I got into my first brawl last week, and Lydia was bouncing around egging me on. I initially found it amusing. The brawl was broken up, no winner or loser at that point (well outside me paying my own bounty for fighting, SIGH) and Lydia continued to think I was brawling (this was early on in the Forsworn Conspiracy in Markarath). Thought she’d reset when I entered a new location. So I went into the empty house with the Vigilante (leading into a Daedric mission), and she didn’t. Needless to say she wouldn’t shut up for about a half hour. ‘Put your hands up’, ‘Where’d you learn to fight?’, ‘ You just gonna stand there and take it?’, 'Pound him into the snow!' While dealing with pure evil, she wasn’t helping the atmosphere or severity of what I might be getting myself into…. and sadly she wasn't smited

After I finished that (yeah I had an earlier save, but further back than I wanted to deal with) I tried leaving the city. She followed, but was bouncing backwards and forwards like a boxer still yelling at me. Due to this erratic movement she would NOT fast travel with me, the one time I managed to get her to do so she bounced herself out the gate of Whiterun and disappeared. Had to keep re-loading to figure her out, and eventually just dismissed her, to which she still followed me being annoying in her taunts. After the dismissal and return to Whiterun again, she finally went back to normal and I re-hired her in the street.

Anybody ever have the issue of your follower getting stuck in an unbreakable dialog loop? I've read about NPC issues, but not much about followers doing it.


(I kinda got even with her last night during a fight, due to poor aim..... I killed her. Some adventurer I am! Thankfully I had just saved it so all was well...and she doesn't remember a thing. But I do... mwa ha ha ha).