Discuss Skyrim

i just robbed a couple traveling to whiterun? it was wealthy merchant, his wife and a bodyguard. i spoke to him and he said he was tired and mentioned that he had gifts for a wedding he was attending. i told him ''i will be relieving you of those gifts'' and action ensued. i quickly disposed of the guard. The couple got ahead of me, but i managed to pick off the husband with the bow. The wife got away. The Hunt Begins.

Gromit1710 said:

vierasniper said:

fseal said:

Interesting... a serious reason to join them :)

So no "mudcrab merchant" found yet?

Edit: I've run into M'aiq the Liar several times now but so far said nothing particularly intreging.

poor m'aiq, he burned his sweetroll

I still haven't figured out what that random guy is for. . .


Has anyone completed the College of Winterhold quests yet? I haven't been able to figure out if the blue spectral looking drugars in the laberynthian depths were a glitch or intentional...

he's kinda like cool little joke bethesda added. all the things he talks about are related to things the fans wanted in the game but never made it.

Gromit1710 said:

vierasniper said:

Gromit1710 said:

I still haven't figured out what that random guy is for. . .


Has anyone completed the College of Winterhold quests yet? I haven't been able to figure out if the blue spectral looking drugars in the laberynthian depths were a glitch or intentional...

he's kinda like cool little joke bethesda added. all the things he talks about are related to things the fans wanted in the game but never made it.

Really?? I'll have to listen a bit closer next time I run into him. I thought he was just nuts.

yeah. he sounds crazy, but its all really cryptic. he was also in morrowind and oblivion. in morrowind i think he joked about horses and their meat, and during oblivion he mentioned that dragons exist, but they fly so low they become invisible. i don't remember if thats what he said but its pretty close and a cool little Easter egg.

sygnus21 said:

In the mean time I'm reading this article - The Skyrim Team Has a Better Plan for Squashing Bugs this Time and this paragraph amused me....

Before launch, Howard said, Bethesda is testing Skyrim rigorously and more heavily using a system that runs automated versions of the game overnight, searching for bugs and helping the team squash them. "We're getting better at it," Howard said.

Yeah, that's funny.

mickey megabyte said:

this one, i call rocketman (or rather rocketcat)

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...and this is what happens when the fuel runs out:

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lol, awesome. I might go pick a fight or two with the giants :)

Airbot said:

* Generally doing anything (killing NPC's, clearing dungeons, finding items, letting a summoned creature kill a quest-specific kill target etc. etc.) that are required for a quest, BEFORE you ever see/receive that quest, breaks the quest. Quests all need to re-check for triggers having already been achieved the moment you accept them.

Damn. That potentially curtails the 'ignore main quests; go explore' ethos of the game that I've been doing.

As for that buglist so far ...

Howard said:

"Are there going to be bugs we didn't catch in a game of this size?" he asked rhetorically. "Our assumption is there are going to be."

Quite the safe assumption.

The quest breaking is crap. I've got a few, and the thing of it is, you can't drop or get rid of the quest item in our inventory to pick it back up to see if it fixes it. At least in FONV it would recheck to see if you already had items when starting the quest.

One for me is having Panteas flute before getting the quest. She won't take it, and I already have the flute.

Also Red Eagle quest will keep reactivating after you've finished it, everytime you read the book - "The Legend of Red Eagle".