So, I had this warrior chick from (the city where the thieves guild is) as a partner and during a cave exploration I accidently killed her. I was using her as a mule so she had around 300 pounds and I was nearly maxed out already. As soon as she feel I was like SON of a [censored], so I thought maybe I could bring her back with a raised the dead spell...but no luck ( It should work!!!). I proceeded to unload my stuff off her and make the (nearly) 1 hour walk back out side and to my house. Days, maybe weeks later I returned to the town where we first met (with a new partner) and that [censored] was alive!!! WTF!

On a some what related story, I gave my partner all of the nightingale armor and some beasty weapons. During one of my expeditions he disappeared for about 30 minute...I about crapped myself, thinking he was dead some where or glitched out with all my stuff...but he did finally show up. Has this happened to you?

Once with my married Aela. She just stoped in the top of a mountain. I said to myself "Ok. She will be here in a moment".

From west solitude to near the dwarven ruins near Winterhold... Where the censored is she?!

Then.. I saw vilkas.. Farkas.. and.. whut? Then I noticed Aela was not with me.. for about.. 20 minutes!

So I said: Thank god she's not my real wife. She would kill me!

Went back ALL the way on foot, crawled trough dungeons and so forth...

Then.. I found her!! She was stopped in front of a crypt. She looked at me and said "Let's go now?"

And I WTFED!

followers are bad at following.
its like walking a dog thats wants to sniff everything,at least with a dog you have a leash.

Lydia has been my partner since lvl5. Now at 30 she does this a lot. Might be related to time in service?

I accidentally did a textbook assassination on Ungtherd. We were in a cave filled with glowing mushrooms sneaking and a falmer dropped from a pipe. Ungtherd quickly abandoned the sneaking idea and ran up there just as I tossed out an Unrelenting Force to introduce myself. So those 2 are fighting and as I sneak up behind the falmer and press the attack button, they both semi-circle around as I jump up and run the blade across Ungtherd's throat. I was furious.

Now the dog followers, the real two (not Barbas), they seem to have excellent pathfinding and never get lost. They can even keep up with you when you're sprinting on a horse. I had to mod the voice files to tone down the barking, sniffing, whining, and panting while idle though.

Get your follower to stay put at the entrances, and do your killing/thieving solo and then load them up, go to next spot, rinse and repeat.
Also you can resurrect with console command
go to dead body, open console commands, mouse click the dead person/horse then type in resurrect in console command line and hit enter.
If you have a mount you CAN fast travel overloaded while on a mount.

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I am on Xbox 360