User blog:Daestar/Crusader's Journal

This blog post... Blog... Thing... Is similar to the Journal of a Mage I made a few years back and I will try to link here: Here. This new character will be a crusader and a good person. His basic rules are as follows.

 Race: Breton

Skills: Heavy Armor

One-Handed

Restoration

Destruction

Smithing



Rules:

If I die I stay dead.

Following the laws and trying to do good deeds.

Ignore the tutorial. It happened. Trust me.

Avoid fast travel.

Only looting really valuable stuff when it comes to things to sell (Enchanted items, gems, rare books etc.)



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Crusader's Journal
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Day 1:
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;">I have finished my preparations in Solitude and am now ready to go and change the world. At least a little. Enough. I suppose helping people is the better wording. I could have chosen a better day, seeing as the execution happened today, but at least as the people were leaving the executioner gave me my first job. Killing some criminal. Probably more than just one though, and it's in the middle of seemingly nowhere. Then again, I'm sure there will be plenty of adventure along the way too. If not, then I just won't write about it. Simple as that I suppose. Hunting criminals seems to help the world, so I don't feel too bad about my first good act to be helping an executioner with his job.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;">So I found a ship which questionably counted as adventure. I don't know if the crew attacked me on sight for being on their ship or because they were pirates. The ship itself had good loot though, but one thing in particular got my attention. There was a sort of pink floating gem in the first mate's quarters which I found. It seemed different from most other gems for some reason. Probably because it was floating. Then I realized that I am catching on to the secret of success. It's just a matter of concentration.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;"> I then realized I was going down the wrong path when I went to the wrong grotto and got attacked by horkers instead of bandits. I was disappointed. At least I got to mark the lighthouse on my map on my way back. Upon arriving to the grotto I saw a live campfire. I'm not sure if it was made by the bandits or if this means other people have been here.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;"> Upon entering the grotto I was attacked by bandits and saw no sign of anyone else, so I guess that solves that. I killed the leader and found a journal in his room that connects him and Jaree-Ra, an argonian I've seen suspiciously hanging around Solitude, in a sort of pirate operation. It also mentioned a stash of treasure from that operation which I then picked through. I'll keep an eye on Jaree-Ra, but the journal doesn't actually say anything exact enough to get him into any trouble. I'll just hope I've thrown enough of a wrench into his operation for now. I've done things the hard way. But without taking risks, taking responsibility for failure... how could I have understood?

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;"> Nothing much happened on the return trip. I fought a horker. Found out the other grotto with horkers in it was on the way if I didn't loop back and travel along the cliffs. I'll be sure to remember that for any other time I need to throw wrenches at Jaree-Ra. Ahtar gave me a whole 500 gold for killing a bunch of guys. That means all in all I made a couple thousand gold off this entire adventure. I used it to then buy steel armor from the smith. It's still around the afternoon so I think I'll venture out from Solitude to find more adventure for the rest of the day.