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I got a little overzealous when leveling up enchanting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APV6xcGnHK0
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I had just finished the Thalmor embassy mission and was coming out of the exit with the Bosmer friend and rescued prisoner in tow. All I had were my weapons since I didn't expect to get busted while doing stealth, so I was just in party clothes. I was just getting ready to fast travel out of the wilderness when a blood dragon landed and all hell broke loose. It was the most stressful and fast-paced fight I've had, since I had no armor and only the potions I had found on the mission. I finally prevailed by doing shot after shot of every regenerating/health potion I had and abusing my magic until I was basically immortal. Surveying the battlefield afterwards, the casualties amounted to the dragon, two bandits (including a chief), a stray dog, two Imperials, a high elf and another dragon that may or may not have been dead before I got there. Cometa Rossa fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2011 around 01:43 |
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NihilCredo posted:So Lydia and I were travelling westwards for a miscellaneous quest I got from a book (the Red Eagle quest, which incidentally I recommend since it's got a lot of nice polish for a throwaway). Along the way we hit this place called Karthspire Camp, populated by everyone's favourite psycho half-naked barbarians: I'm at the part in the main plot where you're suppose to meet some NPCs at a cave right near here, and they tell you to be careful as the area is full of Forsworn. Well, as I approach the meeting site for the NPCs, I hear a woosh of air and a blood dragon flies overhead. The NPCs start firing arrows/spells at him. Feeling like 3 of us isn't enough of a challenge, the blood dragon proceeds to strafe the nearby Forsworn camp, gaining the attention of that Hagraven and all 20+ Forsworn. Most amazing battle ever.
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Posted this in the glitch thread but this warrants a post here, methinks. Was fighting a Blood Dragon in Northeastern Skyrim when it suddenly perched on the steps of the Shout shrine, lost all aggro, and let me take pictures with it. He sure looks cute here.  "Hey get outta there."  "I'm keeping my eyes on you, bro."  "Hey pay attention to me."  Bethesda's How To Train Your Blood Dragon 
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 01:53 |
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So I was exploring off the north coast of the map and stumbled across an unmarked shipwreck with a journal in it. This journal detailed the last minutes of a Telvanni Noble in Morrowind during the Argonian invasion, and mentioned something about hoping his son would survive the onslaught, as well as mentioning the name he'd given for his son. Now, skip three hours forward, and I'm messing around in Riften, just talking to npcs I usually ignore to see what stuff they say. I could ask a certain Dunmer why he had such a strange name, and he told me that he'd been rescued and brought up by an Argonian family since he was an infant. At this point I could mention the journal I still had in my inventory (because I'm a sperg and never toss out any non-generic books), and it turns out that it was a journal by his father. He begs to have the journal to have something to remember his parents by, and in return gives me a key to his strongbox, and says I can take whatever I want from there .(was just some generic valuables and a good bit of gold) Bear in mind that none of this ever appeared in the quest journal, it was pure coincidence that I stumbled upon it. Then, five minutes later, I had the guy falsely imprisoned in order to be accepted into the thieves guild, good times.
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notMordecai posted:Posted this in the glitch thread but this warrants a post here, methinks. I hope this glitch happens to me because this is one of the most  things I've ever seen. Dragons look so awesome in this game.
