Shortly after defeating the Elder, with just my bronze armor, weapons, and crypt key, I decide to sail to a new island on a tiny little raft. It’s a ways off, but once I get there I start going along the shore.
- Pass by the swamp for the first time, a leech starts following me – swimming just a tad faster, so he’d catch up to my raft, swing his head back to take a bite, and then reset because now I’m out of range
- Some draugrs start trying to swim out to intercept me… right as the wind changes and starts pushing me toward the land
- Get past the swamp, the next area (as luck would have it), is the plains… first thing I see is a deathsquitto start flying toward me… so I try to steer toward the open option
- The leech is still following me
- It’s getting dark and I’m afraid of running into sea serpents, so I weave in and out of the plains water and the open ocean until I find the Black Forest
Probably wouldn’t have been as scary if I had backup gear, a nearby portal, or it wasn’t so far away. Still, harrowing experience 🙂
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/tw7rwf/genuinely_terrifying_experience/
