Interesting and Unusual

[Adipose]

Late on a very dark night in Whiterun with Candlelight running, going up the steps to Jorrvaskar, On the landing came across Amren and Mikael piled up dead, Amren on top of Mikael with Amren's sword run through one or the other...couldn't see. That was a first in thousands of hours of gameplay. Assume it was a mod effect but got no idea which mod produced the event. I decided to let it play instead of falling back to an earlier save, even though it cost me a trainer and two quests. In a similar fashion had Uthgerd try to kill me just as I walked into the Bannered Mare. B...h chased me out of town, where I frustrated the AI by climbing up into the rocks to the right of the drawbridge and started sniping at her with a bow. She ran off, screaming in frustration, went down to the carriage station and then came back all calmed down and normal. Got NO idea what caused that little glitch. Lol! Mods do produce some unusual side effects. Hope those little glitches aren't critical to gameplay. One of the most interesting little goofs occurred several years ago when a courier came running up wearing nothing but a hat, a pair of boots and sporting a stiffy. Now THAT was funny. Mods, gotta luv'em.

[Anselmp]

Whiterun has too many mods. I tried a new Jorrvaskar recently, found chaos in the centre of Whiterun, so promptly deleted it. Then I tried a new shop tucked away near there - no floor. Breezehome adaptations are unnecessary since there are nicer (and free) homes nearby. I use a mod (not always the same one) that keeps NPCs alive. I soon became fed up with nice characters being killed by dragons etc (in LE i had to switch it off temporarily to let Septimus go). Courier seems to be a profession reserved to ugly skinny males, so you're welcome to that.

No way of telling what may have done it without a list of mods.

[Guest deleted80903]

Heheh, this is why I use the Lilly courier replacer mod. It caps the horror to a managable level. :)

 

One of my funniest moments involved an attempted assassination combined with a combat moves mod. These Morag Tong guys were trying to kill me, and for some reason one of them didn't want to move normally; he was chaining together the sneak roll to just keep tumbling along. My jaw dropped but I could see him coming from a mile away and he obviously wasn't moving very fast rolling like that. I had plenty of time to pull my bow and kill him as he approached. But then he died paralyzed in position and... continued rolling. I was on a slope and I just turned and watched as he rolled past me and just kept on going down the hill. Stone dead, paralyzed in a roll. I couldn't stop laughing.

 

My current weirdness is that a certain mod-added faction doesn't play 100% nicely with FEC and SOS. So when I kill these guys with fire, FEC burns the flesh from their bones and they become skeletons. And SOS puts these perfectly pristine undies on them when this happens. It is the strangest thing to see: charred, smoking skeletons with these perfect briefs on.

[Adipose]

Not only can Whiterun be easily over modded, the vanilla version tends to be buggy from the beginning. In the very first version of Oldrim, one could jam up when trying to enter Dragonsreach or Jorrvaskar either one. Also, one needed, and still needs, to be careful when installing follower mods. Too many spawning inside Jorrvaskar will make it impossible to interact with that place. Ditto other places as well. Riverwood for one. I once had to do triage on several followers that spawned in Riverwood. One poorly made mod had the effect of crashing my game whenever I tried to enter the town. Took me an hour of real time to find the culprit.

[Anselmp]

I have now tried the new monk's robe mod. None of the monks are wearing clothes any more. This mod must be based on the old story 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. I'd better check what day it was loaded.