So, who else has stories of strange things you've found members of the Imperial Legion doing?

Here are a couple of mine (note that I use Colourwheel's sixy overhaul, so most of the legionaires in my game are female)

I was making my way north from Leyawiin, towards the little house you get for helping Mazoga become a knight. A bit before the house, I came across an Imperial Legion horse just standing in the middle of the road. Finding this odd, I started searching for his Legionaire. I eventually found her, dead, http://fencedude.com/Oblivion/ImperialLegion1.jpg. I found this odd, because there were no creatures in the area, no bandits, no nothing. Only thing I found was a moderately unhappy mudcrab. The mystery of the dead legion soldier was never solved. (though her horse did help me get to Bravil faster than I expected!)

More recently, I was escorting Martin and Jauffre to Cloud Ruler Temple. We'd turned off the main road between Chorrol and Bruma, and headed up that side track that connects to the north side of Bruma. As we passed Bruma's western wall, I saw an Imperial Forrester in active combat with something, shooting arrows like mad. I rushed up to help and found her...http://fencedude.com/Oblivion/ImperialLegion2.jpg They both completely ignored my party until finally one of them died, and the other ran off into the mountains.

A while back I was crossing the bridge at Fort Alessia and saw something strange out in Lake Rumare. It looked like someone on horseback swimming across the lake. I dove in to take a closer look, and sure enough, it was an Imperial Legion rider. How on Nirn he ever decided to go swimming with Mr. Ed I have no idea. He even paused several times to dismount, swim over to mudcrabs, and kill them. Then he would go back to his horse and mount up again (still in the water mind you), and they would swim on. It was the weirdest thing ever. Where was this guy when the Bloated Float was hijacked?

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Then sometime later I came upon http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion464.jpg

I saw a light approaching at night on the road, which became a legion rider, mounted on...

...nothing at all! The guy was floating along several feet off the ground, as if mounted on an invisible horse. He gave me the usual greeting as he passed, and continued on his way, as if nothing was amiss.

...Threw away the skooma after that encounter...

I love how very determined he looks.

I've seen something like that, but only in relationship to enemy spawns using MMM. I've also seen bandits fly past me on the roads, followed shortly afterwards by Imperial guards on foot. Not saying this is what happened to your poor guard (who may have been ambushed by a mudcrab ninja, for all I know).

I don't have MMM or anything like it installed. I made sure to search around, and there was absolutely nothing.

Quite the baffling case.

the oddest encounter was when i ticked off an imperial guard for the first time and basically told him come at me bro. he uttered the the mighty battle cry of the legion and that ladies and gents is as follows "HRRUUUURRURURUR!!!"

Could have been a wild animal. Or maybe a heart attack. Possibly chronic emo depression. "Oh, I'm doomed to be a minor character in a game for all my life!"

I've had that, maybe it was the same guy?

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2Jduxc2P8&feature=fvsr. I can't find the vid I was really after, but this one is pretty funny.

I'll never forget the time I came across an Imperial horse and his rider. The horse was stuck in place near the bottom of a big hill. It was stuck in "jump mode". In other words, it looked as though the horse tried to jump over something, got stuck in this position, and now both horse and rider were stuck in mid-air.

As my character walks by, all a sudden the Imperial dismounts his horse. The horse now falls over dead even though there was apparently no enemy nearby which could have killed it. After falling over, the Imperial calmly walks over and says something generic like "staying safe I hope, these are dark times"....

You had to be there, I was


Did this happen outside of Skingrad? There's a dark elf (dammit I forget her name, can't find her on UESP) who walks a bit outside of that town to face a rock. She stands there, doing nothing, for hours on end, staring at the rock. It's supposed to be some sort of a bug. Wondering if that soldier somehow got caught up by the magic rock. Lol.



I love when they do this battle cry!

Isn't she the tomato farmer?
I think it's because her script was screwed in the vanilla game.
She doesn't do it in mine any more because I shot her.

I also encountered a forester and a soldier getting into a scrap. Best bit was when an ogre wandered up behind and seemed unsure who to attack.

It must have been one of those mudcrabs everybody says is "more fearsome than you". Never encountered one myself, but that legionnaire apparently did.

That's actually not a rock, but a disguised Mythic Dawn agent. Or a Hobbit hiding under an elven cloak.
Just imagine them shouting that in the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Nothing but the basic forester duels here.

