I'm sorry, Shellbug, I'll never think of doing that again : V

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:50 am

Yeeah. Found the Shellbug in the Forgotten Vale cave this time around as DG (skipped right through on my Vampire first play)
I'd been curious about the 'Mine 4 bug' shellbug chitin, so I saved and went ahead and mined away.

Quite possibly the fastest reload I've ever done, heh.

Anyone else find they feel terrible about hurting the Shellbugs?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:36 am

I have not noticed this, that is it?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:01 am

I have not noticed this, that is it?

...Uh....Say wha?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:50 am

I don't even have Dawnguard and I cringe at the thought of hurting these innocent bugs. They lived in peace for centuries and now Dovahkiin comes, a hero and saviour of the world, and ruthlessly murders them just so she can forge a helmet she'll probably never use anyway.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:10 am

Good, heheh...
I went through there and I never saw any Shellbugs.
Now I'm glad I did not!
L8R

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:09 pm

It felt bad to kill it but the shellbug helmet is like daedric helmet good.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:35 am

I don't even have Dawnguard and I cringe at the thought of hurting these innocent bugs. They lived in peace for centuries and now Dovahkiin comes, a hero and saviour of the world, and ruthlessly murders them just so she can forge a helmet she'll probably never use anyway.

Yeah but it will look good in a glass cabinet :-)

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:18 pm

I'd call spoiler alert but as I play on PS3 I'm probably safe.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:26 am

I don't even have Dawnguard and I cringe at the thought of hurting these innocent bugs. They lived in peace for centuries and now Dovahkiin comes, a hero and saviour of the world, and ruthlessly murders them just so she can forge a helmet she'll probably never use anyway.

It's just being refitted for a more noble cause.

My desires.

That was enough for me to justify it. Actually, I never thought about it until this thread, but it is after all, just a bug..

Squish it. Make a helmet out of its corpse. Move along.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:18 pm

You monsters hurting poor shelly. :shakehead:

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:46 am

Poor shelly.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:17 am

Well, the good thing is that they respawn.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:47 pm

I'm the type that smiles in anticipation as lobsters start to make lovely little screaming noises when you put them in boiling water. The only thing saving Shelly at the moment is my inability to find the darn thing. I plan to make Cicero wear Shelly as a hat!

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:24 pm

I mean, I usually hate bugs. But it just sits there. Chirping. How could I hurt an ins-

AHHH CHARUS KILLITKILLITKILLITWITHFIRE BURNYOUSOD!!!!!

Now, where was I?

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:17 pm

It's just being refitted for a more noble cause.

My desires.

That was enough for me to justify it. Actually, I never thought about it until this thread, but it is after all, just a bug..

Squish it. Make a helmet out of its corpse. Move along.

But there are only two shellbugs in all of Skyrim. It feels wrong to kill them, even if they respawn (do they? I have no idea.) They're peaceful too. I don't like killing giants because they're intelligent and even have their own language (or at least used to), but when they attack me I don't hesitate to defend myself. Shellbugs, however, aren't aggresive.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:29 pm

Look at it this way, if there are only two, and they live that far away they are obviously evolutionary dead ends and living a lonely useless existence until you come along and suggest they might be useful for something.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:34 am

I mined it for a couple of hits and then exited. I could see where this was going, and there was no way I wanted to kill it. It reminded me of the silt striders in Morrowind, and the Shellbugs in Forgotten Vale also make a cool sound.

So, anyway, I got the material, but didn't kill the bug. (I don't kill Chauruses if I can help it either).

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:09 am

Look at it this way, if there are only two, and they live that far away they are obviously evolutionary dead ends and living a lonely useless existence until you come along and suggest they might be useful for something.

According to this definition I'm an evolutionary dead end too, so I sympathize with shellbugs

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:22 pm

It's just a bug

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:13 am

I read that they only die after mining three pieces of chitten so if you stop at two they'll survive and recover.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:23 am

I read that they only die after mining three pieces of chitten so if you stop at two they'll survive and recover.

Yes, there's no need to kill them.