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ChlamydiaJones posted:I'm a bad parent. Sometimes I let my kids watch me running around Skyrim before kicking them out of the computer room. They're 7, 5 and 2 1/2. I usually just climb something or wander around looking at trees and collecting ingredients so they don't get to watch daddy shiving women or blowing skeletons apart with my bow. Yesterday they're all watching and I notice a cute little fox and start following him. We're near Solitude where there are lots of lakes and rocks and "foxie loxie" is leading me a merry chase around things and swimming through the shallow water. I'm right on his little butt when he comes around a rock and encounters a giant friggin' mudcrab. Who instantly one-hits him into a puddle where he floats. Dead. There is a gasp from the collected children and actual tears welling up in the eldest's eyes. My dad let my sister and I watch him play Wolfenstein when we were 10 and 8, scared shitless the entire time, but we turned out okay. Gotta toughen those kids up!
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at 5 or 6 I'd watch my dad play Maximum Carnage on our Sega Genesis. Carnage's "WAHAHAHA!" every time he showed up scared the piss out of me  Then I'd happily turn around and pop in the VHS for Guyver...  I turned out fine!
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 17:36 |
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ChlamydiaJones posted:We went and had some ice cream and talked about nature and the food chain for a while.... That's an interesting food chain. rabbit -> fox -> mudcrab -> sabrecat???
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 17:36 |
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Arcaeris posted:That's an interesting food chain. rabbit -> fox -> mudcrab -> sabrecat??? Pretty sure mudcrab, horse, and bear need to be above dragon in that food chain.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 17:38 |
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raezr posted:I just got to Whiterun in my new game, when suddenly a bunch of thugs hired by Moira attacked me for being a theif. I had to look up who Moira was, and apparently she's the hagraven with the wedding ring in the "night to remember" quest, who I have definitely never met in this playthrough, much less stolen anything from. After thinking about it, I remembered that I did kill and loot the random old witch who lives in a shack between Riverwood and Bleak Falls Barrow. It's pretty impressive how connected and organized these witches are. I'm not really sure where you find this bit of info in the game, but Moira is actually the random old witch's sister.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 17:48 |
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This is more saddest emergent behavior... I picked up a stray dog outside of Solitude and let him follow me around for a few hours. I thought it was cute, anyway. So I go into Bruca's Leap Redoubt to get the Forgemaster's Fingers back for an orc chief, and the dog follows me in, rushing ahead down a hallway, where he meets a Foresworn Briarheart who immediately starts shocking the poo poo out of him. I couldn't kill the briarheart because the dog was blocking my way, and I'd hit him whenever I tried anyway. When it was over, the dog was dead. For whatever bizarre reason I felt really guilty about it.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 19:11 |
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The other day I was doing the theives guild quest that sends you to a tomb up near that frozen lake north of Winterhold. I fast travel to a wrecked ship I had found earlier and the dragon music starts up. Yank out the bow, scan around, and there he is, flying straight at me. I get ready to shoot and he flies right over my head and goes on to fry a snow bear on a different ice flow. I hit him with a few arrows and he wheels around back to me. I get psyched up for the fight and he.. flies right over my my head and starts lighting up a group of seals that were chilling on a large island, about 200 feet away. By the time I swim over there, he's shooting back to the bear. At one point he landed to gently caress up some wolves so I grabbed my awesome enchanted warhammer and charged in to mess up his day, but he was in the air again before I could get a swing in. Ended up chasing him around for 15 minutes while the loving dick aggroed everything in that acre but me. Eventually, after being whittled down by horkers and arrows, he lands next to a Frost Troll and gets his poo poo pushed in. I didn't get to whack him once.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 19:37 |
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Helith posted:Shearpoint, Shearpoint? Is this the one where you are on the edge of a cliff and after you kill the dragon the hardest loving dragon priest ever resurrects. Edit: yep. gently caress that place to hell and back.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 22:19 |
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That was the toughest dragon priest? I guess Orc berserker made everything too easy for me.
