Got any 'wtf' moments in Skyrim? #2

Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:28 am

How about bugs. I paid for the travel wagon, activated it and did not go anywhere. So I ran back to Whiterun so I catch a dragon. When the time to let him go he vanish. Luckily I done a hard save just before I start the quest. At that time I said to myself 'great another glitch.' I exit the game and went had some dinner.

After dinner I loaded that save and here comes the weird part. After the game loaded the save I was in dragonreach ready to catch a dragon, then I hear something like gold dropping on the ground in the game, then a loading screen comes up and found myself in Drawstar. That wagon ride that did not go anywhere, well I wanted to go to Dawnstar. Here I am in Dawnstar at night time and at a minute ago I was in Dragonreach in day time. So I went into the inn to have some sleep. I went into the Dark Brotherhood hide out to start up another contract. After that I ran straight to Whiterun because there is a certain Jarl waiting for me to catch a dragon. So I went into Dragonreach (I wrote over the hard save that I done earlier before I start the quest. Again!) and caught the dragon. When the time to let him go he is still there and did not vanish (like he done earlier) and I rode him out with my character on the dragon to the next quest.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:11 am

Had one last night with either a psychic guard, or the Dark Brotherhood member list being the worst kept secret in Tamriel...

My Dunmer Assassin is walking through Whiterun. Now please keep in mind that I RP very heavily, and so I'm not wearing any of my Dark Brotherhood armor. I look like just any other Dunmer in the world, though I've been the Listener for quite some time in-game now.

As I'm on my way to Belethor's General Good Store, I pass a Guard who stops to enlighten me with one of their quips, but it's one that I honestly haven't heard before.

He says:

"Hey, I know who you are. And I know what your business is. But please, there's a lot of honest, good people here... well, mostly."

I was kind of shocked. A Guard was genuinely fearful of my avatar, and was (in his own way) begging me not to slaughter the populace. He was honestly scared that I would turn Whiterun into a necropolis.

That kind of recognition, the fear that my avatar's chosen path has generated, really made me appreciate this game even more. I'm kind of annoyed that everyone seems to know what I do for a living, but the ego-stroking was really cool.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:09 pm

Nah. I get naked couriers all the time, and I've never pickpocketed a courier.

I have never used pick pockets on either version of the game and courriers show up nakid all the time. Gotta love the coding.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:50 am

SO Rustlief, the Smith in Dawnstar died during a Dragon attack the other day.

So instead of his pregnant, widowed wife getting the inheritance (she lived, btw...), the Jarl awards it to me? O.o
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:55 pm

Not so much wtf, but rather a "wtf why this?!".

So I finally managed to get the second totem quest from Aela, and we arrived without too much trouble at the ancient Nord ruin Ansilvund. I'd already cleared it out once before, but it was a pretty long time ago so i didn't remember it much. The outside of the ruin already vaguely reminded me there had been an interesting quest going on the previous time. After advancing a bit in the ruin, I stumbled on familiar ground and finally recalled it had involved the quest with the necromancer wanting to resurrect her dead husband.
The ruin was now repopulated with necromancers again, but nothing both I and Aela couldn't handle. Aela did even better than I'd anticipated, I didn't even have to heal her so far. No, the enemies weren't a major problem. So we went on, progressing through the ruin, shooting down skeletons like bowling pins, hacking our way through the necros, wandering through the tight corridors; in short, nothing stood in our way. Nothing, except ...
"Click!" "Kazing!" "Argh!"
Confused, I turn around to see where the noise came from. Aela is crouching, trying to crawl her way back to me, as suddenly ...
"Click!" "Kazing!"
She gets hit by a second swinging axe, and managed to activate the swinging axes in front of us at the same time. I wince. Great. I forgot about the sh*tload of traps lined up in this ruin. Fortunately, I knew you could deactivate these axes by falling back a bit and pulling a lever.
In the end, it was still very hard to make Aela not walk over the pressure plates, but alas, nothing is impossible. Satisfied over myself, I push through with a very alive Companion.

