Endras The Wood Elf- Chapter 1

• Posted by Sam Marshall March 22, 2013 - 195 views

  I have no idea what happened,one minute i was meeting one of my mothers old skooma contacts on the border, and the next i was running away from the imperial army! There was too many troops around for a normal ambush, something big must be going on, either way after getting away unscathed i find myself deep into the forest. My map indicates the closest city to be Riften i suppose ill head there first to get my bearings and make a plan.
  
  Damn, i have been in Skyrim for what must be no longer than a couple of hours and the first thing i sink my blade into seems to have given me some sort of disease, i can feel my limbs stiffening with every step i take. Once i get into Riften i must remember to take a gods blessing and get this disease cured. On my way out of the forest i came across what seemed like an old burnt down house, however upon closer inspection i saw a seemingly innocent old women who told me that the place was infact a skooma den, downstairs i found myself being confronted by a stern doorman who let me into a foul smelling basement littered with noblemen and bandits by contrast, though each one had succumbed to the exact same fate, half passed out in a dirty booth drowning their sorrows with cheap drugs. Nonetheless i decided i would head over to the dealer and buy myself a couple of bottles, ill save those for a rainy day.
  
  Just outside the stables to Riften i stumbled upon a hunters camp where two hunters sat round a fire. Now i'm no cold blooded killer, but the armor one of the men was wearing i couldn't help but noticing it looked brilliant and i've been in this fur armor that is now worn and torn from my escape from the imperials for too long, that hunter gear would sure look good on me, i decided to dispatch of the male hunter with just a swift arrow to the head in an attempt to keep the armor clean and free of blood, the woman however was not so lucky, i plunged my sword into her and was done with it.

  

  No sooner had i stepped into Riften that i was already being hassled by some hired muscle, apparently he worked for someone called Maven Black-Briar who supposedly owns just about everyone in Riften, including this 'thieves guild' i've been hearing so much about. Perhaps ill pay her a visit she seems to know what shes doing, maybe she needs some more hired help around,crime is no stranger to me, my mother being a skooma addict and dealer, maybe mercenary work might suit me. In the end i decided to stop in at the Bee and Barb, where an absolutely god awful argonian woman was working behind the bar, before i booked my room a shady looking man approached me, apparently his name was Brynjolf, he wanted me to do him a favor in exchange for some coin, it was agreed that i steal a ring from a merchants stall and then plant it onto another merchant, i'm not sure what this 'Brand-Shei' had done, but to be honest i didn't care.This city seems so rife with corruption i'm certain at one point or another every citizen has done a deed worthy of being locked up, anyway i was to meet him in the market during the day tommorow, so for now i retired to my room and slipped into a deep sleep.