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Just another lazy day in Whiterun...
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I know I'm going to need that wooden plate some day...  If I don't walk along the walls I glitch through the world and die. The Spookmaster fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 03:58 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 03:36 |
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The Spookmaster posted:I know I'm going to need that wooden plate some day... It's like an episode of Hoarders, but with body parts and magical gems and poo poo.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 04:28 |
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I think my dog is trying to tell me something. Every time I come home he's sitting on top of my horse Frost's "grave". Maybe he's mad that I never take him out on adventures, but then he would probably suffer the same fate as poor old Frost.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 04:34 |
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Internet Kraken posted:I think my dog is trying to tell me something. Every time I come home he's sitting on top of my horse Frost's "grave". Maybe he's mad that I never take him out on adventures, but then he would probably suffer the same fate as poor old Frost. Maybe he IS Frost.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 04:41 |
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Oh my god this is the greatest. Main quest spoilers ahead: I got to the part where you meet the leader of the Greybeards on top of the mountain. I did his little test, and when I went to talk to him the second time he began doing the age old Gamebryo ragdoll freakout. As soon as he started speaking he flew straight up into the sky, his entire body stretching out across the horizon at bizarre and impossible angles, spinning around wildly throughout the entire conversation. The best part was hearing his voice gradually fade away as he ascended. Never change, Bethesda.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 04:43 |
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 NPCs are surprisingly competent in this game. Here we have a bunch of imperial soldiers checking out the dragon they just killed in about 30 seconds. I didn't do anything aside from summon a frost atronach who spent the whole fight crushing some bandits who happened to wander into the fray. This fight occurred a stones throw away from my house as well. Was worried the dragon might mess up my stuff, but the Imperials have me covered.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 04:59 |
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 Why won't this stop happening to me 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:06 |
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Yeah, the feeling you get when a bunch of people are banding together to help you fight a dragon (especially when they are your enemies) is kind of an unparalleled experience in a video game. I was wandering back through Riverwood when a blood dragon swooped in and starting setting fire to basically the entire town. It kept landing on rooftops so I couldn't do much but fire arrows at it, mostly ineffectually since I'm a melee gal. At first I was all alone while various townfolk ran past me on fire, but eventually I was surrounded by the town guard and some of the members of the town firing their own shots and shouting. After it was dead they all gathered closely around the skeleton that was hanging out in the middle of their town and called me a badass for killing it. It was honestly one of the most truly affecting and invigorating video game experiences I've ever had. I was legitimately thrilled by the whole thing.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:10 |
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As a counter point to all this, I should mention there was a bounty hunter after me who decided to 1k gold on my head was totally worth braving a field with three dragons, two mammoths and a giant. I've never seen anyone die so fast. The frost dragon slowed him in a strafe, and the bronze just ate him up in one bite.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:12 |
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LGD posted:Not mine, but too good not to repost from the main thread: Armor name anyone? Been looking around, can't find what this is called. I want to be a badass too! 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:23 |
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Hotwire posted:As a counter point to all this, I should mention there was a bounty hunter after me who decided to 1k gold on my head was totally worth braving a field with three dragons, two mammoths and a giant. Reminds me of when a group of bandits made a charge on a giant camp. Within 10 seconds every single one of them had been flung across the map.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:33 |
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So since morrowind I can't help finicking my spoils of war into place in my houses. This time I decided to save every gem I came across for some reason. I decided to display my hoard fit for a dragon 30 hours later. So I put every gem in a shallow basket and removed the basket. Rather than explode(until you touch it) the jewels kinda stuck together in the most extravagant and expensive centerpiece in the game.  edit:you may need to enter and exit your house before removing the basket. CrowdControl fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 05:53 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:45 |
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I was walking out of the thieves' guild secret hatch under the mausoleum when I ran into a town guard actually stuck inside. He needed me to pull the chain to let him out. I guess that means the guards are on to that secret!
