Cthuloot Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 So I'm still pretty new in Skyrim on my latest play though. I'm level 15 and I'm supposed to go grab that horn for you know who. (Vagueness to prevent spoilers in the Main Quest) I travelled around a little bit. I left Whiterun after becoming the Thane. Then went to Winterhold, joined the College. Then to Morthal, not realizing that there wasn't a general store there (kind of annoying really the amounts of towns that don't have stuff in them...). So I went back to Whiterun. I went to the Blacksmith just inside the walls, sold some junk, then to Belethor sold some more things, then to the Skyforge and emptied what I had left over. I started to head towards Dragon's Reach. I then see a red dot on the compass and got excited for a dragon attack. I look into the skies and no dragon. I look down thinking maybe it was vampires and sure enough I see four dudes running with weapons. However I noticed they weren't attacking villagers, so rather than filling them with arrows I got a little closer and found 4 companions (Including Eorlund Gray-Mane) all coming to kill me. I don't remember every doing them wrong. I didn't take the things from the Sky Forge, despite them not being marked as theft. I haven't killed any of their members, or even interacted with them, besides selling and buying a few things from Eorlund. The odd thing was he just traded with me. I didn't have an atrronarch or follower, or even a pet, and I never have. The only things I can thing of is Talsgar the Wanderer went nuts on me just outside Winterhold. So did a guard (I don't have a bounty, never stolen a thing), so in self defense I dispatched of them. Oddly enough, no bounty was accrued from this. This could also maybe be tied to the quest with Fraila (I think that's her name) where she asks about her son and you're supposed to go figure out what's up with that. I haven't done anything with that quest beyond talking to her in her house. I'm not a vampire or werewolf. I have no mods dealing with factions or NPC's. Is this a bug in Skyrim? Or did I miss something? They don't want to yield, so I think my only option here is to console command them into non-aggression, which I unfortunately don't know the commands for... :confused: Any help or insight would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinnerman69 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Have you tried going inside to a safe place for a day or two, 4 tops and then save exit game and relaunch, there's a 3 or 4 day wait that resets bugs or NPC's in the game I think Edited September 7, 2012 by sinnerman69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthuloot Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Have you tried going inside to a safe place for a day or two, 4 tops and then save exit game and relaunch, there's a 3 or 4 day wait that resets bugs or NPC's in the game I think No I have not. I have noticed that they will attack the second they make line of sight. Eorlund doesn't seem to go hostile until the other three (Athis, Falkras, and Torvar) I'll try this real fast. SHould I let them aggro, then come back, or reload before they went nuts and wait a few days? I presume the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthuloot Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 This seems to have fixed it... However, the same Companions that were there originally going hostile aren't chilling in the back anymore... But the others aren't attacking and neither is Eorlund. I wonder what causes this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodplague Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 the companions are a hostile bunch, lol i killed a chicken outside markarth and they tried to kill me for it even though i was harbinger....but ive had jarl balgruff pull this crap too just after i paid a 40 septim bounty in his town. him and his palace cronies attacked me and i had to run out of town and come back a few game days later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsmanners Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 The only things I can thing of is Talsgar the Wanderer went nuts on me just outside Winterhold. So did a guard (I don't have a bounty, never stolen a thing), so in self defense I dispatched of them. Oddly enough, no bounty was accrued from this. Random encounters or even wildlife can go nuts just from spells or a mod that uses a cloak effect (like Player Headtracking). If you kill a guard and then kill all the witnesses to that crime, that will obviously permit you to get away with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moraevik Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I had a similar encounter with three of the Companions (I believe it was Athis, Njada, and Torvar) during one of my very early play-throughs. I was wandering around in the area between Helgen, Riverwood, and Pinewatch when I noticed a ruckus off in the distance and went to investigate, only to have the three charge at me out of the woods. I was forced to kill all of them, which didn't bother me at the time, since I wasn't going to join the Companions. It turns out they had gone aggro on some local wildlife (just a couple of wolves) and I think their aggression is set so high that they'll waylay just about anything when they're in combat mode. I suspect I just happened to get within their detect radius before they were through slaughtering poor, innocent puppies, and they just turned on me as the closest available target. At the time of the encounter I was running nearly modless, with only the USP and a couple of visual enhancement mods -- nothing that would affect anything about them. I wasn't a werewolf or a vampire, I had a clean criminal record (except for a few picked locks), I couldn't have cast a cloak spell if my life depended upon it, and I had never come into contact with any Companion up to that point in the game. It was pure, unrestrained blood-lust. Maybe Jorrvaskr needs to be renamed "Whiterun Zoological Gardens" and every companion should be required to wear a tracking collar when someone lets them out of their cages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkhAscendant Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I didn't have the Companions go nuts at me, but I did have Tasgar or whatever his name is... I was walking past the western watchtower, then suddenly there was a meteor storm(!) and the guards started fighting something, and when I went to see what it was it was our friendly wandering bard. I was very very confused... Then I reloaded and Tasgar didn't spawn, so he didn't die :P I wouldn't mind some crazy Companions, then I could slaughter their stupid meatheads with a clear conscience. ^-^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthuloot Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 To an extent their random aggro is interesting when you think of it as Moraevik says. It's just unadulterated blood lust. But it's still damn annoying. I pinned a guard during the first time I tried fighting them. Turns out two of the four were essential (Which is some hard core bull $#!7) and if that wasn't enough the explosions from my attronarch aggro-ed every guard in Whiterun which quit quickly earned my old blind khajiit a hefty bounty... So much for playing through as an insightful, helpful, and peaceful wanderer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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