So it seems like
I already did a huge part of the quest “Bleak Falls Barrow”. I might as well elaborate on some of the
things I noticed while exploring that cave. Something that I thought was a nice
touch is how the deeper you went into the cave, the less bandits you saw. Just
a little thing I thought was nice. The
cave itself had a couple of puzzles. One puzzle was in a room where if you put
in the wrong answer and pulled the lever you would have a fun time being
impaled by arrows. As my friend Bandit E showed me. Another thing I noticed was
how spider webs were everywhere, hinting that maybe just maybe the next room
will have something to do with spiders. I’m sure that was a lot of fun for many
people. After the spider room there was another puzzle. This involved a door
with three revolving pieces and three indents. The three indents where in a
claw shape so I guess that was there way of hinting that you should check out
the golden claw before going on. Inspecting the claw you can see that the code
was actually on it. After getting past that the only notable thing would be the
end where you have this huge wall filled with text and a super strong draugr
pop out and attack you. Killing the draugr lets you loot the dragonstone which
is what I needed for the quest. So I was able to give the dragonstone to the
wizard looking guy. What came next was just a bunch of text and a sighting of a
dragon.
The way that the request appeared earlier seemed to be Skyrim's way of telling the player that doing more is good, as it saved me the trouble of having to make a roundtrip to Riverwood. This was the moment I felt really happy that I decided to do this. It felt rewarding when I was able to flaunt that I already did his task for him. Of course naturally this wanted me to continue to play well. This sort of thing could be applied to a wide variety of situations. An easy one would be when I do well on a test. I feel like I really know what I'm doing and am encouraged to do even better the next time.
I never thought that the door itself with the claw indents would be a hint that you should check the claw. I always thought the only hint Bethesda provided players for this was the hint in Arvel's journal that you hold the solution in the palm of your hands (when holding the claw) which certainly wasn't enough for me my first time through.
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