Interesting Skyrim moments

[frobalt]

First of all, I apologise in advance; I suspect this thread has existed at least once before, but I thought it better to create a new one than resurrect a long dead one.

Anyway, now that's out of the way, what moments in Skyrim you've experienced did you find most interesting?

I started playing again recently, so began a new game. I remembered that if you give the beggar in Whiterun a gold coin, then kill him stealthily, you can get his inheritance. First of all, it amused me that I pretty much got him in the knee.

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After this, I went into the inn nearby and when I left, I had a courier run up to me and give me the inheritance letter. Right next to his corpse.

This next moment is just an interesting screenshot. Fighting the first dragon you encounter in game, I got my first ranged kill cam. Thought I got a nice screenshot out of it as well.

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Anyone got any more?

 

[Knight Templar]

Sometimes when I enter Solitude a dragon falls out of the sky in front of me, then turns invisible.
I guess M'aiq was right?

 

[Muspelheim]

Often when I save and feel "done" for the evening, I'll celebrate with a good ol' rampage. Whiterun have experienced their stalwart protector snap and decapitate everyone within reach many times... One of these times, old Grandpa Battle-Born somehow aggroed on the marketplace kid, grabbed a sword and started chasing her down the streets. I stood knee-high in disabled ex-adventurers, but ol' Gramps didn't mind.

It looked like Nordic childraising or something. The little runts misbehave? Grab your steel and give 'em a good whack! You know they've grown up when they defeat you in honest sword combat!

Oh, and on one of these rampages, I sighed heavily, marched up to the preacher by the fountain in my Thalmor disguise and sliced his nogging off mid-sentence. No one reacted for a good few seconds there, as if they were all silently thanking me for it. :3

 

[SoranMBane]

There was that time I accidentally killed a chicken using a grain mill and a wooden cart. Basically, I used the grain mill, and the grain mill pushed the cart over the chicken, crushing it to death. Then, to top it all off, two entirely new chickens spawned out of nowhere in the dead one's place.

 

[Vrex360]

I remember once I was in a small town, can't remember the name. Ordinary routine, me and Lydia stopped by between quests so that I could sell the massive pile of stuff I had gotten between quests. Left to go outside and suddenly and out of nowhere three blood dragons attacked the town at the same time. Burning and destroying, perched on rooftops or landing. The sheer number of guards leaping to defend and townspeople being killed caused the game to glitch out and the frame rate slowed down. Finally I got to one that landed and killed it... then things got wierd.
The dragon 'died', did the whole thing where it collapsed and turned into a skeleton but I didn't absorb its soul. Instead it got back up, as a skeleton, and flew back to the same spot it was before and returned to breathing fire and attacking, despite being dead! I tried to attack it with magic but of course it wasn't hurt by this because it was already dead. Anyway, fighting off the other two a bit I finally abosrbed the dragon's soul, I looked back and saw the Skeleton had slumped off the roof and at long last realized it was in fact, dead.

This same phenomenon happened to the second dragon though it only lasted a few seconds, basically it turned into a skeleton without the 'death' animation and then tried to fly and then 'died' for real and the third dragon just died as per normal. The town was a ruin, the shop keeper was dead as were a lot of guards and I was left with a pretty impressive story to tell in the tavern at Whiterun.

My only guess is the sheer number of enemies, attacks and NPC's in the area at the same time caused the game to seriously lag and not realize for a while that the dragon NPC's were dead. All the same, three fucking dragons attacked a small town for absolutely no reason. And even after death they kept coming.

 

[Smeggs]

I was screwing around in Whiterun just firing arrows into the air with my Legendary Ebony Bow.
I didn't know they came back down, I figured after a certain distance into the sky the game just made them disappear. So I fire like twenty into the air and then go to talk to an NPC about a quest.
A few seconds later the "Cloud District" guy falls over dead and I'm being arrested. I use my Thane status to clear my name and then inspect the body. There's one of my arrows sticking out of the head of the corpse. That shot was 100% luck.

