Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

When I casually accepted a drinking contest, I didn't expect it to kickstart a quest that I wouldn't complete for another 13 or 14 hours of playtime. Heck, I assumed it would be a couple of minutes of a stamina test or something! Even when it turned out to be A Quest, I assumed it would be a fairly swift and minor one. But no! It's been 'what I'm trying to complete' for almost a third of my total playtime so far.

I've got other quests that have been sat there since, well, the start (so almost 45 hours at this point), but some of those I've been actively putting off and others just ignoring. This was one I was focused on — or trying to focus on! Obviously a good amount of that time came from distractions. Also from my insistance on actually traversing the world rather than teleporting around with fast travel.* But, all in, it feels like it was an epic undertaking. What I assumed was one of the game's many, many minor optional asides (and, I guess, it is) feels, at this point, like the most major storyline I've fully participated in (so far).

* I do allow myself to use it to whoosh to & from storage locations, for the sake of collecting as much loot as possible, and sometimes for trading in that loot; but when progressing 'the story', trekking around it is!