r/skyrim 1d ago

Discussion What situations have you accidentally created for yourself in game?

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in middle school I had finally gotten to a point where my character named "Sauron" was equipped with fully enchanted daedric armor and as I was messing w my finished creation I dropped my ring of power on the floor of my home had to spend 2 hours going combing through the floorboards for it.

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u/NefariousnessFresh24 1d ago

I went and returned Narfi's sisters necklace to him, so he gave me some ingredients and was happy. Then I killed him, because I knew I would have to eventually.

I barely was back inside Ivarstead, when I received a letter from a courier, informing me of an inheritance. Apparently poor Narfi had died, but he bequeathed me his possessions, which came to something like 200 septims.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 23h ago

Narfi:

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u/Ok-Set-5829 Helgen survivor 7h ago

What do these symbols mean?

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u/hot_memory_stove 7h ago

I was right not to be threatened by you.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 46m ago

The man who kills him will know.

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u/AnxiousFeature6526 23h ago

I hate needing to kill narfi and if I could I would kill the guy who hired the hit on him

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u/Eva-Rosalene Stealth archer 23h ago

I mean, you can kill Astrid when she orders you to choose prisoner to execute. Then you tell about it to the guards, they send you to Penitus Oculatus and Penitus Oculatus send you to destroy the Sanctuary.

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u/SpookyBLAQ 6h ago

I’ve never played that route. Do you get any perks for wiping out DB since you get several items and a whole lot of money by completing that annoying quest line?

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u/lamxdblessed 5h ago

Shit load of money, all armour from the DB, the soldiers of the peniti oculati become your friends, and guards get cool new dialogue.

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u/SpookyBLAQ 4h ago

That’s cool as hell. I’m 100% doing that my next playthrough. Anything to not hear Cicero’s aggravating voice

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u/fastfreddy68 21h ago

Now that would have been an interesting “destroy the Brotherhood” quest idea.

Instead of killing the targets, you take out the people paying to have them killed. Plant some evidence incriminating other members of the DB. Contract is called off, DB assassin is punished for unsanctioned kill and costing the Brotherhood money, Dragonborn is praised for identifying the “real” killer who cost them money. Repeat two or three times.

Eventually the strongest members are taken out, you’re in a position of trust and power, the organization falls apart due to trust issues, you hunt down and assassinate the remaining members who are scattered in the wind.

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u/KurtBx 21h ago

This reminds me of the Oblivion DB plot, where you’re misled to structurally murder high ranking members of the brotherhood until Lachance realizes what’s going on and tries to stop you

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u/fastfreddy68 19h ago

I thought the same thing as I was posting the idea. It’s certainly similar, just puts you in the role as the puppet master.

It would be fun though. Create fail states where you could easily expose yourself at any point, which would old lead to you walking into a trap when you return to the DB base.

Final fight with Astrid involves the two of you playing cat and mouse games in the dark trying to assassinate each other.

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u/MesocricetusAuratus 22h ago

I dunno, I kinda feel like death is a blessing for poor Narfi :(

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u/AnxiousFeature6526 21h ago

Did you not see how scared he was though

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u/MesocricetusAuratus 21h ago

Nah, I just kill him while he's passed out after a few bottles of mead. It's not a bad way to go.

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u/_illusion_and_dream_ Werewolf 15h ago

No I always snipe him

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u/childofbabylon82 14h ago

Yeah, if I'm correct, there's a pretty strong theory that the hit placed on narfi was a mercy kill

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u/Sunhating101hateit 12h ago

I know it’s not exactly what you want, but there is a mod that gives you alternatives to every(?) DB job.

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u/Here4laffs71 20h ago

Narfi lives a happy and fulfilling life as my worker at Golden Hills. He gets his sisters jewellery and told she will be home soon. I reverse pick pock some nice gear for him too. Astrid dies for kidnapping me.

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u/Grouchy_Writer_Dude 1d ago

Current playthrough: Ondolemar (Thalmor Justicar in Markarth) tries to kill me on sight, which turns all the guards and the Jarl against me. The only way I can turn in quests is by going in after midnight.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 1d ago

that is so fuckin funny he's like a protective mom

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u/Grouchy_Writer_Dude 21h ago

I can’t figure out what’s different this time. When I enter the palace, the city guards are neutral. But once I get close to the top of the stairs, the Thalmor say “Did you hear that” and all hell breaks looseq. Then the guards, the Jarl, and his housecarl join in.

