Day Four: Another three bite the dust

It’s 9:31 when I wake up and get ready to leave. The sky’s somewhat clear, and here’s the scene at Fisherman’s Rock in the morning:

I admire my handiwork and prepare for the long walk. This time, however, I’ll go straight to Leyawiin, hugging the coast.

After walking for half an hour, it suddenly begins to rain. However, the rain is short, and leaves as quickly as it comes. Ten minutes later, it rains again, and stops just as fast.

It’s on and off rain when I arrive at the Amelion Tomb:

Leyawiin also comes into view here, and the sky finally clears.

A bit later, I spot a mudcrab, and draw my big honkin’ axe:

The axe takes up about half my screen, and so I imagine it will be a pain when I get into some real battles.

I power-pwn the mudcrab with a One-Hit-K.O. Oddly enough, in addition to the crab meat, which I eat, It had a Septim. Seems like the mudcrab bandits are on the rise!

It’s 1:24 when I arrive to Leyawiin. I chat with the guard, who I’ve named Greg, and continue into town.

I pass by this farmer guy, who for some strange reason reminds me of a hobbit:

I decide to not dawdle and sell my stuff immediately, so I head over to Best Goods and Guarantees. A Khajiit named Ra’Jahiir is in front of the store, so I stop and talk a bit with him before entering. To the elf inside I sell all the loot I got except for an iron dagger, the bow, and the arrows, which I might need later. I finish with 192 Gold! Yee-haw! Grugzob has officially entered the Triple Digit Days! Also, I have done Leyawiin a great service by ensuring that they now have stuff to sell to any other traveling adventurers. I eat an apple and a piece of beef, and walk next door to The Dividing line, where I buy some outrageously overpriced repair hammers.

Well… This doesn’t look too hard.. I mean, all you really have to do is hit the things with the hammers… So I do.

I break one of the two, and leave to Castle Leyawiin to talk with the Count. On the way there, I see a cat which insists on following me wherever I go. So I give it a power-chop with my axe, which doesn’t kill it, but does send it running away. I use my second repair hammer on the axe, and break the hammer.

Damn Cats.

Anyway, The Count of Leyawiin is in the place I left him, so I walk up and ‘initiate conversation’. He thanks me for my service, and to my surprise:

A knight! Surely this is my first step towards Nobledom! I eagerly accept his offer. Of course, nothing comes easily, and he gives me something to do:

Aww man! More Orc killing? When asked where Brugo is, he tells me to ask Mazoga, who has since come back to the castle. She tells me that he’s hiding out in Telepe, the ruin I passed while exploring on my second day here. Didn’t look like much of a bandit hideout to me back then, though.

So without further ado, I set off, with Mazoga staying closer behind me. In front of the West Gate, I see a bunch of those cats trying frantically to leave Leyawiin. Seems word has got around about my little chop-chop back there:

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Damn Cats.

Anyway, The walk to Telepe is pretty uneventful. It’s 6:34 when I arrive, and since I’m here a bit early, I decide to have a short name and tell Mazoga to wake me up in four hours. However, a stinging thought in the back of my head says that If I got to sleep, someone will sneak up on my and put a knife through my back, so I decide to wait it out instead.

After a half an hour of waiting, Mazoga suddenly pulls out her sword and walks up to the edge of the ruin, looking up. I do so too, and spot a Dunmer bowwomen on top of the ruin, probably an accomplice of Black Brugo. Odd that she was absent the first time I came around. I run around the back, trying to find a way up to where she is.

When she hits me with an arrow, my endurance begins to drain. Bandit’s sappin mah endurance!… Now where have I heard that before…?

I launch some flare spells at her, but miss:

Up until this moment, however, she seemed more pre-occupied with Mazoga than with me, so she leaves me alone. However, while backing up to get a clearer shot at my orc friend, she falls off the ruin (survives), and turns around to face me, pulling out a dagger.

I begin to walk towards her, cornering her, and then it happens.

“Die, Orc Filth!”

The words come out so fast I don’t even have enough time to go berserk. Instead, I yell a guttural war cry, attack her with a power chop, and she folds like the mud crab earlier in the day:

The bitch deserved it. WHO’S THE FILTH NOW, HUH??

I loot her for all she has and leave her lying naked where she is.

I go back around the ruin, lie down on the bedroll, and tell Mazoga to wake me up in three hours.

Three hours later, I get up. It’s dark, and I get into a crouch, hiding behind a rock, preparing an ambush for the bandit’s arrival. Mazoga, however, doesn’t take an example from me, and instead, stands dumbly in the middle of five gazillion torches. Needless to say, my ambush fails when I hear an Orc yell

“Who’s There!?”

Mazoga draws her sword and runs up to the source of the voice, slashing him and his two accomplices.

A very short fight ensues in which several main things happen:

1) I chop down a redguard bandit with me good old’ choppin’ axe.

2) Mazoga slices up a breton banit with her sword

3) My skeleton buddy finishes off Brugo with a wave of his war axe. Good old axes. They’ve yet to fail me.

I proceed by my usual method of obtaining cash, and find a neat Black Bow on all three of their bodies:

Cool. Maybe that’s why they call them the BLACK BOW BANDITS?

Anyhow, I also find this neato key on Brugo’s person:

It probably opens a chest somewhere inside the ruin, which I’ve learned is the Bandit’s base of operations. I don’t really feel like going into there now, since it’s late and there’s probably more bandits inside. Instead, I talk with Mazoga, who says she’ll go back to the castle, ecstatic at being a knight. I decide to go to bed on the conveniently placed bedroll:

And so ends fay dour.