Now, you've got to realize this was still only at the middle of the dungeon. A nice single trail road was waiting for us, high up in the air, completely covered with delicious traps like swinging spiked fences and pressure plates with fire holes in them ...

So, my reaction: Y TA F.CK U LEAD US TO DIS RUIN?! *insert rage face*

SO Rustlief, the Smith in Dawnstar died during a Dragon attack the other day.

So instead of his pregnant, widowed wife getting the inheritance (she lived, btw...), the Jarl awards it to me? O.o
It's only a part of his whole inheritance, I assume. Most of it probably went to his family. It would be strange otherwise.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:53 am

Had one last night with either a psychic guard, or the Dark Brotherhood member list being the worst kept secret in Tamriel...
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"Hey, I know who you are. And I know what your business is. But please, there's a lot of honest, good people here... well, mostly."
Interesting. Is it possible that's a leader of the TG reaction? I've done both the DB and TG questlines, but have never heard that line. I've definitely heard the other DB one, but that one sounds almost like it would be related to the TG. :o
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:34 am

Interesting. Is it possible that's a leader of the TG reaction? I've done both the DB and TG questlines, but have never heard that line. I've definitely heard the other DB one, but that one sounds almost like it would be related to the TG. :ohmy:

I would agree with you, except this particular character hasn't even done Brynolf's Scheme in the Riften Marketplace... so I can only assume it's because of my avatar being the Listener.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:20 am

I would agree with you, except this particular character hasn't even done Brynolf's Scheme in the Riften Marketplace... so I can only assume it's because of my avatar being the Listener.
Ah.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:03 pm

Had one last night with either a psychic guard, or the Dark Brotherhood member list being the worst kept secret in Tamriel...

My Dunmer Assassin is walking through Whiterun. Now please keep in mind that I RP very heavily, and so I'm not wearing any of my Dark Brotherhood armor. I look like just any other Dunmer in the world, though I've been the Listener for quite some time in-game now.

As I'm on my way to Belethor's General Good Store, I pass a Guard who stops to enlighten me with one of their quips, but it's one that I honestly haven't heard before.

He says:

"Hey, I know who you are. And I know what your business is. But please, there's a lot of honest, good people here... well, mostly."


I've also had guards say: "Psst! Hail Sithis!" And, no, I wasn't wearing any DB armor.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:22 pm

This is a glitch that recently made my assassins' gameplay much more fun. If you kill someone during their standing animation (from sleep or sit) their corpse will continue walking.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53055849/TESV%20The%20Walking%20Dead.jpg
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:17 am

I was in the doungeon earlier where you pick up the flaming soul axe. Ironbound or whatever it's called. Everything is going smoothly till the named Drauger gets into the fight and does the disarm shout on me.

Ok no worries I have extra weapons so I'll just grab another from my fav file; only to find that the shield was missing as well. When the fight was over I spent 45 min looking for my missing sword. It's gone. Now it's just a cheap orkish sword with soul bind on it and I now have the better soul enchantment but damnit I wanted to sell the old one. I'm trying to get the 25,000 needed for the house in solitude.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:38 am

I just had a "naked" courier show up. Not the first time, but all this one would do is repeatedly say, "I've got a message for you. You're hands only." He'd never give me the message and kept repeating it over and over.

It's very disturbing to have a guy wearing nothing but a loincloth following you around Whiterun constantly saying he has something for "Your hands only...." :blink: :ermm:

Woooo! It's getting steamy in Whiterun! :drool: lol
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:48 pm

Upon entering Whiterun with my nord who's harbinger of the companions, I had a guard say " with respect to the companions, the howling from that dog you got is getting out of hand, could you please do something about that ? " or words to that effect. Guess Aela must be howling alot cant be Vilkas or Farkas as I cured them both. Also I had another guard say how she didnt like my wolfish grin.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:29 am

Minor wtf moment: Ma'iq the Liar came running down the main road between Helgen and Riften, stopped next to me and cowered for a while. Then he got up and said one of his little wisdoms, as usual. Funny thing, I've never even seen him move around before, he's always standing still.