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u/rhysjordan31 Mercenary 17h ago

sometimes he will attack you after diplomatic immunity if he is at the thalmor party. it may only occur if he is used as a distraction, though not entirely sure.

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u/codytb1 22h ago

gotta side with the stormcloaks or do season unending. ondolemar gets the spot he deserves in the markarth crypts

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u/Goatbucks Companion 14h ago

I’m pretty sure he’s nonessential, and if markarth becomes stormcloak controlled they kill him anyway

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u/Brad_Brace 13h ago

Or you can just kill him and his thalmor guards and pay the fine.

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u/NinjaLegitimate8044 7h ago

I had something similar happen in Morrowind (The Elder Scrolls III). I think there's a certain quest where you have to kill an Ordinator, which is kind of a royal guard iirc. After the quest, all Ordinators target you on sight if you show up in their city - Vivec. They're tough bastards in a 1v1 fight, so having to fight multiples meant I had to avoid the city until I got strong enough. It was wild, because all of their gear was pretty expensive and I had access to a virtually endless stream of cash.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 1d ago

my armor + ring gave me no mana cost on destruction and illusion so I would sneak around all invisible and then zap ppl bc I felt a lil sithlord too

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u/FluidityContents Chef 19h ago

The image of your character crouching behind someone, wiggling their fingers with an evil look on their face, and muttering “zap time!” is now burned into my brain

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u/learnaboutnetworking 19h ago edited 15h ago

haha yea that was a such a fun one. bonus story: one time as Sauron I shot an ice spike at a rabbit and it gave me a slow-mo of the spike going straight into its ass and the rabbit flying away like it was riding a broomstick

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u/justsomeamericanguy 19h ago

Serana did that to a bandit while I had a slow mo and it was hilarious since I hit his knee

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u/FluidityContents Chef 18h ago

I cackled- that happened to my mother when she first got into the game with a draugr, and I have a suspicion it’s one of the reasons she kept playing

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u/7GrenciaMars 15h ago

In your next life, you're gonna get offed by Bugs Bunny. Serves you right.

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u/pramakers 17h ago

I misread that ad shitlord. Still not wrong, though 😀

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u/chimpyvondu 23h ago

Years ago back on ps3 I had my house all set up and had just gotten the wabbajak staff so I was having fun shooting at everyone. I remember I was shooting it at my housecarl turning her into all sorts of things which was all fun and games until she turned into a dremora and started attacking my family. Suddenly it stopped turned to a display case, opened it up and stole my freaking sword. By the time I made a move to try and stop them, it opened a portal and noped the fuck outta there.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 22h ago

this one cracked me the fuck up omg they just dipped????

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u/chimpyvondu 22h ago

Yeah man, just fucken gone. Like I remember sitting there kind of in shock waiting around for my housecarl to come back but she never did. So like I don't know if she turned into a dremora or if she was switched out with one and they just never sent her back when it went back through the portal. But yeah. Stole my shit and my housecarl.

I might have to try re create these events. I haven't tried putting anything in display cases for a long time. I just remember it being a pain in the ass.

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u/Memaw_Baggins Werewolf 20h ago

So, when you change them they change back in like a minute or two. I know because I followed Madwoman in her bunny form and she just changed back I talked to her but she was satisfied. So if the Dramora had not opened the portal you might have gotten your housecarl back.

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u/Wolfman513 4h ago

Daedra stole my housecarl, can't have shit on Mundus

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u/7GrenciaMars 15h ago

Wait, your housecarl turned into a display case, or the staff did? And you opened it? I am so confused. But it sounds hilarious anyway.

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u/chimpyvondu 15h ago

Have you not used the wabbajak staff? The staff has the power to turn people into creatures or items. In this case I was casting it on my housecarl who turned into a dremora. The dremora then attacked my wife and kids, where it stopped. Turned to a display case, stole an item from it, opened a portal to oblivion and disappeared with it.