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:49 |
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Sooo...I think there was a training accident in High Hrothgar. Master Borri was showing me how to run like the wind and he ran like the wind..then he clipped over the stopping pillar and went right off the mountain. 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:51 |
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Deadlysherpa posted:I climb back down to the path and a little ways along there's an abandoned alchemist's shack where the guy wrote down in his journal how vibrant and nice his surroundings are, and that he's going to roam around a bit to pick up more ingredients. Just outside the shack is a tree torn down by a (the?) bear. I never found his body. Yeah, I like these, too, and a lot are just sitting around randomly and don't seem to have anything to do with a quest or storyline. A good one I found yesterday was a random shack on the western side of the map. It was night, so as I approached I saw light coming from a small area just off to the side of the shack and went to check it out. All I found was a couple of candles on top of a pile of rocks that had a silver ring sitting on it. Huh, okay. I shrugged and went inside, only to find the corpse of a man lying on his bed inside with a vial of poison sitting on the table nearby. I then realized that the small stone shrine outside was likely the guy's wife's grave and he had left his/her wedding ring sitting on it after burying her, then gone inside and chugged a bottle of poison out of grief. No suicide note or journal or anything, but still enough there that you could still put all of the pieces together. Catholic Hooker posted:Armor name anyone? Been looking around, can't find what this is called. I want to be a badass too! It's the Nightengale armor from the Thieve's Guild questline. Honestly, I've seen this asked so many times in different threads I wonder if it should be in the OP or something. GENUINE CAT HERDER fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 05:56 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 05:53 |
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 Yep, that's a dragon attacking the Emperor's ship Anyway, after a hard day of killing the emperor and plunging the realm into chaos, I head home to Whiterun to see my wife, the girl that elf dude Faendal and the lute guy were fighting over with all the letters and poo poo from the beginning of the game  "Hi honey, I'm h- what the gently caress"   "What's this motherfucker doing here? Huh? HUH?" this game nuncle jimbo fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 07:27 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 07:20 |
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I found an Orc stronghold up in the mountains that told me I couldn't enter because I was an Argonian, but I could prove my worth by going on a quest for them. And then a Blood Dragon dropped right in the center of the camp, burned one of the Orcs to death and ate the other two. I walked right in Cometa Rossa fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 07:59 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 07:55 |
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I just got rid of the most annoying talking dog in the world. He thought it was his job to constantly walk into me, push me about and stand in doorways, blocking me from going everywhere. He would bark all the loving time and I hated him. He looked pretty cool in screenshots though, as did Lydia with her dwarven armour sword and staff combo.   Also I love the free camera as you can probably tell. It proves once again that furs/leather and horn helm make you look awesome, even if this guy was half a second from having my axe take his soul. 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 08:09 |
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 I already posted this in the original thread but I figured I'd drop it here too since that thread was moving unbearably fast. Moments like this never cease to amuse me.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 08:13 |
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:No suicide note or journal or anything, but still enough there that you could still put all of the pieces together. Out in the middle of the hills I ran into a strange ring of mushrooms, with an archery book, a human skull, and a huge splotch of blood inside. I have no idea what that's about, but it freaked me out for a little bit. I ended up spending several minutes scouring the area looking for clues, but came up empty.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 08:21 |
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Horses hate dragons. I had three horses helping me in this fight, a dragon landed near some stables. Also it looks like I might be tea bagging that dragon's eye.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 08:51 |
