Oblivion highlight of the day...

I might start doing something like this every day or so, depending on if anything noteworthy happened in the game (and assuming I got to play Oblivion that day... frickin' CS250 *grumble*), I dunno.

Anyway, I was walking along the road from the Imperial City to Weynon Priory, minding my own business, when I was accosted from behind by a highwayman who demanded money from me. I told him to piss off, and we started to fight. However, before I'd swung my sword more than a time or two, another guy on a horse suddenly rode up from the direction I had come. When he jumped off of his horse, I was all like great, now I'm going to get my ass kicked here. Turned out it was a random soldier from the Imperial Legion. He proceeded to beat the shit out of the highwayman, and then, after we chatted a bit about random unrelated things, he just walked back to his horse and rode off like nothing happened. I'm pretty certain it wasn't a scripted event, aside from the initial highwayman dialog, and that it was just coincidence that an Imperial Legion guy happened along on his horse. Just doing his job and out patrolling or something, I guess.

I'm kind of wondering though, in a "real world" sense rather than a game sense, how he would have known to immediately attack the other guy instead of me. For all he knew, I could have been the robber and the other guy the victim. I mean, that's how it would have ended up anyway, with the other guy dead and me taking his stuff, even if the Legion soldier hadn't shown up when he did. :p

Bus Pass

Last time I ordered a bus pass, it took them almost a full month to get it to me, for some reason. Well, I ordered a new 3-month Apr-Jun bus pass on Sunday night from the Metro website. In the mail yesterday was a form from the post office saying that... something was waiting for me to sign for and pick up. There were none of the usual identifying marks on the post office form that would indicate what it was. Just a string of cryptic numbers. I went to the post office this morning and picked it up, and it turned out to be the new bus pass.

In other related news, the bus driver today was an ass. The bus arrived at the park and ride about five minutes early. However, he pulled over on the side of the road and let the bus behind him (which was on time) go past. I had no problem with that, really. The other bus pulled into the park and ride and started letting people on, and the bus I was waiting for then also pulled into the park and ride. Instead of walking back to the bus I decided to wait for him to pull up normally. Well, the other bus left and he just... kept sitting there. This I had a slight problem with, but I just shrugged and walked out to the bus anyway and got on. Then the guy pulled up and was apparently NOT going to stop and let anyone else on, because when some old guy started walking toward the bus at this point, the driver said, quite loudly, "You dumb fart!" and then had to stop and let the guy on. Had he just pulled up to begin with, this wouldn't have been a problem. So, yeah, the bus driver was an ass today.