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I recently joined the Dark Brotherhood, and having a fresh set of contracts I went to Ivarstead, the tiny spit of village before the seven-thousand steps. It was raining, and the fog was dense enough for me to exit the inn unnoticed. My target was across the river, but he was standing in his ruined house, and the combination of the thunderous storm and the rushing water made it all too easy to silence my approach. The kill was clean and painless. I had a sit-down by the corpse to collect my thoughts, and I pondered why I chose this profession when, up until then, I had tried so hard to be a "good" person. I didn't know who wanted this man dead, or why. It seemed so senseless. I grabbed my kill by the leg and dragged him into the river. The current tried to take him, but I was still holding his ankle, staring at his face. He appeared unusually peaceful, unfitting for such a victim. Was it his love for his tattered home, or the river, or Ivarstead itself that kept him here? I'll never know. My grip eased. "Farewell, Narfi."
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mangler103 posted:I was also running around the wilderness after fighting a dragon, and a guy came up and forced some boots on me, telling me that he'd be back for them. Not 10 steps later, a woodsman comes running along and asks if I had seen anyone running this way. One of the options was 'so I guess these boots are yours'. But instead I picked 'oh he went that way.'. The hunter immediately went after the guy with a bow. This same thing happened to me, only it was during a dragon fight. When the woodsman tried to question me the dragon landed right behind him and roasted both of us.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 21:29 |
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Here's my female Bosmer.  I don't know why, but I've been making Bosmers with white hair and black eyes since Morrowind. I'm doing a bow assassin build on Master difficulty with conjuration as my only magic. I'm also one of those people playing through the game with no HUD and no map and using a journal, so my character pretty much sucks since I don't know where to look for anything and have no idea how to plan my character. Some areas are next to impossible for me to beat so far, but I'm still having a lot of fun trying to sneak my way past giants and ice trolls and such. Here's one of my favorite pictures so far.  Also when I shot this bitch...  ...this happened. 
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 21:49 |
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Sith Happens posted:Oooh. What and where is that? The Shrine of Merunes Dagon. It's in the mountains north of Whiterun.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 21:50 |
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After finding jewelry and gems pretty much worthless to me, I decided to spruce up my home. Don't do this, when you reload your game, the objects will no longer be inside, i also did this with my gems in a basket, but they did the same thing. So being dragonborn, I decided to indulge my dragon side.  
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 22:07 |
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So yesterday I'm taking my (at the time) level 15 warrior-mage out for a stroll up by Hjarlmarch mountain. I hear a roar and look up to the nearby mountaintop to see a dragon lazily circling it. Not looking for a fight, a try to skirt around the mountain, using some cliffs between me and big scaly bastard to break line of sight. Suddenly the music swells, and a second dragon comes flying over the ridge strait towards me. Its a green so I draw my badass katana and ready my fire spell. What follows is a pretty straightforward dragon fight, that ends in victory. Flushed with success, I head out for my original destination. Wait a minute, why is the dragonfight music still playing? Oh, its cause dragon number one apparently saw my earlier battle and was just biding his time. Also, he is a bigger, higher level, nastier dragon then the one I just beat. I am in no position to fight him, so I start running and he starts chasing me. On my minimap, I notice a nearby giant encampment. Well Giants are like dragon krypotine, so I start making a beeline towards it. Let those big bastards sort it all out. When I arrive, dragon still hot on my heels, the giants (and their mammoth buddies) decide I am the more dangerous target and join in the chase. In the process of running from them, I lose track of the dragon, who proceeds to sneak up behind me and chomp the living poo poo out of me. Dead. Waitaminute, did I save after that first dragonfight? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. I love this game. P.S. My Redguard characters name is Samuel L. Jackson and I did my best to make him look the part. Its not a perfect likeness though. Oh well.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 22:46 |
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Today my mage decided he didnt need his face anymore.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 22:58 |
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4:00 AM in Riften, standing near the Market, a guard walks up to me and says, "Psst, I know who you are. Hail Sithis" and then walks away.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:04 |
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Hotwire posted:Oh hey QT Thanks Hotwire! I really think this little bit of amazing screen shot kung fu should be in the OP.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:17 |
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Dead dragons are fun to play with. I spent at least a half hour just blasting my first dragon around the countryside, trying to terrorize the villagers, who unfortunately didn't know they were supposed to be scared. I'm currently trying to see if I can get him to a mountaintop somewhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLSslGUPYVM Dragon skeletons are basically intangible, don't react to your touch, and you can walk right through them. Your attacks and spells mostly do the same, so the corpses seem like they're immovable. But for some reason the Magelight spell is an exception, and can fling the skeleton around like it was made of paper. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2011 around 23:26 |
| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:19 |
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Remember when people were ripping on Todd Howard for cutting random three dragon fights from they game? Thank loving god he did because fighting two dragons is horrifying. Thank god I had a bunch of random loving bears, wolves, the animal help dragon shout and the bosmer racial ability.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:53 |
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Beemo posted:
Hahaha, POOF.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:55 |
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 The new champion of Nurgle- wait Namira, yea. I have never felt so in to my own character in a game. I feel like a mix between being a paladin and a death knight and it is so awesome.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:03 |
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mangler103 posted:I was walking to ivarstead to get ready to climb the 7000 steps and I came across a traveler claiming his cart had been ransacked and if I could get him back to his camp, I'd be rewarded. It seemed fishy, so I conjured a flame atronach and cast stone flesh on myself as I walked up(not to mention saving). Sure enough, it was a trap! I had this experience, but after the first time the bandits murdered me, I reloaded and filled his rear end with Dwarven arrows from a distance. gently caress you, rear end in a top hat.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:05 |
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 Rode my horse to the top of the world, just becuase I could.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:22 |
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I don't know why, but there's just something that compels me to take screenshots in this game.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:35 |
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Look at all these silly Stormcloaks. They just kept sending more in, I guess they really want that thingy. I love the physics in this game.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:37 |
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Goddamn dragon fights in this game are just about the coolest thing I ever seen. I was heading across the wastes near the hot springs when I was set upon by a random ice dragon. That son of a bitch pulled two nearby giants into the fray so between those three, Lydia, my flame atranoch, some random other follower for a quest, and myself it was an epic battle. ...an epic battle interrupted by some dude running up to me and saying "HEY HERE HOLD THIS TOTALLY NOT STOLEN MACE FROM ME IF YOU DOUBLE CROSS ME I'LL KILL YOU OKAY BYE." This game. 
