Most of the ones I had in mind have been mentioned, so I'll just toss in the one that's affected me the most, recently.
"I think I know why father left the dagger."
Context: Skyrim, Frostflow Lighthouse.
A family - husband, wife, couple of girls - moves to Skyrim so the parents can retire and watch the glaciers drift by the northern coast. Falmer tunnel into the basement and abduct them at night. In many ways it's a fairly typical quest of exploring a location that spills into some tunnels, and finding notes detailing what happened to the former owners of the place.
But the details are fucking brutal. The kids didn't want to move, they were happy where they had been raised, and hated the cold. The mother didn't want to either, but just wanted her husband to retire happy. The father has this dream of living out retirement there, and having his remains placed in the beacon fire of the lighthouse so he can watch them go by, with his wife, forever. Romantic shit.
One daughter is found near the entrance of the cave, where she'd broken away and started to climb, only to be skewered by a Falmer dagger. Further in, we find the cave is a breeding pen for the giant insects the Falmer raise for materials. There's a pen where the rest of the family was kept, to be fed to the insect matron deep in the cave. They were taken one at a time, leaving the younger daughter and the father. Later, the father is taken, and the daughter leaves behind a note scrawled in blood explaining what happened to him, as he fought while being hauled away. She ends the note with, "I think I know why father left the dagger,".
She'd dead in the pen, wrists cut, the note nearly unreadable as it's covered in blood. The father had to choose from using a weapon to fight what he knew would be a losing battle, or leave it behind so his young daughter could take her own life, knowing that choice was forced upon them because he'd brought them here. He's fed, alive, to the big bug, his only comfort being that she might not be.
As an unmarked coda, we can find the father's remains inside the big bug matron, and place them in the lighthouse beacon fire, as he'd once hoped.
Skyrim isn't known of its writing, but that place just destroys me.
"I think I know why father left the dagger."
Context: Skyrim, Frostflow Lighthouse.
A family - husband, wife, couple of girls - moves to Skyrim so the parents can retire and watch the glaciers drift by the northern coast. Falmer tunnel into the basement and abduct them at night. In many ways it's a fairly typical quest of exploring a location that spills into some tunnels, and finding notes detailing what happened to the former owners of the place.
But the details are fucking brutal. The kids didn't want to move, they were happy where they had been raised, and hated the cold. The mother didn't want to either, but just wanted her husband to retire happy. The father has this dream of living out retirement there, and having his remains placed in the beacon fire of the lighthouse so he can watch them go by, with his wife, forever. Romantic shit.
One daughter is found near the entrance of the cave, where she'd broken away and started to climb, only to be skewered by a Falmer dagger. Further in, we find the cave is a breeding pen for the giant insects the Falmer raise for materials. There's a pen where the rest of the family was kept, to be fed to the insect matron deep in the cave. They were taken one at a time, leaving the younger daughter and the father. Later, the father is taken, and the daughter leaves behind a note scrawled in blood explaining what happened to him, as he fought while being hauled away. She ends the note with, "I think I know why father left the dagger,".
She'd dead in the pen, wrists cut, the note nearly unreadable as it's covered in blood. The father had to choose from using a weapon to fight what he knew would be a losing battle, or leave it behind so his young daughter could take her own life, knowing that choice was forced upon them because he'd brought them here. He's fed, alive, to the big bug, his only comfort being that she might not be.
As an unmarked coda, we can find the father's remains inside the big bug matron, and place them in the lighthouse beacon fire, as he'd once hoped.
Skyrim isn't known of its writing, but that place just destroys me.
