Post funny, stupid or weird glitches that's happened to you

[Lord Timster]

^ Hey.
Yeah those 3 pillars are in the 'map area' the game calls Barleydark Farm. Apparently, though, there's also a Barleydark Farm faction with an unused NPC Farmer (Mithorpa Nasyal) hidden in the game data so I'm assuming there was supposed to be an actual farm thereabouts as well.

I don't normally use shouts so this is the first weird Letter I've received, but the more I look into it the more threadbare this mini-quest seems. I used to think an NPC had to 'hear' the shout to trigger the Letter event but it looks as though the game just checks if you're in a 'named' map area and off it goes... If that's the case then you guys who use shouts all the time have probably seen loads of bizarre Letters.

My next challenge is to cause "a bit of stir in Dragon Lair 3".

That's odd. I've seen such letters "overwrite" one another when placed in a container, but never while in my char's pocket.

I've had 'inventory shenanigans' off Skyrim before so I didn't worry too much about it.

One of my characters did a bit of Dragonbone War Axe dual-wielding and the game blatantly changed the unique name of one axe to match the other and merged them together. Kind of annoying but I suppose I should count myself lucky I didn't follow my original plan and call them "Naaslaarum's Fang" and "Voslaarum's Bite" or whatever otherwise I would've had a right fit at the game.

But now you mention containers I recall dumping a load of notes and letters into a dungeon chest intending to let them get 're-spawned out of existence' but then changed my mind and retrieved them. So it is possible that brief spell in a container might have glitched them.

[Imbalance]

My daughter has been playing - I'm so proud. Anyway, last week she completed Herma-Mora's quest and scored the Infinium and chatted with the Wretched Abyss. On her way out of the ice cave, she asked me if there would be any fine for stealing ingredients and stuff. I'm like, "Serana don't care, and that dude got Daedric'd into an ash pile. Help yourself."

So, she did.

This week she took care of the business in the Forgotten Vale and put a couple of Sunhallowed Arrows up Lord Harkon's nose, finishing off that DLC's main line of quests. She then decided to get cured of her vampirism. Outside of Morthal, in the middle of her purification ritual, a trio of hired thugs show up looking for revenge. She's trying to fight as the screen is going black, then all there was were the sounds of chaos breaking loose.
"Dad! Help!"
I walk in and start laughing as she's uselessly trying to transform into a VL while fending off thugs and mudcrabs. Serana is filling the air with electricity, and the court wizard is killing her horse. I helped her calm down and get control of the situation (basically one good shout and a few sword swings along with a calm spell on the horse) and had her search the bodies.
"So, who'd you offend enough to want you dead?"

Contract:
"Here is the agreed upon amount. I trust you to faithfully carry out my request to teach a lesson to the thief Galvanna. You need not kill her, but I have no qualms about it if you deem it necessary.
--Septimus Signus "

[dremorababe]

Hahahah! That's a masterpiece @Imbalance
Also, I always find it hilarious when a child sends hired thugs to get you.

[storminmay]

Contract:
"Here is the agreed upon amount. I trust you to faithfully carry out my request to teach a lesson to the thief Galvanna. You need not kill her, but I have no qualms about it if you deem it necessary.
--Septimus Signus "

I've gotten that as well! This one still cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0WVg4yCHno Maramal presiding over your wedding, then you being attacked by thugs...who were sent...by Maramal... O_o

[Dark Spark]

I got caught on the prickly end of some friendly fire today. Had Jenassa along as a follower when I was attacked by a skeever. I swung with a sword while Jenassa took a shot with her bow, the skeever between us. Naturally, my blade hit the skeever first and swatted the critter aside-- whereupon Jenassa's arrow hit me. Took a sizable chunk of health away with that one shot.

In my past experience an arrow from a friendly wouldn't register as a hit if it landed on your character. This time, it did.

[Nord85]

I got a double glitch today. First, when I entered the Ivarstead Inn, Lydia killed a man there apparently without any provocation. She just attacked him on sight and he was dead in two strikes. When that happened again after a reload, I just let it be since the killed NPC was nobody important.

