The reason why you're in jail - Todd Howard : V

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:13 pm

In an interview Todd mentions that you we're caught coming over the border, and that's why you're in jail. Seems odd, but that's what he said. Maybe it's your character coming from Cyrodill? Morrowind? Maybe you forgot your passport?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcLh_cJuRxo

28-36 seconds.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:38 am

It's for us to decide. It's tradition.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:50 pm

whats odd about it? it still leaves open for any background a player wants to be their characters bio.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:41 am

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:39 pm

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

I see waht yoo did thar har har.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:52 pm

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

So he was arrested for public indecency?

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:50 pm

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

Argonians will always have spears to me. :violin:

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:01 pm

As far as I see, you are caught at the border for whatever reason you want.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:54 am

So he was arrested for public indecency?

Oddo is making a joke about the fact that there are no spears in oblivion or skyrim.

P.S. My [censored] kinda looks like a spear, though.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:17 pm

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

They are also skilled at polishing them :hubbahubba:

As far as I see, you are caught at the border for whatever reason you want.

Moon sugar smuggling.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:19 pm

As far as I see, you are caught at the border for whatever reason you want.

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:49 am

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

Maybe you headed over to Morrowind because the drinking age is lower, or their prescriptions are cheaper, or they have more relaxed drug laws.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:16 pm

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

You are a native nord...but u must have been mistaken for a noted skooma trafficker...now as esbern frees u from beheading u must destroy every skooma den u find in skyrim...always in search of the nord u were mistaken for

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:30 pm

My Argonian is in jail because he's carying a spear and nobody knows what that thing is and that's why they arrested him :swear:

did they find the book 'The Lusty Argonian Maid" in your backback? LOL

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:17 pm

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

Went to Bruma to visit your aunt, popped back to Skyrim, and POOF! Border patrol finds you [insert reason for arrest] and now your in jail.

» Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:07 am

Oddo is making a joke about the fact that there are no spears in oblivion or skyrim.

P.S. My [censored] kinda looks like a spear, though.

I was making a crack at a book intended to be read by certain lonely individuals in a fantasy world...

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:08 pm

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

Your local mead hall ran out of mead so you took a short trip to Bruma, then when you tried to get back to Skyrim carrying many crates of Mead, guards arrested you for smuggling mead, after which you got angry and killed the guards... Then the second wave of guards captured you.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:52 pm

In an interview Todd mentions that you we're caught coming over the border, and that's why you're in jail. Seems odd, but that's what he said. Maybe it's your character coming from Cyrodill? Morrowind? Maybe you forgot your passport?

Oh the irony behind border hopping.
Maybe you heard that dragons were in Skyrim and you wanted to see this for urself but you were caught by the border patrol for growing a beard haha.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:43 pm

My Nord is headed for execution because he brought a load of meth across the border.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:53 pm

So they execute people for hopping the border in Skyrim?

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:49 am

I really like this tradition, being a prisoner is a nice start which there can be a multiple of reasons as to why you are there.

However, the fact that we are on our way to our execution, kind of cuts down the number of reasons why you are in jail, given that you'd have to have done or mistaken to have done, something which deserved such a harsh punishment, unless the law in skyrim is extremely harsh.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:01 pm

My Nord is headed for execution because he brought a load of meth across the border.

I like how you we're just so blunt about it. Everyone else was like, "I got busted for skooma, mead..." They kept it TES. You brought meth lol.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:39 pm

b-but what if i wanted to play as a native nord? Bethesda is limiting my creative freedom and destroying my immersion! LOST SALE.

you could be caught trying to flee the country or just happen to be near the boarder.

» Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:16 am

I really like this tradition, being a prisoner is a nice start which there can be a multiple of reasons as to why you are there.

However, the fact that we are on our way to our execution, kind of cuts down the number of reasons why you are in jail, given that you'd have to have done or mistaken to have done, something which deserved such a harsh punishment, unless the law in skyrim is extremely harsh.

Yes it's very harsh...your crime is your existence.

» Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:55 pm

However, the fact that we are on our way to our execution, kind of cuts down the number of reasons why you are in jail, given that you'd have to have done or mistaken to have done, something which deserved such a harsh punishment, unless the law in skyrim is extremely harsh.

there's a civil war going on. you probably got picked up by some random company out in the Frozen Wastes? who figured they'd just kill you. i'm somewhat doubtful you're in a city prison, since they've said the first town you arrive at is Riverwood and that's pretty deep into the mountains away from any major cities.