Your wierdest or awesome random encounters!

Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:00 pm

I had thief stop me on the road and demand money. Among the options I could choose from when responding back, was to say, "Don't you recognize a fellow guild member?" He responded, "Of course, I've seen you around the Flagon. Good luck out there." Then he left me alone. I stabbed him in the back and stole everything he had.

lol. He did deserve it.
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chirsty aggas
 
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:51 am

I have three here:

1) I came across an apprentice fire mage and an apprentice ice mage battling it out just outside Whiterun. It went back and forth for a little bit, before the ice mage became victorious. However, the fire mage had already set him on fire so the ice mage just burned to death with the last of his health. Epic battle - both parties died. Me: :eek:

2) I came across three people (an Orc, Dunmer, and Bosmer) all wearing Imperial Legion armor. They were standing over three dead Imperials. When I approached, the Orc states to me (something along these lines), "Umm civilian you're interfering with... ummm.. Imperial business. Please pay... ummm... 100 gold and be on your .... umm... way." Needless to say I laughed my ass off and murdered all three of them.

3) Ma'iq the liar running past me in a hurry being chased by a vampire and his thrall, whom both stopped to attempt to murder me. I felt a sense of satisfaction that I saved Ma'iq's butt, until his only words to me were, "Ma'iq is tired now, go bother someone else." :sadvaultboy:

A naked courier gave me a letter once, No idea where he pulled it out from....


This happened to me as well in Shor's Stone. He walked up to me, put his hands on his waist, and said, "I have something for you." I caught the inuendo in his tone, but turned him politely down.
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Tanya Parra
 
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:54 am

The weirdest one has gotta be running into a cannibal feasting on a High Elf.

I proceeded to congratulate him and tell him to knock himself out. Who cares about High Elves anyway?
The man was doing a favor for Skyrim.
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Andrea Pratt
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:25 pm

I heard the roar of a dragon as i was walking along, I look around for the dragon and i am not seeing it. Then, i look in front of me and i see an arrow floating in the air. Curious, i go to it and move my mouse to pick it out of the air and a screen comes up and there is LOOT. It is some gold and dragon bones. Even stranger, it is a named dragon, can't remember the name off hand, but i did look it up to see if the MQ got messed up, but it didn't. The named dragon is suppose to show up when u reach a certain level or point in the game. Lydia, must of shot it and 1 killed the dragon :teehee:
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Alberto Aguilera
 
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:25 am

okay so I've had the usual backwards flying dragons like every one else since the patch and I've also had a character twin - where a characters graphic has been double and stands next to himself but they are simple glitches. My all time weirdest moment had to be one that was 100+ hours in the making!

So lets set the scene. I just started playing and the first town you come across is Riverwood and possiblely the first little quest you happen upon is the love triangle involving the sister of the Riverwood Trader owner, an Elf and a Nord, okay did that quest and carried on playing. About 100 hours in or so I guessed it was time to get married to get the 10 point achievement and few extra benefits so I choose the sister so I could have an inhouse trader and moved her to Winterhold's Breezehome to live and then just carry on playing some more. Anyway, yes getting to the point, after a long days questing I fast travel back to Winterhold to unload, sell stuff and spend time with ingame wife and just as I appear after fast traveling to WInterhold inside the gates, said Elf from Riverwood is standing there, greets me and runs to the exit! WTF! I mean I gave her a new decent home, I spend all day questing hard and bringing home lots of Spetims and stuff and thats how she repays me? Just cause the game won't let me get into bed with her doesn't mean she has to do that to me, lol.

To make matters worse, I've now noticed everytime I go back to Breezehome, he has moved in! I expect enytime now for 2 comfy chairs to appear and a Daedra called Jerry Springer to start egging me on with stupid questions.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:33 pm

an old orc bandit at a bridge who asks me to give him a worthy fight to end his days, I gladly obliged.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:35 pm

There are 2 that are probably unrelated but:
1. I was on some mountain with a dragon flying around. I shot a ton of arrows at it, but all it did was fly around in a spazy, glitchy way. Even when I got its health low, it was still flying. Even when I got its health to 0, it was still flying. After that, I could keep shooting it and levelling my archery, and it wouldn't die, it would just flutter in place with no health bar, and then later I guess it flew away.

2. I was walking around Solitude, minding my own business, and then all of a sudden a dragon literally appears out of nowhere - it just spawns in the air in front of me, in the middle of town, and falls to the ground dead. I absorb its soul and it has all the other stuff you normally get from killing a dragon.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:34 pm

Well I've had to crazy things happening.

First one was taking that "E dude" (no spoilers) from where he was to where he wanted to be. We encountered some wolves or something and "Mr. E" probably conjured some kind of atronach, which I wrongly thought was hostile. So I attacked it, forgetting I had no magic resistance. So, well, it killed me...

Another one was today with Lydia and my horse getting it on. We got attacked by some bears (I was actually hunting for them, lol) and the horse started defending itself. Lydia was in the back due no horse and started using some staffs I'd given her, and probably hit the horse. Horse got angry and attacked Lydia (or it happened when Lydia caught up, not sure). Lydia got really pissed with the horse and spent several staffs trying to kill it. I tried to ride like crazy evading her but to no avail. In the end the horse disappeared, but getting back to Riften and outside again, it was back at the stable. I've lost a few horses, but this one, despite not loosing it, was pretty hilarious :P

Edit: Oh, also today, I met someone who claimed to be my drinking partner and demanded 10.000 gold for something. I managed to get the price down to 750 gold, but it's the most expensive hat I ever bought :D I don't know if something glitched or not, but I love these kinds of hilarious random things. Even if the "reward" is null, I get rewarded in role playing events and experience, and that's what counts most for me.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:01 am

Getting ambushed by an invisible Khajit assassin...

