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I havent played as a Mer yet but I'd try equipping the device and see what happens...?

Is it possible to make a silver battleaxe? I haven't gone down the Smithing road much yet...

The discussion is about them all, as far as I can see.

Joined Nov 21 + 8 posts = about as useful as a Kardashian at a LAN party. :rolleyes:

As I was saying though, they could have provided tough choices, if you wanted to go down a path other than becoming a werewolf, just to take an example, that you had to complete further really tough quests to prove yourself. Same principle could be applied to other "conflicts of interest." This is reflected very heavily in the (absence of) dialogue, too. You can start ten convos with ten NPCs, and you're gonna end up riding a rail in pretty much every one of them. The one with Estburn being a prime example (T-Guild.) There are next to no Speech Checks, and I haven't seen one Ability Check yet. I don't even know if Perk Checks are possible til the CS releases. You'd think these guys would have learned something from Obsidian with New Vegas. The absence of dialogue is surely impacting the absence of choice. Poorly written, really.

I already reported him. He's been on the Nexus about 1/5th of the time I've been on, and picking on a Premium member no less.

HEY! No lollygaggin'! :pinch:

I decided with my current character I would be a "free-roamer," joining no guilds, and only do the MQ and the Stormcloak rebellion quests. I was doing fine until I hit 75+ Illusion and Alteration. Went to go see the Secret-Fire guy as well as a couple other mages and found I couldn't buy the Invisibility or Paralyze spells from them. The game forced me to enter the College and listen to a ton of drivel I wasn't interested in, creating quests in my journal I didn't care about, just so I could buy two spells. :wallbash: You're "free to roam" --- but not free at the same time, in some cases. I would have loved to be able to tell the girl at the Winterhold bridge, "Look, I don't care about your College. I'm an Expert in two schools, see? Just sell me a couple spells and I'll be off." Cant wait for the CS, man. Seriously.

Right ... you were supposed to talk to him, not beat him with an axe (yet.) You said: So, reload a save and don't go up there and attack him. That part is later. :teehee:

It's hard to enjoy these companions after running around with Boone in New Vegas. Looking forward to the CS.

In places that haven't been visited in hundreds of years, it is perfectly reasonable to find edible tomatos, potatoes, leeks, and ... apple pies! I am always looking protect myself or deal some damage. Even if I'm just selling a few things, and I'm a better smith than you. Curing Lycanthropy does not remove extra hair growth from your nose/face/underarms. And you will receive comments about it along with your personal hygiene. You nasty, smelly, hairy person. I should always rethink my outfit before heading to the Blue Palace. Even my Legendary armor that no one else has ever seen. With dragon bones. If you are a Khajiit and you die, your tail will live on!

Right. She isn't available as a wife unless you are DB and something like 3-4 contracts into it - AND you have to complete two tasks on top of that. If you're playing a Good character, then you probably won't be joining DB. But she is, imho, the best looking wife in the game.

I ran around for weeks with Habd's 5 pound head in my pack til I realized what you had to do with it. :blink:

Cheers, yeah that makes sense although there's nothing in my journal to indicate siding with the Legion, however after the main quest I did go do a whole bunch of misc crap that I had been meaning to clear for ages. I went to an Imperial Fort and one guy said "yes auxiliary?" to me so I quickly did the first Stormcloaks quest then headed to one of their camps and they were all friendly again while the Imperials were warning me to back off etc so somewhere along the line after the main quest I did something to impress the Legion and joined them without actually joining them lol. Sneaky bastards should ask first. Well, in your journal, before you ever make a move to either side, you will see two entries: Join The Legion & Join The Stormcloaks. Both should appear in Helgen, I think. Then, if you advance one side, you will success that particular entry and fail the other, causing both to disappear. But, in your current state, I'm not sure how far you can push playing both sides. I would imagine you can do it until your first serious assault against the other, but I haven't tried it and haven't read about anyone who has.

I havent tried setessential yet, out of fear of breaking something, but I routinely disable the Legates of the Imperial Camps that I attack (took the Stormcloak path) and it seems like they will re-enable themselves after a period of time. But then they will be the only person left in the camp still. Funny.

Somehow you have picked a side. Possibly by mistake. I've not run the Imperial side yet but I know the Stormcloaks will send you to a remote place to kill a Wraith. It is possible (not tested though) you could have killed something or done whatever the Legion would normally request and advanced your position with them without realizing. It should tell you in your Journal. Under Misc, I think.

Hah, maybe true. Though I'm not sure I agree with the term "outlaw". What law do they have that says execute an unknown person without even a trial? What law did my character break by stopping to ask possibly corrupt soldiers about their prisoner? Even though it is a time of war and my character was considering fighting on one particular side, I still tried to follow some sort of rules of engagement. One of the soldiers drew his weapon first. When I did the same, he attacked first. In real life, there are no legit laws allowing public servants to order around citizens. A clue to secret corruption is always the line "official business, move along". Bad things often happen when good people do nothing. Yeah I dunno about all of that, I see both sides to it. But I do know that hiding somewhere (even in another Hold territory) for 3-7 days will kill the aggro that guards/townies will have. Bounty, of course, is a different story....

This is simply not the case for me. Morvath's Lair is a cave yet it will never clear, does not have multiple sections to it, and I'm certain I've gotten everyone via the Aura Shout. A week or so later, it will restock (Morvath included) with vampires and thralls. This is after I helped the townies nearby with the Morvath-related quest, too. It's just that, when it restocks, the girl is absent and so is the one guy in the beginning that is digging the hole. It never "clears." This isn't the only place I'm seeing this either (I have Groves and Grottos and Giant Camps that are "cleared" btw) ... Morvath's Lair is just what comes to mind, as I am not at my home atm.

Like the title says, this has been bugging me for some time now. 1) I have areas that are "cleared" where I have done a quest (usually a Word Wall) and they stay empty. 2) I have areas where I have quested -- Morvath's Lair is a prime example -- and it never lists as "cleared", does restock, and will even respawn Morvath. 3) I have areas where I have mopped the place clean that aren't quest-related (a couple forts and caves come to mind) -- unless they are saved for Radiant use somehow -- and they never list "cleared" and never respawn anything. I think Fellhammer is one, or a fort near it. 4) And finally, I have places listed as "cleared" and I go in and it's restocked with baddies all over, like I'd never been there. Yet, it says it's "cleared." What gives? Anyone got a clue to this "logic?"

You should be able to run away, hit a cave, and chill for 3 days. Just like an old school outlaw.

You might try saving and reloading several times in the cell. That might get the collision to reset and pop the fragment up to the ground.

Are you on PC? Use the 'tcl' command to look through the floor and see if you can retrieve it that way.

I helped the Stormcloaks take Whiterun and he referred to me as a 'miserable wretch' every time afterward. I don't think I was DB by then.

I'm betting it will be written that Ulfric dies. In the next game, of course.

Also, I guess I'm a retard. What does "TL;DR" mean?