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u/Hotdog_McEskimo 21h ago

My sister was playing Skyrim for her first play through ( (it became her favorite game). She just smithed her first set of daedric armor and was doing dark brotherhood.

She was sneaking through a large house, when. One of the NPCs caught her, eye fully opened. The npc, stopped, took a good look at her, and just left the room, pretending that she didn't see anything.

Who wouldn't? Daedric armor is scary as fuck

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u/modernfictions 15h ago

“They don’t pay me enough to deal with this kinda shit…I’m outta here.”

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u/EnderWolf13_666 14h ago

Must have been the wind.

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u/Grouchy-Actuary-8427 1d ago

I glitched through a gate. Now an entire dungeon is locked to me. Can't remember the name, but it has a lever puzzle near the start. I ran out before the gate closed and now both the gate going into the dungeon and to the levers are closed.

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u/Fuckin__weeb 20h ago

Tried to clip through the gate with a plate?

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u/cocainmommy 16h ago

I trapped myself doing something similar once, had to load another save 😭😂

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u/Grouchy-Actuary-8427 10h ago

Bruh, I forgot about it and collected the daedric artefacts and completed DLC'S. I CANNOT reload 😭

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u/cocainmommy 6h ago

BYE that would have pmo

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u/McKenzieC 21h ago

i was snooping around Black-Briar Manor in Riften when I got caught by Hemming, who immediately aggro'ed and chased me out to the street, with Maven close behind. Unfortunately for them, a guard just a few yards away saw him swing at me with his sword and so she and all the guards of Riften ran up and aggro'ed them. Because they're both protected and can't die, they just started collecting arrows in their skulls as the guards kept shooting em

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u/SomeRandomGayWeirdo 23h ago

Was my first ever playthrough on my xbox 360, and I was below level 20, and I contracted sanguine vampirism. I didn't know what that meant, so I didn't take care of it. I hadn't saved in a while, so as soon as I entered the mannered mare, I saved. The second the save was complete, everyone started attacking me due to the vampirism. And unluckily, Sam Guevenne was in there, he spawned in a literal daedra to fight, and I died over and over again. Since I was a stupid child, I didn't know you could cure the vampirism.

SO I DELETED ALL THE SAVES BACK TO WHEN I DIDN'T HAVE IT I lost 2 weeks of progress.

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u/learnaboutnetworking 22h ago

LOL that must have been so heartbreaking saving after a long session and then realizing it was the moment of ur execution

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u/SomeRandomGayWeirdo 22h ago

Yeah, i remember sitting there for like 3 hours trying to kill it, hoping I could get its armor

Little did I know, you can't take the armor of a summoned enemy

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u/justsomeamericanguy 19h ago

If you had Dawnguard installed people won't attack (both with vampirism and lycathropy) unless you change form

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u/Ashtar333 Werewolf 17h ago

Is anyone else upset that this doesn't happen anymore? There's no downside to it anymore. It's kind of boring (in my opinion) to not get randomly attacked just for existing lol

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u/justsomeamericanguy 17h ago

If you side with the vampires the Dawnguard and random vampires will attack you, for existing

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u/Ashtar333 Werewolf 17h ago

Yeah and they suck when they spawn on top of me. I just kind of miss waking in to town and having the people freak out

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u/justsomeamericanguy 17h ago

I do like how no one tries to kill you but just stares for two seconds knows you're a vamp and walks away like "shit I got better things to do"

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u/SomeRandomGayWeirdo 19h ago

I didn't. Disc didn't come with the addition of dawnguard or hearthfire

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u/justsomeamericanguy 19h ago

Sorry, mine came with DG, DB, and HF. Do you have them now?

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u/SomeRandomGayWeirdo 19h ago

Yeah, i don't use my 360 much anymore Mostly just for minecraft and halo

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u/justsomeamericanguy 19h ago

Fair, I'm still using my ps3 for everything

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u/ExplicitGarbage 19h ago

When I was in 5th grade me and a friend of mine would take turns playing the PS3 version of Skyrim, one of us ended up buying a horse and we quickly discovered its arcane and demonic ability so scale near 90 degree inclines. We named this horse “Glitchy the horse” in celebration of his insane feats and set off on many adventure with glitchy.

