Writer's Block: Winter wonderland

[Error: unknown template qotd] Well I think everyone knows the answer to that. If I had the money I'd probably go and live in Austria on a mountain for the Winter.  I don't actually like being cold, but I love the snow so much--and all the fun that comes with it, like sledging, ski-ing etc that I forgive it. Perhaps it's the way that it makes everything lighter and brighter in these dark days or the way it whitewashes everything and even places like London are made icing-beautiful for a few minutes. I'd hate to live somewhere where there were no seasons.  My parents lived in Spain for several years but got bored with waking up to blue skies every single day... The tropics have never interested me, just going to a tropical island to lie on a beach is dullsville.

Something for nothing! yay!

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Note to self:

Do not read Quest Walkthroughs after you’ve just done a quest.

As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of RPGs in general (all the geeky statistics bore me) but I’ve been slowly advancing with Oblivion, finding quests and doing them without any help and have got to level five. I have a nifty fireball which kills off anything on my level usually with one blast. (yeah - one spell, pathetic isn’t it?)  Yesterday I completed a quest and I was so proud of myself for not only doing it without any bloodshed, not getting arrested pleasing the (rather handsome) captain of the guard (my avatar is a lovely girly boy) AND stealing a load of loot without anyone noticing. End result: Ulrich--the corrupt ex-captain of the guard is thrown into prison. Hurrah!

Then I made the mistake of reading the quest walkthrough—just to make sure I’d done all I could do…And found this:

“It might be worth saving this quest until after XXX quest as Ulrich is a handy man to have in a fight and can’t be killed.”

ARGH.  And I’ve had him thrown in jail. buggerit.  And now I’m an Assassin and I’ve joined a shady Assassin cult and I get to wear cool black. Whee!

oo! I just won a small lottery prize – I got three numbers!  I haven’t had three numbers for ages. It’s only a tenner, but it’s better than a punch on the nose!

 

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