In Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion what do you think your character was in prison for at the beginning?

[Desert Tiger]

I was PHILLIAN FALLUS, THE MOST WELL-GIRTHED THIEF IN ALL CIRRODIL.

What was I put in prison for? Breaking out! Numerous times! (This became a running joke where I pretty much had a permanent bounty and would just break out of prison every time I got caught).

So much so that not even the manly visage of Philian can recall his original crime (although it may have been sexual harassment).

 

[Burst6]

I was a master thief who wandered around in the dead of night. I was very poor because i never stole too much, i only wanted the thrill. The people feared and respected my image.A simple man with metal cuffs , burlap clothing, and sandals hidden in the shadows that could steal from people that could buy anything they could ever want.

Long story short i decided to sneak into the imperial prison and saw a piece of bread in the cell. When i went in a guard walked by me, saw me, and there i was.

 

[Tinbust]

I look at a guard kinda funny

 

[Therumancer]

I got the game (GOTYE) for Christmas and I'm barely into the storyline so sorry if it tells you later, but as far as I know the game never tells you why you were in jail at the beginning. There is no right or wrong answer, just based on you/your characters personality or whatever why do you think you were in prison?

Honestly? I kind of just figured my character wound up there with Amnesia...

... or he was a travelling salesman for "Shackles Are Us" who was coming to try and sell new shackles to the dungeonkeepers, but put them on to demonstrate, dropped the key, and then the warden stepped outside due to a commotion and passing guards also on the way stopped saying "hey what is this unsecured prisoner doing here" and threw him in the dungeon. Days later nobody would listen about how it was all a mistake...

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The ridiculous thing is that except for Daggerfall which starts with a shipwreck (well sort of) leaving you in a dungeon, all of the Elder Scrolls RPGs start with you as a prisoner. I think "Arena" mentioned you were imprisoned for plotting against the emperor of the time who was kind of an idiot, in Morrowwind you were a prisoner accused of another undefined crime being release, and Oblivion you pretty much start out in a similar situation to Arena.

I'm kind of hoping that for Skyrim they sort of mix things up a bit. Maybe letting you start a social class and make some backround desicians and have that influance your starting location. Let you start out with a house to store your stuff in, in your home town, and be an adventurer who eventually works into the plotline somehow.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

i was unjustly placed their by the imperial legion, without evidence of any crime, thats why i kill any legion i see

 

[Tharwen]

I think it was probably for having a stupid face, thanks to the 'random' button.

I picked up a pumkin.

Stop right there, criminal scum! Picking up fruits off the floor for hygenical reasons is forbidden in all of Cyrodil!

(We are referencing the same thing, aren't we?)

 

[DanyoSouth]

Skooma addict

 

[The Night Shade]

I destroyed an entire civilization that's why you can't choose it

 

[The Funslinger]

I imagine I was part of a dark elf battalion sent to an outlying village. We were told our objective was to take the humans of the village as slaves for the Dunmer deep in Morrowind. I rebelled and freed some of the captured slaves before my men were ordered to turn on me. I brought a couple of them down before I was disarmed by the captain of our battalion. At this point, I was drained of my strength by our accompanying battle mage (accounting for god awful stats at the game's beginning) and left to die. A scouting force was sent to the now emptied village and I was taken, and left to rot in that cell for a number of years.

 

[JackRyan64]

My Kajihit (spelling? Too lazy to go check) got caught rubbing his penis on some public architecture, then when the guards came to arrest him he accidentally hacked up a hairball in one's face.

 

[automatron]

My wife burned my dinner, so I took her outside and publicly executed her.

I was jailed because it is a crime to destroy kitchen appliances (I lived in a very sexist area of Imperial City)

 

[OceanRunner]

I imagine s/he was pennyless and tried stealing provisions from the marketplace.

 

[Tharwen]

I think it was probably for having a stupid face, thanks to the 'random' button.

I picked up a pumkin.

Stop right there, criminal scum! Picking up fruits off the floor for hygenical reasons is forbidden in all of Cyrodil!

(We are referencing the same thing, aren't we?)

Yes

Wonderful! Eh... what was the name of it? I can't remember what the video was called...

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Shagging the emperor's wife and daughter at the same time while playing a rock guitar solo on the desecrated corpse of God.

wow, it took 96 posts for someone to get that quote in.

When I saw the thread title I expected that to be the first response.

 

[Yokai]

Getting in a bar fight and beating the blue out of the Dunmer in the other cell. That explains why he hates you so much.

 

[Yokai]

Whoops, double post.

 

[felixdan1]

i built a time machine and stole a nuke from america. i then threw my new onto washington through my time machine ......(fallout if u dont get it)

 

[icyneesan]

I questioned why everyone seems to share the same 3 or 4 voices...

 

[LaughingAtlas]

There was a side quest about corruption among the guards. Canonically, fate (or whatever the fuck's running that universe) may have made the protagonist a victim for the whole "save the realm" bit. Someone has to do it, no?

After the first, I chose a different one every time I made a new person, usually class-related, that vaguely explained something wierd about the game.

Mage: "Casting a spell so powerful it broke magic as we knew it, levitation was now impossible and most of Morrowind's wierder monsters no longer existed." (I miss the floating, bloated, squid things)

Rogue: "Stealing all valuable artifacts from the world that weren't in the hands of quest givers and sealing them away so as to make sure that no one could be much more powerful than anyone else."

Warrior: "Having the sheer gull to not have his weapon go harmlessly through people without having his skill being around 70. The nerve, THE NERVE!" (If you played morrowind, you know what I mean)

EDIT: forgot to actually say my first guy's crime; I was one of Dagoth Ur's sleepers very far from where I should have been and people got sick of me stacking chairs all the time.

 

[Ghost1800]

Grand Petty Theft