Your memorable nonquest/nonscripted stories

[InuyashaFE]

Have I ever told you guys about the time Mjoll killed me with her Staff of Chain Lightning?

 

Or about the time I ended up with two Lydias?

 

I ended up with a second Lydia, maybe a respawn bug or the fact that I downloaded another mod for Breezehome... But I ended up taking the equipment from the old Lydia, disabling her, and giving it to the new Lydia... Still freaked my mind, though.

 

There was this other time I was trying to kill a Triceratops (Skyrim Mo Mod) and ended up getting it down to half health before I ran out of arrows. I ran off, right into another mammoth. Ran away from that mammoth, into a whole pack of mammoths.

 

And they all ended up chasing me. :facepalm:

[Relativelybest]

First time I went to Solitude and witnessed the execution scene, I decided to knock the headsman over with an Unrelenting Force shout in the very last minute. Sure enough, I stopped him mid-swing... but Roggvir's head still fell off by itself. o_O

 

So now I'm playing a new character who happens to be a twelve year-old girl. (Using a child mod I found). Going for more of a stealth character this time - she's an archer who hates giants because one of them killed her family, she's pretty much not afraid of anything, and very bowstring happy. Is that the phrase? Bowstring happy? She likes shooting things full of arrows.

 

So anyway, I went to Solitude and got to see the execution cutscene again. Then I had a sudden impulse and decided to shoot Roggvir. I mean, he's going to die anyway, right? So I jumped up a nearby roof (using a high jump mod that lets me get almost anywhere) took aim and nailed Roggvir with an arrow right in the chest in the middle of his speech. He died instantly. Take that, traitor!

 

But man, the way everyone reacted, you'd think I'd just assassinated the Emperor. Everyone were screaming and I got chased by all the guards plus, for some reason, Jaree-Ra of all people.

 

Geez, a minute ago you were all cheering for him to die. Ingrates!

 

Since I didn't want to go melee (Ylva has some good swords but very little armor) and it's hard to shoot a guard while he's chasing you, I ended up running all over the city with arrows whizzing by my head, trying to find a good place to make a stand. Finally I managed to get to this low flat roof connected to the Bard's College. Having gained a decent level of fortification, I started bowing down the guards who had amassed on the street below.

 

Is that the phrase? Bowing them down? We had a shootout, basically.

 

It went pretty well. I managed to take out several guards and while I took heavy damage I could retreat out of their line of fire to heal myself. Once most of the guards were dead I could head down and collect their arrows for more ammution. Then more guards showed up and round two started. This time, however, I got careless and took too many arrows before I had a chance to heal, and I died. So ends the great Solitude shootout.

 

The game reloaded and I found myself back at the execution. This time I decided to just let them cut his head off. Hypocrites.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Relativelybest

[breakwind]

A couple of things happened to me earlier. I received an inheritance note from a courier indicating Lucan Valerius had passed away and I had inherited 100 gold from him. After a game day I received another inheritance this time informing me of the death of Ghorza Gra-Bagol, the smithy at Markarth...and another 100 gold. Later I happened by at Riverwood and decided to pop into the shop there to see if Lucan's sister was running things and lo and behold there is Lucan behind the counter large as life :ohmy: I decided to check out if Ghorza was still alive, but no, her brain dead assistant is now in charge. Don't know how she met her demise, and I know even less why I inherited anything from her. Anyway, later on I finished killing the real emperor and after meeting with montierre or whatever his name is, I arrived at Volunruud to collect the reward...but there was only 100 gold in the urn :ohmy: I had to pay Delvin for the upgrades to the Dawnstar sanctuary out of my own private coin :sad:

[Michio2013]

I am fighting a dragon at a fairly low level and I am barely managing to fight it off and take it out. I'm at about 5% health and on my way back to the nearest town to restock on potions when suddenly, I hear the then dreaded dragonborn theme! I get my steel sword out and prepare to meet my end with honor and bloodshed when suddenly, a dragon skeleton falls out of the sky! o_O I tried re-loading from a previous save, but never again would I see the flying dracolich!

[Stemin]

So I hate leveling up destruction and two handed because they just take so darn long and I don't like those fighting styles. Destruction seems way underpowered compared to melee. But I finally found a spell that lets me level up destruction fairly quickly (Thunderbolt) and with my 4 enchantment slots dedicated to over 25% destruction boost, it costs me nothing to cast. So I'm running around just basically killing anything I can, particularly focusing on the giants, mammoth's, dragons, big stuff. More hits = more leveling.

 

I fast travel up north by High Gate Ruins intending to make a sweep towards dawnstar because I know there's a few wandering giants and one camp. As soon as I get there an ancient dragon comes flying in after a giant. I start blasting it, but it won't land and it keeps flying off getting distracted.

 

Off in the distance another dragon shows up about the area where the Imperial camp is. I'm still going after the ancient dragon. The giant is down, but the dragon is flying further out to sea chasing Horkers. I finally get the dragon down to about half its life and it flies off towards the other dragon.

