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"Hey you, you're finally awake", are words that so often come a moment before disaster. In Skyrim, it's supposed to be scripted disaster, of course - a cart ride followed by an axe that very nearly frees your head from your body, and a close-shave with a dragon. But for many players, they don't make it off the cart before the damn thing becomes possessed, spinning endlessly and throwing it's passengers away. There are a lot of reasons for why this on-rails sequence sometimes goes awry, but it turns out it was a problem during development too, when a single bee derailed the whole thing.

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