When I was at the countryside and I was thinking about the new Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, being released soon. Then I suddenly thought about that I had to get my car license. I linked them together and thought that I shouldn't play Skyrim before finishing my theory car exam.... Damn... The idea was born and I didn't want to get off it any more. So I studied and did my exam Wednesday. It was harder than I thought it'd be but... I passed!
Passing meant that I could play Skyrim. I pre-ordered it earlier already and got the game yesterday (got it for Xbox360 since I secretly love my Xbox a lot). When I got home I only had an hour to play since me and my mother planned to go to the book convention in my town. I don't think any other country has such a big book convention as we do. It's 4 huge halls filled with stances of publishers with their books. To a lot of Belgians it's a habit of going there every year, including me.
My mother told me when we got back she planned on buying only a single book. She failed. I didn't plan on buying only one book but if I didn't hold myself back I would've bought so much more than I did now. We bought together 11 books. I got 4 books (Eragon, known from the movie; a book about a family with a lot of pets; a book about the one child rule in china; and a book about a Belgian family with a triplet where two girls got cystic fibrosis) and 2 mangas (Inuyasha3 and Bleach3) and my mother got 4 books and a cookbook (cookbooks are really popular in Belgium lately). By the way, 10 books in a bag makes a bag heavy. True fact!
When we got home (after passing the Quick, sort of Mac Donalds but better) I could play Skyrim again. I played till like 1am. I don't know if I can spoil things here but... Ah who cares it's my blog. I had to run from a dragon in the beginning and ended up with a friend in underground halls. When I got out of this halls and arrived on a mountain I hold my breath. I saw the snowy mountains around me, the plants, animals between the trees and sweet music soared through my ears. After running through the underground dark halls this moment was amazing. I got off the road immediately to ran between the trees and look around me. And you know what? There are no ******* invisible walls! You can walk on every rock (unless it's too steep) which is useful since I got surrounded by rocks on a certain moment. Not that I was surprised to reach such a point. I was on a huge mountain and I didn't see much more than mountains besides the river when I went down.
Anyway, after a while I reached the town where I had to be for my quest and talked to a guy that gave me some food (carrots, salad, potatoes, cheese, bread...) and other things such as material to make armour. I tried to figure out how to make armour (since I mostly fail at figuring that out) and realized it wasn't that hard at all, though I lacked materials. I got send to another town to warn some guy that there was a dragon spotted. I slept in a bed first so I'd be able to walk during the day and started my journey. The town wasn't that hard to find (just following the question mark on my navigator) but the world around me was huge and side quests kept appearing in my diary (diary is like your quest log). I reached the small castle, warned the guy that looked like a king and got send on another quest. I decided to do one of my side quests before I'd continue my main quest and left the town to go to the university to learn some magic.
I see that I'm writing too much already so I won't tell you too many details any more. I got attacked by thieves, killed them and stole their horse, rode with that horse to the university (I thought I was crossing the whole map though, but I was just riding a small piece of the map...) and went with some other pupils to a cave. There some strange stuff happened and I had to get further in the cave. After that I was so tired that I went to bed. What a game...
On the picture you also see a map. I got that map together with my game since I pre-ordered it. It's supposed to from Fabric but it's plastic fabric I think... No complains though! It's a cool map. I also got a second Xbox controller so I can play with others on my Xbox.
