Dumb/strange/bizarre things most of us have probably done : IV

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:18 am

Feel free to suggest more - I might add some more along the way here.... I'm just sure that there are a number of really dumb or bizarre things that I've done in the game that 'most everyone else has also done, at some time or another.....

Geez... at least I hope I'm not the only one.....

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:56 am

Wow, the only one I haven't done is want to teach Darma to read. Uh, why?

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:19 am

Wow, the only one I haven't done is want to teach Darma to read. Uh, why?

Why want to teach her to read? I dunno - I just feel sort of bad for her when she says she can't.

» Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:44 pm

All of those, and more. Well, I didn't teach Dar-ma to read, but it's a good idea. I'll do it tonight.

(I hate to admit it, but I once chased a dead wolf off a cliff trying to loot it, and died.)

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:02 am

I had no idea that Dar-Ma could not read.

I have not told a guard that I did not have his ear. I have often said "Ewww, take it back!"

I have often done the casting a heal or shield spell on myself when I want to be attacking someone instead. Talk about major facepalm time...

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:58 am

Oh the times I've had when I thought I had a heal spell but really had a fire spell and accidentally killed a guard... good times

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:23 am

Oh the times I've had when I thought I had a heal spell but really had a fire spell and accidentally killed a guard... good times

Yeah - I thought to add that too - the reverse. Recently one of my characters was doing the MQ, and specifically the Wayward Knight quest. She had just finished a battle and turned around to check on Farwil while attempting to heal herself and instead hit him in the face with a shock spell. Didn't really mind that much, since it was Farwil, but still....

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:23 pm

Now that I am such an athletic and acrobatic adventurer, I keep running up to merchant counters and accidentally end up on top of the counter as the merchants crane their necks to look up at me. :wacko:

For the longest time I was hitting the E (jump) key before almost every action (still do it on occasion now) so I'd be jumping before I would attack, before I would speak to someone, before I would do anything. Maybe that had/has something to do with why I would end up on merchants counters. :shrug:

I won't fast travel anywhere except to the big cities because I don't want my horse to get killed. :nope:

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:48 am

The amount of times Sabarel forgets that Water Walking doesn't work when you are mounted has got to be in the hundreds by now. The amount of times I've gone to cast Charm on a Merchant and ended up frying them with a shock spell is numerous.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:08 am

I have never used a fireball spell on an Apprentice at the Arcane University, but I have been expelled from the Mages Guild because an Apprentice kept on casting and hitting my character in the Training hall, and died while I was practicing casting Mysticism Spells in front of a target. I actually found out the Apprentice had been able to cast the spell quite a few times before he died.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:10 am

I never kill a city guard to take their shield and armor... at least not directly.

I lure a foe to town and pick up the shield and armor off the guard trying to save me, once their dead.

Another strange thing to add to the poll:
Using area effect spells on fully loaded book shelves.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:45 am

Another strange thing to add to the poll:
Using area effect spells on fully loaded book shelves.

Awwwww yeah. This. Is. Awesome.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:20 am

Another strange thing to add to the poll:
Using area effect spells on fully loaded book shelves.

Mmm yeah. That is a good one. I tend to suspect that the quest in SI in which you have to mess up Cindanwe's house is there largely just for the benefit of those who haven't experienced that awesomeness yet.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:04 am

My usual trick is to get half way through a fight, and suddenly realise I am nearly dead, but have cast ten or so restore willpower spells.
And I once tried to see how many flawed gems it takes to fill a fireplace, now that is sad.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:08 am

I think I'm going to try to naked run from Sanguine to Leyawin - that sounds awesome! Might need to get me some skooma to help...

In fact, this kind of reads like an Oblivion Bucket List - you know, the things to do on TES IV before Skyrim comes out...

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:37 am

I think I'm going to try to naked run from Sanguine to Leyawin - that sounds awesome! Might need to get me some skooma to help...

In fact, this kind of reads like an Oblivion Bucket List - you know, the things to do on TES IV before Skyrim comes out...

Thats a really good idea, the most popular ones should be compiled into an Oblivion bucket list.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:02 am

That is a really great list!

Of those the ones that really hit home are:

Been killed by a mudcrab - at least maybe during my first playthrough, or if I'm really sloppy. Mudcrab or Rat.

Chase glow dust down a hill - more than once (many times in fact) those things are really slippery. And most of my characters are into alchemy so they really want that dust.

I've waited impatiently for Rohssan to wake up and open her shop.

I didn't so much feel sorry for the Gatekeeper, but I did feel a bit sorry for Relmyna Verenim when she starts crying for her "son"

(and a few others on the list, but those are the key ones).

...And I once tried to see how many flawed gems it takes to fill a fireplace, now that is sad.

So!?!?! Don't keep us in suspense, HOW MANY!

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:11 am

So!?!?! Don't keep us in suspense, HOW MANY!

Never found out, but the fireball I cast at it when I got bored was pretty cool.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:53 am

I voted... for a lot of these. :whistling:

Actually, the mages at Arcane U are quite good for the testing of area effect spells. Sometimes there's a seminar going on right outside the Praxographical Center... very convenient... hooray for Autosave. :shifty:

Horses actually *can* swim, though, in my experience. Just not very quickly.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:39 pm

Why want to teach her to read? I dunno - I just feel sort of bad for her when she says she can't.

If she can't read how come she can write in a diary?

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:33 am

If she can't read how come she can write in a diary?

Perhaps it's the very book she wasn't able to read, it having been blank until she started writing in it?

For what it's worth, Dar-ma actually says (in reply to "rumors"): "Picked up a good book at Renoit's this week. Sure wish I could read it."

» Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:07 pm

I think that's got more to do with the fact that her entire life is occupied with wandering around either on the lookout for strangers in town or getting into trouble.

With a schedule like that how would she have time to read?

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:29 pm

I think that's got more to do with the fact that her entire life is occupied with wandering around either on the lookout for strangers in town or getting into trouble.

With a schedule like that how would she have time to read?

Have you noticed how short most of the books are? :wink_smile:

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:27 am

Most excellent thread dude! It felt like you read my mind about telling a guardsmen you do not infact have his ear :lol:

i always do that.

» Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:51 pm

I've accidentally killed the adoring fan, see i knocked him off dive rock a few in game days before and...apparently he respawns and continues to follow you and he kind of surprised me in an ayleid ruin lol