I was standing there in the path for like a minute before I realized what was going on. So confused lol.

It was a good thing I lit him on fire, made it possible to track him :flamethrower:
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:10 pm

The coolest to watch was an infected guy cutting his way through the outside portion of Halted Stream camp at night. He made really short work of the bandits.

A skirmish between a Thalmor group and a Stormcloak patrol was also really cool to see, but I couldn't help myself but get involved in that one. The Stormcloaks really weren't doing too well :(

I've seen a random imperial soldier plummet to the death from the heavens into an empty field.

The creepiest was stumbling upon a location where 6 naked Thalmor and bandit corpses I'd thrown into a river around Whiterun had washed up.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:43 pm

Came out of a mine to find an elder dragon eating a bowl of Ork-O's. I rushed in but not in time to save the chief. Only the alchemist and smith survived. So now there is an entire Ork settlement that has 2 inhabitants. Well actually maybe more because I think there were some in the mine.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:13 pm

I was riding my horse and heard a dragon so i proceeded to get off it when the dragon lands on me. So i was like ok im dead then i notice i was absorbing it's soul and i was confused why a dead dragon just dropped from the sky so i backed up to get a look and an ancient dragon lands behind me and eats me in one go and kills me.

The cheeky dragon used its "friend" as a diversion to get a drop on the world saving Dovahkiin and take revenge for all it's dead dragon friends.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:49 am

Fighting with dragon, NPC decided to initiate a conversation with me.

Talking to Hircine, some NPC decoded to give me something.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:46 pm

Just now, I found a group of Thalmors going down the road. I walked along with them for a bit, and a dragon appeared. It was attacking a giant. The brave, brave Sir Robin Thalmors said, "I'm getting out of here," although they didn't. Then they started fighting something. I didn't see what. All I saw were Thalmors in battle, mages in full swing, so I said WTH and attacked them. My follower and I took out half a dozen. Turned out they were fighting a sabre cat.

The dragon never stopped circling the giant, not attacking it, so we just gave up and walked off. It paid us no mind.

On the way back, some Thendarr priests were ahead of us. A thief waited until the presumably unarmed, unarmored priests had passed and tried to rob US. *facepalm*

Ran into the headless horseman, too.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:47 pm

Two giants were clearing a bandit fort. I watched it from distance, it was quite a pretty to see some bandits flying in the air and some be hammered to the ground by giants.

Blood Dragon attacked in Giant camp and was killed really fast by several giants and a couple of mammoths.

Whiteruns Stormcloak-guards attacked with a large group against some bandits in a watch tower near the Whiterun.

In a forest not far from Markath was a battle between Imperials and Stormcloaks.

There was also one awesome happening on region where tundra changes to mountains in my early game where a large group of Thalmor were fighting but I can't remember their enemies because I was in low level and they tried to kill me on sight so I ran for my life and survived by jumping down from the cliff which almost killed me.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:26 am

I just had something interesting happen in a new game I've started that hasn't yet happened in my old game. I was taking my time, exploring around Riverwood, when a woman in rags ran up to me. She started going on about how she had been kidnapped by bandits and needed my help. She said she had managed to escape, but that she didn't know where the nearest town was. I told her, even offered to show her. She declined my offer to escort her, saying she could make it there on her own. She then asked me if I wouldn't mind taking care of the rest of the bandits and marked their hideout on my map. I love that there's always some new random encounter I have yet to find in this game.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:36 am

A Bandit rode up on a horse, dismounted and attacked. I loved it!
Good to see someone other than a Noble utilize a horse.
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Laura Tempel
 
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:33 am

I found two necromancers fighting some pit wolves who was fighting a couple of bandits. Turns out one of the necromancers had a note on them to get revenge on me for a certain daedric quest. One of the bandits also had a note that said something along the lines to grab the escaped pit wolves and bring them to a certain (random?) place nearby.

Had 3 dragons attack me at the College of Winterhold while everyone there was outside. They easily destroyed the 3 dragons. Free dragon souls! Score!

Found 3 or 4 Mudcrabs around a corpse of a giant mudcrab. The giant Mudcrab was just scenery. I couldn't loot it or anything.

If you are a Stormcloak and encounter the fake Imperial Soldiers one of the options is to tell them which side you're on and you'll enjoy killing them. Fight breaks out and you hear one of the bandits yelling at the other about how horrible this idea was.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:24 pm

A dragon appeared ad ivanstead, ate a woman, flew away and fought with a giant.

Giant won.

Gotta say, I did enjoy my popcorn.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:17 pm

Mine was more of a series of epic fails. I am level 55 play on master and currently the magic resistances are bugged. While i was on my way to one of those dragon shrines to kill the dragon and collect my bounty I came across a problem. On the path to the top of the shrine there was one of those little traps that shoots fire,ice, or lightning at you continuously until you take the soul gem out of the contrapment. Well I saw it and thought alright well lets get this soul gem trap out of the way. Well that was the first one I have ever encountered on Master and well it one shots you. No matter what if it hits and you dont have spells to stop it(which i dont i leveled hardly any of it) you will die. I spent the next 30 minutes of my life trying to figure out how to get past the thing without lowering the difficulty. And finally I thought of the ethereal shout. But that was after many deaths. TO A FREAKIN SOUL GEM
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:46 pm

The Orc that wants a glorious death.
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