baeuchlein on 7/3/2010 at 19:02

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I'm not playing with mods, I'll leave that for later. But have you tried to fill Legolas' pockets up to the point where he can't carry anything else? Maybe he'd stop pilfering the deceased, then?

Meanwhile, I've encountered more funny things in Oblivion. The strange poses of some people who just died are still my favourites, though. Killing a female human or Elf with a stab from a small dagger once resulted in her being thrown across the whole room and landing in an absurd pose between a drawer and a desk. Her head was lying on the table, resting on the chin, while the tips of her feet were behind her, on top of the drawer, and the rest of the body was hanging belly-down between the furniture, almost U-shaped. Reminds me of these hanging bridges found in both Morrowind and Oblivion.

Another favourite of mine is a dead Skamp hanging from a bridge, with only the tip of his tail still being on the bridge. Everything else is already hanging down and waiting for the tail to join.:laff: It's the already dead Skamp one encounters frequently on a broken bridge in the Planes of Oblivion. Try to push his body off the bridge and you'll likely have a hanging Skamp suspended only by the tip of his tail, failing to fall down.

Then there was an encounter with two Daedroth creatures I defeated. Their bodies somehow fell into each other after death, resulting in some kind of Siamese twin, a creature with two heads, four legs and four arms. I could not separate them, which I tried in order to get loot from them. (And by the way, sometimes an attacking Daedroth produces a sound very remniscient of a farting human. Some kind of poison spell, eh?)

Some hours later I had a similar problem with my horse. It had become partially embedded into another horse at the stables, producing some cross-shaped monstrosity, and it took me a while until I could ride my horse away from the other one.

Another story involving my horse took place when we encountered a bandit. The horse attacked the unlucky bandit and trampled on his body afterwards, while I tried to loot the dead. "Hey horsey, nice kill you did there. But would you step off him now? I'd like to get stuff off that idiot there, you know."

And just yesterday I met a Xivilai on a bridge over some kind of lava lake, and of course he fell off the bridge after a few hits. But instead of walking out of the lake, which should have been possible in time even if he walked instead of running, Mr. Xivilai kept himself busy with summoning Clannfears, which then went down almost instantly because they appeared in the lava next to him. After some time, the Xivilai was roasted to death as well.:cheeky:

Sometimes, I really have fun with all these carefully filled tables.:ebil: Jumping onto them again and again and sending all the plates and food flying into various directions never even gets me a strange look from the innkeeper or whoever is standing just next to the scene. But of course, as soon as I grab one piece of this precious stuff and throw it around, he yells for the guards 'cause he thinks I'm stealing his stuff.

Apart from all that, there's much fun with dialogues, of course. Like all that enthusiastic "I can teach you a lot"-stuff from all these trainers around there, to which I'd like to say, "Or maybe not", especially if we're speaking of a skill where I am already a master, and they're not.:cheeky:

Then there was a servant's response saying "My master has gone away now, hunting for supper." - "Oh yeah? What about this guy there, less than one meter away, who looks exactly like your master, huh? He's been in here for at least ten minutes, and you have actually just spoken to him a minute ago."

And everyone talking about my heroic closing of the Kvatch Oblivion gate somehow addresses me as a woman, while a check in my character's pants proves otherwise.

When I'm visiting my Argonian fence in his house, I sometimes have to wake him up first, but then we can talk about the stuff I've stolen. The only thing which is a bit strange is that once he crawls out of his bed, I somehow end on top of his head for the time of our conversation. Doesn't bother him, though.:cheeky:

Oh yeah, I'm having a lot of fun with physics in the game!:joke:

P.S.: I just remembered something from a while back. When the Mythic Dawn agents became my enemies, I once walked into a town (possibly Anvil, through the north gate) and wandered onto some public plaza. Some Mythic Dawn guy decided to come out of hiding, suddenly wearing his impressive dark suit of armour and yelling something like a furious battlecry. I had only encountered these Mythic Dawn people, disguised as normal townsfolk, once before and was taken by surprise. About two or three seconds passed until I realized this one wanted my blood, and about two more seconds were needed to ready my sword.

However, when I finally had my weapon drawn, it was all over already. As soon as the guy charged towards me, every one else of the about six or seven people present in the place began attacking him, and the Mythic Dawn wannabe hero went down in no time, beaten to death by a vicious, bloodthirsty mob. Even the local beggar, looking sick and miserable, ran towards the unfortunate Mythic Dawn agent and hammered him with his fists.

So I entered a town, unwary, was frozen by shock when charged by an enemy appearing suddenly out of nowhere in an impressive suit of armour, and with a furious battlecry on his lips, and watched him meeting a violent, very fast death delivered by formerly peaceful townspeople, exploding like a volcano. Then they all strolled off into various directions, as if they were just having a walk. All in a matter of seconds.

It was then that I laughed out loud.:cheeky:

baeuchlein on 12/3/2010 at 18:19

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You mean it's physics engine is a lot funnier than Oblivion's?:cheeky:

I'll have a look at it, but not right now.


Meanwhile, in Oblivion...

Yesterday my horse and an archer who was just strolling by decided to attack a nearby rock, which was taunting both. A Detect Life spell revealed that an enemy had fallen into the rock somehow, and both this man as well as Horsey and the archer decided to do battle.

Unfortunately, I had to get the horse out of that after a while, since it jumped up and down the rock at times, hurting itself much in the progress. I barely managed it before the horse killed itself.

Maybe I'll travel to that rock again today and check out if the archer is still busy there...:joke:

Nameless Voice on 14/3/2010 at 01:29

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In Fallout 3, people give out to you if they see you doing this.

Strangely enough, I remember characters in Redguard taunting you with "Did your mother teach you to jump on the furniture?"; yet in the later games Morrowind and Oblivion, no one cared.

Nameless Voice on 14/3/2010 at 03:25

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I basically said that (in less detail) in the first paragraph of my post? I was just wondering why it got forgotten in Morrowind and Oblivion.

baeuchlein on 15/3/2010 at 18:33

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I usually wait for the game itself to restore order to the rooms, unless it's in my character's house, where there is no "automatic tidy-up" function present (not that I'd want that, since I placed tons of collected stuff all around the house). That's why it's extra funny to really mess up any inn and then leave it to the game to restore it to its former glory.:cheeky:

And yes, I remember Redguard's bartender's remarks on me jumping on the table. But since I was busy sword-fighting some drunk customers there, I could not have cared less for what the argonian said back then. He didn't punish me anyway.