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I spent most of tonight running back and forth from High Hrothgar to find various power words. One such encounter led me to a dragon nest just above Helgen. After fighting with the resident dragon for a little bit, he tries to dive-bomb me and, well... He misjudged the dive bomb distance and instead skidded across the ground. He actually created the dirt trail as he did so. Also, just a few minutes ago, I was sneaking through a necromancer hideout -- Greywater Gorge I think? -- and arrived in the final chamber. I put an arrow through the heads of both remaining necromancers and stepped forward. On the ground there was a small lake of flammable liquid and a safe island in the center. As I approached the lake, a Flame Atronach appeared out of nowhere, ran across the flammable lake to say hello, and promptly died when it ignited the liquid. This game! 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 09:04 |
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True Tails of a Khajit Thief II The Lost Tongue Overlook Venture The Jarl of Riften has once again put out a bounty for a dragon terrorizing the country side. This time it appears it's home is south of Riften, Lost Tongue Overlook. This time, I ask for the bounty upfront, the Steward laughs at me explaining to me that in the town that is home to the Thieves Guild, she hasn't heard that con before. She only gives me a quarter of the bounty for supplies and sends me on my way. As I leave the gates I hear a deafening roar, I look up and to the left, over the stables to see my quarry flying south to it's home.  I hop onto Allie, my trusty steed I purchased from the stables in Whiterun and proceed to follow the road north and a path that takes me around the east side of Riften. As I turn off the road and onto the beaten path I am beset by not one, but two bears. I hop off my horse as the first bear lunges at it, I quickly put 3 arrows into it's side. My horse runs away from it's attacker who is already dead. By this time, the second bear is charging me, I put 4 arrows into it and put it down.  I hear a low guttural sound to my left and am side swiped by a third bear out of nowhere. I use my shout to disorient it to give me time to back-step to nock another arrow and fire. This one's a bit tougher as this fight is in too close quarters for me. I switch to my daggers, thankfully I thought to enchant them to drain life attack the bear on my terms. I put the bear down fairly quickly but with much damage to my own being.  Thinking this was over, I heard another guttural grunt behind me, I turn around and find a FOURTH bear behind a bush and trees. I sheath my daggers and prep my bow. It hasn't seen me yet, I take aim, draw and fire, and repeat to quickly put down the beast before he takes me down.  I take a seat and lean up against the carcass of my would be killer. Taking a moment to to think just how bad this could have gone. I wipe those thoughts from my mind and pull out a healing potion and down it to quickly work it's magic. Once fully healed, or at least to satisfactory condition, I haul myself vertical and get looking for my now missing horse. Twenty minutes later I found the horse just around the corner from where I fought the bears, let me tell you, trying to find a horse in bear country is no fun. Bloody equines. I mount Allie and continue east around the forest of Riften. It's not long before I hear a whiz of an arrow by my head. Two bandits trying to kill and rob me, how quaint. After dealing with the bears I decided to ignore them and let them live (for now) and continue riding.  After riding south I reach the point of where I can turn back West and find the Overlook. After some riding up the side of the mountain, I note a cave entrance with a couple of bandits in the distance, I make note of it to come back later and take care of the rabble. I finally reach a clearing where I find a couple of hunters hunting game. I recognize them from Riften and I decide to ditch the horse and let her find her way back to Riften, she always does. After sneaking through the forest I come upon a burning house, or I should say the smoldering rubble of a house.  I make my say inside to search for survivors first, and anything to "recover" second. I step inside and I first see a burned corpse on the floor clutching a note. Behind the corpse were several candles arranged in a circle. My first thought is of dark magic and my first instinct is to hightail it out of there, but my curiosity gets the better of me.  As a Khajit, my curiosity mostly lands me into trouble. I pry the note from the corpse's still smoldering fingers. To my surprise it is not a note, but a Scroll of Conjure Flame Atronach. Well, that certain explains what happened, this pour soul messed with forces he could not control. I stash the note in my bag and continue on my mission. Leaving the house I walked some distance before coming upon a mound of some kind.  I have no clue what it is, but I make a note of the location just the same. You never know when the information of this may become useful in the future. I leave the mound behind me and make my way through more trees. After some time I finally arrive at the bottom of the overlook. "Oh hey, stairs!"  I ascend the stairs and come upon what I believe is a magical trap utilizing a soul gem as a power source. A well placed shot from my bow should dislodge the soul gem thus deactivating the trap. I take aim and fire, dislodging the gem in one shot.  It was a risk I had to take, I've heard stories of dungeon explores stumbling onto these and trying all sorts of ways to disarm them, most ending very horrible. While the arrow trick is the safest, it is by no means fool proof. Any number of things could go wrong, one big once is cracking the soul gem and releasing the energy stored inside. Even at the distance I was at, I would have felt some of the effects of that. Before heading farther up the stairs I grab the soul gem and recharge the enchantment on my bow. I have a feeling I'm going to need it. I proceed up the stairs with my bow drawn, at first I don't see the dragon anywhere.  