I heard some distant howling before he showed up, so I guess he was hiding from the wolves (that never attacked anyway). Maybe he thought, ah, here comes two warriors (I had Stenvar with me), they can protect Ma'iq from those beasts. Better stay here with them.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:12 am

The games getting weird.

There are level 30 enemies appearing at level 17 in easy areas. You go through normal enemies, then inside a building is 3 bandit highwaymen not even close to the whole level scaling thing.

Some recent WTF moments.

Stormcloaks fighting imperials, decided to help the imperials, and killed the stormcloaks, counts as a crime.

Bearing in mind no one saw this and I killed the last witness.
I go past a normal behaving girl, into darkwater mine. Hostile people. Who can't even have seen it, at all.

So I left, told Brunwulf I had killed the bandits, everyones friendly. Then a guard runs up to me, says I commited a crime and I had to pay a bounty off. WTH?

Stormcloaks and Imperials fighting keep appearing in the oddest places.

I got so pissed off with that moronic fragwit Brynjolf trying to force the damn TG quests on me, I attacked him repeadly. But instead of flambeing his skank ass, it bounced off the bastard like there was a ward up. Tried weapons, magic, nothing went through this invisable, nonexistant, ward. Stupid.

I was wandering and I saw a bandit on a horse, and for no reason he suddenly dropped dead and fell off the horse. There were no enemies, no fighting, nothing. Weird.

On both my characters, a womans voice keeps saying good enough, or it's over, like the end of a fight, but no woman, in wild areas.
Sometimes there is a female hunter to go with the voice, most of the time it's just radomly coming out of bushes.

I was doing the Cursed Tribe quest, and came back with the hammer after killing Yamarz. And the priestess acts like my ORC, who's helping them is not welcome.
Go up,and instead of thank you or something in passing, like she should, she says 'Outsiders are not welcome here, please leave.' 'This is orc land.' I am a orc, and I am welcome here, I'm serving Malacath, you stupid woman!
Also, having recently fought giants, I come out, and they're kneeling over the dead orcs going, 'I wonder what happened', 'so sad', 'what happened'. That was just stupid.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:57 pm

I just had a "naked" courier show up. Not the first time, but all this one would do is repeatedly say, "I've got a message for you. You're hands only." He'd never give me the message and kept repeating it over and over.

It's very disturbing to have a guy wearing nothing but a loincloth following you around Whiterun constantly saying he has something for "Your hands only...." :blink: :ermm:

The horror, lol. O_O' :rofl:
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:03 am

My naked person is the courier. It kind of freaks me out and I don't want to touch the letter he's delivering. :shudder:
I've had that happen before.

I've been killed by dropping an item before, lol.
dropped some useless misc item, and sprinted forward. Dead.
(The real reason is because I have the 'Locational Damage' mod, and at the time there was a bug that made almost everything have a chance to get a critical hit on you... The thing I dropped got a critical hit on my head :| )
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:23 pm

So I map to Riverwood and hear a familer sound. Not another dragon! This is BS cause almost every time I map there a dragon attacks and usually kills villagers and I like Riverwood so I end up re-loading from a last save.

I spring out of town cause at this point its circling and head up the road towards Helgen. It swoops like 20 feet above me and still won't attack. I hit it with a shout Unrelenting Force and it still keeps going.

Now I'm getting annoyed.

I time it just right and shoot it with a Daedric arrow. It noticed me now and circles in close, passing by to blast me with flames or pause nearby. I shoot more arrows into it and it finally lands. I draw my two handed axe and get treated to my first dragon Kill Cam on the PC. I get all F12 happy and suddenly a dog comes out of nowhere and bites the dragon right on the nose. Killcam ended and the dog runs off...