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I've always found the sprint-super-power attack to be a bit silly in terms of animations.. But it's very effective and looks cool otherwise.  "I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee. And died."  Also wow, these shadows are on HIGH.  Iceshade fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2011 around 04:15 |
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I've seen a lot in my random wanderings of the land of Skyrim. Here are some scattered disconnected stories. Rorikstead I was wandering around and found Rorikstead, a tiny little village that seems obviously hiding something. Despite the harsh climate and poor soil, they unfailingly have good crops. So I'm wandering the village, asking people about it, and no one is giving me a straight answer. Finally I turn to leave and a Blood Dragon swoops down out of nowhere. It lands on a rooftop and the villagers scatter, leaving me to pound it's skull in with my elven warhammer. I do so, ending with my first on-dragon finisher, leaping onto it and bashing it's skull into the ground. As soon as it's dead, the villagers run to examine it, exclaiming how the stories about the dragonborn were true, and how amazing it was. All this, just after I had talked to the village leader about how they would be utterly defenseless if a dragon attacked. I saved their asses, never did find out their secret, and left a dragon skeleton sitting in the middle of their road. Dragon in the East In Whiterun you can get a quest to revive the giant dead tree, part of which takes you far to the east. After wandering around for a while exploring, I come across an area where a dragon makes his roost. It spots me and starts attacking. Before I can kill it, however, a marauder runs up and thrusts a bow upon me, telling me he'll be back for it and to not ask any questions. I say yeah, sure, whatever buddy, can't you see I'm busy? and he runs off. Did I mention I was carrying a lot at the time? His bow overencumbered me. Moments later a hunter runs up to me, asking if someone had just come this way. I give him his stolen bow back and he says he'll go after and kill the thief. I say sure, whatever, and go back to fighting the dragon. I kill the dragon, and meanwhile, my companion and the hunter have killed the thief. No one but me seemed to even care there was a dragon attacking. Hell, I barely cared -- it was using frost breath, and between my Nord ancestry and some equipment, it barely hurt me. Return of the Eastern Dragon Some significant time later, I'm returning to the dragon roost on a hunt for dragon souls. I have more words than I have souls to power them. Sure enough, a new dragon has taken roost in this place. So I kill it and, oddly enough, it never gives me it's soul. I fast traveled away and back, and it's still there, a corpse with flesh and everything, slowly gathering dust. The Dragon on the Mountain I'm climbing through the mountains as I'm wont to do, looking for adventure. I find a dragon lair high up on the peaks, and the dragon is naturally unhappy to see me. I fight it for a while, and this is the first (and so far only) time I've gotten one to crash land. Unfortunately, the dragon came in too low and crashed on the steep slope. Having crashed, it could no longer take flight, and was forced to try to walk up the slope to get me. Through this I can infer the natural mountain climbing ability pecking order of Skyrim. Horses > People (me) > Dragons. The dragon was utterly unable to reach me, forcing me to climb down the mountain to deal the final blows. I had to quickly loot it, because as soon as it died it lost traction, and only my close proximity allowed me to absorb it's soul as it fell, burning, down an almost sheer cliff. The Old King This one's a bit of a spoiler. I was exploring a dungeon and came across a book. You know how in Whiterun, if you ask why the keep is called Dragonsreach, they tell you the story of King Olaf, who killed the greatest dragon of his era and brought it back to be imprisoned in the hold, thus giving it its name? The book is a bardic poem about how Olaf was a liar and this bard was going to expose him for the liar he really was. I progress through the ruins until I make it to the final room, which is one of those large rooms with a sarcophagus heralding a boss fight. It's surrounded by thrones, like a court, full of Drauger. I walk in and the ghost of the bard appears, calling out King Olaf and challenging him. One by one the drauger wake, and we fight through them until King Olaf himself awakens. Together, this ghost and I murdered the corpse of the liar king. The North Pole I'm exploring the northern area of the continent because when you do Meridia's daedric quest you're dragged high into the air and, from that vantage point, I spotted a ship! So I was exploring. I found an island almost in the direct middle of the map, in the far north. There's no map marker here, but the island is marked by a flag. At the base of the flag is a skeleton. No story, no treasure, nothing I could find to mark the end of that fateful expedition. My Bio My name is Ur-Thor the Unmaker. I'm a proud Nord who never sneaks, never shies away from a fight, and will stop at nothing to accomplish my goals. Magic is for people to throw shiny lights before they die. My enemies all have one thing in common -- my Warhammer in their skulls. I have felled bandits, forsworn, and afflicted. I have killed wolves, bears, sabrecats, horkers, trolls, even dragons. I have destroyed antique dwemer mechanoids, slain foul falmer, and killed the spirits of nature. My "Bunnies Slaughtered" count is 0.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 05:50 |
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uncle jimbo posted:
Mjoll does this with Aerin all the time, Whenever I port into town in the morning he's leaving and whenever I'm leaving he's showing up... I tried to get rid of Mjoll, but she's invincible.
