality "Oh yeah its a game..."

I've had roughly the same thing happen to me, except it was a rabbit that ran across my path. I stopped to watch it, and a few seconds later, a random stormlcoak soldier comes chasing after it with a two handed sword showting "You won't get a way from me!"

I laughed.

So I was out for a stroll in Skyrim, can't remember where or why, but all of a sudden a little fox runs out from the shrubs at the side of the road and stops right in front of me, just there looking at me. I'm frozen to spot staring at it, thinking to myself "look at how close it is, its so tame, can i pet it?" As quickly as it came it scampered away back into the undergrowth and I'm back to reality "Oh yeah its a game..."

9) The possibility to shoot down birds from the sky

Markarth with its huge stone architecture and the intense political and class warfare going on in the city. You could make a whole game or expansion just on that city alone.

So I was out for a stroll in Skyrim, can't remember where or why, but all of a sudden a little fox runs out from the shrubs at the side of the road and stops right in front of me, just there looking at me. I'm frozen to spot staring at it, thinking to myself "look at how close it is, its so tame, can i pet it?" As quickly as it came it scampered away back into the undergrowth and I'm back to reality "Oh yeah its a game..."

Happened to me a few times. But now that I have an evil mage build... well... it doesn't take long for me to go Emperor Palpatine on his @ss! I almost always get a killcam for it too. Yippee!