It suddenly strikes me that in Hour 6 I vowed to murder the foul Orc in Cheydinal who called me a "little fly". In fact I vowed to murder all of the Orcs in that particular Inn, but I said I would murder him most of all. Back then I was weak and ill-prepared for violence of any kind, but now I'm the head of the Mages Guild and an active member of an assassin death-cult, with an inventory full of arcane and deadly artefacts. No longer can the Orc's offensive comment go unpunished! I travel back to Cheydinhal and find the inn - Newlands Lodge. The Orcs aren't there so I wait around, and before long the brutes come sauntering in. Here's the doomed one, insulting me to my face again as he stuffs his own with bread and mead:
I wait until the dead of night and break into his house. He's fast asleep in bed, but unfortunately he shares his room with another Orc. That doesn't stop me, though. I immolate him with magical flames and soon his pitiful life is snuffed out of existence. I turn to his friend to repeat the process, when all of a sudden a city guard bursts in and tries to arrest me!
What the hell? No one saw me break in. How is a guard here so quickly? I 'resist arrest' and run away. I run out of Cheydinhal and into the bleak night, with the entire city guard in pursuit. A series of strange events then ensues...
Firstly, as I sprint down the path away from Cheydinhal, I see the unicorn walking along the path. I haven't seen this beast in, what 25 hours? Why it's suddenly shown up now I have no idea. The timing couldn't be better, though, and I leap onto its back and gallop away.
Next, as I'm riding along a few minutes later, a Minotaur attacks the unicorn. Not so strange, perhaps - I've come across Minotaurs in the wild before. The difference is, though, all of the random wild Minotaurs I've fought have carried no weapons. The only ones with weapons were the three which guarded the unicorn - the first three I ever fought. And this Minotaur wields a weapon - a hammer - just like they did. That, and the fact that it ignores me and goes straight for the unicorn (which fights back) unsettled me somewhat.
Lastly, I dismount the unicorn further down the road when a lone Imperial Legion soldier tries to attack me. News travels fast, it seems, and now even the military want the Archmage dead for the oh-so-terrible crime of killing that worthless Orc. I easily slay the soldier, then use the Staff of Worms to resurrect him just to see what happens. To my horror, he attacks me once resurrected! What?! What good is the staff if my enemies attack me when I raise them? But Mannimarco didn't attack me when I raised him. How odd.
After slaying the soldier for a second time, I ponder what to do as I gaze upon the silhouetted White-gold Tower looming in the dark distance.
I decide to carry out one more revenge-killing - against the filthy Dunmer Alval Uvani who threatened me in Hour 7, in Bruma. It's also a good excuse to traverse the northern path and get into a few scrapes. Along the way, I encounter and kill a full-size Ogre (possibly my first? I'm not sure), two bandits with expensive weapons, two bears, and a mountain lion. Not a bad tally, and it's with relief that I reach the snowy walls of Bruma itself... only to be greeted by a furious group of Bruma guards swinging their swords at me! How on earth did news of my murder get here so fast? I dodge the guards and head into Bruma anyway, but Alval's nowhere to be found, and upon further research it turns out he actually travels all over Cyrodiil. Curses! I will kill the wretch one day, but it seems he's safe for now. Looks like I'd better track down Armand Christophe in the Imperial City now to see if I can get my bounty lifted (it's currently 2007 gold).
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