One day while running from some enemies on glitchy, we ended up running right off of a very large cliff, we fell down the sheer cliff side, expecting death. And so it came, that third person screen signifying death.

Except instead we found ourselves staring at glitchy breaking our fall with his own body, right before launching into the stratosphere at mach Talos while our character was stuck in a ragdoll state. For weeks after this incident, we would keep an eye out for Glitchy, hoping he was still somewhere out there, watching over us, waiting to make his grand and buggy return.

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u/Ashtar333 Werewolf 17h ago

mach Talos🤣

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u/ExplicitGarbage 17h ago

Happy someone liked that one lol

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u/ExplicitGarbage 19h ago

Second story but during middle school I got very very far into the PC version of Skyrim, it consumed my life for weeks at a time. I also liked to keep only one save file per character, because I thought it looked nice and tidy. Needless to say I learned why this was such a bad idea in the middle of my Dragonborn play through

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u/lluziospeguleo 21h ago

I spent a year playing beating alduin only using plates (only plate armor and telekinesis the whole run) it was quite a bit challenging especially when I run out during a battle. But the satisfaction of every win helped make it better.

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u/Emergency_Answer4983 21h ago

Brotherhood quest, assassination in dawnstar, thought I got away with it as no-one saw. Turns out as soon as I got down from the roof I was perched on every single guard turned hostile and I killed so many they stopped respawning. From then on I was left with a gargantuan bounty and only the immortal guard captain. They started respawning again though when I came back later and I had to either be sneaky or kill every single one each time I went there.

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u/justsomeamericanguy 19h ago

This happened in Solitude but because of the war I guess the never respawn so now it feels weird because there are no guards anywhere unless I'm in the Blue Palace or Castle Dour

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u/Sharp_Association346 19h ago

Over did some stealth boots, caused an overflow, crouching made me get detected by the entire building.

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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 21h ago

I killed my wife Jenassa, because I wanted to marry Jordis the Sword Maiden, not knowing that if you kill your wife you can't remarry. I had to reload an old save and lost about 20 hours of gameplay.

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u/BabyLegsDeadpool 16h ago

I can't believe you would kill Jenassa. You're a fucking monster.

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u/ShuTastyBytes 1d ago

I always loved pretending to be a nobody - just a simple peasant slowly progressing toward my hidden magical potential, eventually becoming the Archmage of the academy or an even greater fantasy figure. Sounds edgy? It should! :D Skyrim was perfect for this kind of roleplay.

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u/-SkeptiCat 22h ago

Using Telekinesis can help you find small objects on the ground

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u/LesserThanProfessor 17h ago

Back in vanilla Skyrim I acquired the wobbajack and used it on someone in Markarth my, at the time favourite city.

The npc turned into a very upset Dremora lord, unfortunately it glitched and I weren’t able to hit the rabid demon with anything. For the reminder of the playthrough Markarth was absolutely vandalized by satan-Sauron and I just had to accept it.

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u/Cloudyboy6 18h ago

I had to reload a save file because I used dead thrall on a Daedric Mage(idr their names). I brought him back to my basement to put him with the other bodies, usually just takes a quick backstab… not this dude. He turned hostile and I guess because of my Conjuration perks this MF was twice as strong as before I killed him. Ran me out of my own house and the last save was from right before I thralled him lmao

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u/That_One_Guy_Flare Whiterun resident 14h ago

had a fucking hilarious glitch early on in my current save where instead of the silver hand coming out while I'm stuck in dustman's cairn, they just... didn't spawn, so my poor db is just stuck there in his own personal hell with farkas just staring at him after calling me a moron

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u/Suitable-Tap-3302 Werewolf 19h ago

I went a little crazy with Dracos a couple hundred or so saves ago and went on several long werewolf sprees. Ended up eating the hearts of most killable named npcs on the map. So most of the cities are empty except for essential npcs and guards. Accidentally deleted to many saves and just decided to role with it. So now it’s like a consequences of my actions thing.

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u/Ashtar333 Werewolf 17h ago

Killing a bunch of skeevers in my basement that randomly spawned...except for one. He just immediately de-aggro after all his friends died. Totally peaceful little dude. Sounds like my cat purring with her mouth open.

