Oh dear.
So, I managed to escape Helgen in one piece... Though it was a close call when we had to cross a cave with a bear. My guide told me to be quiet, but I was getting over encumbered (of course) so I needed to get rid of some loot. Which I did rather noisily I'm afraid. Not that the bear seemed to notice...
Then my guide told me we should part ways, yet still kept waiting for me... until there was a fork in the road, at which point he disappeared and I promptly got lost. I found a mine and the guy outside looked friendly enough so I approached him, but he attacked!
Just like that. Shameless. Well, I killed him off, but I couldn't really loot the corpse because.... well, Val knows.
I walked another route and found some magic stones and picked some flowers. Flowers can't weigh much, right? Oops. Then I came across some random bard or something, kept going but felt I was decidedly on the wrong path, tried to cut cross country and encountered a pack of wolves. Backtracked... another wolf, I think. Or possibly other predator. Went back past that bard guy and... hmm... there's a camp over there. I didn't see that before... I wonder if they're friendly?