But then an odd shape on the ruins catches my eye.  Clever girl. I take aim and release the arrow which finds it mark. The beast reels in surprise, agony, and fury and behinds to take off. I nock another bow and send it into the hulking airborne beast. The dragon is fully airborne at this point and I nock another arrow and take aim.  He swoops above me and immediately lands right in front of me almost crushing me under it's feet. (I'm going to have to change my trousers now.) I roll to the dragon's right. At this point he breaths fire at me, cooking me pretty hard, I think I smell burning Khajit hair. I run farther behind the dragon and climb the steps. I really my tail is on fire and put it out. The dragon inhales before shooting more fire at me, I take refuge in the higher ground as the stonework shields me from the blast. I pop back up quickly and take aim and release putting another arrow into it's neck. The beast flaps it's wings almost knocking me back as it takes off again. He flies over me east and I put another arrow into it's soft underbelly. He banks around and makes another pass around me towards the east and banks back around towards me. I take aim once again and let loose several more arrows before he comes diving down into the ground and sliding fifty feet before coming to a stop in front of a stone pillar.  At this point he is just stunned, I take aim and put a few more arrows into him. He stumbles to get upright before I put another arrow into him ending his life. I stroll up to the dragon carcass as it is burns itself down to it's bones which allows me to absorb it's soul.  I take what dragon bones and scales there are to salvage and turn my attention to the ancient wall that I noticed behind me while fighting the beast.  I also grab a troll skull as a souvenir of my trip here before learning a new word to shout, I raid the chest while thinking "Hmm, I could have used that Summon Attronach spell. After finishing with the chest an realizing my inventory is full and I am over encumbered. I turn around and take the time to enjoy the majesty of nature before setting out back to Riften... with no bloody horse.  Some additional images.. The dragon's view of the intruder into it's territory. That X looking black speck on the ground between it's right wing and hindquarter, that's me.  Where the dragon actually landed and slid from.  My trophy troll skull, I wanted a dragon skull but this works I guess.  This is what I love about this game. Something as simple of "Go here kill this dragon" turns into a huge adventure in it's own right. Fought bears, dodged bandits, claimed some magical goods, discovered an odd looking place, disarmed a trap and killed a dragon with a bloody awesome fight. I really wanted to drag the 4th bear near the 3 others just so I can get a cohesive shot but drat if they aren't loving heavy as hell. Robzilla fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 12:19 |
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Just riding along on my horse in a blizzard I'm suddenly attacked by a dragon, it takes an arrow to the face and flies off and as I'm searching the skies looking for it I see this silhouette through the snow: 
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Dan Hollis fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 13:39 |
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Videos are good too, right? I decided to climb up to the Throat of the World, but the normal way is blocked by some sort of crazy magic wind that hurts you, so I decided to physics my way up on a horse. When I got to the top, I tried to go down the normal way and hey look, that wind is blocking the way right there. So I try to run through on the horse and then all of a sudden... http://youtu.be/YFtqhOjYy8E
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 13:42 |
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Dan Hollis posted:OCCUPY WHITE RUN Haha, I've had this once. The caravans were gone, the old one was just chilling out on the ground, and the other three were all in a line. It was very odd.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 14:17 |
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I killed a main quest named dragon on a mountaintop above a city. A few real days later and several in-game weeks later, I fast traveled to that city to get some potions before heading off to a nearby quest. As I left the city to head to the quest, the dragon's skeleton fell from the sky. Lucky thing, I had apparently forgotten to loot the dragon when I killed it and I got myself some sweet, sweet dragon bones. I died in trying to do the quest, and hadn't quicksaved for a bit so I had to go back to the city and buy the potions etc. again. As I left the city for the SECOND time, the dragon came careening down the side of the mountain before coming to a rest at my feet. I've since noticed that the corpse of a blood dragon I killed in the courtyard of the mage college is in a slightly different position whenever I leave the college and enter the courtyard. edit: My spoiler tag didn't work and instead of spending time figuring it out I took it out of the post. Don't want to spoil anyone!
