I finally did the companion quest which let me become a werewolf. Now half of the loading screens inform me how those with beast blood lose their “Well Rested” bonus for sleeping. Oh the drama.

As long as nobody sees you turn into a werewolf and back (and as long as you don’t die), you’re free to kill anyone as a werewolf with no bounty on your head. This is a bitch to do, though, as werewolves can’t heal themselves and you need to leave the city area without dying.

In other news, Whiterun used to have this annoying priest who kept shouting his apocalyptic bollocks every time I visited…

But following a mysterious werewolf attack, there’s some peace and quiet in the city now.

Later, I encountered this guy. Did I mention that Skyrim is a bit… darker than Oblivion? Oblivion had a stable owner joke about eating horses. Skyrim has a stable owner asking you to be quick because some horses need shooting, and then recounts how he got drunk and broke a colt’s back.

I didn’t like the guy, so I entered a brawl with him to beat him up, which somehow made him like me more.

But mustn’t we forget, karma is a bitch. And werewolves are still at large.

Now for the best part. After I came back to the stables, a courier arrived and handed me a sum of money and a letter.

Did I just invent… some sort of… werewolf incident murder-for-inheritance scheme? This is seriously awesome.

Also, since the owner is no longer with us, his abused horses are my property.

Yeehaw!

MisCarriage

Carriage-drawing horses can be enchanted. Unfortunately, the only spell I managed to get to work on them is Calm. I want to get Command Creature, but I have no idea where to buy/acquire one.

Casting Rage at the horse counts as assault, and the carriage driver will get mad at you for hurting his horse.

 

 But if you cast Rage on the driver himself, he will happily start attacking his own horse.

At this point, people and even other horses will take the assaulted horse’s side, and the conflict will escalate into epic/hilarious proportions.

There’s also some random stuff I tried out in between paying the cabbie to take me somewhere and sitting in the back to initiate the journey.

Like turning into a werewolf.

Werewolves can’t sit, though, so you can’t actually get a carriage to take a werewolf on a trip through Skyrim :(

And if you cast Rage followed by Calm on the carriage driver, he’ll ask you to sit in the back, then (as the spell wears off) jump off his seat and attempt to murder you.

Things that Levitate

Carts.

Goats.

More goats.

Miscellaneous

Summoning a fire atronach to fight a fire atronach leads to an AI crash of sorts, and both atronachs (atronaches?) just stand there looking at each other.

A giant fighting a horse. Guess who won.

And now, young bandit… you will die.

Self-ownership.

Horse + frost bolt = DYI unicorn!

…I’m going straight to hell for that.