Hired Thugs in Skyrim
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once you kill enough of them to get the dark brotherhood on your ass, they stop. i thinknotsosavagemessiah said:
The first time I killed the dragon at the tower near Whiterun the Thugs would appear, mid cutscene, and hack me down while I was paralysed by the plot development. It took more than a few tries to get past that point, fighting a running battle against 3 superior warriors while a Whiterun guard chased after us intent on letting me in on the fact that I'm the dragonborn and inadvertently killing me in the process.
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If you are on PC press the button next to 1 (not two ...), click on a thug and type in "kill", then click on the next thug and do the same, repeat until you are good to go.notsosavagemessiah said:
There is a command to kill everything in vicinity but that might be over kill!
Could always run to the nearest town ... guards will probably kick there ass.
The only problem I have with them is that they get a contract on you, even if they didn't know you stole from them. How could they know if no one was there to see it?
Which brings me to my other problem: I'm clearly being assaulted and the guards let it happen. When I assault someone, the guards go postal on me. Its one rule for me, one for the NPCs. Those are pretty much my only major gripes about the game. That and shopkeepers endlessly going "Yes?" "can I help you?" "yes?" "yes?"
Nope. Guards just go "ooo look, a fight!" and stand there like gormless idiots. But going to town can be helpful. I managed to jump on top of a house roof and shoot them to death.omega 616 said:
Which brings me to my other problem: I'm clearly being assaulted and the guards let it happen. When I assault someone, the guards go postal on me. Its one rule for me, one for the NPCs. Those are pretty much my only major gripes about the game. That and shopkeepers endlessly going "Yes?" "can I help you?" "yes?" "yes?"
Ive never had any trouble killing them at any level... [sub](all these complaints about difficulty are strange... aside from the first dragon, ive never found anything difficult and ive been playing through the whole thing on Master... 4th character so far... almost-naked-2h-warrior, Stealth/Illusion, Pure Mage and Unarmed/Heavy Armour/Khajiit... all been pretty easy... i was shocked when i discovered that Master wasnt the default setting (i looked at the options and switched it by accident before i read them, up to Expert, but i thought id turned it down from Master, so i set it on Master and left it there... hasnt changed since) Adept is pathetically easy... >.> you can just whack stuff with swords willy-nilly and they fall over dead and you still have all your health... Madness!)[/sub]
its annoying that they hire thugs even though they couldnt possibly know it was you... (theyve got nothing to do with bounty btw) ...but its a nice, immersive touch sometimes... particularly the ones you get from killing peoples relatives... Dark Brotherhood assassin contracts on you are great too... but it always begs the question: "why didnt they just tell the guards?"
Thugs break a lot as well... sometimes they just follow you around, very closely, as neutral characters with default greeting speech, but you still dont get a bounty for attacking them.
EDIT: seems nearly everyone thinks theyre difficult...
im confused... my first character, the almost-naked-2h-warrior, murder/pillaged/would-have-raped-if-it-were-possible everyone in every town >.> ...i saw these thugs and DB assassins pretty early, in other words.
Thugs where my first experience, id stolen all the soul gems and potions from the junk shop in Winterhold, when she went to the tavern after complaining about her husband. Winterhold was the second city i visited (i walked there... ice wolves were a challenge) as i ignored the main quest and went to "Investigate the College of Winterhold" ...i could not have been higher than level 6, maybe 8? when i saw them for the first time... and i just cut them down with my steel battleaxe... (a steel battleaxe i did not replace until a got them one from the companions about 20 levels later... alongside that, i wore fur armour with steel gloves and boots for RP purposes... barbarian-y...) so its not like i had any kind of equipment advantage... i just dont get it...
its annoying that they hire thugs even though they couldnt possibly know it was you... (theyve got nothing to do with bounty btw) ...but its a nice, immersive touch sometimes... particularly the ones you get from killing peoples relatives... Dark Brotherhood assassin contracts on you are great too... but it always begs the question: "why didnt they just tell the guards?"
Thugs break a lot as well... sometimes they just follow you around, very closely, as neutral characters with default greeting speech, but you still dont get a bounty for attacking them.
EDIT: seems nearly everyone thinks theyre difficult...
im confused... my first character, the almost-naked-2h-warrior, murder/pillaged/would-have-raped-if-it-were-possible everyone in every town >.> ...i saw these thugs and DB assassins pretty early, in other words.
Thugs where my first experience, id stolen all the soul gems and potions from the junk shop in Winterhold, when she went to the tavern after complaining about her husband. Winterhold was the second city i visited (i walked there... ice wolves were a challenge) as i ignored the main quest and went to "Investigate the College of Winterhold" ...i could not have been higher than level 6, maybe 8? when i saw them for the first time... and i just cut them down with my steel battleaxe... (a steel battleaxe i did not replace until a got them one from the companions about 20 levels later... alongside that, i wore fur armour with steel gloves and boots for RP purposes... barbarian-y...) so its not like i had any kind of equipment advantage... i just dont get it...
this annoys me too... why cant you shove the letter in their face all: "WTF IS THIS!? MY AXE - YOUR NECK, IN 3... 2... 1..."?violent_quiche said:
I got them once courtesy of the innkeeper at Morthal and don't remember stealing anything- hardly need to, unless it's a specific quest item. Killed them with ease, but when I confronted her all I got was "10 gold for a room?".
Kill them. Don't give me this "I can't" BS. You're Dohvakin. You're on the path to becoming the Fourth Era's greatest hero. Quit whining and knock some heads together.
Don't like that? Well here's something else then. Learn from it. Don't do it again. If you do, be prepared.
Don't like that? Well here's something else then. Learn from it. Don't do it again. If you do, be prepared.
Goons.
Hired goons.
-OT-
Kill them! Kill them so bad that every single person after them will give pause.
Hired goons.
-OT-
Kill them! Kill them so bad that every single person after them will give pause.
Okay, so...
Feringer Secret-Fire tried to have me killed by these guys.
He was sleeping when I stole all his magic stuff!
"My lord, one of your council conspired to kill me!"
"How's it going broseph?
"
..........
What I really wanted to do, was Shout the door open, and then shout feringer's name. all dramatic like.
Feringer Secret-Fire tried to have me killed by these guys.
He was sleeping when I stole all his magic stuff!
"My lord, one of your council conspired to kill me!"
"How's it going broseph?
"..........
What I really wanted to do, was Shout the door open, and then shout feringer's name. all dramatic like.
In my experience, killing the person that ordered them to attack you gets them off your case, I got attacked by them once, killed them, had a look at their contract and murdered the guy responsible. I have never been bothered by them since.
Well I got a contract form Urag gro-shub the orc in the Collage of Winterhold. When I was in the same room as him! I was starting the hitting the books quest and I was about to leave when this hired thugs appear! I think I didn't steal from him maybe I TOOK a book from the table. I pickpocketed him to look at his inventory but I didn't pick his pockets. When I defeated the thugs I talked to him but it was his normal dialog.....
This what the contract said. 'Here is the agreed upon amount. I expect you to faithfully carry out my request to teach a lesson to the thief Quan Chi. (Lol my Name is from Mk) You need not to kill him, but I have no qualms about it if you deem it necessary. -- Urag gro-Shub
Hired guards are pretty awesome how I looted 800 coins worth of their stuff. Sorry about triple posting I will double check the forum rules.
Had the same problem, i stood at great distance and shot an arrow at one of them (in the knee). the 2 others didnt care and i could fight him alone. I repeted this to pick them off one by one, it was a great victory.