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Nevvy Z posted:Is this the one where you are on the edge of a cliff and after you kill the dragon the hardest loving dragon priest ever resurrects. I've died so many times.  I just figure I'm not getting that shout.
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| # ? Feb 5, 2012 23:55 |
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Hellwuzzat posted:That was the toughest dragon priest? I guess Orc berserker made everything too easy for me. Lycus fucked around with this message at Feb 6, 2012 around 00:02 |
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The_Doctor posted:I've died so many times. I found him easy. He walked his rear end off the edge of a cliff and fell down half the mountain, so I positioned my chick at the top like slightly next to a rock so it would block his fireballs and I strafed and shot him with a bow.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:02 |
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Arcaeris posted:I found him easy. He walked his rear end off the edge of a cliff and fell down half the mountain, so I positioned my chick at the top like slightly next to a rock so it would block his fireballs and I strafed and shot him with a bow.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:03 |
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Dragon priests are easy. I just run up with volendrung and spam power attack. They can't even get an attack off before they die.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:21 |
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I walked right up to that Word Wall, two-shot Krosis with Shadow Warrior, then did the same thing with the dragon, a Dremora from the Sanguine Rose, and my ebony dagger. Dragon Liches aren't hard if you've Stealthed up. I knocked off three so far with two hits at most thanks to backstab damage.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:22 |
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The_Doctor posted:I've died so many times. He can be backstabbed easily enough if you have the perks. His animation coming out of his tomb gives you plenty of time to get behind him and do the sneaky bastard thing. It really is a shout worth getting.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:24 |
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Sleekly posted:He can be backstabbed easily enough if you have the perks. His animation coming out of his tomb gives you plenty of time to get behind him and do the sneaky bastard thing. Krosis' shout is worth getting... If you're a Stealth player. I'd assume Clanky the Tank wouldn't need to misdirect people with random sound sources.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:25 |
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Using your Shout to call someone a skeever butt is always worth it.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:29 |
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Even playing as a two handed, heavy armour beserking mofo I find it useful. Just shout at a wall far away and every nearby enemy comes running to answer the troll bait call. Leaving their backs to you mostly too. 
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 00:33 |
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Though I hate how people that aren't aggressive toward you are deaf to it. When I first got it, the first thing I wanted to do was mess with townspeople.
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 04:32 |
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I'm running around Morthal being an obnoxious cat man when I find a couple of bottles of mead. I chug them bitches down and little Joric comes running up and says, "Oh wow those were just sitting there? I wish I found them first!" and then runs off. I also broke into the guardhouse and was greeted by 3 simultaneous "ITS LOCKED FOR A REASON"s from a bunch of guards drinking. I ran away so fast. MeinGott fucked around with this message at Feb 6, 2012 around 04:55 |
| # ? Feb 6, 2012 04:52 |
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 ........."Hey, skeever butt!" "Now THAT'S a shout, just like the Greybeards on their mountain!"I now picture the Greybeards as spending all of their time time playing immature pranks with the lofty mystical powers they gained through constant vigilance and silent contemplation. They're on High Hrothgar because its the one spot high enough call anyone in Skyrim "melon nose".
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 07:04 |
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MeinGott posted:I'm running around Morthal being an obnoxious cat man when I find a couple of bottles of mead. I chug them bitches down and little Joric comes running up and says, "Oh wow those were just sitting there? I wish I found them first!"
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Bored Pirate posted:I had this exact same thing in the inn in Falkreath. Some guy wants me to deliver some ashes to the priest. Literally turn 180 degrees and the priest is there, also in the inn, less than 2 feet from the first guy. Then he gives me 400 gold for the delivery... It is hilarious how most side quest rewards scale but some, like the bounties, don't. "You fought your way through a fortress full of heavily armed bandits and slaughtered them all singlehandedly? Very well, I suppose you've earned this hundred gold..." "My neighbor across the street asked you to bring me this loaf of bread? Why, thank you! Here's a thousand gold for your trouble, my friend!"