A bit after that I went to Whiterun and entered Dragonsreach. You can imagine I was bit surprised when everybody inside, including the Jarl and Proventus, went crazy at the first glimpse of me and attacked en masse! My character was dead in an eye-blink. The same thing happened after two reloads.

So, off to Google to get some help. Turned out someone else had had almost the same thing happening to him: Lydia striking someone she shouldn't have (in his case accidentally) and afterwards everyone in Dragonsreach getting hostile.

The cure was apparently to commit a small crime, then pay the fine. Well, I punched Olfina Gray-Mane to the kisser in the middle of the marketplace, since she happened to be the nearest NPC (plus I don't like her), then paid the 40 gold. That actually worked and the Jarl's court didn't want to kill me anymore. Apparently this was related to Lydia having bounty from the killing or getting kicked out of the Wihiterun faction due to the said killing.

EDIT: Now that I think of it, it's too bad I didn't try to fight and see how many of the court I could kill (or are they essential?) before succumbing. That would have been an epic fight, to be sure.

[ciberzombie]

with my char only essential would be left kneeling and everybody else dead

[PrinceRetro]

I killed riften residents in solitude during a dark brotherhood mission and it said bounty in rift even though I'm in Solitude committing a crime.

Taaerie and her sister say you're not suppose to be in here even though their damn store is opened and no matter what time during the day i go inside there they still say that.

[awkwarddragon]

Often, Lydia will become stuck in the running animation. It got annoying to the point that to fix her I had to Shout at her to reset her character.

I switched her to Mjoll.

[Nord85]

Well, I don't rightly know if this was a glitch or what, but strange nonetheless. I was harvesting some mudcrab souls near Halted Stream Camp. It was broad daylight and sunny. When I was done killing two crabs, I realized an NPC was standing on the edge of the pond, watching me with her arms crossed. When I got closer, I realized it was a female vampire, wearing the armor and all! She wasn't hostile, though, so I tried speaking to her. There was only the "This person is busy"-notification in the screen corner. She started to run towards Whiterun stables and I followed just to see where she would go. After circling Whiterun from the south side and a few detours of some dozens of meters, the vampire ascended the path leading to the Shimmermist Cave. She entered, and I followed. After I got inside, there she was again, but now hostile. She attacked me and I killed her.

The whole thing was rather spooky, like the vampire was trying to lead me to some dark cave to ambush me. I'm not aware of such a random encounter, though. So I assume it's a bug. Maybe the vampires vs bandits encounter glitched somehow near me or something. Anyone had something similar happening in their game?

[Lord Timster]

^ Nice. Skyrim is cool even when it glitches out.

Pretty sure I have seen a few lone "This person is busy" non-hostile vampires running around Skyrim. Can't remember whether it was day or night though. I think at the time I just assumed it was the 'Vigilants of Stendarr chase a vampire' encounter gone a bit wrong but who knows...

[Nord85]

^ Nice. Skyrim is cool even when it glitches out.

Pretty sure I have seen a few lone "This person is busy" non-hostile vampires running around Skyrim. Can't remember whether it was day or night though. I think at the time I just assumed it was the 'Vigilants of Stendarr chase a vampire' encounter gone a bit wrong but who knows...

Well, I did some digging, and turns out what I saw wasn't a glitch after all, but almost certainly a vanilla random encounter named "Desperate Vampire Seeking Shelter From the Sun". It just started in so surprising a way that I assumed it was a bug. But I thought even when it happened that the vampire was probably seeking an interior away from the sun. After all, her detours were always towards some door leading to an interior, like the front yard of the meadery. Looks like the vampire's AI only accepted a cave or some other hostile dungeon, however, thus she only entered the Shimmermist Cave.

Yeah, the game definitely is cool. So many play-hours I don't even care to tell, and still I stumble on new things now and then.

[Pharad]

Not sure if this counts as a glitch, but if you manage to jump on top of a firefly you can actually ride its back for a while before you fall off

[AKB]

Every single NPC started floating slightly or were stuck mid-walk for a while. I managed to fix it, but it broke half of Windhelm before I reloaded.

