After one of the highest rated launches in gaming history as well as plenty of subsequent successful re-releases, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is still quite a popular game. With an enormous open world filled with unique NPCs and enemies as well as numerous, easy-to-install mods that further improve the game, Skyrim is still thought by many to be one of the best games ever made.
A big part of the game's success is its massive amount of quest lines that offer unique stories and ways to play the game. From quests sending players on hunting missions with the Companions to Skyrim's Thieves Guild quests, there are plenty of stories waiting to be told by the player's actions. Many of these quests are open-ended, allowing players to dictate how they wish to approach the situation.
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This opportunity for creativity leads to some hilarious moments that usually end in the death(s) of NPC(s) in fantastic or dramatic ways. For example, one Skyrim player used dungeon traps against enemies, punishing NPCs with the same traps they would have set for the player to run into. In other cases, players have used the environment, potions, transformations, and magic to decimate enemies and find unique ways to complete quests. One such example came recently as a player devised a unique- and technically pacifist- technique for killing Vittoria Vicci.
Reddit user walter-fring devised a devious plan for completing the Bound Until Death quest for the Dark Brotherhood, an assassin group that plagues the land of Skyrim and one of Skyrim's best joinable factions. The quest tasks the player with killing Vittoria Vicci on her wedding day, severing the ties that would have formed between the Imperials
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