so i just recently started a new character, a female nord archer that likes to smith and slit peoples throats lol i know. so i'm walking through whiterun after delivering my daily dose of loot to breezehome and as i'm walking outside i bump into nazeem. he says his only line in the game but for some reason that day i just didn't want to hear his [censored] so i sneak up on him and i slit his throat with mehrunes razor he flops to the ground lifeless and as i walk away satisfied i think that is the last of that. wrong. later that game week i spot 4 mercenaries in full ebony armor and sporting scary looking battleaxes, after funnily telling me that they are going to kill me i put an arrow in between each of their eyes and proceed to loot their unicorn like corpses. After i pick up their armour i find a contract on one of them and lo and behold they were hired to beat me into a fine mist by non other than nazeems wife!!! when todd howard said that npc's would seek retribution he wasn't kidding haha.........so i go to whiterun and put several arrows in nazeems wife in broad daylight on the market, then i set the corpse on fire with the flame breath thu' um and drop the contract on her stomach and that was the end of that.

so what stories like this do you guys have to share?

LOL. That made my night.

Good to see everyone hates nazeem
And gosh the thugs are efficient. Once i killed olfina gray mane, then i proceed to sprint to falkreath. When i reached there, the thugs attempted to kill me with the contract saying "blahblah make him pay for what he's done to my dear olfina"

Thats some efficient thug system they responded and found me in a few hours! scary.

HAHAHA thats really wierd cuz the same exact thing happened to me and i did the same thing. But burning her body and dropping the note's a hilarios touch

I love those guys lol Though everytime I see them its because I stole something.......even if I wasn't seen they still know or find out somehow lol

When I finally made my female character, I decided to side with the Imperials. The wife of the blacksmith you meet at the beginning of the game in River wood (if you followed the stormcloak/imperial after helgen) said that I was pretty, but to stay away from her husband lol Someone was a bit jelly I think Damn im fine.

I had the same thing happen to me with an old lady with a shack in the woods. I took a book and some coins while she wasn't looking and went off about my business for several days. Then, after clearing out a tower full of bandits, I waited for an hour so I can recover from the battle and turned around to find three higher level thugs ready to pummel me. While looting their bodies, I found a note from that old lady telling them to kill me. I went straight back to that old lady's house, flamed her, then took everything else in her house.

I just finished the Civil war as a Stormcloak..I literally just made my nord...and played through the Stormcloak's Rebellion in one sitting...
They had some great battles set in this game. ( I won't ruin them here).

I wish they had the ability to do more Forts where they just keep respawning people. I could two-handed slash/cut/destroy...soldiers..all...day...long. lol

Actually I find those events to be amoung the worst, just rubbing how glaringly bad, poorly thought and planned out and lacking in any story it is.

Ie. Nazeem's wife is far from happy with him, frankly she makes out she'd be happier if he was dead (maybe to claim all his money and find someone not obsessed with being in a Jarls colon).
If you do it sneakily and no one sees it happen they still take out a hit on you even though they have no reason or way of knowing it was you. Aside from the DB knowing when you murder someone to have all npcs do this is stupid. On top of that in some situations dead people will be the ones taking out the hit on you, with no witnesses or anyone else to care they are gone they'll hire mercs as a ghost maybe. Bad enough the series of people attacking you just for the hell of it (DB, thalmor, adventurers all without trigger be it actually being a thorn in thier side or annoying someone you have and can actually meet in game, not some dude from hammerfell as far as we know) which only plausable explaination is that its from events prior to the start which just detracts from the whole be who you want to be and be here for what reasons you want to be from the start of the game.
And even after killing the 4 mercs and finding evidence of who was after you for taking a cheese wegde seen or not, or murdering thier spouse, you can't even present the note to them saying call it off or you'll be like the other 5, fair enough they may want to deny it out of fear but thier fear shouldn't prevent you from showing them the not and saying something to them.
Continuing on from the last one the level of depth, immersion and believablity is as far as the last point covers. Yeah I'd be annoyed if someone stole a 3 gold wegde of cheese from me but I wouldn't higher 4 mercs at the cost of hundreds of gold each to hunt the person down and kill them.

Also, something I did last night on my way to a Stormcloak Camp on Dragon Bridge-

Thalmor are walking across the bridge. I charged into all 3 of them...I run the hooded robed one through with a two handed sword execution to start it off (Already making it awesome)...tossing him at his buddies feet..one starts casting spells...I do another execution but this time closer to the ledge of the bridge...totally kicking the person Sparta Style OFF the bridge after lifting them up off their feet...