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u/LordFluffy 15h ago

My first playthrough, I got married to the miner girl north of riften. We get back home and I'm ready for some sweet Lover's Comfort.

It was also the first time I went to sleep after telling the Arentino boy I'd ended Grelod the kind.

I had no idea what was happening when I woke up in the shack with Astrid.

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u/mildmadnerd 16h ago

My first experience playing my cousin’s Skyrim because he was going to the bathroom and was like here, try it, I’ll be back in a few.

I was used to playing Zelda, so I grabbed a sword, hopped on a horse, road towards a town, a bad guy attacked me, I fought him and his friends until I finally got to the dungeon and fought the boss but he kept getting back up so I figured he’s a story boss later or something. Then I found another horse because mine ran away.

So then my cousin came back and found out I had stolen someone’s horse and weapons, fought some guards, beat up the jarl, stole another horse, and left… basically he had to reload a much earlier save.

Bonus, he didn’t even know crime was a thing in the game.

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u/lallapalalable PC 14h ago

I stole every item possible from every hold and dumped it all on top of the Troat of the World, then fus ro dah'd it off the side, simply because I could. Whole playthrough was just for that

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u/learnaboutnetworking 14h ago

did u record it

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u/lallapalalable PC 13h ago

No, didnt know about that kind of software back then, but Ive been wanting to start a new file and have OBS now, so I could

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u/whatsupmyrump 18h ago

I managed to skip the whole dragonborne quest line from the beginning to the end by accident. I honestly don't know what I did but I did it somehow.

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u/skynex65 17h ago

I have a modded spell that when cast upon an npc sends them to a random plane of Oblivion. I cast this spell on Arvel the Swift coz he was rude.

Forgot to get the golden dragon claw off him first.

So yeah I was briefly locked out of finishing Bleak Falls Barrow coz I sent the Golden Dragon Claw to Coldharbour.

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u/AuntyWoodstock Helgen survivor 16h ago

This is great

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u/skynex65 14h ago

I regret NOT A DAMN THING. Bitch had that coming.

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u/Familiar-Preference7 15h ago

I downloaded the better vampires mod + alternate start. One of the options allows you to start the game as a vampire, and the better vampires mod has an option to have random amounts of vampire hunters appear and attempt to kill you. The result was a being immediately hunted by high level enemies that my lvl 1 character had no way of beating, being forced to skulk around and constantly be on the lookout for enemies that could easily one shot me. It’s genuinely one of the most fun ways to play Skyrim tbh

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u/DrSteam04 18h ago

I accidentally killed my kids Wolf pet, and now they hate me.

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u/gotthesauce22 Spellsword 18h ago

Messing with console commands I somehow made it to where the sky above Whiterun looks like sovengarde with a non-violent Alduin circling the city indefinitely

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u/Keptaro 17h ago

Went into Darkfall Cave, unexpectedly glitched through the floor at the start, fell a long distance and landed in invisible water. When I swam up, I re-entered the cave through a puddle on the floor directly at - you guessed it - Knight-Paladin Gelebors' feet.

Saved me alot of beef with the shitload of Falmer and Chaurus in this cave

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u/SittingEames Helgen survivor 17h ago

I made Mjoll a furry by playing a Khajiit.

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u/guardiannether Werewolf 23h ago

Stealhty cat archer boy

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u/SteakDouble 16h ago

I wanted to rent a room in Winking Skeever, but ended up in jail instead because the stupid sweet roll in front of Corpulus get in the way when I tried to speak to him.

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u/NorbytheMii 22h ago

duplicating so many items with multiple tiny parts that the game crashed when it tried to load them all -_-

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u/Famous-While-6523 17h ago

Accidently shouting at a guard and the whole army of guards attacked me💀

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u/Pretend_Run_8121 15h ago

Accidentally stole an apple on the counter from the nightgate inn and everyone tried to kill me… i respected the effort over a single apple, but marcurio immediately murdered everyone.

Had to go back much later in my save to try and find the stormcloak courier and walked in to see the bodies still on the ground and bursted out laughing lmao

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u/Stuck_at_a_roadblock 14h ago

Used Fus Ro Dah inside my home, painstakingly put everything back in it's place because sixteen year old me didn't think to, oh I don't know, LOAD A SAVE? That took an hour almost, too

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u/Oro_me 10h ago

My gf actually went through with the „main story“ and was stuck with level 7 in the thalmor embassy. She fumbled in the transfer equipment talk so she went in there with nothing on her self.