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dennyk posted:It is hilarious how most side quest rewards scale but some, like the bounties, don't. Hence why I gave up on being the Dragonborn, and became Skyrim's first bread delivery man!
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| # ? Feb 6, 2012 18:07 |
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The reward for killing the bandits is probably just seen as a formality. After about a month of nonstop killing and looting the various hostile factions of Skyrim, the Dragonborn would develop a reputation as "that guy who makes a living by murdering and robbing all of the murderers and robbers he ever meets and also some other guys and I guess dragons and poo poo." So when he wanders into Dragonsreach and asks for work, the steward naturally assumes he's asking for the location of some guys or dragons to murder and rob, and makes a big show of offering some token sum of money when they both know he's really just saying, "those guys have nice stuff. If you killed them and took it we wouldn't really shed any tears." Meanwhile the bread guy is well aware that his rear end in a top hat neighbour has sent Dovah "Let Talos Sort 'Em Out" Kiin to deliver a stale crust, and pays an exorbitant fee for it due to a justified fear that failure to do so may result in being murdered and robbed for the crime of insulting the greatest murderobber in the world who is also a Thane and also a mighty hero fated by destiny. Like, if the Angel of Death himself shows up to deliver your mail and then asks for a tip, you give him a big loving tip.
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dennyk posted:It is hilarious how most side quest rewards scale but some, like the bounties, don't. I had a moment like this in Markarth. The guys working the smelter complain that their boss beats them. So I go and have a chat with the guy and bribe him about 500 GP to take it easy on his workers. The worker who gave me the quest gives me $750 as a reward, stating that it was "a week's wages". drat man, you could have done this yourself and saved a bunch of money.
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Angry Diplomat posted:The reward for killing the bandits is probably just seen as a formality. After about a month of nonstop killing and looting the various hostile factions of Skyrim, the Dragonborn would develop a reputation as "that guy who makes a living by murdering and robbing all of the murderers and robbers he ever meets and also some other guys and I guess dragons and poo poo." So when he wanders into Dragonsreach and asks for work, the steward naturally assumes he's asking for the location of some guys or dragons to murder and rob, and makes a big show of offering some token sum of money when they both know he's really just saying, "those guys have nice stuff. If you killed them and took it we wouldn't really shed any tears."
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 00:28 |
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Barbas I am going to loving kill you shortly! GET OUT OF MY WAY.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 01:06 |
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So I just finished the quest Aela sends you on after turning into a werewolf. After Aela and I part ways, I decide to make a stop at Whiterun to sell and visit my house to restock for the next leg. I get to the two towers with the bridge over the river just east of Whiterun when I get accosted by the bandits holed up there. While I was climbing the first tower to take out the archer, who appears but Aela, on her way back to Whiterun as well, who proceeds to go Rambo and murder all of the other bandits in the tower with her arrows. She then gives me a look and continues on to Whiterun while I loot the corpses. I am marrying the poo poo out of her when this is all over  Also: Running around The Rift, I hear the roar of a dragon and draw my bow, ready. I see the dragon, circling over me. I try to line up a shot, but it keeps flying over a rise, out of my sight then back out again. I chase it over the hill and see it fly off, and not come back  Oh well, I was already at my carry limit anyways.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 01:42 |
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So, uh, Barbas has vanished somewhere.  literally, I have no clue where he is.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 02:13 |
