Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

I just recently got the one involved with Spoilergetting the Golden Claw for the merchant at the first town I was taken to and to get to it I had to walk past a stone table, with a locked (I think it was locked) chest next to it. Now, keep in mind I sneak pretty much everywhere. I get the word, turn around, and the table I had JUST FINISHED SNEAKING BY WITH NO PROBLEMS turns out to be a coffin and a damn zombie lunges at me. Edit: *And I don't mean just once. I walked around that thing like a dozen times looking for loot.* @#%^er I just looted your room and you napped through the whole thing, I just got a major spell/ability and you didn't even snore, but as I leave and take a step in some water and you're suddenly wanting to shove your two handed rusty giant sword up my orcish ass?!

@#%^ you.

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 8:44pm by lolgaxe

And that is why every single corpse in the wall that looks like a Draugr eats an arrow in the face if I can't loot him (yet). :D

I'm gonna remake my character. I've only got a few hours into it (playing during the week is hard).

I found out that even if I steal sh*t when people can't see me, they will still try to get revenge. I think the old lady in the Inn in Riverwood found out I robbed her room while she was asleep. Hired thugs showed up at Winterhold and raped me rightly about 4 times in a row before I finally was able to defeat them. My level 3 Dark Elf Thief/Caster combo wasn't working out too well.

If undetected thievery makes people send these strong thugs and assassins after me... that kind of makes thievery not a good idea at low levels.

Awesome. :D

The dragon scale armor doesn't look QUITE as cool. Pretty spiky though.

Go visit the Graybeards and fetch the horn. You'll get the other two parts of the shout. It's actually a fairly easy quest, the hardest part of it is climbing up to High Hrothgar. There are some fairly nasty critters on the steps.

Seems like a bug, but a good find. Are you sure they're the same arrows/damage, and not like 1 damage arrows? I think the companions use default arrows if they have no weapon equipped; could be the same kind of thing.

Anyone else notice that when you get shot by an arrow, sometimes it ends up in your inventory? I kept wondering where I was picking up these random iron and steel arrows from...

If Lydia tells you she has a bad feeling about something, you may want to listen to her. Yesterday was the first time I had heard her say that and I sure got 1 shot by the guy we were creeping up on.

Oh.. And she's a freaking idiot! I told her to stay there while I tried to get a zombie to run into a trap that makes a spike door slam on them. I get it's attention and everything is going great until she decides to come running up and spring the trap. Killing me!

I got one of the dogs yesterday. Like 10 mins after getting it, I was already telling it to go home. Way to annoying and idiotic to be worth the trouble.

Edited, Nov 16th 2011 8:15am by MrTalos

[img=http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198052263097/screenshots/] I have no clue how to post images on this website but here's one of me in full daedric armor.

This game is awesome i just wish there was some kinda online play where you could do quests with friends =).

That's also why you'll find your arrows on the things you kill if you've been turning them into pincushions. It's too bad they don't animate plucking an arrow out of yourself and firing it back. :D

Yipes. Okay, that's good to know.

While combat isn't the main draw for me towards Elder Scrolls games, I do think they could have done more with it. At least the weapons have more of a feel than in Oblivion, but I don't see why they couldn't do something more with it. I'd like to see more fluid animations for swinging a weapon multiple times in a row.

I know it's a third person view game, but Dark Souls (and Demon's Souls before it) made a simplistic combat mechanic (light attack, heavy attack with a couple directional attacks) pretty enjoyable.

Edited, Nov 16th 2011 11:17am by Spoonless

Also, I want spear + shield.

Sneak Arrow is pretty badass. I took out a boss with it because he decided to focus on Lydia while I repeatedly shot him in the back.

All I do is sneak arrow people with the 3x perk it's pretty damn awesome.

Another little thing about that arrow bug I found, if you reload a save, quit and come back into a saved game it will fix itself and you'll need to reequip different arrows.

Couple things of note, while doing some quest last night I happened across a book that gives me the quest for Forbidden Legend so I figured lets go treasure hunting! I've done two of the three parts of the quest the last part is to get into Saarthal which appears you need a key from the mage guilds quest, but! In doing the first two parts I was able to get some of the weapons the bosses drop. One was a 34 damage magic bow which I recently picked up the arcane armorer perk and was able to smith to like 40+ damage (I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called!) I have this absolutely ridiculous high damage bow now and I'm just sniping things like its no one business.

PS: Smithing was the best thing I've ever put perks into.

EDIT @ Locke: It's the arrows you had equipped, you can actually pick them up after shooting them. I'll have to test it tonight now to see if you can basically give yourself unlimited arrows.

Edited, Nov 16th 2011 11:46am by ArexLovesPie

It's not. I've never carried nor used steel arrows (used Iron until I got Nord, then threw the iron ones out), but I often find 1-2 in my inventory after taking some shots from enemies. The only other way it could happen is picking them up off the ground and not noticing; but that seems unlikely, as I always carefully choose what to pick up.

I'm taking my new character through both the college and the Companions (originally it was going to just be the college, but since my PS3 deleted the last save, I decided to just go through the companions as a caster).

I'm playing as a Breton. People asking if I'm sick is going to get old, fast. Especially since his skin is darker than my Nord's had been. Also, he ended up looking extremely Turkish. A lot like a fusion of Altair, Ezio and this guy, actually. But he has a more intense beard.

This is exactly the reaction I had when I realized that class schedule changes for the start of next week freed up more time for me.

I sold my 17% smithing gauntlets a few days ago because I never thought I would need it :(

They're not telling you you look sick because you're Breton. They're telling you you look sick because you got diseased by something and didn't realize it. Drink a Cure Disease potion (or get a god shrine buff).

Something tells me you haven't done the Thieves questline yet, if you don't know how Nocturnal is doing. :)

lol, nope. But a little bit of googling revealed to me that it was involved in it. I also found out about my favorite Daedric artifact.

But I don't intend to do the Thieves' guild on this character (and I'm not starting another toon until the save bug is fixed) so she's gonna have to wait.

Somehow, I think I walked right past that thing. I even mined the ore up there, and never even saw it.

I gather that it's called the "Notched Pickaxe". Supposedly a reference to Notch, of Minecraft fame.

Yeah Notched Pickaxe was it! For some reason the thing just tickles my fancy as something to love and cherish. I mean who does't want a magical pickaxe.

Adept for now, when I play through a second time it will be harder.