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:38 |
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Ibanez Murderface posted:Last night I was wandering toward my next objective in a blinding snowstorm when I came across a cool looking lighthouse. Please please please someone post where this is.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:45 |
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Going through a mountain pass I encounter some goats being chased by wolves up the side of the mountain. I follow the goats up the pass where at the top a giant loving bear comes over the ridge, charging down at me not 30 paces away with a huge roar. It's the first bear i've seen and we have an epic battle which I eventually win. 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. It's really skyrim-y because they provide just enough information to create your own story, not lay everything out for you. The journal could have been cliche with "I heard a bear roaring, i'll go check it out." I'm still not sure I made it all up and that the bear wasn't scripted, or that the shack tied in with that event. I just stumbled across some stuff on my travels and pieced my way through. like the cook in whiterun. It's sort of like the bethesda are telling me "hey, you think this is straightforward as you think? Do some work, be a detective." or when the pilgrims were disgusted that I was going to cut the eldergleam, I went back to the temple and this dude came along with me and prayed for a sapling so I didn't have to cut up the tree. I feel more immersed in the world they created when I uncover additional information that challenges my (or my character's) morality or gives me another option. The older scrolls games had it but I think they've outdone themselves this time. Deadlysherpa fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 01:14 |
| # ? Nov 17, 2011 00:58 |
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Dark Brotherhood spoilers: I've already finished the Thieves Guild so I'm pretty much invisible, so I decided to shoot Grelod the Kind in the Innocence Lost quest while she was in the middle of talking to her orphans. Rather than screams of terror at the murder they'd just witness, the kids started cheering, "Aventus did it! It worked! Hooray!" This game. Someone needs to make an  -themed emoticon with GOTY instead of the flag, and a crying Argonian.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:03 |
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Beemo posted:After finding jewelry and gems pretty much worthless to me, I decided to spruce up my home.  waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwhaaaaaaat??!! Isn't your home supposed to be THE safe place to store your hard-won loot and random crap?
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:04 |
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Digital Scumbag posted:See, I was going for this, but my guy ended up looking like a 50 year old man. I would seriously pay good real money to redo my character's appearance, wasn't there something like that in New Vegas or at least Fallout 3?
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:18 |
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I held off doing the 'kill the first dragon' quest for the longest time. The game does not like that. So now-  I am up to my arse-  In Dragons! Skyrim! It's okay! I don't need souls for all these powers I picked up. NOT AT ONCE, ANYWAY.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:19 |
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NihilCredo posted:
I must have spent an hour carefully placing items on shelves just so, only to find everything scattered across my floor when I came back from adventuring.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:19 |
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Yeah, it's safe in that your stuff is still there, unsafe in that it won't necessarily sit still. Playing a Khajit inspired by the webcomic Prequel's Katia Managan. Trying to get through the game as cowardly and poor, hoofed it to Winterhold with zero kills and just 13 gold, some boots, the starting rags, and an iron dagger. Just before I arrive I see an Argonian on the road. It's refreshing to see a traveler I don't have to run from, so I go to say hi. He starts talking smooth and offers to sell some Skooma. Before I can respond though, there's an ice explosion nearby and when I cancel out of the conversation some sort of frost wraith is attacking. I immediately run for it and the Argonian rushes the wraith to try and punch it out. Good thing, too, since the splash damage on that ice explosion had taken off half my health. The last thing I saw of this fight was the wraith circling in close and breathing ice directly down on to the Argonian, then I turned back toward Winterhold and sprinted the rest of the way. Thank you, brave lizard drug dealer, for saving my life.
