Skyrim Mysteries

[busterkeatonrules]

I found a crazy old lady, if I remember correctly she had no clothes on, south of Winterhold. She kept rambling on about the Wabbajack, and asked me to hit her with it. But when I went to get the staff from my house, she was gone. Anyone's got a story about her?

I met that same woman (though she had clothes on, thank the Nine) near Whiterun, literally begging to be Wabbajacked. I actually had the staff with me at the time, as I hadn't had time to dump it at my house yet.

I launched the Wabbajack spell on her - the first time I did that to anyone - and she went POOF and turned into a rabbit. Said rabbit ran away and disappeared into the grass. A few seconds later, I saw a great puff of red smoke emerge from a spot in the middle of the field, and the woman was standing there. I approached her, and she still wanted to be Wabbajacked.

So I did it to her again. Same result.

Later, as I approached Whiterun, the whole town wanted my head on a platter for some reason. Guards and civilians alike came rushing out of the woodwork to carve me into ribbons, for reasons they were far too angry to adequately explain. I decided to talk to the Jarl about this, as he had previously done nothing but shower me with praise, naming me Thane and everything.

I ran in a blind panic through the churning mass of sharpened steel and burning anger that filled every street and plaza until I got to the Jarl's throne room. The Jarl spotted me immediately - and pulled his sword and ran screaming towards me. Fortunately, one of his personal bodyguards had calmed down JUST enough to suggest that I surrender at once. I obliged him, and got thrown in the dungeon.

I am absolutely confident that it all happened because of my Wabbajacking. It was the only untoward activity I had perpetrated in the region at the time - besides, like, four counts of petty larceny which I'm pretty sure nobody ever even found out about.

I met the woman again, way out in the wilderness, still asking to be Wabbajacked. Having left the staff at home by this time, I ignored her and pressed on.

She followed me quite far.

 

[Gonswell]

i had just gotten to winterhold for the first time and i went into the house to the right of the general store (the one where you can get the coral claw). anyways, as soon as i enter this tiny house, in the dead center is a gigantic (gigantic as in abnormally sized) cave bear battling a stormcloak. they fight for a few seconds until they both just dissapear. frickin' weird.

 

[ecoho]

One MYSTERY to me was the fact that a patch came out today. That was meant to make long term play less laggy. And im unable to tell whether its worked or not because suddenly every time I die or load a save just as I died the fucking loading screen freezes.
Its happened 4 times in a row.
For fucks sake Bethesda. I love your games but FUCK.

keep at it! this happened only twice to me and all i need to do was save when i got in that fixed it(oh and load an auto save not an actual save)

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I've seen him a couple times. I tried to run him down to stab him in the face but never could.

I'm not surprised you couldn't... He's headless! He has no face...!?

OT: Man! I really hate the fact I cannot get this game until April! I hope loads of random shit like this happens to me! It sounds awesome!!

 

[FlaktheFox]

There is a cave with an infinite number of bears that spawn inside it.

Seriously, the second I enter the cave, there is a MOUNTAIN of lag, and then I see a dead straight conga line of angry cave bears, endlessly running toward me.

Trust me, they never end. I turned on god mode and fought them for hours. They didn't stop coming.

There are horrors in this universe that men are just not capable of comprehending. That is one of them.

 

[spartan231490]

I think It might be a follower. I know some of them end up coming home with you.

 

[srm79]

Nope just a random dead dog in the middle of the road (not wolf)
and a cow randomly spawned on top of a snowy mountain.

Ò_ó

yeah, i occasionally have a bug where when i fast travel, a horse appears right next to me with no apparent owner. i never purchased one though...

At one point I "acquired" a horse. I didn't steal it, nor did I buy it. I simply found one that said "Ride Horse" when I approached (as opposed to the usual "Steal Horse" prompt), so I did, just to see what the horse riding was like. Now the bloody thing appears any time I fast travel to a location outside of a city.

 

[nokori3byo]

Here's a strange one: I was scouting around the lake west of Riverwood today when I spotted a troll battling a spriggan a short distance away. I waited for the troll to get the upper hand, then stealth shot him in the back, causing him to attack my companion (Farkas) and me. Farkas ran up to engage him and, after a firs shout and some 2H sword to the chin, the troll fell down dead in the lake. Immediately thereafter, I was told something like, "Last witness killed. 1000 gold bounty removed from Falkreath."

Huh? What happened there? All I could come up with was that Farkas had been caught in my fire shout, which the game interpretted as an assault with the troll as a witness to that assault and that when it died there was no more witness. But, that doesn't make any sense, right? I do remember reading on tvtropes that the game at one point had a bug in which chickens could report crimes to guards...

 

[JesterRaiin]

I installed vanilla Skyrim and guess what, i don't think it requires ANY essential mod with the exception of nude patch. WTF ???

