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Strange Follower Death - WTF?


Meatbomb

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I have recently recruited Kharjo, we step into Northwind Mine outside of Riften.

 

There are two very easy skeletons in the main room, I blast them with fireball and search. Then, turn to see Kharjo mysteriously dead in the entry corridor.

 

Reload at mine entrance, try again, turn to see him again dead after the fight... WTF? It is two easy skeletons, neither of them even had a chance to shoot an arrow! He was behind me the whole time, took no part in the fight.

 

Third try. This time, I stand a bit behind Kharjo to try to figure out what is up.

 

I shoot a two-handed fireball at the skeletons. It flies normally, kills the skeleton. Kharjo is not in the way, but he also catches fire and immediately dies! He is not anywhere near the blast radius.

 

Anyone else seen this ? What is going on here? Is there some bug, glitch? Or some sort of strange trap I have never seen before? This just boggles my mind...

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I think this happened to me, or something similar, with Lydia. I didn't bother testing an reloading though, because I was on my Necromancer profile and I got her back as a thrall.

 

I just was walking through some knee-high water in a cave, I attack a lone mage, I hear a scream, and when I turn back Lydia's dead even though 'nothing' hit her.

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Ahhh so thats what happened to that llina women, she mysteriously died while fighting the falmer. She caught fire for no reason as she was clearly out of the blast radious (I was using incinerate so it hits a lone target) yet she died after I hit a falmer with a single dual cast spell.

She burst into flames and died, strange thing is she could survive a direct hit from that spell normally (id given her fortify health enchantments and tested how much punishment she could take)

Yet somehow this glitch killed her.

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It's not a 'glitch' or a 'bug' it a "Bethesda Game Feature" (you gotta' learn the right speak) It's so that you don't get too attached to any particular follower and it forces you to spend yet more gold/time/effort/heartache/frustration in finding and kiting out a new follower :facepalm:
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Is that like the game feature where if you sprint at a deer skull it flies over the mountains from the kick and you die? That's to make it so that people can't run right over deer skulls, right? It's a realism feature?

 

Lol, just kidding Bethesda. I really do like Skyrim.

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