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 14:58 |
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Got a pretty sweet new axe last night and had a fat soul gem, so I gave it a hefty damage enchant and set off wandering. I then committed my first beheading! The head then proceeded to roll after me for AN ENTIRE DUNGEON  I then chased a witch back into the cave where she and her sisters lived...and nearly puked. The floor was littered with mutilated corpses of goats and wolves, and as I ventured further in, humans. The rolling orc head was kind of funny, this was completely disturbing and gross.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 15:57 |
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There is a small unmarked fishing camp in the North East near the wrecked war ships. If you find the fishing camp, there is a journal sitting in one of the two tents. The journal reads something like: "I don't even know why I agreed to come on this stupid fishing trip. If all he wanted to do was get drunk and swap stories, we could have done that back home in front of a fire. But "the fist are biting!" he says, "we can catch enough that the trip pays for itself!" We haven't caught a single fish and his boat is already taking on water. If we don't catch something tomorrow, I am going home whether he wants to or not." If you swim out to the east, there is an overturned boat with a single skeleton nearby. Poor guy just wanted to go fishing with his friend. Then his friend leaves him to die alone. 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 16:03 |
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I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an icicle to the knee.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 16:13 |
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Icesler posted:There is a small unmarked fishing camp in the North East near the wrecked war ships. If you find the fishing camp, there is a journal sitting in one of the two tents. The journal reads something like: There seems to be interesting stuff squirreled away in the corners of the map. I was swimming around the icebergs and poo poo in the northeast and came across a spot with a skeleton, a pile of gold ingots and a flag, along with other pieces of the ship he was apparently on all over the beach.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 16:19 |
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StealthStealth posted:Got a pretty sweet new axe last night and had a fat soul gem, so I gave it a hefty damage enchant and set off wandering. I then committed my first beheading! The head then proceeded to roll after me for AN ENTIRE DUNGEON My first beheading happened when you fight the ghosts of the Companions. Apparently when you behead a ghost, the head becomes tangible!
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 16:40 |
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I picked up a fox corpse instead of looting it accidentally. It kept whirling around on its horizontal axis faster and faster until I didn't think it was funny anymore and then I dropped it down the cliffside. I love dead bodies in this game.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 18:17 |
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Balon posted:My first beheading happened when you fight the ghosts of the Companions. Apparently when you behead a ghost, the head becomes tangible! You can lift ghost weapons from them before they die and they become corporeal. Turns out ghost archers usually have an rear end load of arrows of different qualities.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 19:15 |
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Lydia makes the game a bit too easy at times: http://youtu.be/EiNeZUS3Flw
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 19:15 |
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So I came across a mill out in the forest, and a mother was talking with her child out in front of it. Just one of the nice little touches Bethesda added to the game to make it seem more real. Then all of a sudden a troll charges out of the woods and slaughters the mother right in front of her kid EDIT: And then I accidentally dropped a book in the Riften market which two merchants are now fighting over even though I already picked it up. From tragedy to hilarity! Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 19:26 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 20:42 |
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Internet Kraken posted:So I came across a mill out in the forest, and a mother was talking with her child out in front of it. Just one of the nice little touches Bethesda added to the game to make it seem more real. Then all of a sudden a troll charges out of the woods and slaughters the mother right in front of her kid That kid is going to grow up to become a grim troll-slaying motherfucker.
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