"This. Is. Perfect!"

Right now I'm currently sitting in front of my pc, modding my Skyrim game. Usually when one thinks of finishing Skyrim, one is insane, as there are almost an infinite number of quests already placed there.

However! That doesn't mean that people don't get bored from playing endlessly. Even with DLCs, one can "finish" Skyrim leisurely at the course of one week.

So what do the bored ones do?

Mods obviously.

The insane amount of quests reflect the insane amount of mods available. From mods that add a single follower to mods with the same play time of DLCs, the content would be even more endless than it already was.

As I was saying, I'm currently modding my Skyrim game. But this isn't just any old Skyrim game session, right now is the first time I'm playing skyrim in a year. Should I repeat myself for emphasis? I haven't played Skyrim for. One. Whole. Year.

The whole year i went through was the hectic 12th grade, and currently it's summer break. Being summer break before college and after high school, it might be my final chance to indulge myself in anime, manga, and gaming.

As of right now, I'm planning to heavily mod my Skyrim game to the point of being unrecognizable. Falskaar, Frostmaarch, Summerset Isles, where each are considered DLC-sized mods where there are over 80 hours of gameplay each.

"Hoho, sweet ecstasy, not even my period can make me sour while I'm playing Skyrim!"

Currently, i have installed over a hundred mods, most of which are gameplay and questing mods. Only a small portion of my mods are graphic mods, but even those mods are insanely heavy on performance for the average person's pc.

I'm not bragging or anything, but I have a custom build with two monitors and I can say that the word "lag" isn't in my dictionary.

Finally putting my final mods into place, the only ones missing from the load order are the miscellaneous mods and the graphics mods.

I looked up for random mods on my other monitor since I'm basically just waiting for the mod list to be completed before putting my Climates of Tamriel and other graphic mods.

"Hmm? What's this?"

As I was scrolling through the mods in nexus, I saw a mod with a weird thumbnail with zero views, endorsers, and downloads. The thumbnail of the mod was a bearded man giving a thumbs up. In the mod page, with all capital letters and bold text it said:

"Realistic Skyrim! A gameplay experience so realistic that you'd think God created skyrim!"

It's suspicious. The fact that there's a bearded man for a thumbnail instead of a title or actual pictures of the mod's gameplay is already concerning of the validity of the mod. At worst it can be some sort of malware, but I'm probably just paranoid. I looked the list of features in the description just to see how sketchy this really is.

"Features:

Realistic people

Realistic animals

Realistic monsters

Realistic spells

Realistic ..."

What the fudge!? There's nothing but "realistic *insert thing here". There's no pictures of gameplay, and there's no legitimate list of features that can be extracted from this. Is this the reason why no one even bothered with this?

"..."

You know what why not? I mean I can just remove the mod if there's something wrong right?

So I proceeded to download the mod and install it via Mod Organizer. Since I had LOOT and all the other mods, all I had to be wary of is the actual conflict between mods themselves.

Once I installed it I ran Skyrim to check if everything is working properly. After this I should install the graphic mods and actually play through this.

Once Skyrim loaded i selected my save with a character named Ferula Everbleed. This particular character was prepared by me before hand, and was especially beautiful. With me looking for tutorials on how to use race menu and how to import and mix face models, I ended up with a very beautifully featured, curvy, character. Her race itself was from a mod which I installed some time ago, and her character was something I finished before starting 12th grade.

But I have to say, even being a girl myself, I can't help myself but install skimpy armor mods and put it on her. I've made sexy male characters in the past that were so embarrassing that I had to delete them.

When I made Ferula, she was originally a male Argonian with whom I finished the thieves guild quest line. After I edited the character using console and changed the race and gender, it seems like the stat points and perks got messed up, but that's not really a big problem.

This summer I'm dedicated to totally playing Skyrim in the nerdiest way. Yes, that's right, roleplaying! I installed some necromancy mods whose new spells and perks I would rely on the for the whole play-through. I'm planning to be Ferula Everbleed, Arch Mage, Master Necromancer, Devourer of Souls! Okay that last part was a little unnecessary, but still! Role playing for a whole play through would be so fulfilling that I would be fine if I didn't play Skyrim for another 5 years!

But really, I'd rather not.

For the whole time since I started talking about Ferula, I've been waiting for the save to load. Usually with my insanely good pc it would take a few seconds to load, but right now it feels like an eternity passed, in reality it's been 5 minutes though.

Just as I was becoming impatient and having thoughts on doing ctrl-alt-delete and shut Skyrim down manually, the loading page with a model of a dragon continuously zooming in and out finally turned black, signaling that the game had finally loaded. As I looked at the monitor with glee, all I saw was the black screen. Essentially all I really saw was the blackness of it. I'm not sure when or how, but it looks like I've already been surrounded by darkness.

For God knows how long, I just stood there in a numb state. Wait, was I standing up? Just like the feeling after you press your eyes for too long and your vision sight returns afterwards, light started entering my eyes. When I opened my eyes, I was shocked to see the scenery in front of me. The chilly wind started blowing on my skin as I looked at the pale white scenery in front of me.

"This is... Winterhold?"

In front of me was a snow covered town with buildings that could be counted with one hand. A city whose buildings and great history was washed away by a storm in an event called The Great Collapse. This should be none other than Winterhold, home to the College.

Before anything, before becoming confused, only one thought ran through my mind.

"I didn't get to install my graphic mods!"

~~~~~~~~~~Author's Note~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks for reading my first chapter! So far all of this suddenly sparked into my head as I was just playing Skyrim so yeah. Depending on the feedback on this, I would be posting more frequently the more the people wants it. Of course even if no one really bothers to read it, I'll still write when I have sparks of inspiration. I'm not sure if I'm going to turn this into a serious series or a humorous one, since I'm really conflicted about it. There was one Japanese web novel that I read that at first had comedic narration, then in the latter half it suddenly became story line centric(This is Kumo Desu Ga Nani Ka if anyone is wondering) and I'm not sure if I can pull of that sudden switch for when the time comes, but I guess for now It's gonna be the light hearted adventures of a geeky girl trapped in TES universe. And expect references from mods since all of my inspiration is coming from my play-through so yeah. Thanks and have a good day! Rawr~