Let's face it, NPC's can be pretty goofy sometimes. Be it glitched/bugged animations, strange reactions to things that you're doing, odd pathing glitches, etc. I felt like making this topic to share stories about some of the funny things NPC's have done. Even if this topic turns out to be a dud, I still wanted to share what just happened to me in Skyrim since it was pretty damn funny...at least I thought it was. Couldn't stop laughing for a couple minutes.
I was doing one of the special Thieves Guild quests to unlock one of the vendors down in the headquarters. The client wanted me to go to a bandit hideout and retrieve something that was stolen. Now since the place is filled with various levels of bandits, they were naturally defaulted to being hostile towards me. So I could either go in there and just slaughter them all, but I thought "No, this time I feel like going straight ninja on these guys and sneaking in and out without any of them being any the wiser." So I'm sneaking through the cave, pickpocketing the bandits as I pass them by and snooping around for gold and other stuff I can swipe in from shelves. I come to a small chamber of the cave that's been made into a little bar area for the bandits. There's three of'em sitting at a table and a fourth standing behind the bar. I pickpocket them all, snoop around, and after clearing the room of valuables I make for the next tunnel.
On the wall at the entrance of the next tunnel is a note pinned to the rock by an iron dagger. I go to read the note but accidentally grab the dagger instead. It's worthless, of course, so I simply drop it and move on. I go down a short corridor to the next chamber of the cave and start looking around for more stuff to loot. While turning around, I notice a bandit walking down the corridor that leads from the bar area to the room I'm in. So I quickly sneak back into a dark corner, but the sudden movement through an area of light makes the bandit pull out her sword and start looking around for me. I just keep up against the wall, hiding in the shadows as she looks around the room. Failing to spot me, she sheaths her sword and....starts calmly walking straight towards me. Now my sneak indicator has the eye completely shut, so there's no way that she can see me. Still, she walks right up and says "You dropped this back there, I figured you would want it." and up pops the update "Iron Dagger Added".
I just found it to be hilarious that a completely hostile NPC would notice "Hey, someone dropped a dagger, I will do them a kindness and return it to them." So she gives me the dagger rather than sounding the alarm (since she apparently couldn't see me, technically) and just walks on back to the bar to continue drinking with her bandit buddies.
I was doing one of the special Thieves Guild quests to unlock one of the vendors down in the headquarters. The client wanted me to go to a bandit hideout and retrieve something that was stolen. Now since the place is filled with various levels of bandits, they were naturally defaulted to being hostile towards me. So I could either go in there and just slaughter them all, but I thought "No, this time I feel like going straight ninja on these guys and sneaking in and out without any of them being any the wiser." So I'm sneaking through the cave, pickpocketing the bandits as I pass them by and snooping around for gold and other stuff I can swipe in from shelves. I come to a small chamber of the cave that's been made into a little bar area for the bandits. There's three of'em sitting at a table and a fourth standing behind the bar. I pickpocket them all, snoop around, and after clearing the room of valuables I make for the next tunnel.
On the wall at the entrance of the next tunnel is a note pinned to the rock by an iron dagger. I go to read the note but accidentally grab the dagger instead. It's worthless, of course, so I simply drop it and move on. I go down a short corridor to the next chamber of the cave and start looking around for more stuff to loot. While turning around, I notice a bandit walking down the corridor that leads from the bar area to the room I'm in. So I quickly sneak back into a dark corner, but the sudden movement through an area of light makes the bandit pull out her sword and start looking around for me. I just keep up against the wall, hiding in the shadows as she looks around the room. Failing to spot me, she sheaths her sword and....starts calmly walking straight towards me. Now my sneak indicator has the eye completely shut, so there's no way that she can see me. Still, she walks right up and says "You dropped this back there, I figured you would want it." and up pops the update "Iron Dagger Added".
I just found it to be hilarious that a completely hostile NPC would notice "Hey, someone dropped a dagger, I will do them a kindness and return it to them." So she gives me the dagger rather than sounding the alarm (since she apparently couldn't see me, technically) and just walks on back to the bar to continue drinking with her bandit buddies.
