October 16, 2012

Spiders Goblins and Automatons

I entered the ruin and made my way through the small cave and broke the cobwebs with my sword. As i continued through the thick cobwebs I heard the rustling of many legs, I sheathed my sword and drew my bow. I felt that stealth may fare me better than open combat with these spiders. I slowly stepped into the opening, Two large spiders were circling a Giant one..  I drew my Bow and aimed towards the large spider on my left, and with a sharp twip of the bowstring the arrow flew through the air and struck the spider just above his eyes. Within seconds the other two spiders where charging at my direction, as I let another arrow fly and it struck the second spider and it went down with a shrill. The last spider was too close for my bow, I drew my sword and plunged it into it's abdomen. As I let the spider fall I felt a Sharp pain in my arm. One of it's fangs had struck me between my armor. I grasped my arm in pain, as the poison seeped into the wound. I quickly grabbed an antidote from my bag, and soaked the wound. I began to wrap my arm as the feeling came back. Now that the spider was killed I could continue into the Dwemer Ruin.

The entrance hall in the ruin was huge, opening into an even larger cave surrounded by columns of stone and copper pipe, steam hissed and the water below submerged many fallen rocks and debris from a past cave in.   Walkways connected copper and stone towers, all with ramps down and up leading to doors and buried halls. I began to walk towards the first tower when I saw it, a goblin creature hunched over with a cruelly crafted sword and shield.  Just as I drew my bow, he looked up and shrieked in rage. I released the arrow and it went threw his chest just below his armor. The damage was done though, through out the cave I heard the shriek of many more falmer responding to the shrill cry of the now dead goblin at my feet. My presence was known.

I made my way quickly through the ruin, stealth had abandon me so I went from using my bow to my sword and shield although my shield arm was still weak from the wound. I ran through tunnels and rooms full of steam and machinery cutting down enemy after enemy, everything was working but no one but the falmer were here. No Dwemer, no researchers.  I managed to make it into an armory, gates blocked my entry into separate rooms full of armor and weapons. I looked around to see if I was alone and I was. There were statues of metal machines, one arm as a sword the other equipped with a crossbow.  I began to pick the lock and within a few moments unlocked the first room.  I went room by room, gate by gate till the last gate was unlocked and I found dwarven armor and a sword. Just as I put it on and turned around, a statue was missing from one of the pedestals. It was heading right for me.

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