 

[Kavonde]

Here's a strange one: I was scouting around the lake west of Riverwood today when I spotted a troll battling a spriggan a short distance away. I waited for the troll to get the upper hand, then stealth shot him in the back, causing him to attack my companion (Farkas) and me. Farkas ran up to engage him and, after a firs shout and some 2H sword to the chin, the troll fell down dead in the lake. Immediately thereafter, I was told something like, "Last witness killed. 1000 gold bounty removed from Falkreath."

Huh? What happened there? All I could come up with was that Farkas had been caught in my fire shout, which the game interpretted as an assault with the troll as a witness to that assault and that when it died there was no more witness. But, that doesn't make any sense, right? I do remember reading on tvtropes that the game at one point had a bug in which chickens could report crimes to guards...

Maybe it wasn't a troll. Maybe it was Riverwood's mysterious protector, who suffered a childhood tragedy and was driven by that trauma to fight the criminals and monsters who prey on the innocent. Maybe he inspired fear in his enemies by dressing like the creature he himself was most afraid of.

And you killed him. You monster.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

this is not my game but my friends. apparently he cannot sleep in his rifton home because there are "enemies" nearby, yet no one else is in the house. in addition the mannequins in his house that he places his spare armor on have mysteriously moved off their stands, but only a couple of inches away from them.

in my game the only weird thing i have run into was on my way through dragons bridge i came across the headless horseman. its likely not a glitch and i tried to follow him but a dragon attacked me.

I think your friend's character might be a paranoid schizophrenic

i think Bethesda forgot to totally remove a quest from the game, and accidentally left in the set-up.

There is a cave with an infinite number of bears that spawn inside it.

Seriously, the second I enter the cave, there is a MOUNTAIN of lag, and then I see a dead straight conga line of angry cave bears, endlessly running toward me.

Trust me, they never end. I turned on god mode and fought them for hours. They didn't stop coming.

boost all skills to max.
best weapon
best AoE fire spell
god mode
beast it.

 

[anian]

If you go on a quest to get the sword Nettlebane (in Whiterun) journey will take you to the mountains near Helgen. When there (after you get the sword) you'll probably also find a road that leads over the mountains and to the east (it eventually leads to Ivarstead). The road is pretty safe, if you got Nettle, you're up to it.
Now I only saw it at night and I had no horse so my stamina ran out, but the when the road is up in the mountains, you can see the headless horseman, he'll be riding in east-west direction.

Now some people say he leads you to a graveyard where there's a sweet loot chest, knock yourself out.

On a different note, Thieves guild cannot be killed of either, nobody likes them and they make the rest of the people miserable, I made it my duty to erradicate their kind out of Riften...the damn bunch of immortal thieves!

Also there's a small lake in the east, in the middle is an even smaller island with a single dead tree and a small barge nested on the shore. The darkness enevlopes the land and the scarlet moon hangs in the sky. I visit the island, what is this place I think to myself...Sven says something along "I don't like the looks of this"...such a negative nancy, why doesn't he have that attitude when I want to use my shouts but can't because he runs into any fight like a madman.
And just then I notice the shine of the heavy latches on the ground and then I see square wooden door hidden with leaves. Smugglers!
I enter the underground lair with stealth, but Sven stayed. That bloody coward.

Spoiler

A hiss and magic flames envelope me as I fight a set of strange humanlike creatures, as I cut them down they turn to glowing dust, what black arts are this?!
I search the cavern, piles of sturdy wooden boxes, almost like caskets. I find a wrinkled note smeared in blood...

Ah, Skyrim.

 

[Thyunda]

There are just so many Skyrim threads, I couldn't find the big questions-megathread one, so I'm just gonna have to ask here.

I went to my wife in Breezehome, Whiterun, and as I sat next to her in front of the fire in the front room, I saw a brown-cloaked figure with a steel mace at his hip just going out the front door. Assuming it was a thief, I pulled my sword and dashed outside to give him a good what-for, but when I went out...Nobody. I even reloaded the autosave, and surveilled the door, hoping to catch him. But..still nothing.

So has anybody else had this problem, or any other mysterious occurrences? And can somebody tell me what happened?

Easy. It was probably an NPC who had been talking to you outside the house, hadn't finished his sentence, and went inside to do so. Happens all the time. It's a bug, but eh. No biggie.

The only person I can think of, whom I've mentioned in an earlier post, is Adrianne Avenicci, and to be quite honest, I really wouldn't mind if she was dropping by to visit my wife. Just need to hire a Thieves Guild guy to paint a picture.

 

[Thyunda]

There are just so many Skyrim threads, I couldn't find the big questions-megathread one, so I'm just gonna have to ask here.

I went to my wife in Breezehome, Whiterun, and as I sat next to her in front of the fire in the front room, I saw a brown-cloaked figure with a steel mace at his hip just going out the front door. Assuming it was a thief, I pulled my sword and dashed outside to give him a good what-for, but when I went out...Nobody. I even reloaded the autosave, and surveilled the door, hoping to catch him. But..still nothing.