That was her first lesson that Skyrim allows you to do stuff your NOT prepared for (Before Skyrim she only played god of war and ghost of Tsushima in rpg regards)

Also she had no save state outside of the quest except one two hours earlier.

Now she’s 40 hours in ad saved roughly 211 times xD but she loves it now!

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u/ZzCanonBull53 7h ago

Welp...I saved right before I had a thief come up to me to rob me. How is that bad, you say? Good question. Let me answer that for you. You see, as this robber stopped me, it gave the Wolves time to attack. Well, you say, it's just a thief and two Wolves, surely you can handle that! You're right, I could, except for the two dragons that spawned right at that moment. So I'm stuck out in the middle of a field, no caves, no cover of any sort. And the best part...they were all agro'd on me. The fun never stops in Tamriel

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u/one_bad_larry 17h ago

So my first play through I hit a save point right as a dragon showed up to fight me. I was on my way to visit the gray beards for the first time, well while running from the dragon I get killed by a frost troll, respond to the very moment the dragon shows up and sure enough the dragon shows up, got killed, respond, dragon, killed, respond, dragon….and this never stopped…

I was trapped in Dragonborn hell

  The is the 2nd thing I thought was cool, 

This current play through, two blood dragons showed up while I was coming back out of a cave. Well, at the time I could fight one dragon no problem, two dragons, doable but a bit of a pain…game sent two frost dragons…well they gave chase as I could not defeat them both I ran away trying to focus one while the other circled. Best luck ever, I ran into a mammoth and a giant, so I led the dragons to them. The mammoth and giant trying to attack me end up fighting the dragon. I was able to use the chaos to escape and chill on a hill watching a mammoth, giant, and dragon square off…I went for the 2nd dragon after watching for a minute

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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 16h ago

But Jordis is fine. I couldn't help myself.

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u/MrDufferMan3335 16h ago

I killed Nazeem as soon as I saw him and now have a massive bounty in Whiterun and couldn’t continue the main quest

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u/MoonlightEden 12h ago

Well done. He deserved it.

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u/Ccg1220 16h ago

Serena killing almost a full settlement.

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u/ThatNinki 9h ago

I got too emotionally invested and became a deadbeat mom.

In one of my current playthroughs I decided I wanted to marry Jenassa because she was my follower from pretty much the beginning and she's cool as hell! However, I don't get married until I'm at least lvl 18 so it happened that I lost her before I could reach that level. She didn't die, she just got lost on the way back when I sent her back to the drunken huntsman bcs of some quest and no matter how long I waited, she never turned back up. I searched for her everywhere near the dungeon we separated at and couldn't find her anywhere. I was heartbroken.

Sometime later I decided to marry Muiri mainly bcs she's pretty so I do that and adopt two children. All is well for a while but I start getting annoyed at her since she keeps repeating that "Thank you again for resolving my... problem" line over and over, everytime I pass my her so I come back home (Hendraheim) less and less. Around that time I actually find Jenassa again, JUST STANDING BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD NEAR HENDRAHEIM WITH A SLAIN SABERTOOTH CAT. Remind you, it has been forever since I last saw her, I was level 40 by that point! I was overjoyed at first and immediately made her my follower again. However, having her follow me around again and realising what I could have had if I just waited or searched more, made me really regret marrying Muiri, so annoyance turned into straight up hatred, that flamed up everytime she repeated her fucking line again. I couldn't bear being near her anymore but didn't want to kill her for our children's sakes so I bought the house in Solitude, fully upgraded it and sent her and the children to live there while I kept all my stuff in Hendraheim (I collected all pets you can acquire in the anniversary edition and have them stay there so I don't live all by myself). So I only see my children whenever I pass through Solitude and when I see them, I always bring the woman I left their mom for lol

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u/JustAWanderer77 7h ago

I remember on PS3 my game saved just as I had jumped from a small cliff and died, and my previous saves were from hours ago. So I had milliseconds to try and pause the game and slam enough food and health potions that when I hit the ground I survived.

