YES ! skyrim is the best game bethseda ' s made and the fantasy rpg theme is right along the line with the witcher 3 . It doesn ' t have a great story though , more like you create your own by your play style . <| sep |> What a beaut ! Edit I just realized I was first introduced to Neature Walks about 5 years ago on Thanksgiving . For something that ' s maybe referenced once a year for me , this is pretty wild . <| sep |> Damn , so the eye of newt I wrote for the holosystolic murmur last week is worthless ? <| sep |> I went backpacking for 3 days with two friends when I was 17 . I ' ll call these friends Doug and Andre for the sake of the story . Doug was a couple of years younger than me and a freshman on the football team . Eager kid , and excited to get going on the hike . Andre was 22 , engaged , and at 6 ' 8 tall , he was more than capable of protecting us from any crazy beasts we might encounter on our trip . We decided to camp , probably illegally , on top of a rocky overlook about 3 . 5 miles up the trail . We decided we ' d set up our base camp there , and hike some of the loop trails nearby in the coming days . As any good backpacker knows , a good water source is vital . Unfortunately for us , the closest source to our site ended up being about a 15 minute walk back down the rocky path we had hiked up to the site . More unfortunate than that , however , was the fact that this source was little more than a drip in the middle of the summer , and this meant that to fill our bottles you ' d have to wait quite a while for them to fill up . Not the worst thing in the world , but it did make water collection time consuming and tedious . After the sun set , it came time for one of us to go and check on the water source . Andre courageously volunteered to go down to the source and fill our water bottles . Doug and I continued to go about setting up our camp site and cleaning up our dinner . Not 5 minutes later , Andre comes running full speed back to camp . He ' s panting , out of breath , and scared stiff . Fearing the worst I mean , what else would scare a halfgiant like Andre ? , I asked him what scared him so badly . In a nervous tone , he said , I saw a SNAKE . A SNAKE ? You ' re afraid of a snake ? I laughed at the thought of such a big guy being afraid of something so tiny , and , most likely , harmless . He said he refused to go back to the water source alone and demanded that Doug and I return with him . Of course , we complied , and we took the short hike down the mountain to the source to fill up our bottles . On our way back , I was still amused by his childish fear of snakes , and I started to tease him about being so afraid of snakes . As we were getting close to the campsite , I started to say , there ' s absolutely no reason to be afraid of . and right as I was going to say , snakes , my foot almost landed on a coiled up copperhead , causing me to jump out of my skin and instead scream , SNAKES ! like a little girl . I suddenly got why Andre was so afraid of snakes in the dark and was now the center of humiliation for the rest of the evening . Now , here ' s where it gets strange , and this is what I still can ' t figure out to this day . That night , after all the craziness of the snakes and the water source , we settled down to sleep on the overlook . No tent , just sleeping bags and mats on a rock with about a 200 foot drop . About 20 feet from where we were camping is where the forest began , and from our vantage point , it was very dark in there . The overlook was bathed in moonlight , and we had no trouble seeing what was around us , though . That said , a little after midnight , as we ' re drifting off to sleep , I hear a loud yelping yowling sound coming from the woods . There was no echo , but there was a very quick reply in the valley below . Whatever it was , there were two of them , and we were pinned on this rock . As you can imagine , this noise startled me , Doug , and Andre . I quietly whispered to the guys , What was that ? to get a very quick , scared response from Andre saying , It ' s nothing , probably a coyote . I wasn ' t so sure , but I definitely didn ' t want to be the one to find out . The rest of the night was uncomfortable , and I finally got a little sleep . In the morning there was no evidence of what it could have been , and there were no other campers nearby . To this day , I can ' t figure it out . I know there are tons of weird noises that animals make in the night , but that one in particular has stuck with me for a long time as one of the strangest noises I ' ve heard in the woods . TLDR Went backpacking with Andre the Giant Chicken , who was of no help in fighting off snakes or monsters in the dark .