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Torpor posted:Mjoll does this with Aerin all the time, Whenever I port into town in the morning he's leaving and whenever I'm leaving he's showing up... I tried to get rid of Mjoll, but she's invincible. Just get rid of that manservant Aerin. ---> http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...3#post397733278 Mjoll is pretty drat powerful. She has a ton of health and is very proficient in heavy armor and 2 handers. She's a murderer.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 07:04 |
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I was running around the woods as my cat dude being a general badass when I was attacked by some bandits and a spider. The bandits and spider kind of started battling each other while I shot a bunch of arrows in their asses. It ended in the middle of the road and I was looking around enjoying how fun that was when an Orc ran up on me. He didn't have a name or anything just 'Orc'. He was punching me in the face and yelling at me so I threw done my bow and dagger and we just stood there for a good 3 minutes beating the poo poo out of each other. I knocked him down and he told me, 'JUST FINISH IT!' so I grabbed him by the throat and gave him 3 hefty cracks to the face and put him down. It was pretty cool. Random occurrence Orcs are always such badasses
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 07:26 |
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 This guy just leaped onto a frost dragons head and smashed its skull. Legend among guards. EDIT:  Yeah I hope we don't run into any trouble either. Like the bloody dragon we just killed. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2011 around 07:53 |
| # ? Nov 20, 2011 07:47 |
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Internet Kraken posted:
You sure thats not just you with a guards uniform on?  e: I'm no fun. 
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 09:13 |
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Shogunner posted:You sure thats not just you with a guards uniform on? Nope. NPCs can preform finishing moves to. I think I've been decapitated like 5 times now.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 09:28 |
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Internet Kraken posted:Nope. NPCs can preform finishing moves too. I think I've been decapitated like 5 times now. I was mountaineering when a bandit appeared after I'd had a long fight with an ice troll. He punched me in the face with the hilt of his sword, drove the blade through my stomach and then kicked me off the ledge to my death about 200ft below. In one move. rear end in a top hat.
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Hotwire posted:I was mountaineering when a bandit appeared after I'd had a long fight with an ice troll. He punched me in the face with the hilt of his sword, drove the blade through my stomach and then kicked me off the ledge to my death about 200ft below. In one move. Haha, best bandit ever. Bet you he went to his bandit bros and is all "Dude, these Dragonborn ain't poo poo. I just kicked one off a cliff!"  Oh sorry there, Lydia. I narrowly missed your vital organs! Maybe best to let that stalagathing thaw out ...  Fireball'd this one from afar so hard he just flopped down.  I make Mister Draugr fly across the room and rest on candles!   Graphics are so good. Mmm. Nice scenery!  I just like Solitude for some reason.
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Ahaha holy poo poo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvx0l_tVEw (not mine) AXE COP fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2011 around 13:45 |
| # ? Nov 20, 2011 13:41 |
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I'm not sure how exactly to follow that up.  Had my first encounter with whatever-they-call-harpys-in-this. It was at Orphan Rock which is like 2 big rocks with a fallen tree connecting them, and you can only get up 1 of them (so you have to cross the tree to get to the other one). The harpy was of course on the other side but I was able to sneak up and get a sneak attack off with my bow (she wouldn't stand still long enough to go for a melee sneak attack, plus it was broad daylight). The sneak attack didn't do much much damage so I knew right away I was in for a fight. I tried going after her a bit more with my bow but the fireballs she was sending my way was quickly killing that strategy. So I said gently caress it. Drew my sword and sprinted across that loving log, dodging a fireball in the process and bashed that bitch in the face with my shield. It was on. It was an intense fight, but since the fireball she was originally throwing did explosion damage, she couldn't use it up close and had to resort to melee too. Still had to chug a good number of health potions, but she eventually went down. It was probably my most fun intense fight outside of the first random dragon I encountered that I had to fight alone. As an aside, I don't know why, but bashing someone in the face with your shield is intensely satisfying.
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AXE COP posted:Ahaha holy poo poo What the poo poo, that person is deeply disturbed. I also find it hilarious.