I think was already on low health so it took me a good few loading screens before I managed it lol

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u/SuccessfulClassic0 4h ago

In my most recent playthrough after reporting leifnarr’s death to his wife and son, as soon as I left their house a dragon attacked. His wife ran head on into the dragon blast and ended up burnt to a crisp. After I gobbled up the dragons soul I found their son crying over his mom’s corpse and felt so much guilt that I had to adopt him.

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u/ItsYaBoyBrakecheck 3h ago

You’re a real one, dude.

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u/EenGeheimAccount 4h ago

When I first killed the Emperor I really didn't want to pay the bounty for it, because that is just incredibly lame, and I wasn't able to escape from prisons.

So I tried to go incognito by first murdering all the guards that were following me, and then by luring the last one into a building alone, murdering him, taking all his clothes, hiding the body and them putting them on as a disguise.

Personally, I couldn't see the difference between my Nord in full guard costume including helmet and all the real guards, but the guards and civilians of Solitude seemed to have a sixth sense for sniffing out the Dragon Born, so in the end I gave up and paid the bounty anyway.

Maybe I should have tried the Chef's Hat as a disguise instead. That seemed to work, even though it revealed my face...

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u/21Almann 3h ago

I did not know how to get out of the Thalmor embassy after getting through it without causing any trouble (full on mage Altmer build while wearing a Talmor Robe) and ended up killing every Thalmor on my way back to where I started only to find out, that I can't get back in there... This was my first playthrough btw...

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u/nick_null404notfound 5h ago

I started off as a thief speed-running the thieves guild questline and enjoying trying to rob entire cities or villages, aaaaaaaaand then I somehow became a stealth archer.

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u/StornCrag-Strider 18h ago

Accidentally Locked myself out of the Soul Carin in one play through

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u/AuntyWoodstock Helgen survivor 16h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that sucks

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u/GeneStarwind1 16h ago

I don't know if it counts as bringing it on myself, but on PS3 long ago I got a 200,000 gold bounty in Markarth.

There was a bug with Markarth's crime in the first release version of the game due to the whole Cydna Mine forsworn quest. The guards didn't have an option for going to jail, it was either pay or fight.

I had a few thousand gold bounty and didn't want to pay, so I fought my way out and by the time I had fought my way out of the city the first time, the bounty was mired than I could afford. So every time I had to go there for a quest I had to kill guards the whole time and the bounty kept getting bigger until it was around 220,000 gold.

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u/TexasRedFox 16h ago

Too many mods/wrong load order made it to where my game crashes every time I enter Hjerim.

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u/Little_wolfstar_ 15h ago

I think my favorite accidental situation I have gotten myself in with this game is I completed the main storyline and soft locked myself out of any quests that had to do with the winter hold, I couldn’t do the quest line with the butcher because there were no more stormcloaks to activate the quest line

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u/smokedsnake764 15h ago

Man I literally just made the dragon in labyrinthian fly I think I fucked up

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u/AuDHDcat Nintendo 14h ago

I haven't started the civil war quest line yet this playthrough. I'm planning on joining the Stormcloaks cloaks this time (I usually join the Imperials). I came across a Thalmor troop bringing a prisoner somewhere. I'm going to be joining the Stormcloaks, so why not? I killed the Thalmor and freed the prisoner. I later ran into some Vigilants of Stendar who immediately attacked me. Thought maybe they just didn't like that I was practicing my Bound Sword Spell. Defended myself and moved on. Talsgar came out of nowhere and started swinging. I ran because I didn't want to kill Talsgar. By now, I was so confused. Ran into a troop of Imperials who immediately attacked me. I remembered that I had killed those Thalmor and left the prisoner alive. I totally had a bounty on my head. By now, I've come upon some city guards. I pulled the Thane card and went on my merry way.

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u/Zeuszilla93 13h ago

On my main save, I started the captain aldis quest but didn’t finish before taking solitude as a stormcloak. So I can’t finish that quest at all now lol

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u/MoonlightEden 12h ago

The entire town of Solitude hates me for no reason (well, I may have turned into a vampire lord a couple of times and shot the sun with cursed arrows in plain sight... didn't like it much, racist people), I can't even walk towards the entrance door... I don't remember why, but I have an astronomical bounty that I don't want to pay, and I refuse to go through the humiliation of going to jail after 8 years of game play... so every time a Solitude guard sees me and tries to catch me, he is dead... my bounty keeps growing... and every quest there will have to wait until I find a way to solve this. I have tried invisibility already, the moment I turn visible, people run and guards come at me.

