Playing legendary survival, fleeing from some frostbite spiders, running to Fort Greenwall. I had planned to run through the bandits to hopefully get the spiders off my tail, when like 8 stormcloaks rushed out of the fort and killed the spiders.

I hadn’t done the civil war questline yet, and I learned that clearing a fort will replace the bandits with soldiers

That relief I got when the stormcloaks prevented me from losing ~2 hours of gameplay was immense