The third one, I get a Decap off as they tried to kite me/run near the imperials...

Who don't do...a damn thing...about it. I love this game. And I'm in love with my Nord I made.
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I feel bad for the person above...maybe next time around? but it sounds like your so scorned...you probably won't pick up the next title...

I've been attacked about four times by Dark Brotherhood assassins. They usually pop up out of the bushes, come charging at me, then go flying off into the night after being hit in the face by a dual wielded thunderbolt. Then Lydia says "Huh?"

Sadly, the contracts don't mention who wants me dead, so I can't go looking for payback.

The Thalmor want to see me dead, for be a Khajiit and enemy of the Thalmor and bringing a lot of damage to them. As i could read from their "Execution order" i am extremly dangerous and can defend myself

i wonder if you'd like to hear the story of how i fus ro dahed the [censored] that keeps insulting my attire in solitude twas hilarious

I play a pretty good character, so after hearing that ass for the billionth time i decided I would "accidently" become a werewolf at night outside of Whiterun. After being chased by several guards and Khajiit traders, i found him in the Bannered Mare with his wife in bed.
I gladly slaughtered him in front of his pathetic wife. Hearing her scream in fear made my day, and so did Nazeem's death of course.
I came back the next day feeling good as ever, while his [censored] wife told me she is a grieving widow and she knows what i'm thinking. That [censored]! I should have killed her that night.
About a (In-game) month later, I became a werwolf again to kill that annoying priest, Hesskr(sp). I killed him, but couldn't find Nazeem's wife. My health was too low to search for her any more.

Harold Thornsburg was a good man.

He stole sometimes, but he was a good man. Everyone he stole from, he always paid back ten-fold.

All those iron weapons he pilfered from Warmaiden's? He paid them back by dropping off two stacks of Dwarven Armor.

All those minor healing potions he swiped from Arcadia's Cauldron? Restocked her store full of elixirs he'd found in a dungeon two days later.

But there was one man who drove him off the edge. One man who Whiterun would not be seeing come daybreak tomorrow.

"Belethor," he brandished his sword, waiting by the house opposite to said merchant.

2 Weeks Earlier

"Isn't it nice to take a break?" Harold asked Lydia, as he walked briskly along the river than ran nearby Whiterun, "I've decided we're going to take a vacation - not a long one, mind you. I've got to get back to the Greybeards - shout training, of course. But I was thinking we could rent out a little room in Solitude."

"To do what?" Lydia was afraid to ask. She admitted Harold was rather attractive... But the fact remained: he was an old man.

"Nothing much," Harold replied, much to her relief, "I'll be sleeping in, mostly. Gotta rest the old bones. Here."

He tossed her a bag filled to the brim with coins. She gasped in surprise.

"1500 gold," he said casually, keeping his eye on the path, "Feel free to spend it. I'd suggest you save it for when we reach Solitude, though. I hear they have a wonderful clothing shop. Radiant Raiment was the name, I think."

"Stop right there," Harold looked up at the gruff man who'd interrupted him, "We're here to teach you a lesson."

"What?" Harold looked on, confused, then wheezed suddenly as he was hit, right in the chest, by a steel mace. He reeled back, stumbling to pick himself up. Lydia drew her sword and charged in.

"Agh!" he got up, unsheathing his Imperial-issue sword and sowing destruction in his wake. By the time it was over, his Imperial armor was distinctly more red than he remembered... He'd have to wash that later. Tullius would kill him if he saw his armor like that.

"Wonder who sent them..." Lydia mumbled, picked at the bodies. She spotted a contract note and picked it up...


Here is the agreed upon amount. I trust you to faithfully carry out my request to teach a lesson to the thief Harold Thornsburg. You need not kill him, but I have no qualms about it if you deem it necessary.
- Belethor

Present

"Evening, my friend," Belethor waved at Harold nonchalantly, as if he knew nothing, "I'm all ears. How's it going?"

Harold strolled up to him, a friendly grin on his face.

"I'm just fine, Belethor," he let the contract note, smeared in blood, slip out of his sleeve. Belethor grinned nervously.

"If you'll excuse me, I'll just be-- HUH!" Belethor wheezed as his chest spewed blood, "W-why?"

"You know full well why, you sick bastard," Harold yanked his crimson sword out and began walking away. A guard noticed the incident and ran up to him.

"I'm a Thane," Harold dismissed the guard, "Don't worry about it."

"Huh," the guard began walking away. He paused, deep in thought, then mumbled to no one in particular, "I used to be an adventurer like you..."

Fin.