 

So I head east, towards the imperial camp. Both dragons are circling high and I see them head south. I'm just watching the sky at this point trying to locate them when all the sudden the 2nd dragon comes flying in low. It's a blood dragon and it lands right next to the Imperial camp. We take it out in short order and I start scanning the skies again for the other dragon. I throw out an Aura Whisper and can't find the dragon, but I see a group of people trudging towards the sea. It's the Thalmor. So I piss them off by talking to them and they attack. I deliberately lead them towards the Imperials and soon the whole camp including Rikke this time are out after the Thalmor. I wouldn't call it epic, but it was a pretty good long battle. The Thalmor were tougher than usual because I'm using crappy destruction magic with no perks in destruction.

 

Finally we take them out, and I hear two of the Imperials talking....

 

"When are we gonna see some action?"

 

"Yeah. I know what you mean."

 

 

LOL.

[kevkiev]

I was riding towards past honningbrew meadery when I saw a werewolf sauntering down the path. It was Sidling (sp?) from the Hircine quest. (I spared him and thought he was supposed to stay in his cave?) I dismounted and walked with him back to Bloated Man's Grotto 'cuz it was kinda cool hangin' with a friendly werewolf for awhile. Guards and soldiers didn't bat an eye. We got attacked by a sabre cat and a mage along the way, and it was kinda funny 'cuz he'd initially run away after a "Somebody do something!" line, though he smartened up both times and went lycanthropic on my attackers. I was REALLY hoping to run into a Thalmor goon squad. :devil:

[mazardous]

I think that sinding werewolf thing is a glitch cause i saw him just outside of whiterun near the battle-born farm and of course as i killed him in the quest i decided to kill him now and all i got from him was a pair of ragged trousers :(. anyway for my moment i actually have 2:

 

so im running around the wilderness finding barrows and dragon shout words when i get to the top of a mountain. at this point a frost dragon swoops down deciding to nom on me (i was "fake levelled" from pickpocket and sneak, playing my stealth character) so i run into a shelter with a coffin in it. thinking i have a temporary shelter i ready for hit and run tactics on this dragon when the coffin burst open and out pops a, you guessed it, draugr death overlord. thinking im about to get f'd in the b i turn to run but this overlord decides hes racist to dragons and preceeds to bash on this dragon. after an epic fight the death overlord emerges victorious 2 hits from death leaving me to clean-up the scraps and get a free ebony weapon in the process. :)

 

another time i find the rich couple and bodyguard heading to the wedding on my way to ivarstead. when i talk to them i get the option to threaten to kill them but i decide im a nice guy they can go on their way. so around 2 seconds later i regret this decision and decide to slaughter them. literally 2 minutes later i run into maiq the liar who then quotes me "maiq hears its dangerous to be your friend". classic.

[Deleted1308005User]

Okay. So I was playing mage, and I was like lvl 20-30, propably first time I ever played the College quest line.

 

I went to the labyrinth, died couple of times on traps and enemies, it felt just like good ol' rpg's where you can die so easily.

It was fun.

Then I stumbled upon this "altar"..

Big sword and nice helmet.

So cool.

I took 'em, and continued my journey.

I met Morokei..

Turned out I couldn't kill him with my spells, as my spells were far too weak to kill him.

I tried to kill him for like 8-20 minutes.

 

took a look at my inventory, thinking about my next movement..

 

That big-sword-of-fiery-death-to-undead, and helmet.

I put helmet on and equipped that sword.

 

Totally beated Morokei with that sword.

After that, I always want to get that sword, and put it on my wall.

Just so I could remember that moment when I finally killed him.

[62firelight]

Totally beated Morokei with that sword.

After that, I always want to get that sword, and put it on my wall.

Just so I could remember that moment when I finally killed him.

 

I remember Morokei, back to when I played on 360. I managed to kill him, although at VERY low health.

 

Also, when I came back to Whiterun to capture a dragon after Season Unending, TWO, no, THREE dragons were attacking the city and it was with Mighty Dragons on too. I wonder, if the attack was an attempt by Alduin who knew about the whole "capture a dragon" thing to stop the Dovahkiin from interrogating Odahviing.

[Lord Garon]

Lydia the Cat.

 

I don't know if its AI changes in 1.6, but Lydia is acting strange.

 

Was fighting through Mistwatch and downed a guy with Ice Storm. He's saying the usual "I cannot defeat you." and "Fallback!" stuff as he crawls away. Lydia runs up to him and I expect her to bash him. She just stares down at him and follows as he slowly inches away. I know he's gonna recover any second, but I'm fascinated just watching Lydia. She follows him a couple more steps and the guy begs for mercy one more time and starts to stand up. Whack! Lydia finally takes him out. I had the distinct impression of a cat playing with its prey.

 

Then we were east of Riften wandering around and ran into some mages. Lydia runs off to my left and I'm dealing with a couple bad guys, but can hear her, "I'll kill you if I have to!" threats. I take care of my guys and run to where Lydia disappeared. I see her from afar, Ice Spikes sticking out everywhere. She's in a melee fight with the mage and knocks him down. Then just stands there and watches him. He gets up and she whacks him again, and just watches. I don't know how long that had been going on, but the third time he stood up was the charm and he didn't survive the third blow.

 

It doesn't happen every time and Lydia will usually pounce on down mobs without hesitation. But sometimes she just seems to "enjoy" messing with them.