A funny thing happened at Shearpoint yesterday; the mountainous Word Wall with a dragon and dragonpriest in tow.
After concluding the Imperial side of the Civil War , Cassandra continues the Main Storyline, and manages to release Thalmor prisoners from both the Embassy and the Ratway in Riftin. But while her Blade associates make their way elsewhere, the Dragonborn decides to gather a few close Shouts, as her spells and repetiore need bolstering before encountering Alduin again.
Our heroine finally arives atop the mountain (over 900+ hrs, and I still get lost finding paths), and manages to get a decent stealthed sniping roost away from a sleeping dragon. After a rather nasty wake-up call in the form of an Elven arrow, the drake takes flight with a couple more shots for good measure. This is where things became a bit wierd, as Cassandra noticed the sound of falling arrows close to her position, and she had thought her aim was better than that. Oh well....
While still under stealth and a few more shots at a hovering Blood Dragon later, Cassandra places a killing shot to the drake near the Word Wall, and carefully makes her way down the boulders towards the corpse in order to get gain needed power and Shouts. Cue the awakening Dragonpriest, and a needed retreat back up the boulders to the sniping nest.
But unlike past encounters that I have seen here, the Priest seems to almost immediately spot the location and begins to spam Fireballs at me... er, her... us, as the spells miss a safe distance away, but ruin the day for the lesser trained Stormcloak avenger above the nest. So that is where those falling arrows originated!
The Priest ascends the steep incline far to the right and vanishes from view, and the smoldering Stormcloak disappears, too. Now unable to go back up the hill, as Cassandra had dropped to the lower elevation of the nest from a ledge, she waits to see who appears. And waits, and waits some more. Nobody. And after several minutes, the Dragonborn decides to descend again towards the Word Wall, and make a stand there.
So after gaining the desired Shouts and dragon soul, Cassandra sneaks her way back up the mountain in search of the Dragonpriest, and soon notices the hovering sack of bones staring up the path with his back to her. One shot later, the mask is collected, and now the search continues for the Stormcloak, but all she finds is her grazing steed safe and well away from the fire fight.
Now I wish I could say that the horse killed the Stormcloak, but no body was ever discovered, and I play with the same cautionary mindset as I have for TV and films (ie; no corpse means the possibility of life). And I used Quick Travel to return to Whiterun, so I am feeling somewhat secure. But what I find amusing is that this robed Dragonborn managed to clear Shearpoint with less required healing than any previous encounter, and all due to an avenging AI.
Modifié par Elhanan, 08 juillet 2012 - 02:19 .