[Imbalance]

I encountered a Dunmer thief near Silverdrift Lair, and managed to persuade her that I was destitute. Nevermind that I've only ever made that check, like, one other time, but what's weird here is how she threatened that I "better get out of here," then proceeded to flee. I dunno why, but I chased her. She ran south, killed a tiger, and ended up at Loreius Farm. She's been tending the vegetables ever since.

[CrazyWhitefoot]

I’m a vampire with four 13% fortify Alteration pieces of attire and I’m using detect life in Whiterun with 0 magicka during daylight hours.

I was expecting the spell to stop being cast when my magicka hit 0 but it’s running endlessly. Great for Alteration training!
Strangely when the sun goes down and the magicka regeneration starts, the spell stops!

I’ve reloaded the save and it’s not a one off.

[Ragnorrk]

I conduct interviews at my workplace, and when I ask technical questions, I occasionally get amusing responses. I once inquired, "What is active directory?" I had to cut my camera because I was laughing so hard that I almost burst out laughing.

[KevinM]

I remember a long time ago, when I entered Sven and Hilde's house, I immediately fell through a blue, infinite void that seemed to emerge from the floor. I then continued to fall through their ceiling. It was definitely a 'WTF' moment.

[Cymredd]

I'm not sure whether this is a glitch, but - I had started the Dawnguard quest line, and the College of Winterhold story. With Serana in tow, I entered Fellglow Keep. As I was battling my way through innumerable mages of all sorts, one of them summoned a familiar - typical spectral wolf. I dispatched it very quickly, and then - as it was falling, but before it could dematerialize - Serana *raised* it!

[bsammon]

I'm leaning towards "not a glitch", but possibly somewhat interesting.
I've recently been doing Dawnguard as well, and I've noticed that Serana frequently resurrects enemy combatants after I've killed them. I was taken a bit by surprise the first time I noticed "Serana's draugr" fighting next to me. Especially funny was when it's "Serana's skeleton". On one or two occasions, I didn't notice the "Serana's" tag in the heat of battle, and I was like "oh, another draugr/skeleton/whatever to fight" and I attacked the monster that she had reanimated to fight on our side. I'm not sure, but I think on at least one of those occasions, that resulted in the reanimated monster turning on me as a result.

As regards your experience, there's some details that are unclear about your story. When you say "as it was falling" -- do you mean that it had just been knocked off a ledge or something? Is there some other detail about the incident you're describing that may be different from the incidents I've experienced?

[Cymredd]

I'm leaning towards "not a glitch", but possibly somewhat interesting.
I've recently been doing Dawnguard as well, and I've noticed that Serana frequently resurrects enemy combatants after I've killed them. I was taken a bit by surprise the first time I noticed "Serana's draugr" fighting next to me. Especially funny was when it's "Serana's skeleton". On one or two occasions, I didn't notice the "Serana's" tag in the heat of battle, and I was like "oh, another draugr/skeleton/whatever to fight" and I attacked the monster that she had reanimated to fight on our side. I'm not sure, but I think on at least one of those occasions, that resulted in the reanimated monster turning on me as a result.

As regards your experience, there's some details that are unclear about your story. When you say "as it was falling" -- do you mean that it had just been knocked off a ledge or something? Is there some other detail about the incident you're describing that may be different from the incidents I've experienced?

No ledges involved - but upon being defeated, a summoned familiar usually falls to the ground and "dies" just before vanishing in a crackle of energy - Serana caught it mid-fall, before it could vanish, and it fought for her until it was killed a second time.

[bsammon]

Ah, okay. I've noticed that certain enemies that are supposed to turn into a pile of ash/ice when they die, there's a brief interval in between the transformation from "living <monster>" to "dead <monster>" and the transformation from "dead <monster>" to "pile of ash/ice/whatever". In that brief interval I can see a prompt to push the activate button to "search <monster>", which is shortly replaced by a prompt for "search ash/ice pile".

I'm thinking maybe the familiar does a similar transition from "living enemy familiar" to "dead enemy familiar" to "vanished", and the Serana AI sees "dead enemy familiar" as "dead enemy that I can reanimate", and if the timing works out, she does.