All the Skyrim mudcrabs are the size of the giant one from Oblivion?

This is a first..in over 2k hrs in Skyrim, this is the first time I've ever seen Lydia actually doing something out of her normal irritating routine.

I think the mudcrabs are a little bigger than the ones in OB (which I think are pretty big. The static body of the giant one Buffy found was maybe ten times as big as either - probably a little bigger than the giant mudcrab in OB.

Don´t wanna go off-topic or anything, but do you have a pixie?

Nah, sorry. Here's some SkyCrab info though (with a pic and some notes about the giant ones): http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Mudcrab

He's used to what happens in Vegas, staying in Vegas. So no pictures exist of the event.

Here’s something new for me: the tunnels under Fort Greenwall. I’ve poked around down there with some of my insatiably curious characters, but no one (as far as I remember) has found the passage that goes almost all the way to Riften until Zanimal. Excellent find for a vampire!

OHHHHH wow, I looked the place up on UESP, and you are right. There is an underground passage. I've always assumed it went to a spider's lair. There's a bunch of spider webs down there right? .. So my characters are usually like "ah, just some giant spiders. Why bother?" ..

So it's nice to know ... wow... that tunnel goes all the way out to Riften.

Do you mean the area under the well? It has been a long time since any of my characters have gone down there. Maybe whenever I get back to Tuonetar's Skyrim game she will check it out.

OK, false alarm. Last night it occurred to me that I’m using a mod that adds sewers to some cities. There is a tunnel from the Greenwall well to the outside in the vanilla game, but the “new” one that Zanimal found running almost all the way to Riften is from Skyrim Sewers 4. Sorry about that!

And here I got all excited!

Thanks for the update precluding wild goose chases, Grits. Sounds like several of us were about ready to head that way and check it out.

So is that a recommendation for the mod?

Yeah, I would have been mortified if someone had wasted their time checking it out!

ghastley, I’d say that modded tunnel was indistinguishable from the vanilla game.

Marius uses the sewers to exit cities with his ill-gotten goods more than to sneak in. He likes to stroll in through the gates with a smile wearing his Guildmaster gear since the guards can’t touch him unless someone catches him being naughty. He hasn’t been caught in a while. Of course after the crime he doesn’t like to be seen at all, so he sneaks out.

Sunlight diminishes the Stamina of vampires to 0. I had no idea. My vampire never goes outside when it's sunny, but now that she's been forced to do so for a few hours during To Kill an Empire, I am just realizing her Stamina bar is nil.

OK, I checked the uesp this time to make sure this wasn’t from a mod!

Marius found himself sneaking about in Whiterun’s Catacombs. On the way out he spoke with the priest in the Hall of the Dead and got a small quest from him! I’d never even seen that guy.


I didn’t realize that either, Renee. Neat.

Whoa, Whiterun has catacombs? .. what was the small quest?

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Aug 19 2014, 07:09 PM

Yep, it really does, I promise! Though the route Marius took out of the Dragonsreach dungeon to get there is part of the Skyrim Sewers mod. He’s escaped from Dragonsreach before and ended up somewhere with guards, not with surprise skeletons. Marius popped up through a loading screen from that hatch in the floor.

The quest was to go find the priest Andurs’s lost Amulet of Arkay. Andurs says he’d go look for it himself but he’s heard scary noises coming from the catacombs. Marius is not an overly helpful fellow, but he felt responsible for waking up the skeletons that were scaring Andurs when he slipped through there with the circlet he had just stolen from NPC Jerric (for real) in Dragonsreach.

I have done that little quest before. There are some small catacomb area under the Hall of the Dead. Most people enter through the front door though, and the priest hits them up to go downstairs to find his lost amulet. Marius just had to be different though...

Whiterun is such an. . . uninviting city for elves that I'm afraid Buffy has spent very little time there.

Something we say for the first time ever today: Buffy was sneaking in a Nordic ruin and encountered a draugr that somehow had a clue she was around. He issued a challenge to her by clanking his sword against his shield several times! Never seen that before and there was no doubt he was trying to taunt her into revealing herself. Buffy answered with a mystic arrow that he never saw.