Things I've Learned in Skyrim #548: Bandits, and only bandits, talk to themselves. Constantly.
I must sneak up on some bandits and listen to what they say.
Also, I was doing the Companions quest line and was tasked with stealing some Silver Hand plans for Aela. On my way there some random guy runs up to me as I'm fight a smurfing necromancer or something and starts talking to me about holding onto something for him and he'll be back. As I was getting shot with smurfing lightning as this was going on, I went with the option to just go along with it and not ask further questions. I end up with some Ebony Gauntlets of Major Smithing and this bitch runs off. I kill the necromancer and go on my merry way of killing some Silver Hand members.
Anyone know wtf that was about?
he's a random bandit or something, it happened to me and I got attacked by a snow sabre cat or something hideous along those lines. he asks you to hold something he stole and then runs off, but then a hunter comes up and asks if you've seen him. for me while this happened the bandit went up and hid behind a rock and just watched me talking to the hunter, who promptly turned around and started spamming the bandit with arrows once i'd finished telling him i didn't see anyone. the bandit just sat there so I thought i'd help him out and I ran the hunter through and went to talk to the bandit thinking he'd want his trout back, but he just went on like BETTER NOT BETRAY ME, so I ran him through as well and kept my shiny new enchanted bow.
I'm guessing these bandits never actually come back for those items then?
Oh, sweet, I get to kill more people and get to use these to improve my weapons further.![]()
That happened to me too, twice. One of the times, I was in the middle of fighting a dragon, but these two dudes didn't even seem to notice the flame-breathing monster lizard standing 5 ft to their left.
Today I attended a fancy dinner party and was tasked with creating a distraction. My idea of a distraction was to remove all of my clothes, jump around the room, and hurl platters full of fancy canapes at people. They didn't bat an eyelid. Skyrim is a funny old place.
Incidentally, speaking of removing clothes, I now have the pickpocket skill that lets me do just that. Naked Whiterun party? I THINK SO! Anyone who gives me the slightest bit of trout is just being stripped. I don't care. Also with guards, if you just take off their cuirass they look hilarious.
Oh man it took me so long to figure out how to create a distraction at that dinner party
I talked to that chick that was getting crap from that old Nord fella thinking I could get a quest or a handy J or something and all I got was a drink. I was about to set someone on fire when the drunk guy from before called out for a drink. So I gave him the drink and then set him on fire.
People didn't like that.