Was doing a certain quest and ended up in a one on one fist fight. It was going pretty well, but then all of a sudden my opponent ducks out of the way from one of my punches it lands on one of the spectators. No big deal, he'd understand, right? WRONG!!! I guess he had one too much mead because the dumb**s pulls out his sword and I'm like WTF!!! He turns hostile and takes a few swings at me. Then the real mayhem ensues...

My follower is a mage and decides to conjure a freakin' flame atronach! The flame atronach tries to hit the patron continuously and constantly misses, angering other patrons. As a reflexive action during a fight that gets out of hand, I use frenzy, but I forgot I wasn't fighting bandits 'cuz I was in panic mode and cast it. Unfortunately I missed, and hit two other patrons standing at the other end of the bar. Needless to say, they get involved in the scrum and the whole thing turns into a huge cluster**ck.

The hilarious part is the person I'm fighting completely stops fighting, looks around confused, and asks "What's going on?" or something to that effect. I figure the entire bar turning into a massive drunken bonfire brawl would clue her in, but I guess not. The other funny part is the jerk that started the whole thing says... "I'm getting out of here!" WTF!!! You start the whole damn thing and then you're just gonna leave! What a...

Then, a guard comes up to me because I "unsheath" my magic and goes through the whole routine of trying to send me to jail. Since this was apparently not my day, I hit the down on the joystick too far down and basically told him to go screw himself. He didn't take that very well and since I'm a cloth mage and didn't cast stoneflesh, he cut me like a hot knife through butter.

Wow! All I was supposed to do was intimidate someone...

After the incident I took a break and grabbed my own version of fine Norse mead, which is a dram of 15yr old Glenfiddich Scotch Whiskey. I sat there and said, "Man, that was nuts... but it was also pretty awesome!"

Your bar brawl sounds pretty cool. But for me, I don't care if there was swords, magic, ticked off midgets or hoker claw battles... if no one broke a bottle off on the counter top, then it wasn't a bar brawl.

Then again, that could just be the Texan in me speaking out loud.

ummm, the Fiddich

hehe... That sounds pretty fun, actually. I hope you saved before starting the fight though. This is why I am always veeeery careful in bar brawls to stay away from the other patrons.

On the other hand, this makes me want to make up a mage and train them up some in heavy armor to get the steel fist perk, then the pugilist enchant. I could see that in a tavern.. some drunk Nord gets in your face for being one of those 'milk-drinking mages'. (someone needs to mod in milk...) So you calmly stand up, pull on your ebony gauntlets and introduce them to Mr Left and Mr Right.

@Hannador

Who knows? That probably did happen! Lol. So much happening at once... the whole incident above I think lasted a whole of two minutes, maybe.

Sounds like my last bar brawl... in real life.

One thing I am disappointed in though is that you can only start brawls with certain people. And even then only during certain quests... I would much rather see it as an option you can take to most anyone to settle a dispute or air a grievance. And it is a pretty Nord thing to do, since they are a rough and tumble people.

I know a lot of mouthy NPCs who need to eat an extra large serving of knuckle sandwich, starting with Farengar Secret-fire...