Oh my god that horseman freaked me out first time I saw him. Rode right past my character flying by near Whiterun ZOOM! and scared the crap out of me! It was over a year ago that I saw him first. I've probably witnessed the headless horseman about a half dozen times since.

So these 3 'soldiers' came up to Lord Haaf-Mersey as he wandered thru some outback area. They demanded 100 gold, which he refused to pay. He fought and rid them. Thta is not the "new thing" I am reporting. I have seen these soldiers at least 6 or 7 times with other chars. now.

I've never noticed before: once he went back to the initial area where the 'soldiers' were, he found three dead Imperial soldiers on the ground, They had been stripped of their armor! It was as if they had been attacked by the 'soldiers', lost the fight, and the 'soldiers' now took their stuff!

That's what I love about this game. Yeah, its quest lines are shorter, and many people think they're shallow, but Skyrim's depth (to me) is all the little stories that happen here and there; how there's a lot of cause and effect being portratyed. This stuff is so easy to miss!

bla bla bla.....

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Jan 15 2013, 01:22 AM

I agree. The little touches are what makes the ES games great. It certainly is not the larger storylines!

If you catch them later on, they have mismatched armor.

The little quests make the game for me. Yeah, ending the civil war/killing Alduin/learning the Thu'um is great, but those details are wonderful. Like the dead lovers at the camp? That broke my heart. Or the dead Breton girl who was robbed then tried to get revenge on the bandits who took her family heirloom? I loved it.

That is the thing, there's a lot of subtle little things hidden in the game, aren't there?



YOu know what? I think your'e right. There was something "off" about what they were wearing, it didn't exactly look 100% like Imperial armor! Next time this happens I will see if I can remember to look at their armor.

I remember the first time I ran into those guys. I was immediately suspicious because the leader was an orc. How many orc legionaries have you seen in Skyrim or Oblivion? None. The in-game books claim that many orcs serve in the legion, but we never see a single one in the games. So my spidey sense was tingling. Then he start stumbling over his words "yeah, a toll, yeah, you gotta pay us." And that was all I needed to pull out my weapon and get ready for a brawl!

I saw three vampires fighting a werewolf

I missed that one!

It was funny. The werewolf sent one of the vampires flying back like 30 feet in one blow, and the vampire got back up and kept fighting

I've never seen a werewolf in game except me, and the select few on the Companions quests.


I just found an enchanted crossbow...

I DO have it.

Still, it's a pretty small chance you'll encounter any wild werewolves. I've only encountered a wild werewolf about....3 or 4 times.

Wow you have a spidey sense, too?

That's how I figured it out the first time, probably over a year ago...the 'soldier' who was asking for money sounded like he was lying.

I think when I saw that, the pile of naked corpses and the mismatched armors clued me in.

-snort-

Yeah, I just gave them a hundred coins and let them be on their way. You can't be too careful about folks willing to put on bloody, looted armor.

Wait.



I have one from a few weeks ago:


Hrungnir rides into Riverwood after a day spent babysitting helping that Orc chief in Largashbur. It’s what the film people call magic hour, complete with roseate sky and barely visible moons rising. He is wearing Volendrung on his back, but his plate armor is dented, his face is traveled-stained, and all he wants to do is sell off his loot to Lucan Valerius and disappear into a tankard of mead. As he dismounts one of the guards that now patrols Riverwood walks up and says (in a voice filled with reverence):

“That is one... big hammer!”

Now I don’t often catch myself talking back to the game, but I couldn’t help the ‘F***IN’ A!’ that escaped my mouth at that one.

This post has been edited by Destri Melarg: Jan 16 2013, 09:36 AM

lmfao!!!!!

I walked out of Nightgate Inn, I think, and a horker fell from the sky. I screeched and threw the controller bahaha!

Another time a dead dragon fell from the sky and I was super confused. Free soul!!

I was in my house in windhelm and a falmer randomly popped out if the ground, spazzzed out, and exploded(sort of)

I haven't gone back to that house since

This post has been edited by King Of Beasts: Jan 17 2013, 07:22 AM