So has anybody else had this problem, or any other mysterious occurrences? And can somebody tell me what happened?

from my experience its whenever someone is talking to me right as i open the door that they appear in my house with me.
it's just a minor bug. nothing to be paranoid about, unless you want to think you're wife is cheating on you....maybe you should stop adventuring so much.

I was an adventurer like you once, but then I took an NPC in the wife.

 

[Rhaff]

Yeah I want to know who keeps bringing a naked corpse to my gay elf wedding.

All of my guests are afraid of it for some reason.

Its due to one of your followers dying. The next patch will fix it.

 

[freaper]

I found a crazy old lady, if I remember correctly she had no clothes on, south of Winterhold. She kept rambling on about the Wabbajack, and asked me to hit her with it. But when I went to get the staff from my house, she was gone. Anyone's got a story about her?

I met that same woman (though she had clothes on, thank the Nine) near Whiterun, literally begging to be Wabbajacked. I actually had the staff with me at the time, as I hadn't had time to dump it at my house yet.

I launched the Wabbajack spell on her - the first time I did that to anyone - and she went POOF and turned into a rabbit. Said rabbit ran away and disappeared into the grass. A few seconds later, I saw a great puff of red smoke emerge from a spot in the middle of the field, and the woman was standing there. I approached her, and she still wanted to be Wabbajacked.

So I did it to her again. Same result.

Later, as I approached Whiterun, the whole town wanted my head on a platter for some reason. Guards and civilians alike came rushing out of the woodwork to carve me into ribbons, for reasons they were far too angry to adequately explain. I decided to talk to the Jarl about this, as he had previously done nothing but shower me with praise, naming me Thane and everything.

I ran in a blind panic through the churning mass of sharpened steel and burning anger that filled every street and plaza until I got to the Jarl's throne room. The Jarl spotted me immediately - and pulled his sword and ran screaming towards me. Fortunately, one of his personal bodyguards had calmed down JUST enough to suggest that I surrender at once. I obliged him, and got thrown in the dungeon.

I am absolutely confident that it all happened because of my Wabbajacking. It was the only untoward activity I had perpetrated in the region at the time - besides, like, four counts of petty larceny which I'm pretty sure nobody ever even found out about.

I met the woman again, way out in the wilderness, still asking to be Wabbajacked. Having left the staff at home by this time, I ignored her and pressed on.

She followed me quite far.

Alright, thanks for the heads up

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

So has anybody else had this problem, or any other mysterious occurrences? And can somebody tell me what happened?

Yeah, at first I even suspected my husband the blacksmith to have some shamelessly homoerotic thing going on behind my back. Obviously, I was completely wrong. Not even my followers entertain guests. Sometimes, random folks just seem to wander into your home. I don't think they bring anything, and I don't believe they take anything. They just wander into your personal space and small-talk you into having a severe headache, so there will probably be no pregnancy, no kids anytime soon. One even commented on me being naked, inside my own home...

Was it the "What you do in your own home is your own business...in your own home" one? Because that would have led to me stabbing him repeatedly.

Nope, I would certainly remember that one and pretty much share that feeling of yours... no, it was usually the same crap they go on and on about outside, as if those confused, poor souls wouldn't realize they are basically way off limits.

It's been said this happens when someone "talks to you" right when you enter your house/activate the magic door. I can't really confirm that, but I know that people talking right behind me tend to be pretty much blocked out/silent, ever since I couldn't understand a word of what quest-giving actors/NPC were saying because everyone around me would start talking at the same time, and NEVER stop. Heh. Yeah, I forgot that one. That's a bug that really annoyed me during my first, what, ten hours or so.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

There are just so many Skyrim threads, I couldn't find the big questions-megathread one, so I'm just gonna have to ask here.

I went to my wife in Breezehome, Whiterun, and as I sat next to her in front of the fire in the front room, I saw a brown-cloaked figure with a steel mace at his hip just going out the front door. Assuming it was a thief, I pulled my sword and dashed outside to give him a good what-for, but when I went out...Nobody. I even reloaded the autosave, and surveilled the door, hoping to catch him. But..still nothing.

So has anybody else had this problem, or any other mysterious occurrences? And can somebody tell me what happened?

Easy. It was probably an NPC who had been talking to you outside the house, hadn't finished his sentence, and went inside to do so. Happens all the time. It's a bug, but eh. No biggie.

The only person I can think of, whom I've mentioned in an earlier post, is Adrianne Avenicci, and to be quite honest, I really wouldn't mind if she was dropping by to visit my wife. Just need to hire a Thieves Guild guy to paint a picture.

No, like, if you walk near someone (often a guard/random citizen), they'll start to say something in your direction. You don't need to be interacting with them for it to happen; they just need to be 'triggered' by your presence.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I want to know where Lydia and Shadowmere ran off to. Frost was eaten by an Ancient Dragon, but lydia and my void-spawned steed of sithis just VANISHED. I went to the markarth stables to fiddle with their books, told lydia to wait oustide, and when I came out, she'd run off with my horse. I think they fell in love and are out in the wilderness, creating Centaurs to fight in the next game