Skyrim is amazing. This is why.
I was running to a quest in the snowy tundra when I saw a distant lighthouse with the lights on. I decided to run to it and check it out as it was the only thing in the area and the lights where on so I figured someone would be home. I enterred and upon entrance I notice a dead girl on the floor with blood roaming around everywheres. A quest pops up saying "find out who is behind the murders". I tried following the arrow but it brought me to a dead end when I decided to explore. I checked out the bodies using my detective skills I learned from this years earlier hit LA NOIRE and noticed the young female was clenched in a arms up position, possibly trying to escape from the suspect. I follow the trail of blood which lead to a desk in her room. On the desk was two notes. I looked at one and it said her brother had gone downstairs to check out a bug problem. Next to it was a bloody note talking about how her brother had made a key to the basement from her moms key and hid it in her moms favorite keepsake.
This makes me investigate the rest of the house and find the mothers room, also entrailed with blood. I eventually work my way over to her bedside and see a drawer slightly ajar. I open the drawer and inside is a note that states that the family had just recently purchased the lighthouse after the previous owners had dissapeared, and that the mothers favorite keepsake was a Urn she kept above the fireplace. Detective Cole Phelps had taught me that I could use my intuition to connect the dots. Obviously the brother had hidden the key to the basement in the urn! I go to the urn and open it up. Inside is the key to the basement. I figure the perpetraitor was hiding down there, perhaps with the murder weapon. I decide to investigate.
I slowly descend the stairs and notice some more dead bodies. As I get deeper into the basement I am alarmed by two huge Clavicle bugs, guarding a entrance to a underground cave system. I make work of the Clavicles and think they might be the murder suspects but Detective Phelps had taught me that not everything is as it seems on the tin. I decide to investigate the hole, arresting more bugs and investigating. Eventually I come into a room wherein I am alarmed by the sudden influx of mutants! Was this family harboring secret mutants? I'm not sure. I apprehend these felons and use my investigative techniques to learn that the rabbit hole goes far more deeper. I decide to explore the underground cave complex some more.
I keep venturing further and further for about a hours worth, seeing the dead corpses of the prior owners family mutilated one by one. I investigate each one more which reveals the history behind this innocuous light house. The bugs keep me crawling further in, collecting more evidence to press against my investigation sequence. Eventually I get to the end of the tunnel hole and I see the murder suspect. It is a giant queen Clavicle bug! I try to fight it, using the techniques Cole taught me but I am failing miserably. I decide to resort to the black magic arts to try and solve this mystery once and for all. I decide to summon a Ice Guardian from the gates of Oblivion and a Nethereal Bow that could slay the beast. I kill it along with the ice demon and investigate the carcass. Inside is the head of the original owner, and a key to a chest. Knowing I solved the murder but not the whole story I decide to return to the ground level and investigate some more.
This leads me to a hidden door that is locked. I had some extra lockpins in my pocket, ones I keep just in case. I decide to try my luck. On the first try I open the door, which leads upwards towards the lighthouses fire. Upstairs I find a view over the snowy vast landscape of Skyrim, and a large treasure chest near the edge of the lighthouse. I open it up, being careful as I remember Cole Phelps had been in his investigations. Inside I was shocked to find what was inside. I found a Orcish Magical Sword, which had indicated that this lighthouse was actually a ancient burial ground that the Orcs had used before all the prior owners to summon mutants and rule the world with bugs! I had found the corridoor to the bug empire and solved the case for all. It was a great feeling. I look around my surroundings and decide that although the war was won, the horror I experienced inside the light house was too much. I look off the edge of the lighthouse and decide that I would rather jump off to a quick escape and to get away from the horrors. I decide to play it safe like Phelps and pressed F4 to do a Quick Save. I lept to my honor and my horse...
Quick Save is F5.
I hadn't saved in two hours.