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e: wrong thread
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 15:35 |
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 So I killed a dragon and it isn't disappearing gently caress YOU DRAGON. Also I'e got a huge shard of ice stuck in my back and it wont come out.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 15:56 |
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Bossie Lott posted:I'e got a huge shard of ice stuck in my back and it wont come out. Next Adele single, right here.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 16:28 |
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Bossie Lott posted:
Happened to me once too. Good thing it isn't recurring.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 18:03 |
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Never gets old Helvard has... brain problems  That is not your bed, Helvard. You don't even fit.  Got rid of Lydia because Kharjo is hard as gently caress. 
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Inzombiac posted:Got rid of Lydia because Kharjo is hard as gently caress. Hell yeah, he's the best companion ever. Hearing "by the Twin Moons!" every time I stumble across something cool is the best 
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 18:11 |
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And he doesn't get snarky when you want him to carry and use your cool equipment. Too bad he refuses to wear any chest armor besides his default
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 18:37 |
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Eurogamer has posted one of their time-lapse videos for Skyrim - pretty impressive: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...world-in-motion There's a 1080p version available to download too. Some location spoilers I guess.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 18:55 |
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Oops. 
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 19:04 |
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uncle jimbo posted:my wife, the girl that elf dude Faendal and the lute guy were fighting over Wait, how is that possible? I don't even have dialogue when I click on her. She just goes "You're so brave for getting back our dumb claw!" or whatever.
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Inzombiac posted:And he doesn't get snarky when you want him to carry and use your cool equipment. Too bad he refuses to wear any chest armor besides his default He wore Blades armour when I gave it to him. That might just be a side-effect of him being able to join the blades though
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 20:26 |
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It caps out at a certain point 
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Cripple Fight posted:It caps out at a certain point ANYWAY Yeahhh I don't think my lady Nord wants an anonymous letter from you dude  This was a nice touch  ONLY THE BEST FOR THE STORMCLOAK FORCES  Vigilance! C'mere boy! C'mere Vidgy Vidgy? Vigilance where oh god  
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 22:36 |
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I'm leaving winterhold, minding my own business as I'm approached by a group of armed thugs out to "teach me a lesson". On their bodies, I find this note:  Minette Vinius who? I had no idea who that was, but I assumed it had something to do with me stealing every possible potion in the solitude inn. I quickly forget about it until I found myself back in Solitude once more when I ran past a name I recalled. Behold, Minette Vinius;  TAG ISN'T PLAYED WITH HIRED ASSASSINS, YOU DEMON CHILD
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 Oh, hi there. Just a hunter East of the Greybeards town, chilling in the hot springs. Edit: Bohemian Nights posted:I'm leaving winterhold, minding my own business as I'm approached by a group of armed thugs out to "teach me a lesson". On their bodies, I find this note: Later on, just while I'm saving a town from an evil vampire plot I get approached by THREE ARMED THUGS out to "teach me a lesson". So not only do the guards completely ignore me as I fight 3-on-1 even though I saved them from undead damnation, but after I win (I cheesed the fight by standing in water and shooting them to death) I find a note directing them to attack me. Only it's signed "Courier". Now, is it a general courier who passed on the note, or the specific courier I stole from?
Magic fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2011 around 23:09 |
| # ? Nov 20, 2011 23:01 |
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 No, Mr. Bandit, I was not speaking metaphorically.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 23:12 |
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Does anyone know how to apply the neat effects like blur for example to their screenshots?
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 23:23 |
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MustangCharlie posted:Does anyone know how to apply the neat effects like blur for example to their screenshots? Also, if you use the FXAA Injector you can alt-tab to meddle with the settings in its .ini file and they take effect immediately (or at least as soon as you toggle it off and on again with PAUSE).
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| # ? Nov 20, 2011 23:35 |
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It looks like the first person you steal from will send the thugs after you. If you steal from a house where children live one of the children will send the thugs after you.
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This is the first time I've seen the northern lights in Skyrim and I thought it was framed really nicely so I took a snapshot. Absolutely breath-taking.
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