Aye, it was a fine battle, it was. Here I am, Lydia and I, travelling just west of Shor's Stone when a wooden cart on a path comes to my line of sight. I notice that it holds some lavender inside of it. Warily I approach the beast, and attempt to lift the lavender out, but it shoots forward. I'm already on the brink of death, but the vile monster doesn't stop attacking as it pushed me down the near vertical slope of Shor's Stone. As the cart pushes me along, and in my adrenaline rush before I die, my mind works clearly. An outcropping lies below me, jutting out from the stone surface. If I hit that, its over. Masterfully I perform a power bash with my shield on the wooden cart. The beast flies up into the air to land in the tundra below. The outcropping approaches and with delicate footwork I manage to land on a smaller jutting stone before I hit it. I am bloody and broken but alive. Lydia is kneeling on the outcropping, her wounds more severe. I treat her to a health potion and get up to find myself a good two hundred paces below where the cart attacked me. I know now never to attempt to slay one of these beasts - they are better than you.

Of course that why even dragon don't mess with them should have known that :spotted owl:

This reminds me of the story from Dungeons and Dragons, about the Dread Gazebo.

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/Jul/gazebo.html

Amusing

It's a gazebo?

Yes, I too was attacked by the viscious wooden cart. My experience was quite different as I had approached this particular wooden cart after an apparent dose of invisibility potion. The only thing I saw were its two wheels sitting idle beside one another. I approached it cautiously as Lydia watched with a smirk on her face until I was standing squarely between the two wooden wheels in what should have been the carts body.

Suddenly, and without warning (obviously), the cart reappeared and struck me for half my life before it violently shot off toward an embankment, coming to rest on its side with its wheel spinning in the air.

Those carts are tricky.

I managed to pin a cart into a corner once, and it bounced wildly then it shot up about 100 metres up in the air and landed on the roof of one of the houses in Ivarstead.

I then wanted to repeat my success and capture it on fraps, but this time it got stuck, bounced wildly, then instantkilled me

Morale of the story?

Don't corner a cart, they can be deadly.

I have fought bravely.
Against wolves, bears, trolls...
Even the enduring winds of winter could not hold me back.
Giants fall to my blade. Dragons tremble at my command.
The citizens of Skyrim name me their last hope.
I stand between the world and the razor maw of its annihilation...

But there is one I fear.
An enemy whose terror writhes unbound.
...whose wrath no hero dares to oppose:

The wooden cart.

To defeat these vicious beasts, you will have to wait for the legendary WAGONBORN.

I got to thinking, maybe I'm the Wagonborn...I just don't know it yet!

this

+1 to you, sir

You're lucky you're a sword and board then... what of us dual-wielder, are we destined to die against said wagon?

Now i haven't tried it myself, but i'd imagine you can force into submission with Unrelenting Force? Sure it won't harm them, but it should throw them far enough to have time for an escape.

Of course there is the risk that it ricochets from something and strikes you dead :cold:

OH SNAP!!!

Great thread, thoroughly enjoyed it. :goodjob:

there is ONE way to kill a cart...........

shoot an arrow into its left wheel.......

Wooden Cart charges
Deftly sidestep fearsome foe
Lunge with blade, wheels stop

I think I just found my favorite Skyrim thread. :lmao:

Keep up the good work, people. :nod:

I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took a wagon in the knee...

On my way into Winterhold to gain entrance to the College, I started pushing around a wooden cart that happened to be lying in front of some snowberry bushes. A couple of guards were walking by and I began throwing it around at them. Then, one of them shouted "Be careful!"

Seems even the guards fear the wrath of the wooden cart. xD

Edit: Later on, during a quest for the College, I figured I'd finish exploring the location I was sent to before returning. I dropped down to the lowest level and turned a corner to approach a fellow student. She looked up from her book and worriedly said "Be careful!" I stop moving, looked around... and lo and behold! A wooden cart was resting in some rubble at my side.

Thanks for the warning, Brelyna. You may have just saved our lives.