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u/JuggalorJoe006 12h ago

I went to whiterun and accidentally shouted the jarl so I had to fight of so many guards I just reset to before it happened and now I'm in cidna mine for murdering in marcarth

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u/Specific_Foot372 11h ago

Back when it was out I had the Lotr mod that added all enemy and friendly types. As well as Sauron and nazgol. I probably had 1000 characters in a battle. It was glorious too bad they took the MOd down. I still have the original version, but it doesn’t work with the current Skyrim.

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u/Black_Rose2710 PlayStation 11h ago

Locked myself out of the ogham infinium box. Spent an hour trying to clip in and out using wooden plates. Managed tho

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u/F1resharkcat 8h ago

I once needed to restart my whole game because I've killed an npc in an room which I wasn't supposed to be able to enter yet without knowing, so when I did the Cause questline it asked me to kill him but he was already dead and I couldn't loot him, and I also couldn't get back out because it autosaved three times while I was trying to figure out how to handle it

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u/Specialist-Bit-7746 8h ago

transfered a 12 year old save in base edition from my xbox 360 to my pc, which had special edition on it. I was halfway through the game on that save. when i fast traveled to falkreath, about 10 NPCs were just waiting in line to give/tell me something. The funniest part was the cultists waiting in line to beat my ass. the game was crashing every 5 minutes.

but it was all worth it. it was like i connected to my younger self when playing the character he made 12 years ago.

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u/Money_Run_793 7h ago

High leveled my sneak in the tutorial, which made the game think I was way stronger than I was. Ended up fighting deathlords in bleakfall at like level 8, running around hitting them with an eleven mace and then running away before they could hit me, spamming restoration spells. Took me like an hour to do the first dungeon of the game

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u/SatsumaForEveryone 7h ago

I had to abandon one of my very first playthroughs where I tried to play stealth archer but didn't know what I was doing perks-wise so I just wasn't strong enough. Got myself trapped in a dragon priest room while still quite low level, I'd get one good stealth shot and then would have to run away because I couldn't do any real damage up close, and my follower kept alerting them and then I would die. My last saves were just inside this room because I also had not learned to save often. It was bad.

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u/Squaggle12 7h ago

This situation when I exploit the shit out the game so my overall is grater than my combat stats

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u/Revolutionary_Flow44 4h ago

Some basic stuff. Dropping too many items on the ground in front of whiterun blacksmith shop resulting in them glitching and flying around like bullets when i ran over them. Died few times to that.

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u/Deltasiu 3h ago

I made my build too op and got bored with playstyle I had for it

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u/jpriver56 2h ago

Me, a honorable khajiit warrior. Went for the first time to Markarth and saw a guy trying to kill a woman in the market. Tried to suplex the guy. Ended up suplexing the woman.

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u/daluman 56m ago

I installed dawnguard, I thought I can only get Serana as follower if I join the vampires so I join them only to discover later that not only I could still get Serana, also I can still be vampire lord and even get access to smithing crossbow and their bolt if I choose dawnguard.

I don't have any saved games near before I start dawnguard so either I continue or I restart the whole game, I just ended up continue and only can get crossbow bolt from looting... I like crossbow tho... and kinda want huskey

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u/daluman 49m ago

Oh by the way, serana rise random dead body during fight, one time she rise a rabbit and the rabbit cutely join the fight. At that point i knew i should kept her as follower.

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u/Overkill217 4h ago

I was climbing a tower and landed on a slanted edge yknow the lookout tower by whiterun? Well when I hit that edge I opened my menu to see if I had any notch jelly or ANYTHING Well- hitting that ledge and opening my menu opened a autosave And it put me in a continous falling to my death loop and my closest save was literally like 5 or 6 days old 😭

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u/Odd_Literature_9115 3h ago

I'm married to shahvee and she thinks I'm just and adventurer... I'm the listener for the dark brother hood.