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I've had a few simple deaths at the hands of enemies.

The one death that stands out though was at the paws of the Beasts / Wildlife. I encountered a Sabre-Cat and was getting seriously overwhelmed. I managed a small comeback, and Bashed the thing with my shield. I timed a perfect Power Attack, and...

*Wolf'd from the side*

"Where the $@!&% did THAT thing come from?!?!"

Well you see it all started when I was hunting mammoths.... Their shepherds didn't like that very much.

i was trying to walk to morthal, then along the way i encountered a spriggen, and it had some mudcrab friends. I will now kill every spriggen and mudcrab i find, and hopefully not die trying like i did before.

Heh pretty much all of the above. One thing i love about this game is that false sense of immortality you can get on later levels, then BAM something nastier and meaner than you, kicks your ass..
Like the time i bumped into 3 frost spiders at the tower near Dawnstar. Did a shout on them and giggled when one of them flew about 40 feet in the air, then as i rushed in with my 2 handed Orcish greatsword, i was gobsmacked when they bum rushed me and actually killed me :tongue:

Fell down a cliff whilst looking for archery targets

Got killed in like 2 seconds by a Spriggan (I think I was level 3 and still roleplaying a stealthy archer that didn't use Destruction or anything bigger than a dagger. I've since amended my character's belief system to include both )

I got to some place with two Ice Trolls and thought I had to go through them to get to the Greybeards place so spent an hour trying/dying/reloading before realising that I did not need to get past them and was having a navigation embarrassment moment

Oh yeah I also got overwhelmed by Draugr before realising I could lead them into a trap that would kill them all - very early on, Level 2 I think.

I was jus running through the plains and i heard a roar and i got excited and was like sick wooly mammoths!

turned out to be a dragon so i was even more excited
after having a shout match with him for a while he got very low and landed on the ground
i was silghtly low but i decided to jus slash at him for the kill
but then he picked me up in his mouth and threw me to the ground dead....sadface lol
i honestly thought it was awesome and got excited that a dragon had finally killed me

it was my first blood dragon encounter

So I was on this cliff, I thought "It's a fair drop but I think I can jump it, I have health potions" .......... I was wrong.....

Then I saw a Giant, I thought "I wonder if he's friendly" ....... he wasn't! Turns out he was in his camp and he didn't want me there, I wasn't there long......

I was invading an imperial fort and I decided to act like a badass, jumped down, hit a well and died while getting shot in the chest at the same time.. Good times.

I know!! I was recently exploring a fort of Necromancers and Rogue mages, and I was kicking all their butts, but then, a master fire mage pops out and blasts me with a massive rain of fireballs, took two tries to eventually use elemental fury + dual weild swords to take him down.

There was another time, I was on one of those word walls on top of a mountain, I slaughtered the dragon, and said "That's how its done!" but then, a coffin blows up and a super-tough Dragon preist called Krosis jumps out and kicks my ass, I reloaded several times, but eventually just decided to lure it away, use the word wall, and abscond.

I don't die so much any more, but my most recent death was at the hands of that Dwemer Master Centurion (I think that's the name) in Mzinchaleft. I walked into the room and saw this massive golden monster, and decided not to charge it straight away; more fool I, because it unleashed a ridiculous blast of scalding steam that boiled me in about 4 seconds flat.

When I re-loaded, I charge straight in with my axe, and it was down in 10 seconds, along with its little Dwarven Sphere minion.

I was memorably murderised by Falmer and Chaurus when I was low-level, although neither pose a threat any longer. My most memorable death was probably when I entered a grove at the south edge of the tundra (I think), and went to the end of a passage; I discovered a pack of wolves feasting on a fresh stag, and dispatched them easily, but when I turned around to explore the rest of the cave I was confronted with a Spriggan and a Cave Bear. Given that I was about level 3 at the time, it's safe to say I didn't last too long.

Oh god the blood dragons. They're just starting to appear for me, i've only managed to kill one thus far :[

As for me, i would say my claim to fame would be the amount of horses i go through. I've been through 5 already at level 20, and my friends crack up every time i lose my horse, which is a lot.

Oh the many ways I could tell that I have died. It's ridiculously annoying how many times I have died. And by the pettiest things too.

My assassin character was owning these bandits, sneak attacking and sneak bowing them to death. I even got a giggle as I rained down bow and arrows to my helpless sitting bandits whom were happily slurping on mead and noming on bread. I find myself in one last room with one last bandit. He didn't have a name nor was he called a chief nor was he the leader. But I thought eh let's go kill him. I sneak attack him and it only knocks down half of his health. I thought no matter, I'll just finish the job in an epic battle. Nope his greatsword won and slashed me to death. I also at, and it's really sad too really, got recently killed at lvl 14 by Frostcrag Spiders.

I find myself running away a lot.

My mage especially. Everything just kills my mage. Worse is fighting mages when you're a mage.

This is embarrassing.

Ok, so y'know during the intro while you're escaping when you come to the keep and have to choose who to follow, well up to that point I was kind of just wandering around looking at everything (yeah it's a warzone but nothing seemed to be hurting me at all), and well...did you know if you dawdle that the big bad dude can land, target you specifically, and scorch your butt?

I actually died from 3 mudcrabs when I was about lvl 3-5. I thought they were gonna be all weaksauce like in Oblivion but nope.

Attacked a Giant at Level 5, it one shot me like a baseball and i went flying literally miles into the sky. Awesome death.

dragon turns up just as i leave a fort hurt and packed full of gear im out of potions and it kept burning me i keep reloading but it wouldnt go away, but after a while it turned into a frost dragon and im a nord die u bastard!

I failed when I decided it would be cool to test out my new "lets me go very fast"-shout.
So I'm in Whiterun, just outside Dragonsreach and decided that the trip down the flights of stairs is too long of a walk.

So I run across the bridge and activate my shout towards the big tree.

I flew through the air with the greatest of ease.
Then I stopped (in midair mind you), hit the wall and died...
Then I fell into the water and posthumously drowned...

When i am up mountains, i sometimes get the urge to save and then suicide

Also an epic fail, i was going round shouting unrelenting force when i accidentaly knocked a load of people over, the guards were not to happy about that

For me, the worst are the stupid Hired Thugs. They come in packs of 3-4 and even if you are hiding they just come straight to you. No matter where you go, they eventually catch up somehow. Hate Dragons with a passion too! One nomed nomed nomed me in a slow mo death, URGHHH!

i call shenanigans! there are not 6 millions check boxes

I think the closest I've been to dying was when I was on the Companions quest, and I met a dragon on the way, and whilst taking it down, got attacked by 3 of those ice sabre cat things.

Awesome and funny stories.

Speaking of death, do enemies get Finisher animations on us when they kill us? That would be pretty damn sweet.

And is there any way to know what determines if I do my Finisher to enemies in 1st or 3rd person views? I always fight in 1st person, but the Finishers go to 3rd person view for most of my finishers.

Dragons, bandits, bears, etc.

Skyrim is much tougher than I anticipated. My brother had the game a week early and played the hell out of it, so when I got it he came over to watch me. I died fighting the first dragon multiple times, and he laughed. I got impaled by bandits and the like multiple times, and he laughed.

10 or so hours later I was cruising, kicking ass, and never dying, but my brother wasn't there. He decided to come over later that day while I was playing. Literally as soon as he walked in he sees me die in a brutal fashion after hours of kicking ass.

Him: Man you get your ass kicked in this game.

Me: No, no, no. I was cruising, I swear!

All of those except drowning cause I'm an Argonian.

Giant's Foot
An enemy's weapon
Overpowered Ice Trolls