Traveling through The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

I was not surprised that the plan was rejected by Rigel. It was just my idea. The general idea sounded good, but the devil is in the details. It was full of loopholes. For example, how to connect with Danger? How would the senior officials of Falkreath react? How would the army of Falkreath react? Would the target of the beheading be Sidgeir or Nanya, or both? What if the Empire or even the Thalmor intervened? How to deal with the Empire's envoys in Falkreath? How many people would be needed to carry out the beheading, and how would they enter the city? How to ensure that Danger would not burn the bridge after crossing the river?

Rigel looks like a rough guy, but he is actually very cautious. He needs to scout the target of "hunting" carefully and rehearse the plan. He would rather let it go than take risks if he is not 70% sure. Besides, she has been running the Pinewood Watchtower for several years and has a small savings. It is not a wise move to gamble all her wealth and die if she fails. But I can see that Rigel is very happy that I decided to stay. She gave me a dagger, a very ordinary iron dagger. This is the first weapon I have since I came to Skyrim.

"I don't expect you to kill anyone. You can carry it with you and commit suicide if you don't want to be humiliated. But it would be better if you could help me deliver this to my father." She handed me a letter and sealed it with wax. "You just need to deliver the letter. Don't talk nonsense or tell lies."

Wulf was assigned a new mission, leading 15 skilled brothers southward into Mount Gerrol. Rigel asked him to "confirm whether the castle is still abandoned." I thought to myself, where are the abandoned castles in Skyrim? Aren't they all occupied by you, no, us bandits? And they took away half of the food at once. It seems that they are going to stay there as a retreat.

Cindy was very busy. She had to arrange sentries in Helgen, Riverwood, and Falkreath to collect information. Rigel also assigned her more people. The brothers in the cave all thought that Rawls and Wolf were Rigel's right-hand men, but from my observation, Cindy was the most trusted person. Rigel relied on her intelligence ability.

The amount of food in stock was reduced from five days to two days, and Eddie and I were under great pressure. Rigel suspended all "hunting", increased the frequency of purchases, and approved my fishing plan. Of course, he still didn't let me go.

It turned out that Rigel's strategy of retreat was correct. Two days after Wulf set out, I was cultivating the soil for green onions on the farm when four soldiers wearing standard armor from Falkreath suddenly visited me.

"Tell your manager to come out."

The brother who played the farmer was called out to negotiate, and when he came back he had a bitter face.

"That damn lord will add another two cents of tax! He will also need to register the number of people on the farm and collect three Septim's worth of security tax from each person!"

"Public security tax? Has he ever been in charge of public security?" It sounds a bit funny that a group of bandits pay public security tax to the lord.

From that day on, three soldiers passed by the official road in front of the farm every day. Rigel speculated that Sidgeir was guarding against Balgruuf. The sentries in the direction of Falkreath were withdrawn and replaced with secret sentries. Because I was almost exposed, Rigel was confined again. In fact, except for the six people registered with the lord, everyone else was forbidden to enter and leave the cave during the day.

Rigel drew a sketch for Cindy, saying that she had hidden the "harvest" in a tree hole in the northwest of the town when she went to Ximu Town to get information, and asked the sentry brothers there to bring it back when they changed shifts. However, Cindy brought back another piece of paper and the news that the two sentries were completely wiped out three days later.

Four people were arranged in the direction of Riverwood Town. Three of them were sentries camping on the roadside, disguised as hunters, and the other was a secret sentry hiding at the Talos Altar to the west of them. Two days ago, they found that the Whiterun guards of Riverwood Town had cleared the coal mine and started patrolling the road. The sentries were afraid of being exposed, so they decided to reunite with the secret sentries and re-arrange their positions. As a result, all four of them were killed at the Talos Altar. Cindy found a Thalmor corpse nearby, with the warrant of the special envoy Alanwen on it, which was the paper she took back. The treasure map in the sentry's hand was gone. Cindy went to check the location on the map, and the "harvest" was gone too.

Rigel's face was very ugly. We were already in danger under the attack of Whiterun and Falkreath, and now Thalmor was involved. I was also very confused as I listened to it. Because we couldn't leave the cave, Rigel now used me as a secretary. She would let me listen in when there was news, and she would also analyze the situation with me in private. I don't know if it was because my previous advice inspired her or because she really had no one to talk to.

What Rigel gave to Cindy was obviously the treasure map No. 1 in the game. Only when the Dragonborn finds the treasure map will the treasure chest appear at the corresponding location. Moreover, the guards in the game only guard their posts and never take the initiative to clear out the bandits. From the dispatch of troops by Snowman to the dragon attacking the sentry post, to the current treasure map incident, all signs indicate that there is a force that plays the role of the Dragonborn in the game and promotes the development of the situation. Who is this force? Will it be the Dragonborn? Where will he or she push the situation? Can the Thieves Guild rise and come to the door? How will the civil war develop? Will anyone be able to stop Alduin from destroying the world? A series of questions arise, but they are difficult to answer. Even because our scope of activities is getting smaller and smaller, and the news is getting more and more closed, it has become difficult to even make a little analysis based on the intelligence.

The sentries in Helgen were also withdrawn, leaving only the secret sentries on the nearby hills, because the Falkreath guards began to patrol there. Although they were not stationed there, people passed by every day. Rigel's forces collapsed in less than half a month, and now they could only sit and wait for news from Wulf every day.

Originally, Rigel thought that a comprehensive contraction could stabilize the situation, but he did not expect that it would bring the biggest crisis.