What the hell did I do?... : V

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:09 am

I was just hanging out in the bee and barb, when I picked up a wooden bowl by mistake. I quickly dropped it out of my inventory, but some guy walked over and picked it up off the ground. Another guy came over and claimed that he wanted the wooden bowl. The first man said "No. I saw it first, it's mine!" The second man proceeded to pull out his sword, say "We'll see about that," and murder the first man in cold blood.... :blink:

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:45 am

That sounds like one of the radiant events.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:11 pm

That happened to me. Only I dropped a sweetroll.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:16 pm

Happened to me two times: First was a bucket, second time was an apple.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:17 am

Some NPC's seem to be willing to kill their neighbour over stuff that the player has dropped.

I haven't tried it in many places, but in the Bee and Barb I watched Mjoll the Lioness and Vulwulf Snow-Shod battle it out over a shiny object.

I also managed to get Marisa Aravel and Brand-Shei to participate in an all-Dunmer deathmatch in the Riften Market. It was hilarious to hear one of them exclaim "You dare fight a Dunmer!?"

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:32 am

That sounds like one of the radiant events.

Yeah, I know, I just found it hilarious and I've never seen anything like it before after putting at least 100 hours in the game

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:21 am

This reminds me of something I read about Oblivion when Bethesda was testing the Radiant AI system. 1 NPC was told to sweep a path but wasn't given a broom. A second NPC had a broom. The first NPC killed the second one in order to complete the sweep task.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:07 pm

I dropped a cheap garnet in Riften's market place and all hell broke loose. EVERYONE was killing for that little gem. From Maven down to the guards...I just watched and laughed my butt off.

I think there was about 11 bodies when it was all done. Mjoll the lioness ended up with the garnet .

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:04 am

This reminds me of something I read about Oblivion when Bethesda was testing the Radiant AI system. 1 NPC was told to sweep a path but wasn't given a broom. A second NPC had a broom. The first NPC killed the second one in order to complete the sweep task.

Well, the floor did have to get clean after all.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:20 pm

I dropped a cheap garnet in Riften's market place and all hell broke loose. EVERYONE was killing for that little gem. From Maven down to the guards...I just watched and laughed my butt off.

I think there was about 11 bodies when it was all done. Mjoll the lioness ended up with the garnet .

Ok - that's it - I officially have to try this!!

It sort of makes sense that folks comment on, fight over, ask you for (i.e. in Riverwood drop your party clothes and NPC wants that 'armor' you dropped...) dropped stuff. Sort of because there are so many things folks don't comment on or see; you know like if you're hidden and conjure a Dremora Lord...no one SEES it until they can see you...but drop a Sweet Roll - game on! :biggrin:

Still, the inconsistencies sure make for some laughs!

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:31 pm

Does this work in bandit caves as well? I'd love to sneak in, drop a gem and have one bandit to deal with instead of six.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:22 pm

I've never seen a free-for-all. I even drop awesome stuff, daedric artifacts and stuff that I made from exploits, and ...nothing.

....meanwhile, TC get the town to kill themselves over a wooden bowl.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:20 am

This is a random event that happens after you drop an item. It's supposed to happen after an item of actual value gets dropped but oh well. That wooden bowl is hot commodity.

This reminds me of the scene in The Dark Knight where the joker splits a pool cue in half, throws one half on the ground and basically tells two men to fight to the death. I really want to trigger this event now and drop a sword on the ground in the Winking Skeever and yell "Fight!".

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:03 pm

I have never seen that to happen. I have only saw a little girl giving me an apple I dropped, a bandit who came to ask me if he can take leather bracers I threw away and a Red Guard in Whinking Skeever who stole my shield when I left it on my bed in my room before I went downstairs to have an ale. (Red Guard running up and down made me suspicious so I stopped him and he gave my shield back.)

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:39 pm

I have never seen that to happen. I have only saw a little girl giving me an apple I dropped, a bandit who came to ask me if he can take leather bracers I threw away and a Red Guard in Whinking Skeever who stole my shield when I left it on my bed in my room before I went downstairs to have an ale. (Red Guard running up and down made me suspicious so I stopped him and he gave my shield back.)

Drop something of real value that would tempt even a priest, and sit back and watch the action take flight!

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:34 am

Drop something of real value that would tempt even a priest, and sit back and watch the action take flight!

I will try it. Once I dropped something with higher value in Blue Palace but it only made guards to tell me that I shouldn't leave weapons lying around.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:47 am

That happened to me. Only I dropped a sweetroll.

Cold blooded murder over a sweetroll makes a lot more sense than killing over a wooden plate.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:05 am

A wooden bowl is very valuable in skyrim. People kill for it.

» Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:55 am

This reminds me of something I read about Oblivion when Bethesda was testing the Radiant AI system. 1 NPC was told to sweep a path but wasn't given a broom. A second NPC had a broom. The first NPC killed the second one in order to complete the sweep task.

Those are Bethesda lies. They fabricated that to cover the previous lies of their "Radiant" AI. That way they could say that the AI was too efficient.