Don't feel bad for me and it's not really scorned to point at the flaws that do exist by putting in a feature so poorly done and ill thought out, it's at the cost of story telling and immersion.

I'm not asking for pixar level animation in every aspect of the game or thier dedication to story telling, I certainly wouldn't want every single character I meet break out into a theme song singing the story of thier lives. But it would be nice if rather then just about anyone being able to do this a select few would and be improved apon in the sense of if the person who can hire them is dead, it doesn't happen, if it's over a cheese wedge that they never saw you take (although they may suspect you as your the only visitor they've seen, but hey maybe they just misplaced it or a skeever came in though your open door and took it) it again won't happen because a) it's a minor infraction and B ) they didn't see it happen, and those few who can send thugs after you have the dialogue match the failure of them and the evidence you find.

But when it comes to this I'd rather see features of the Radiant "whatever word they feel like tacking on" be left out completely and the time spent to build upon other ascepts of the game, be it building a stronger guild experience with a sense of journey and growth to power or filling out the main story and having little touches to represent the conclusion. Simalarly to how theyve added lovely little touches to water physics but the surface is an a 2 way mirror and the water breaks on corpses but not you, and corpses treat rocky hills as slip'n'slides.

I'm not quite at the point of not wanting to even bother with TES VI, lets see the end of patches and dlc (if all we get is steampunk islands instead of expansions of the story that shouldnt be an excuse for a whole sequel (summerset isle = sequel, effects of the civil war on skyrim/empire = dlc) then I'd properly call it a day) first, they haven't really crossed the lines Lionhead did for me, theyve done some of them, like PR but thats pretty much how all PR is now only small companies without a million lawyers at hand are free to comunicate with thier fans and apoligize for anything that's just lawyers being afraid of if they admit thier wrong they'd get sued or open themselves up in anyway that may be used against them, even the dancing around the line of false advertising where "they don't technically claim anything". If they had got to that point then they would have got the same treatment as Fable, no dlc's bought, never plan to get the sequels and simply didn't bother to complain because they just aren't worth it and I don't care enough about them like I do with Tes and want to see it mov forward but not down that road. If I do get TES VI on release and not preowned or GOTY meaning I'm barely contributing to thier ongoing delevelopment, I'd hope to have a powerful enough PC by then to handle it so I can at least use the console to fix the numerous errors in the game and mods to make other things more to my liking. Maybe it does sound a bit like I want my fingers in thier pie, but not really, I'd just rather see one feature be fuller then have 2 that suffer for it.

The game wasn't charity, the company isn't a non profit organization and I did pay full price for it because I believed it'd match standards they have at least met in the past (aside from graphics and maybe music which surpasses them). My complaints aren't pointless, without reasons provided and often suggestions of what may help, although frequently I may sound completely negative and emotions getting the better of me (although more to do with "fans" then the game itself) It's not meant to be, I'm not just saying I hate everyone who complains thats the real negavitivity on this forum, just because I take a feature as a negative doesn't mean it's not a positive message that can't be used, some of the features in now are meant to be there simply because of what fans have said they liked or hated and what modders have done with thier game. Why having a complaint on a product you paid for is seen as ungrateful amoung games is beyond me, never seen a movie so bad you complained about the time wasted in your life spent watching it? How is that any different from the time wasted from encountering a glitch that you have no idea when it was cause and restarted? I'll worship them when it's bug free, completely amazing, well thought out not leading to above issues of the feature or repairs the nerves in my arms and restores the muscles that have wasted. I'll be grateful when they release a game that can be enjoyed beginning to end and doesn't just lead to frustrated restarts and just makes you go what the hell was that with poor features that could have simply been left out to not break immersion or enjoyment. If anyone thinks this forum is bad and the complainers are horrid people you should have seen lionheads when FII came out and had one game breaking bug that stopped progression of the main quest 5 hours in if you done a specific thing and that was it "I shouldn't have to restart after 5 hours I demand a refund and apology, I hate lionhead, the game is complete trash cause of this one thing" etc. Not several game breaking bugs that have to be carefully danced around and 100 hour files going in the recycle bin.

Good story OP.

i too killed nazaeem in my game. Along with the drunken huntsman vendor. My reasons for eliminating them completely in my game are multiple.

In fact they were the first to die even before i joined the darkbrotherhood.

True that.
Its nice to hear npc's responding to your character's looks.

My female char received plenty of compliments,from both male and female.
A barmaid saying i'll have the men wrapped around my fingers in no time,a kid staring at me and blurting out he'll want to marry me when he grows up
And another kid calling my Khajiit...fuzzy.

also:

this made my day