» Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:29 pm
First Character – “Blind” Dead is Dead.
Adrastos the Redguard, born on the 9th day of Sun’s Dusk in the year 4E182. Expert Difficulty.
Hailing from the town of Elinhir, he left home to seek his fortune, which was the last anyone had heard of him until he turned up on an imperial prison convoy, and the rest is, as they say, history.
During the battle of Helgen, he got lost, disorientated and ended up following the Stormcloak soldier, instead of the legion guard. His bitterness towards the imperials is not equal to a hatred for them, a view he is reassured to have after hearing about how the rebels have thrown Skyrim into chaos. With the equivalent saying to “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” firmly in his mind, he politely accepts the hospitality of the Stormcloaks, stays the night, and leaves early in the morning. He was raised to believe that Thalmor and the destructive magic associated with them were evil, having seen firsthand the wounds inflicted on veterans of The Great War and Hammerfell’s Resistance, and heard firsthand about the evil of the Thalmor. From the equipment he has available he keeps a hunting bow and sword, and sells the rest.
As fortune has it, he finds his way to Bleak Falls Barrow, fending off a couple of bandit ambushes and conquering their fortress. During this time he discovers he is completely out of touch with a bow. He selects the most useful gear to him, abandoning the legion heavy armor in favour of more manoeuvrability with light armor – an ironic choice. His name means: "not inclined to run away".
In the barrow, he had some close calls with Draugr and traps. There was one point where he lured a restless draugr from the second Draugr room back into the swinging spike gate, only to receive a glancing blow himself and go from completely healthy to only millimetres away from death.
In the depths of the barrow, he encountered another restless Draugr who blasted him with lightning. He didn’t like that at all - another one had already given him a close shave with it. So he ran away, hiding next to a waterfall and a dead rat, and deciding to give Bleak Falls up as a bad job before something nastier happened.
Anyway. He comes back out of the pit, starts to leave the dungeon, and walks straight back into the same room with the same restless draugr. Realising he had made a potentially fatal error, he panicked, and in his fear discovered an aptitude for destruction magic. Having conquered that foe, he decided it was a sign from the divines to continue onwards.
He had taken the viewpoint at this time that survival was all that mattered, and placed traps between himself and the enemy whenever possible.
In the final room of the barrow, he ran into a strange wall, which started glowing. Thinking he had had WAY to much mead, he couldn't help but notice that after he read an ancient word off of it from a language he didn't understand, a draugr Overlord started climbing out of its coffin. Correctly deciding that anything that wakes up when you read words can’t be at all good, he hightailed it out of the chamber, before peppering the overlord full of arrows.
Lessons I had learned at this point:
Kiting is Cheap and nasty.
Draugr are best dealt with by not entering barrows.
The scaling is vicious.
After wandering over to Whiterun, meeting a dragon at the watchtower, running up to the top of the watchtower, and filling it full of arrows, he felt pretty damn invincible, so he started doing some jobs for the locals. He was almost blown to Oblivion while trying to retrieve Nettlebane from a Hagraven, and ended up letting Lydia tank her.
He met a wisp mother, at level 7, he watched the wisp mother one shot Lydia, at level 7, and he ran away from the wisp mother, at level 7.
He slowly made his way back towards Riverwood for some much needed sleep and rest.
It was on the 23rd of Last Seed, 6 days after escaping Imperial Custody, when his body washed ashore in Riverwood.
The townspeople were puzzled as to what could have caused the death of this incredibly lucky warrior. It was his Housecarl Lydia who explained what happened to them.
While making his way back into town, he encountered two dead sabercats, and the old orc who had killed them. After taking up the offer to give him an honourable death, he realised he was utterly outclassed and ran away, diving into the river from a low cliff to escape, only to land on a submerged rock go into shock from his injuries and drown.
Which I guess is kind of the point lol...but maybe too much, I dunno. I'm thinking adept or expert? Adept at level 16, still seemed rather easy...so I dunno. And I prefer keeping it the same difficulty throughout the game, can't explain why, but I prefer staying with the same throughout the character. I've read about people putting it to adept, then expert, then adept, or expert then master...I don't really like that.
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. Deidranna is now lvl26 (?, 27?) and its fun. There are still many challenges, but not every bandit scum will kill me off. 
