Walk to Solitude... depending on where the game starts us off at, otherwise I'd just pick a random direction and follow it until hit something other than a tree or a rock.

I have no idea where exactly we will start the game. Inside a city? Outside a city? Until I play the game, or know exactly where we start, I have no idea where I'm goig to go. I'll have to play it by ear.

The shops. By car. To get the game :celebration:

Riften is where my character started in Arena, so I'd love to see it in Skyrim. In fact, Riften might just be my home, it's bound to.

Solitude!!

I'll go to the Uesp and I'll get there with google chrome...

I'll do the same thing I did with Oblivion: Start walking in a random direction and pick up random side quests.

I also have developed a love for Riften, ever since I saw that picture of it in the GI article.

I will be heading to the nearest town, stopping at each dungeon on the way, to find info on how to develop my magic, ie mages guild. Prob work through that quest line first of all.

I will explore the area right around the tutorial dungeon and then head north to Winterhold to begin my magical training anew.

Where could I read further into these events? The wiki doesn't seem to explain anything about the Argonian occupation or the fall of the Ministry of Truth.

Sorry for the OT.

First place I'd go would be to the tavern, of course.

Buying the book would be your best bet. You can read a http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Infernal_City/Plot_Summary and read the lore notes for the book http://www.imperial-library.info/content/infernal-city-lore-notes but nothing beats reading the book for yourself.

I will do as courage wolf says: Climb the highest moutain, punch the face of God

After being a prisoner (assumed jail), I'm giong to find me the nearest hotel and take a good healthy crap in the privacy of my own bathroom! :pinch: :twirl: Won't even have to wipe my [censored] with my furry tail! HA! After that, a nice sleep on a comfy matress...hopefully sans flee and bedbugs...and a good meal of fresh produce and :icecream:

HA! Good Fun!

Or, in reality, how the heck would I know...but it'd generally involve getting my character equipped, and getting some money. After that, who know :shrug:

Thank you kindly for the links. :]

I probably won't bother with the main quest until I get to around level 30. I'm more interested in exploring the canyon in western Skyrim.

what's so great about solitude?

I'll go to the top of the highest mountain/building. I will get there using the amazing powers of tcl.

Go play morrowind.

To the top of the first mountain I see.

Head to the nearest city and steal everything I can get my filthy paws on. Kill someone to get into the DB. Then proceed to be amazed if its quests are as good as oblivion's. Maybe go exploring in the woods if I can get a sidekick to valiantly give his life away while I sprint away from ice trolls

Either that or climb a gigantic mountain.

Around the time the 3rd edition of the Pocket Guide to the Empire was published, Solitude was a very powerful and influential city and I would expect that to still be the case during Skyrim's time. Plus, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Wolf_Queen was a good series of books and I'd like to see the city Potema once ruled. And of course eventually my Argonian thief character will rob the entire city blind.

I'm also curious about the Wolf Queen's former residence but the first thing I'll do is hone my weapon skills and find better armor. Great work in the ESV speculation thread by the way, I was to lazy to look up all that stuff and just lurked to see what you guys would find. Just about spot on with your predictions and you and the other forum members you mentioned always had great manners. Much apreciated.

I will most likely approach it in the same manner as Oblivion - follow the main quest just long enough to get the gist of what the purpose of our existence is, then go join as many guilds/factions as possible and kinda skip around between all of them doing a few quests here and a few quests there. When I finally feel like I am powerful enough to go exploring and dungeon diving without getting ripped a new one I'll go collect as much loot as possible while also collecting alchemy ingredients and working on potion-making skills. After having built up a sufficient inventory of potions, weapons, and spells I will hit the main quest for a little bit and see where it takes me. I won't finish the main quest until I have completed all tasks in every faction and explored a fairly large portion of the map.

I always play a battlemage (though more melee than magic) so I can join all the factions. I guess we'll see just how much having a well-rounded character effects the quests offered by NPCs versus having a pure mage or pure warrior.

Step 1 - go to nearest civilized settlement with an armorer
Step 2 - buy as much armor, wepons and spells as I can afford
Step 3 - look for nearest dungeon
Step 4 - explore and loot it
Step 5 - repeat steps 2-4 until I have all the best stuff regular traders offer
Step 6 - proceed to first MQ objective