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Mewnie posted:Also: Running around The Rift, I hear the roar of a dragon and draw my bow, ready. I see the dragon, circling over me. I try to line up a shot, but it keeps flying over a rise, out of my sight then back out again. I chase it over the hill and see it fly off, and not come back Was it the dragon at Autumnwatch Tower? I went there yesterday to find one of the words for a shout. I was all geared up for a fight and the combat music kicked in, but then the dragon flew off over a mountain somewhere and basically just never came back. I didn't feel like mountain climbing only to have it fly away again, so I just learned the word of power, took all the treasure and left while the dragon continued attacking bears or whatever way off in the distance. The_Doctor posted:So, uh, Barbas has vanished somewhere. Have you gotten to Haemar's Shame yet? I know sometimes if I stop along the way to do stuff he'll just sort of disappear and will be waiting when I finally show up there. Kimmalah fucked around with this message at Feb 7, 2012 around 02:19 |
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NaturalLow posted:Was it the dragon at Autumnwatch Tower? I went there yesterday to find one of the words for a shout. I was all geared up for a fight and the combat music kicked in, but then the dragon flew off over a mountain somewhere and basically just never came back. I didn't feel like mountain climbing only to have it fly away again, so I just learned the word of power, took all the treasure and left while the dragon continued attacking bears or whatever way off in the distance. No, I had already killed that one a while ago and took the shout there. Although the skeleton for that one seemed to follow me around that mountain for a few save/reloads. Like, I'd save, explore the old ruins up behind there and die, reload and there's a dragon skeleton rolling around in the snow next to me This dragon appeared by the lake around Riften. I was near the bridge by the sawmill. It just tore off to the north and never came back. Mewnie fucked around with this message at Feb 7, 2012 around 02:27 |
| # ? Feb 7, 2012 02:23 |
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Mewnie posted:Also: Running around The Rift, I hear the roar of a dragon and draw my bow, ready. I see the dragon, circling over me. I try to line up a shot, but it keeps flying over a rise, out of my sight then back out again. I chase it over the hill and see it fly off, and not come back Dragons run away from me all the time. Bandits and wolves never get scared and run off, but I'll be pourng arrows and shouts into a dragon when they suddenly decide to devote their lives to pacifism and fly away. I've even had two dragons fighting me at once and before I had taken either of them past 50% health they both decided to stop trying to kill me and flew off into the sunset together.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 02:43 |
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The dragon at Kynesgrove rezzed and immediately left me alone to chase after it as it went and got annihilated at the Orc Stronghold to the north.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 03:54 |
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I was doing the daedric quest that starts at an orc camp, when two frost dragons attacked. I think the only surviving orcs were the quest essential ones. Good to know I could lift the curse on a bunch of corpses.
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ChiaPetOutletStore posted:I was doing the daedric quest that starts at an orc camp, when two frost dragons attacked. No! This too is in accordance with the will of Malacath! The weak were  The_Doctor posted:So, uh, Barbas has vanished somewhere. The Mad Archivist fucked around with this message at Feb 7, 2012 around 07:32 |
| # ? Feb 7, 2012 07:04 |
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I just killed that altmer that walks back and forth in front of the throne room in Understone Keep because I couldn't stand the guy. First I got off scot free just for being a thane, then I later got an inheritance from him. The game just essentially paid me to kill that arrogant prick. 
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 07:56 |
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So after having up to four Lydias living in Breezehome, they all went missing. Sometimes I'd have two there, maybe three, in addition to the "real" Lydia I had lugging poo poo around for me. Now all the house Lydias are gone. However, when I fast traveled, real Lydia disappeared as well. She was gone for over a day. Then I found her at the merchant in Winterhold (Birna or whatever's). She had apparently decided to move in there, because she was sleeping in the bed, still wearing all the loving armor I made for her. I got her to follow me, and mistakenly went to see Aela for one of the totem quests. Aela automatically joins you. Lydia said she was "going home". She has disappeared again, and so have her dopplegangers. Breezehome feels so empty now.
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Update on chickenshit dragon in the Rift: I was hopping the islands in the lake, gathering nirnroot and iron when I see a dragon shaped shadow overhead. He's back! And again he flees to the north. I guess this time he went to get his older brother because then a blood dragon flew from the north and attacked
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