Made it up to Bleak Falls Barrow

Thread from May 3, 2021, in which I’ve progressed far enough in learning the controls that I’m ready to take on Bleak Falls Barrow!

Today’s Things Accomplished in Animal Crossing: paid off third bridge on the island, also paid off loan on the second room of the house, and oh hey somebody named “K.K. Slider” wants to come to the island and Tom Nook flipped his shit about this.

9:16 PM · May 3, 2021

I’m all “does he play fiddle and do podorythmie and sing in French? No? Then WHY DO I CARE okay fine fine I’ll pretty up the island”. 😉

9:17 PM · May 3, 2021

Today’s Things Accomplished in Skyrim: made it up to Bleak Falls Barrow, a very aptly named place, although sneaking up there just before the break of dawn let me see some stunningly gorgeous auroras. Screencapped that shit.

9:17 PM · May 3, 2021

Also killed another wolf and, in a first, several bandits! They were all yelling variations on “YOUR KIND HAS NO PLACE HERE” (read: because I’m a Wood Elf), and I was all “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of my STABBING YOU INTO OBLIVION, Chucky”.

9:17 PM · May 3, 2021

Also, levelled up to 3, picked up stamina and ability to make steel things in smithing, and grabbed a bunch of gold and interesting loot. Made it as far as the bandit campfire just before the menacing-looking passageway down into where all the scary shit probably is. FUN TIMES!

9:18 PM · May 3, 2021

Editing to add

1. This post was originally written on 3/13/2022, but backdated to the time of the tweet thread for organizational purposes.
2. Post updated on 12/26/2022 to reconstruct the Twitter thread in full in the post body, and remove all links to Twitter.
3. 9/30/2024: Updated the HTML rendering the reconstructed tweets to use a new CSS class I added under the hood, to make it easier to globally change the styling on pages that use this format.