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CHODEGOBLIN posted:4:00 AM in Riften, standing near the Market, a guard walks up to me and says, "Psst, I know who you are. Hail Sithis" and then walks away. That is awesome. I had a random Riverwood guard say "Some of the other guards are talking...They say you...And the Dark Brotherhood....Nah. Can't be..." and walked away. Another related one I heard was "Hey, didn't I see you go into the Emperor's tower just before...No, wrong person." On my first visit to Windhelm I was running across the bridge into town. A guard I passed said "Here's to friendship! If you don't like it, tough." and gave me a plain old hat. My Dark Brotherhood initiate managed to startle me so bad I almost toppled my chair. She had gotten stuck on some terrain as I was heading to a ruin. I solo-snuck through the first level of the dungeon without her. Got to the second level, still no companion...Until about ten minutes in I turned around after looting a box and OH MY GOD SHE'S RIGHT THERE AUUGH.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:42 |
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Marrying Lydia  
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:46 |
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Hey Hotwire, I'm a little confused about the tfc 1 command. How do you pause?
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LGD posted:Not mine, but too good not to repost from the main thread: The second I heard the first voice actor's accent I was compelled to name my character Swissgar, though I couldn't be bothered to recreate his likeness. Anyway, my brother and I died in exactly the same way for our first Skyrim deaths almost at exactly the same time. I was strolling around the tundra murdering everything in my path with an iron axe when I came cross my first herd of Wooly Mammoths. I decided to go check out the nearby giant to see if he was friendly or would give me a quest, but as soon as I get close he starts threatening me. I wasn't having that poo poo, so I began slaughtering his knees with my trusty axe. Next thing I know, he's knocked my rear end a thousand feet into the air with one swing of his hammer. Also, I accidentally attacked a hunter's dog thinking it was a wolf, and ended up having to kill the hunter when he attacked me in retaliation. Sorry about that, man. Sorry about taking all of your possessions and selling them too.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:47 |
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MustangCharlie posted:Hey Hotwire, I'm a little confused about the tfc 1 command. How do you pause? Go into third person, open the console with ~ and type tfc 1 and hit enter. You are now in the magical third person free cam while time is frozen. Just regular tfc, without the 1, will allow you to go into free cam without pausing. Doing it in first person removes your PC from the game and causes all sorts of weird bugs.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:56 |
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Snagged this when I was heading up to the Throat of the World. EDIT: I wish Steam didn't butcher the image quality when it takes screenshots.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 01:57 |
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As part of a Civil War mission, I had to deliver a fake message to a Stormcloak general. The first time I talked to him, he said "wait, I recognize you, there's a bounty on your head!" It was just 25 gold, so I just said "I don't have time for this, do you?" and he let me go. Then I talked to him again and said I had a message for him. He said "I don't recognize you! Why aren't you in uniform?" I then responded that my current outfit was better for sneaking in, an excuse which he bought. I was in a full set of Dwarven heavy armor. First he recognizes me, then he doesn't, then he buys my exactly wrong excuse.
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The first thief side quest was to rob my follower's house (Uthgerd). She was with me the whole time, from when I got the quest to when I finished it. We're friends too so I didn't even need to sneak around, I just walked into her house with her key and there wasn't even anything to technically steal. Sorry Uthgerd, guess you need to make a donation to the guild for some reason.
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Giggily posted:Go into third person, open the console with ~ and type tfc 1 and hit enter. You are now in the magical third person free cam while time is frozen. Just regular tfc, without the 1, will allow you to go into free cam without pausing. Doing it in first person removes your PC from the game and causes all sorts of weird bugs. Hm. This works for almost everything except during combat. During combat, I'm unable to move the camera, did you have to do anything extra?
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MustangCharlie posted:Hm. This works for almost everything except during combat. During combat, I'm unable to move the camera, did you have to do anything extra? Nope. That's pretty strange. It doesn't work during finishers, but I've been able to do it for screenshots while in combat before. Are you sure you're closing the console or whatever? I usually turn off the hud at the same time and I always forget that I have to actually close the console before I can move around.
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willjbish posted:Marrying Lydia You bastard, how'd you get her to talk about it? She won't even consider marrying me, even with the amulet. I decided she was a lesbian so I married some street slut and shacked her up in my house.
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VaultAggie posted:You bastard, how'd you get her to talk about it? She won't even consider marrying me, even with the amulet. I decided she was a lesbian so I married some street slut and shacked her up in my house. It's bugged. So until Beth fixes it you need to put on the amulet,(not sure if before or after)click on her and type "addfac 19809 1" in the console. Talk to her! If she doesn't bring marriage up you may have to dismiss her first.
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 02:31 |
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Giggily posted:Nope. That's pretty strange. It doesn't work during finishers Ah, that's it. I've been trying to do it during the finishing moves. Bummer about that. Thanks though.
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I know it's been said before, but with the right tweaking and the FXAA injector, this game can look gorgeous   This next one reminds me of red mountain 
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