The music is tranquil, the pacing is whatever I want it to be, I can collect and horde, I can be a thief or assassin (all my killings are assassinations because I am of the Dark Brotherhood beit contract or not).
That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.