Who's dog?
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:35 pm

On both my characters, a womans voice keeps saying good enough, or it's over, like the end of a fight, but no woman, in wild areas.
Sometimes there is a female hunter to go with the voice, most of the time it's just radomly coming out of bushes.

Thank gods I'm not the only one; this has happened to me too!!
I can't even describe how it made me feel, alone in the house at the time.... I honestly wasn't sure whether I'd actually heard that, or it was my Skyrim-soaked brain.
The divines bless you, and may the ground quake as you pass.
whew!
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:15 pm

Not really a wtf moment, but still fun: fought a dragon when a Thalmor patrol came by and got involved in the fight (ignoring me). It was hilarious to hear the Thalmor agents yelling things like "bow to Thalmor supremacy" and "you shall burn!" to a dragon. Need I tell you who got burned? :P
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:20 am

kinda a wtf moment. I was exploring near Markarth when I spotted the body of a woman face down on a rock near water. I'd come across her before with other characters. This time I did a little crime scene investigation. Turns out it was her private swimming hole. Her dad told her not to go due to forsworn in the area but she felt confident she would be fine. There were forsworn arrows in the water around her and neatly folded clothes on the bank. (I took pics too btw)

Moving on a band of forsworn attacked me and in the middle of it a sabre cat, a horse and a traveling sales woman joined in. She thanked me for saving her, sold me some stuff and off she went.

weird...

But then 2 kids who have no business being that far out in forsworn lands come running up and ask me if I want to see something cool for the right price. Well my orc tells them they better tell her or she will bend them over her knee. Kid gets all pissed off, marks it on my map and then offers to sell me stuff... haha.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:26 pm

Thank gods I'm not the only one; this has happened to me too!!
I can't even describe how it made me feel, alone in the house at the time.... I honestly wasn't sure whether I'd actually heard that, or it was my Skyrim-soaked brain.
The divines bless you, and may the ground quake as you pass.
whew!

It's creepy, lol. Same for me too. I thought 'Did I really hear that?', the first few times it happened. First time I heard it I was like, gah! O_O WTH is that!

Another WTF.

Last time there were a load of necromancers and ices mages yelling the most unlikely line possible.
'I'll burn you!', followed by ice magic. Not one used fire magic.

The actual fire mages yelled other hings, that went with the attacks, lol.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:09 pm

After retiring two characters, I've been playing around with "rolling up" other races. I finally made a Breton female that I liked and began playing around the area southwest of Riverwood. Fought off a few wolves but contracted rockjoint or some disease. Rather than trying to find a shrine I figured I'd look for some mudcrabs to make a cure disease potion since I already had charred skeever hide. I wander along the shoreline and get to just southeast of Ilinalta's Deep. Since Talia is at level two at this point, I knew better than to go into the Deep.

Anyway, I see three red dots on my compass (in the water) so I figured I'd found my mudcrabs. The dots approach so I prepare for battle. What rises out of the water are not crabs but three mages wearing black robes. One of them shouts something negative about Azura as two cast frost spells - all from the water. Talia manage to do some good poison and sword damage on two of them. She kills one and the other two run off (back under the water). Ended up getting some good loot from the dead necromancer including the Oakflesh spell tome.

Out of two other characters (levels 65 and 59), I'd never seen NPCs arise from water/lakes or fight from water. The lake to the southeast of the Deep drops off quickly just off the shoreline. Later, I'll have to check to see if the Deep is accessible from underwater.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:27 pm

I don't think it is.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:41 pm

heres a good one , i went to Ivarstead to meet thr Gray Beards (first time) as i walked in to the town a band of 3 leagon and the prisnor were fighting the town guards ..... Guards won/
So i went up to high Hrought did my thing ....fast trav back to Ivarstead and low and behold the town gards are now fighting a band of stormcloaks ?????????
WTF.... who side are thay on ?????
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