Then I took an arrow in the knee

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"Then I took an arrow in the knee" is a well known line of dialogue from the guards in the video game TESV: Skyrim. The complete quote is:

I used to be an adventurer like you;

Then I took an arrow in the knee.

It is one of the pieces of random dialogue that any NPC guard can say when spoken to, or when you just happen to pass too close to them and they feel like chatting, and a version exists for each different guard voice-set. As a result, while playing Skyrim, you will hear from an awful lot of guards, from all over Skyrim, both male and female, that their promising adventuring careers were cut short by crippling knee-related injuries. The frequent use of the phrase has inspired a derived meme wherein it is declared that "I used to X; then I took an arrow in the knee" (sometimes using the line as an interruption to an existing text which happens to contain a line fitting the format). The joke can take the form of plaintext or image macros and is currently making its rounds on the internet (including, of course, /tg/) due to Skyrim's massive popularity. It can be considered Skyrim's equivalent to Oblivion's "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM".