This is what I was thinking. But if not, I figure he could be a distraction for the enemies he is blindly running into.

i will shoot an arrow in his head

Then, if you want to be a pacifist, using paralysis... don't kill Arvel. Though he is a greedy bastard.




It seems like the right choice.

Same. At first I imagined Oblivion style zoom action :shakehead:

Haha yeah...

*zoom in*

"You'll never catch me, fetcher!"

*zoom out*

*commence running away*

I was thinking about that while watching the demo. Todd slipping his sword through the guy's back was awesome, but pretty cold, not something I would do on a morally good playthrough. Maybe there's I dialogue option to make him halt or something, maybe something in earlier dialogue that makes him not betray you (like you tell him earlier on, "You can keep the treasure, I need only the Golden Claw."). Otherwise, I think I'll just let him kill himself through the traps if he really wants, but I don't like killing fleeing enemies on a Good playthrough (Where is the honor in that?).

LOL Nope, i'ma kill him so hard.

Big time waster? Also, is the body of water you mentioned a barrier? Can you swim across, or do you have to cross over the bridge? You said you made it West, but how far? Could you see the Reach, or Markarth? Yea, lots of questions :tongue:

I don't think he was Arvel is going to meet a similiar fate in my game.

Watching him get hacked up by those swinging traps would be kind of funny, but at the same time, would sadly demonstrate the stupidness of the AI as he blindly runs into huge swinging hatchets.

Arvel was a piece of [censored].

He would run into a dead end anyways wouldn't he?

He would be lucky if I let him stand up after cutting him free.

Near river woood are 2 bridges, one to the south another to the north, the north bridge is closer, the Mountain trying to get around it is what I felt would have been a waste of time, Markarth was a bit way out of the way to not get destracted by patrols, other people got a third time in(I know right what the heck? I asked.) and new exactly where they wanted to go or what towns they wanted to reach, when you don't know where to go, you lose time being "lost" the body of water is a large lake connected by rivers on two sides, going south is ok but North part of the river there is a Big rockface that you can't climb on one side. you can swim sure did I? no um about north north west of the mountain Bleak falls was situated on, used up all my health potions after a fight, and about a few minutes in I got owned by arrows, from who I don't know but it was then that my play time was over, I died 6 times.

Dammit it Sam. He had to go and be the hero of the story.

I will probably just pick his pocket (if possible) to take the claw. Then leave him there so he can learn a lesson about spiders and webs.
But if I have to go through that way.... there's an easier way through webs... :flamethrower:

I am thinking about casting the flames spell and just roasting him like a spider web kabob

oh, come on. U get sad with this?

misery.

As a barbarian im gonna stab my 2-handed greatsword into his back....And steal his stuff

probably adds to the quest, "find arvel" i guess you would end up finding him at a merchant attempting to sell it :S

Thanks MK. There weren't a lot of boundaries, or invisible walls blocking stuff though, right? You could have swam, or gone around the mountains, but chose not to because of time constraints right?

Might be that he's supposed to run into the traps and pull a Fithragaer if you don't kill him yourself, that way you don't need to follow him far for the Golden Claw.

I plan on slowly roasting him with a flamethrower spell. Which, I imagine will simultaneously set him free. At which point I'll paralyze him and punch him in the face until he dies.

Lesson: Don't be a N'Wah to Skyrim while drinking your skooma in the barrow.

Clearly he was not swift enough.

Draugr/Dragon Priest probably kill him and we could just loot the Golden Claw from his body.

Great altruistic thought, maybe you can join him for milk and cookies afterwards.

With all kidding aside, I think it was fairly just, and the finishing move was really cool.

I probably would have pick pocketed (is it still called pick pocketing if I robbed a tied-up man or would that just be called stealing?) the guy and paralyze him before I cut through. No honour among thieves after all, can't chance him running away with my prize.