Same here. They keep it together in Lothran′s Cyrodiil. They don′t dare to cause trouble while he′s around

Considering I run a Legion-centric game, with lots of extra legionnaires out and about, I encounter few oddities with them. I've of course witnessed all the weirdness mentioned here, but not often enough to be cause concern. That said, the legion participates in what has to be my installation's most immersion-breaking anomaly. It seems to be a conflict between the legion and traveling NPCs added by PTRoamingNPCs. PTRNPCs adds wandering merchants and adventurers of various sorts. Quite a neat little mod. The legion apparently thinks otherwise. Merchants excepted, any and all PTRNPC travelers they meet are attacked on sight. The poor travelers are walking / riding along minding their own business and WHAW, the legion pounces on 'em. The travelers don't even attempt to fight back until the "ignore friendly hits" limit is exceeded.

I looked at PTRNPC esp in TES4edit. There is absolutely no obvious reason for these attacks. In fact the author assigns them all to a legion-friendly faction. No later-loading mod overrides PTRNPC settings. I looked at several legionnaire-adding mods and noticed nothing amiss there either. Besides, the legion ignores (attack wise) wandering NPCs added by a number of other mods, and even PTRNPC merchants. And why single out those merchants? They belong to the same legion-friendly faction as the others. It makes no sense.

Just this morning I edited the PTRNPC esp to give all travelers (merchants excepted) a second legion friendly faction. Gonna experiment with that on my secondary installation.

-Decrepit-

Recently, I was escorting Martin to Weynon Priory and helped dispatch a few Mythic Dawn agents. I wanted to see if I could save all the monks, only to find an Imperial Legion soldier trying to take one of them out. I'm not sure what spurred the Imperial Legion soldier to attack, but for some reason one of the Mythic Dawn agents was crying foul when I helped that monk dispatch him. Playing a mage character this time, I tried pacifying the Imperial Legion soldier, but they persisted. Not wanting a murder count on my part, I then decided to simply help & buff the monk with restore health and shield spells until they defeated the Imperial Legion soldier.

One of my earliest play throughs, I had just finished the Ultimate Heist quest and got the infamous cowl. I wanted to see if there was anything I had missed in the IC Palace, after I found out you can't go back in by normal means. Of course I used console commands to get in and while sneaking through, one of the IC Palace guards spotted my character with the cowl on. I then proceeded to see what kind of reactions I could get with the cowl equipped on & off while resisting arrest and yielding several times. I guess I must have done it enough times to attract the whole IC Palace Guard and enough times to inadvertently confuse the combat AI system. Before I knew it, an all out brawl occurred between the IC Palace guards (almost a dozen of them). Of course I tried staying out of the fight to observe as best I could. With the last man left standing, the guard comes rushing over to try and arrest me one more time.

Being stuck in "jump mode" the whole time, I wouldn't be surprised if the game chalked up the horse to falling the whole time. So when the game decided to finally "land" the horse, it died on impact, resulting in the funny scenario you describe.

Oh. I thought it was, "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!".

Dedication, bro. Dedication

Ya know, I need to have my avatar start saying this when approaching outlaws on patrol. At present he generally spouts something along the lines of "You! Throw down your arms. Surrender or die." Not ver good buy hey, script writing was never my thing. "Stop right there criminal scum. Disarm. Surrender or die." sounds ever so much better.

My actually talking out loud for/as him started mid last year upon discovering narrated Oblivion Let's Plays on YouTube. I watched so many I found myself emulating them by voicing my avatar during play sessions. I've absolutely no talent for spur-of-the-moment extemporized speech. What spews from my mouth is usually anile in the exteme. Worse, my voice is rancid at the best of times and, game wise, most certainly not what you'd expect from a Nord.

My sole consolation is that, living alone as I do, no one can hear my gameplay rantings and call in the authorities.

As for my reported "issue" with unwarranted conflict between legionnaires and certain wandering NPCs, the proposed corrective is now in place. It's effectively is as of now uncertain, but I have my hopes.

-Decrepit-

Ha! That's great.
My wife, bless her, has to put up with my ranting and raving at monsters/NPCs/traps/Vilja getting lost, and pretty much anything else. Mind you after 2 Dragon Ages and 2 Mass Effects and 6 months of Morrowind I imagine she's used to it by now...

I am thinking of seeing whether there is a "Stop Right There Criminal Scum" t-shirt available anywhere. That would be Awesome.

Thanks for the business idea!

*steals the idea, mass produces them and makes a fortune*

I can see it now. You are in a dimly lit basemant feverishly cranking out T-shirts, music blairing to mask the tell-tale sounds of printing. The door bursts inward. A uniformed officer of the law enters. "Stop right there criminal scum."

-Decrepit-

There's a kind of satisfying symmetry to that.
Alternatively it's a description of the inception of some sort of terrifying feedback loop...

That. Would. Be. AWESOME!!

I wonder if a slew of followers would show up at the prison after serving time.