Then there's the time where I was shouting at a cabbage cart on the road, just to watch it bounce around. Well, it got caught on a rock at one point, so I kept shouting at it. Finally, I went up and smacked it with my sword, which made the thing launch at me at FTL speeds, killing me instantly and making my body skid and bounce for about twenty yards.

That one time at my first dragon where he must've attacked a giant on his way to the watchtower, because the giant came stomping in and destroyed the dragon for me, but then he also killed all of the guards and then sent me into the atmosphere.

 

[Jopoho]

I have a tendency to steal everything that isn't bolted down. As a result, I found myself escaping from jail in one of many prison breaks. This time, however, I noticed a prisoner in an odd cell and decided to pickpocket him before leaving. I lifted a valuable ring and put it on to celebrate before leaving. It was only later that I learned what the Ring of Hircine was for and that it couldn't be taken off normally, so I had to sneak back into jail to actually receive the quest. Fun times.

 

[Danceofmasks]

My most interesting moments in Skyrim involves developing a cataloguing system that's at once so complex yet foolproof, that I can always find whatever I need in the correct containers.

Yes, I'm that guy.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I recreated my original character to be a sneakthief and assassin type, but with a small twist. If I fail to assassinate my enemies, and they start coming at me, I stick with a single dagger as my weapon. They're weak, but they're really freakin' fast, and by using only one, I can still bash. I even specced into the Block skill in order to get the disarming and bullet time perks. That's not the interesting part.

The fun part is that my primary weapon is Merunes Dagon's Razor. And when that description says it has a chance of instantly killing any enemy it hits, it means it. I'm not sure what's more fun, that I can fight dragons with a knife and win...or that every so often, I can one-shot them.

 

[Protocol95]

I once fast travelled to the Whiterun stables but all of a sudden to my shock and horror a blood dragon flew overheard and began to attack a farm. I dashed over as soon as I could to save the day but then I seen a nameless, expendable guard holding his ground against the dragon, while on fire and by himself. The guard won and nonchalantly continued about his merry business. I applauded this man. The oddness of this pales in comparison to my next story.

I walked into the companion's hall and asked for work. They told me that a wild animal had broken it a person's house and that it needed killing. So I warped over to the the nearest place and marched over to the house only to have some horrifying realisations. This was my house. In solitude. I pondered how a wild animal could breach the walls, evade the notice of the townsfolk and enter my manor. These thoughts were among the least confusing and odd. As I entered the basement I noticed the wild animal.

IT WAS A GODDAMN CAVE BEAR. A CAVE BEAR had somehow managed to not fit through the noticably small doors and not phase my housecarl and wife. The only logical explanation for this is that my at least wife, housecarl and a dozen city guards conspired to smuggle the cave bear through the city, squeeze it through my door or flat out remove and replace the door, and keep it hidden in the basement as a prank. I then contempleted an aggressive divorce procedure and a severe extermination of my housecarl's contract.

 

[MiskWisk]

During one random attack on a group of bandits, I ran out of space (I don't bring followers) due to not going to town for a while. Not wanting to leave stuff behind, I placed it all on the corpse of the bandit chief and raised them with dead thrall. I then brought the corpse to my house, killed them, collected my stuff and walked off.

Later, I got a quest to hunt down some bandit chief in the same dungeon. I cleared through the dungeon (my mage has enchantments for infinite destruction magic) but the boss was missing and decided the quest had glitched and thought no more of it.

A few days later I returned to my house to see a revived bandit chief cooking in my house. I re-killed them (after wreaking the decorations in my house with inaccurate shots) and took no chances this time. I took the body to the ice fields, used a temporary raise spell, pushed them in the water and used incinerate to kill them leaving the ash pile to sink to the bottom of the sea. My housecarl was not so lucky.

 

[King of Asgaard]

The title of this thread is an oxymoron.
But seriously, my Skyrim playthroughs rarely had that wow-factor others had. Glitches were more nuisances than entertaining, and combat was often dull and in my favour, so tense battles were a rarity.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I like it whenever I am going around whiterun hold and there are 2 mammoths walking around. Then one just rockets into the sky, hovers for a few seconds about 200 feet in the air, and falls down and dies. Easiest mammoth tusk ever, and I've seen it happen at least 5 times.

