Well, truth to be told, I was about to open the beer anyway.


I laughed, and flipped the bottle cap into the trash can.

The man was just doing his job, I guess. Hope the beer helped!

Not bad scumbag courier..

I don't believe the courier talks for more than ten seconds, faster if you skip the dialog.

But you can just press B, can't you?

You know I had that happen with the dude that give's you his stolen property. 2 dang sabrecat's, Iona was taking care of one, but the other got me.


If you can it didn't work for me. I hit "B" about 10 times, hoping it would work.

was it the naked courier? that would have put me over the edge

Another reason why all couriers must be cleansed.

I had a heck of a time on that quest without the dragon or the courier.
I feel bad for you.

samethng happend to me just wihout the courier

Similar experience happened to me while I was playing for the first time in weeks the other day. I play on master too, with difficulty mods. (PISE, WIS, ect) I was like 339/340 encumbered and I happened upon a bandit fort. I wouldn't have attacked them but a sabertooth tiger thing started mauling me in the butt, forcing me to run towards the camp on the off chance they would attack it instead of me. As I approached the entrance, a dragon started circling. I killed a bandit while taking arrows in the face; Lydia managed to kill the tiger. I had 2 potions so the dragon would have kicked my ass (Deadly Dragons too). As I'm getting hit with more arrows and pausing to drink my only potions, what do you know... an idiot thief appears, forcing dialogue and placing his enchanted iron WARHAMMER in my inventory by force. By the time I got him to cancel dialogue I was being breathed on by the dragon. Forgetting about being encumbered, I attempted to walk away from the deadly flames and died...

Wow, that is one determined courier!

I run into something like this who was less spectacular but more beer friendly.
I was walking along a road, saw some people around an campfire, detect life showed that they was friendly so I walked up to them, now one of the walked over and start talking offering me an drink, at the same time an Thalmor patrol had come the other way and attacked me.

Yeah, I wish the couriers and thieves would get the "this person is busy" message when they try to approach me during a fight!

This times 1000!

If it helps though OP I cracked open a tinny today due to Skyrim related stress, bloody cliffs.

ROFL. Welcome to the club. "Toast".

You mean dragged in to Stendarr's light, right?

It's sad to see Skyrim makes people turn to the drink. For me it's the other way round. But yeah, what you described was an exceptional situation.

When it absotively, positutely, has to reach the Dragonborn, rely on Skyrim Couriers! Or, "Neither snow, nor rain, nor dragon breath, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

If I cracked open a beer everytime a dragon spawns at a bad time I would be a raging alcoholic a long time ago

haha the man is in such a rush to get that letter from a friend to you that he forgets to get dressed

On the PC, when you're talking to an NPC, and you have sub-titles turned on (I do because of a TV going in the room), you can left click on the sub-titles and advance the text/dialogue as fast as you can click. You just have to be careful and not click through the next box of topics that comes up while talking.

But, that sounds like an awesome fight you had there.

Again, on the PC, keep hitting Tab fast till it interrupts the discussion - which it will eventually, then go to potions and heal yourself. Only problem is you could lose an entire conversation, because it doesn't always come back up afterwards.

Good luck.