Had a really funny kill last night. Caution SPOILERS!

I was doing the last mission of the DB, and had the option to kill Commander Maro who was hanging out at the docks in front of Solitude. He helped double-cross me, so I was only too happy to take him out. I traveled up to Solitude and swam accross the water to the dock he was standing on. Once on the dock I could see the Commander was facing me and he was about 30 yards away just standing there staring at me. I quickly pulled my warhammer off my back and ran towards him expecting him to start attacking me at any moment. Right as I got up to him he started saying "Hey, you're that..." and I interrupted him with my 2 handed finishing move which punches him in the face with my left hand and warhammer handle and then he doubled over and I chopped his head off which rolled off the dock and made a "bloop" noise as it rolled into the water. I guess nobody saw me because I didn't get a bounty or anything. I quickly turned around and headed for the Emperor's ship.

That was a fun quest. My favorite part was after getting onto the Emperor's ship. I killed the crew quickly and easily as I made my way up. Got to the 2nd level were two agents sat down at a table with their backs towards me. One started talking:

"They say you can see the smoke from Whiterun. I'm glad we can let our guard do...."

As my arrow caught him in the back of the head mid sentence. Don't ever let your guard down in an Elder Scrolls game.

I just did the beginning of the Thieves guild line, and man, did it glitch spectacularly...

It started off normally; I had been given my instructions by Brynjolf, and told to let him know when i was ready. I wandered off to sell some random junk, got side tracked.... well, it was a couple of days later that I ended back up in Riften, in the middle of the night. Brynjolf was still waiting in his stall, in the empty marketplace. Oops.

I told him i was ready, and he started his "Gather round everyone" speech. Then we waited, while all the various merchants wandered in from wherever they go at night. I do the steal and switch, go back and talk to Brynjolf. None of the other merchants move (except Brand-Shei, who apparently went home again), so he gives me my congrats and tells me to go to the Ratway right in front of them all. Uh?

At this point a guard walks up to Brand-Shei's stall, and starts his arrest speech, then politely waits for Brand-Shei to come back again, walk all the way around him and stand behind the stall, before the rest of the 'scene' played through, ending with Brand -Shei being hauled off to jail (luckily I already did his quest, I doubt he'd give it to me now).

Brynjolf had already wandered off at this point, and it was early morning now. I headed down to the ratway, and just as i reach the Flagon, I pass him on his way back to the market place. Huh?

I go inside anyway, and the scripted conversation begins without him. Luckily, he came back, finished talking to whoever it was, and promptly left again.

So, I ended up following him back to the marketplace and his stall. Once there, Brynjolf, in broad daylight, in full Thieves' Guild uniform, proceeded to give me orders to go around and collect the debts.

This was in front of all the other merchants, none of whom had moved since the previous night. And Brand-Shei was back. What?

All right. I go and do the protection money bit. Brynjolf is still in the stall. I talk to him, he tells me to follow him. I head down to the Flagon and wait. And wait. And wait. And head back up, where he's standing in the middle of the market, and doesn't start moving until I get there. Every time I ran ahead, he stopped. Instead of going through the Ratway, we went the back way through the graveyard, and down into the cistern. From there, the quests finally proceeded as normal.

Amazingly, in spite of bending those scripts into knots, nothing broke. Dialogs continued, rewards were properly given. But damn, that whole thing was just utterly bizarre.

Lol, that is awesome! I love interrupting dialog with a nice finish. The DB quests are my favorite.

i had been looking for a dog as a companion, then i saw a dog that because of a glitch had its legs under the earth like it was a giant worm. i talked to its owner who told me it was a "trained war dog" right.....


on xbox at the markarth stables

Update to my previous story. A week later in-game, and the merchants still have not moved. They go back to their stands by day, and do the usual merchant activities, but at night, they all gather around Brynjolf's stall and stand there until morning.

I've also noticed Brand-Shei is still wearing prison rags.

Maybe that glitch did break something...

Funny moment with the two frost trolls in the corner of blackreach:
Frenzied one, and then the other (they were a short distance apart), ran in between them and shouted "feim!" which sounds a lot like "fight!", upon which they began to tear each other apart while I, like a good referee, sat and watched.

Hired thugs came after me when I played yesterday, but my inexperienced and lightly-armoured DB assassin was not ready and bolted for it. Sure enough, a dragon shows up and my first thought is "well crap, this is how this character dies" but the dragon ended up fighting the hired thugs, picking one up and sending him flying. It just struck me as rather fortunate and hilarious.

They came after my Dunmer DB assassin character too right outside the Dawnstar sanctuary. I ran inside real quick but they didn't (or perhaps couldn't follow.) I grabbed Cicero real quick to help me and and went back outside. Cicero cut them to pieces in a flurry of a dagger slashing death. I check their bodies to see who sent them and it was a Penitus Oculatus agent....ha. Irony.

Messing around with my Breton mage and I cast Fury on that annoying Heimskr dude. Next thing I know he draws steel and starts chasing me. As I'm backpedaling and readying a firebolt, an arrow hits him in the back of his head at practically the same time as Idolaf Battle-Born rolls up and runs him through with a kill scene animation. My mage was just standing there with fire in his palm like "dude, really?"

I was really quite surprised as I approached Valheim Towers to take out the bandit leader. Bodies were falling off the bridge right and left. I get inside and kill two rival bandits and loot the rest of the bodies. No one from the original bandit group was alive. The bandit leader was in the river next to the falls.

Came back to Breezehome to find Lydia in my bed.
She's still sleeping last time I checked.

It's all that bread. Now, she hibernates.

I was in the museum of oddities (I think it is in windhelm)

Anyway, I stole that flute to see if I could actually make people dance

Guy: put that back
*i put it back where it was*
Guy: here, I think you dropped this" *hands me flute*
*i throw flute on floor in anger at his idiocity*

I was in whiterun at the inn and yes i forget the name, anyways i decided to pawnch this sam guy or whoever is asking you for a drinking contest, and he shoots this thing that makes like this badass superbody guard thing come out and of course it chops my friggin head off but my head hit some guy in the face and after that he walked away like NOTHING at all just happened. Priceless...

That starts a rather amusing questline if you accept the contest

I originally posted this in the buglist thread, but I'll post it here too:


I also just saw the farmer making his offering to the giants the other day. Very amusing watching them send him into space.