 

[Radelaide]

It once rained mammoth near Whiterun... Then flying giants!

I put down the LSD and went to bed.

 

[Kyrian007]

My first serious playthru character (I had prior played thru with an orc named "Hump" just to get used to the controls and essentials) was recognized by the graybeards as dragonborn, but never really progressed beyond that. He was a Breton sneakthief archer and minor illusionist and enchanter. I took him to the college to up his magic skills (Hump had never really shown magical talent... so I had never done the college quest) and Elyas (my character) became quite impressed by Mirabelle Ervine. I had not tried to get married in Skyrim yet, and I had an amulet of Mara stored fairly nearby in Dawnstar. I decided to wait until after completing the Winterhold missions to go for it, partly because the teacher/student thing and partly because I wanted to see if she was actually in the marriage faction (she isn't but I could have added her, but...)

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Yeah, you can see where this is going. I came back from Labyrinthian with the Staff of Magus. I thought that the very first dialogue option being "Where is Mirabelle" was very appropriate for Elyas, but was pretty shocked when Tolfdir told me "she didn't make it." I proceeded to blast my way into the college and took a long time killing Arcano. He spent the rest of his short life in considerable agony. Then after decorating my new headmaster quarters with what was left of Arcano, I left the college in the hands of Tolfdir. I went straight to the Frozen Hearth and got blasted on equal amounts of Nord Mead and Skooma. Then (while still hallucinating) I staggered north to the coast and threw my Amulet of Mara into the sea.

I really had gotten into the role-playing aspect of Skyrim, and it was a good story for that character... but not for the dragonborn. I quested around a little bit after that, but Elyas' story got darker. Until finally... he became a serial killer. When I go back to that playthru... it's just to murder a ***mer. It started with any Thalmor (for revenge) but didn't stop there. Now I only visit that character to continue his murder streak of Altmer, Dunmer, Orsimer, ect... no elf or elf-kin is safe. And I really do up the serial killer thing right. Stalk the victim for a day or so of game time. Break into the house and just hide there. Committ the crime and carefully arange the crime scene for the authorities to find, along with my murder signature calling card (an empty petty soul gem in or near the left hand of the victim.)

But that story really didn't jive with being the legendary Dragonborn, so I started a new character to do the main quest. The previous playthru just became an interesting side story of a "false" dragonborn, who became a miserable, drunk, serial killer.

 

[zidine100]

I was going to make this character into a mage, which uses arrows on occasions where he runs out of magica, but i got bored of that and just went full archer enchanter. Anyway the main thing that just kept on happening was a;

goat ass shot kill cam with a arrow.

seriously this happens way WAY to much.

And the most interesting story so fall ive had was;

That time i accidentally lead a dawrven sphere into a town using the brave sir robbin tactic, where it proceeded to go on a rampage and somehow i got some guy i didn't even know much's inheritance.

Made me feel bad.

 

[King of Wei]

I got challenged to a duel once when leaving Winterhold. I dodged the mage's incoming fireball and it hit the guard a few feet behind me. The guard rushed the mage, got the battleaxe behind his head and proceeded to knee the mage in the face until he was dead. I would have felt bad if I wasn't laughing so damn hard.

 

[Judgment90]

I once decapitated a man, and only cut his face off.

His head was still on his body, but the face was completely removed, so that there was only a black area where his face was. It was weird.

 

[Zealous]

I've never really had any major bugs happen in any of my playthroughs in any of the Elder Scroll games ever. It's actually kind of disappointing...

Anyway, the other day I started playing Skyrim again for the first time in a while and wandered upon an entire school of slaughterfish just chilling in the middle of the road. I moved a bit closer and they all agroed me and started swimming across the ground at me. I booked it out of there (I was only level five with hide/leather armour) and they followed me from Markarth all the way to Whiterun. Some of them left along the way due to other enemies, but the guards and I had a grand old time slaughtering a small army of fish on the battlements that day.

 

[Gabanuka]

On my way to Winterhold I passed by a dude with a cow making an offering to giants. A few minutes later I was passed by a man running from giants, I'm guessing their agro range bugged out because by all logic they should of stopped chasing him ages ago.