Gaming

Got the latest issue of IFX today and it came with an extra 130 page booklet called The Ultimate Guide to Nintendo!
Erm, why?

Nintendo art? games? games art? tech?

"Why don't you buy the Switch?"
"Why not buy all these games too?"
"And what about all these little figures?"
"And when you're playing, why not wear this Zelda Link Cosplay Hoodie?"

"why don't you sound convinced?"

Finally got rid of that annoying dog (the talking one, not MY dog. My dog is at home with Lydia and my newly acquired cat.)
Actually it hasn't been annoying me that much seeing as I'd completely forgotten about it and left it waiting at the shrine in the mountains.
But then, on the way back after that last dragon fight, I bumped into some healer at a Daedric Shrine who wanted me to collect some ingredients and that made me think of that other shrine and the "New York" dog still patiently sat there. May as well finish that quest, I said to myself, let's get it out of the way.
So I travelled to the shrine, went with the dog on a long "walkees" to the far north to grab the magic axe and then... had to walk the dog all the way back to the shrine again!
Anyway, without spoiling that particular ending, I completed the quest and I'm glad I made the choice that I did as I now have the Masque of Clavicus which boosts my Speech stat!
Now I can finally get better prices from merchants! Not THAT much better, sadly. Only 20%
But it's better than nothing.
The only problem now is that I have to wear it and I look like some kind of horned demon while shopping.

EDIT: Hey, wanna trade some second-hand goods? Yes, of course I'm just a normal customer, don't all your patrons have these magnificent horns above their sweet metal faces?

You know what it's like after a long journey. There's no place like home. So I thought I'd relax a bit, cook up a sweetroll or something, maybe do a bit of enchanting in the basement, watch the mannequins almost move in that Doctor Who way. But overall, just chill out for a bit.
But isn't it annoying when you finally get home and you're just about to go in the door and someone behind you approaches and interrupts you. What is it now? Jehovah's witnesses? Door-to-door salesman? Maybe that guy from the electricity company trying to get me to install a smart-meter? I'm just trying to get into my own home to relax after a long trip! Can't you just leave me alone? And who are you anyway??

*turns around*



Oh, it's a dragon! AT MY HOUSE!!!!

This is like one of those real homes where you move in and only THEN find out there's a noisy airport round the back or maybe it's built above a subway station. Yes, Riverside Lodge is lovely but the brochure didn't mention the dragon that spawns just up there. Maybe he's just popped round to ask for a handful of salt for his salty cooking.
Oh, no, here comes the fire! I guess it'll be me that's cooking!

I got out my sword for the fight but because of the lovely balconies, abundance of trees and the equally lovely bridge over the waterfall, the dragon had nowhere to land so it just flew above out of my range while breathing more fire down on me!
Sadly my archery isn't really good enough for solo dragon shooting (and I think Arissa got swept away by the river! She's OK, she turned up later) so I just had to stand there and take the fire as the thing flapped away in front of me...



Pretty soon there was blood on the camera, some lovely "you're in trouble now" motion-blur and I could even hear my heart beating!
Then I had a brainwave. The obvious one. RUN! Run like a coward.
I gulped a couple of potions and legged it towards Riverwood. Thankfully the landscape opens out a bit more there to allow the dragon to land and allow me to give it some much needed sword to the face!

Phew!
Can I go home and relax now??

what had happened if you had just hid inside your home?

Trust you to have a much better plan!

I shall definitely try that next time.

...or maybe I should have run round the back of the house to hide in the outside toilet!

It would have been like that Jurassic Park scene with the lawyer and the T-Rex. Yes, I know that didn't turn out great for the lawyer but it would be a funny screenshot.
All the best ideas come too late.