Turns out adopting a dog in Skyrim is the hardest quest in the game...
Like most of Bethesda's RPGs, Skyrim is a game brimming with possibility and stuffed with content. It's how those two aspects come together and intersect that make it interesting. Like when a player finds a dog abandoned by its owner (to be fair, the guy was dead) and wants to adopt it, but everything that can go wrong does. It's sort of like when we 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:followed Dogmeat home, but fewer mutants and more heartwarming.
Since no o🀅ne can tell the tale as well as player Patrick Lenton himself, I'll let him do just that.
wor꧟st part of Skyrim was when I found that dog whose o💖wner died in a cabin, and then I of course had to adopt the dog bc i'm not a monster
@PatrickLenton and I fucking lov🔥e this dog, but i'm wondering around trying to solve quests and save the world and ju🃏nk, but this good dog
@PatrickLenton this good dog always tries ꧒to help out fighting giants and dragons, and it's like 'NO DON'T HURT MY DOG'
@PatrickLenton and i have to fight like 300% harder t༒o save my 💙dog from being eaten by a dragon and i've honestly never been so anxious
@PatrickLenton so 𒁃then I find out that I can build a homestead and my dog can live there, so the next four days of my life are bꦑuilding shit
@PatrickLenton while band🐻its and dragons still attack my dog while i'm bloody mining ore and building a god⭕damn solarium for my pooch
@PatrickLenton and then the dog won't sta൩♊y in the house, and I discover I have to adopt a child first, and the child has to like my dog
@PatrickLenton so i 🍨go to an orphanage, ♛to discover they are being mistreated by an evil woman, so I kill her
@PatrickLenton but then ꧟I can't adཧopt a child any more because they are free! So I wander Skyrim looking for a parent-free child somewhere
@PatrickLenton and I don't even like children
@PatrickLenton and then finally I finꦉd some girl begging in Whiterun, and she's all like 'thanks Mum!' (I play a lady cat-wiz🍬ard)
@PatrickLenton and🐎 then I discover that the girl WON'T MOVE INTO M♔Y HOUSE BECAUSE I DIDN'T MAKE A PROPER BED FOR HER
@PatrickLenton SO I DECI💃DE TO BUILD A NEW HOUSE, ON A FUCKING LAKE BECAUSE I FIGU🍌RE IT WILL BE A GOOD PLACE TO RAISE CHILDREN OR WHATEVER
@Patric🌄kLenton BUT FIRST I HAVE TO BECOME A THANE OF FALKREATH AND DO ALL THESE QUESTS TO HELP PEOPLE BEFORE THEY GIVE ME A PLOT OF LAND
@PatrickLenton and my dog is STILL following me around STILL nearly dying in every fight, and I'm just a tense, scared mothe🔴rfucker
@PatrickLenton anyꦿway, th✃en I meet another goddamn dog on the road, but it's a fucking demon dog, and it comes with me too
@PatrickLentꦐon and it's like - months have passed by in the game, the world is being invaded by dragons, and I'm just focused on real estate
@PatrickLenton finally i build my new lakefront house, and go find my daughter (who has been living on the streets for about two ❀months)
@PatrickLenton it's like - LITERALLY, beggars can't be choosers, but bc i didn't make a nice bed for her, shꦛe sleeps on a bench in Whiterun
@PatrickLenton and she moves in to my house, which i༺s right next to a cave of wolves and a necromancers summoning circle, but whatev
@PatrickLenton and I walk into the house, wi𝕴th my goddamn dog, waiting for her to adopt my dog so I can go save the world
@PatrickLenton and she's ADOPTED A FUCKING RAT
@PatrickLenton THER▨E IS THIS GORGEOUS, BRAVE DOG WHO JUST WANTS TO SETTLE DOWN IN FRONT OF A HEARTH
@PatrickLenton AND SHE🔴'S FLOUNCING AROUND WITH ꦓA GIANT RAT
@PatrickLenton in the meantime, I get married to a lady named Mjoll the Lioness, bc she's hot to trot and will be a good🌠 lesbian mother
@PatrickLenton and weirdly,🎃 her 'friend' Aeꦬrin, moves into our house too
@PatrickLenton aꦐnd it's like - do we have🐈 a polyamorous relationship and are raising our homeless daughter and her rat? bc that's cool
@PatrickLenton so I'm like 'i'll go and find a brother for my new daughter' and he 𒊎can adopt the dog. Hopefully.
💦@PatrickLenton and it works out - the boy wants my dog, my dog likes the boy, everything is fine, the dog has been successfully adopted.
@PatrickLenton and finally💝 i can go ba🐓ck to being the saviour of Tamriel.
@PatrickLenton although I ꦓthen discover that Mjoll's "friend" Aerin keeps yelling 'stupidℱ dog' at my gorgeous dog.
@PatrickLenton so I waited until he was outside aꦰnd I try to make him fuck off back to his OWN HOUSE
@PatrickLenton my theory was 🔯that I could shout him into the lake? anyway, I misjudged and shouted him into the necromancer circle
@PatrickLenton and he died
@PatrickLenton and my wife saw me kill him, and attacked me, and I didn't want to kill he🍌r, so i ran away
@PatrickLenton so I just never went back to my houseಌ, but even though I destroyed my ma𝄹rriage and killed a man
@PatrickLenton i know that my dog♚ is safe. THE END. THANK YOU
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