Stupid moments

bas237 · Post by **bas237** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:24 am

When I first installed Shivering Isles I went to that big statue on that island and heard Sheogorath's voice saying something like "I need a Champion".

I always thought that this meant that you had to be a Champion. So: Champion rank in the Arena.

So I did almost the entire arena to achieve that rank and then finally went through the gate.

A few days later I made a new character and I first did the entire arena before moving into the Shivering Isles.

A few months later I found out that you can always enter the Shivering Isles, even if you're a complete noob

which was precisely how I felt at that time.

What are your stupid moments?

Dark Spark · Post by **Dark Spark** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:09 am

I took great pains to avoid those scary-looking knights on horseback the first night I broke out of the Imperial Prison. Thought they were agents of the enemy hunting me down like some ripoff of a Ringwraith.

Imagine my reaction when, seeking shelter at the lamplight of Roxey Inn, I come face-to-face with one of them and get a welcome greeting instead of a sword to the neck.

nyk45 · Post by **nyk45** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:37 pm

Apart from thinking you had access to the stores 'warehouses', I don't remember any stupid moment in particular.

Although thinking I could steal from any shop and then running away is stupid enough.

It happened to me that after I satrted that corrupted imperial watch quest, a watch comes and asks me to pay 'the fine'. (I stole in front of a storekeeper) I thought it was that watch and I said I would not pay the fine.

Took me a while to figure out that I had been caught stealing lol.

WolfGang IceEye · Post by **WolfGang IceEye** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:00 pm

my first character was an orc mage with the thief birthsighn man what was i thinking?

x0 RG 0x · Post by **x0 RG 0x** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:32 pm

when I started (as a redguard+knight class) I thought I was very good but then I started a quest in anvil (the one when you have to retrieve a crystal ball in a ship) I found out I wasn't, so it all ended with me running away from the ship, ghosts chasing me and guards chasing the ghosts. I was much more careful after that

Valus · Post by **Valus** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:23 pm

When I first got Oblivion, I decided to walk to Skingrad ( I didn't even know about fast traveling) I was almost killed by imps.

Coulsonji · Post by **Coulsonji** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:47 pm

When I was doing the Benirus Manor mission in Anvil, I was SO scared

. I was so scared that I was sneaking around the house and I knocked something over and on screen I actually jumped back and ran out of the house.

I'm so cool.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:56 pm

Coulsonji wrote:When I was doing the Benirus Manor mission in Anvil, I was SO scared . I was so scared that I was sneaking around the house and I knocked something over and on screen I actually jumped back and ran out of the house.

I'm so cool.

Oh my god I did the exact same thing and I also got nightmares of the darkbrotherhood questline

Stealth_Khajiit · Post by **Stealth_Khajiit** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:37 pm

I feel stupid right now because I can't figure out a good class that will fit me.

See my topic class advice to help me!

lostsin · Post by **lostsin** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:50 pm

When i first started i went on an adventure to find fin gleam.... in the lake by bravil....

I also kept going upstairs when a shop keeper wasn't looking and stealing shoes i thought looked cool

and i spent 20 minutes killing a guard after i took his horse and ran about 5 minutes ahead of him, only to turn back and try to apoligize.

Sublymonal · Post by **Sublymonal** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:43 am

In the main quest, you know how the Blades guy says you can take a certain horse from Weynon Priory? Well, I thought that meant ANY horse. So here I go headed off to an oblivion gate [the first one] and I get off the horse to talk to somebody. When I got back on, however, they began attacking me! Then I realized that I had technically STOLEN the horse.

BFG · Post by **BFG** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:08 am

One of my less...intelligent moments was on the plains of Oblivion. I charged straight into a pack of 3 Xivilai, and managed to kill them all but only after losing most of my life. Relieved, I stood still for a moment, relishing the fight...

...when I realized, a bit too slowly, I was standing next to a Harrada...

...and got to watch my character die because of a friggin' PLANT.

Relax and Play · Post by **Relax and Play** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:14 am

I misread the 'You can move faster if you sheathe your weapons' menu as;

'You can move faster if you sheathe your s***'

I was thinking ?!?! O_o until I saw that it said weapons.

bas237 · Post by **bas237** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:29 am

Lol

I've had a lot of stupid moments

- About a year ago (total playing time: 400hours, characters: 15+, with 11 of them I have beaten the Main Quest) I was reading some articles on UESP.net and then I saw that you GET A STATUE DURING THE MAIN QUEST! I thought: WTF? I had completed the Main Quest 11 times and I had never realised that you receive a statue at some point. I always walked straight past it

- When I was doing the DB questline and Lachance was killed, I didn't realised it was him

I realised it some days later and I was so shocked :p

- Just like Coulsonji I was scared to death when those ghosts came in Anvil Manor

- When I closed my first Oblivion gate I managed to free that Imperial Guard from his cage and I dropped him all the way down on those spikes. Don't know how I did it

a bug perhaps.
So when I closed that gate with another character I spent almost an hour trying to do it again. Without success of course. And still I don't know how I succeeded in it the first time

- When I did the tutorial for the first time I fought for over 30 minutes in that last area where Uriel Septim dies against Mythic Dawn agents, I killed over 100 of them, and I didn't seem to hear one of those Blades saying that I had to protect the emperor

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:50 pm

I used to think that you could take peoples' undergarments off in their inventories.

bas237 · Post by **bas237** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:04 pm

Well there are mods for that

DerangedPickle · Post by **DerangedPickle** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:59 pm

legohalflife2man wrote:I used to think that you could take peoples' undergarments off in their inventories.

The question is...would you want to

bradleemilk · Post by **bradleemilk** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:26 am

One time I died while jumping into a wall in the Temple district in the Imperial city, so for a good half an hour I was jumping into the wall to figure out what happenend, until I realised I died because I was a vampire out in the daytime...

The Edgy Redguard · Post by **The Edgy Redguard** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:45 am

Running around for hours on end doing pilgramage for the first time, south from leyawiin, when really it was a ways north from leyawiin.

, i also died doing mace of zenithar, i jumped without boots of crusader and smacked into the pillar, i did not survive.

John117 · Post by **John117** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:09 am

On my very first game I didn't know how to go into 3rd person so I played in first person. At the very end of the tutorial I found out hoe to change the view. When I clicked that button I saw something. I had gone through the entire tutorial without any pants on.

Yeepo · Post by **Yeepo** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:09 pm

One time I was following a sneaking NPC just to see what he was up to. And the hunt led me in between some houses, then I lost the sight of him and decided to do something else. When I come out on the street there was another NPC just around the corner, which I wasn't prepared for. So my reaction was to jump, the silly thing was that I accidentally hit the E-button on the same time. Which made my character jump a few meters up in the air.

She must have looked like a real chicken...

WolfGang IceEye · Post by **WolfGang IceEye** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:57 pm

once i was fighting the ufrakydte (sp, i hope

) matron and we got to the camp at dive rock i pushed her off the cliff and she died, or so i thought i went down to look for the body and get the bow. as soon as i went on the mountain i found my self losing health i didnt know what its was until i died and turned my camera to see what it was the damn matron

.

michae1 · Post by **michae1** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:06 pm

I once spent 30 minutes looking for the bravil mages guild I never noticed the sign on the outside

XmanXavier11 · Post by **XmanXavier11** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:51 pm

Or you can just check your map.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:29 pm

michae1 wrote:I once spent 30 minutes looking for the bravil mages guild I never noticed the sign on the outside

I understand that. I've done that before.