Sadly no, although there is a quest that causes you to change at random, often very inconvenient times. It’s good fun to just get the quest, then not resolve it. “Good morning good sir shopkeeper, I’d like to sell these here enchanted ringsROAAAR MURDER MURDER KILL, how much would you give me for them ? Oi, why are you calling the guards ?”
Never met any myself.
I really wonder how all of youse manage to get him as a follower. Me, he gave me his quest then started trekking to the shrine on his tod without even waiting for me.
Heh. I had a good laugh when I ran into it too. Nice touch indeed.
Somewhere in my browsing, I saw a beta mod for activating your dragon shouts through your microphone by actually yelling the shouts. I’d try it, but I’m already borderline pushing it with my wife and the amount of time I’m putting in with this game.
Mostly just random thoughts, but thanks for answering!
This was the quest in Moravath’s Lair(sp?). I’m sure the girl just said thank you or something simple, but I missed it and didn’t feel like reloading the whole dungeon.
I completed that questline, it really sucked me in:
I wandered into Falkreath(sp?) and happened by the graveyard where the minister and a couple were giving burial rights. I talked to the couple and got their story of what happened and the questline got priority #1 on my list (I have young children myself). Similar to the Moravath’s Lair quest above.
Follow him to the shrine!
The next portion of the questline explains a bit more overal and Barbas becomes becomes your invincible companion until the next quest is completed. Just don’t do the next quest and he’ll be your annoying little follower forever.
By the way, with that vampire quest if you have the fighter Benor from the nearby town as a companion, he insists on staying outside the vampire lair with the other outraged peasantry.
“Mother’s calling me, it’s time for me to sleep now. I’m so tired. Thank you for making her feel better.”
I’m quite surprised. I had no clue that Elder scroll games were that well-known. And I would have bet that a number of FPS would sell more than a RPG. Or is Bethesda as surprised as us? Is it word of mouth?
But the good new is that other companies might look at the sales and decide to produce other RPGs, a genre that has been a little forgotten during the recent years. And, it is to be hoped, will release some good titles.
Also, I’d like to know the sales breakdown between PC and consoles.
So, I only recently joined the Dark Brotherhood, which had been one of my goals early on. It seemed to fit the sneaking archer character I was playing. Unfortunately :
After having been playing him so long, it appears it doesn’t fit his character at all anymore. Those fuckers are a perfect example of what the future glorious independant Nord kingdom has to be cleansed of.
2)I actively dislike this bunch. Assasin guilds have been going south since Morrowind, frankly.
So, I’d like to put an end to their misery. And I’d like to know :
-Is there a “wipe out the dark brotherhood” quest in the game? If there is one, can I start it after having joined the guild? If not, are there “unkillable” members? For the record I believe I guessed what relationship with the guild Cicero has.
On a related note, if there a way to make unkillable NPC killable, using the console? I’m tired of being unable to kill the legate when I raid an imperial camp, for instance. I also envision making my followers killable too.
On a completely unrelated note, I was surprised and amused by this quote from the liar khajit you often meet (I use alchemy quite a lot) : “Skyrim used to be the land of many butterflies. Not so much now”
Something I wanted to do today, and realised hasn’t been implemented…
Why cant I conjure up my Dremora Lord and tell him “Go over there.” If there’s a red dot on my compass he’ll charge at it like a badger after chocolate. But If I can see a 100 necromancers at their Christmas ball on the other side of the room, but they can’t see me, he’ll stand there as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
One thing I have discovered. Destruction magic can pass through doors! In a fort I’m clearing out currently (part of the drunken wedding quest) there’s a door, barred from the other side. My fireballs and chained lightning must have caught someone on the other side of the door and they went ape shit. Unfortunately for them, they are too stupid to remove the bar. Fortunately for me, my spells have a nice blast AoE that goes through the wood of the door
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This is going to be a pretty inclusive spoiler, so don’t read on if you don’t really want to know: As far as I know there is not a quest to do this. However, if you follow the quest line you are on, the brotherhood gets essentially wiped out after you kill the false emperor. This will be after you wax Cicero, though I believe you can let him live as well, though I didn’t do that…not sure where that leads, you might want to give it a try, since what he wants seems to be to wipe them out as well. At any rate, after you kill the false emperor you will find out that the brotherhood was betrayed from within, and the empire folks, being assholes, decide they will take the opportunity to wipe out the brotherhood. If you go to the sanctuary you will see them going about it. You could go in and finish off the few survivors AND the empire guys I suppose. If you follow the quest line the only ones left are the little girl and the moor (sorry, can’t remember their names), and they could be easily disposed of. If you continue with the quest line you will have to help rebuild a new sanctuary after you kill the real emperor, and get the survivors situated in the new facility…and then the mother will send you out to kill more folks. That’s about where I am right now…the kill quests seem on par with most of the post quests in the other organizations you can join, in that I don’t think they are very important or lead anywhere except more quests of the same type.
Not going to spoiler this one as I don’t really know the answer, but there are a bunch of console commands to do stuff like this if you want too. I assume by 'followers you mean the folks who are temporarily with you for some quest or other…certainly, my thane is killable, since she seems to die fairly regularly.
Don’t pick the pocket of the lady at the mouth of Angarvunde and steal her key with efficient greedy intentions. Once you clear out the central chamber and the two huge and meandering side chambers and open both doors to where the ‘treasure’ is, she comes in and stands there complaining that the doors are closed. You have to go back and unflip the levers you flipped to open the doors (which means you have to take the long way around back to the the central chamber…twice, each) in order for her scripting to continue. Needless to say that I was quite satisfied with what happened to her once she got in.
How long have you been playing? You want them less evil/creepy or more? Compared to Oblivion’s DB, Morrowind’s Morag Tong were a bunch of tree hugging hippies. So far, Skyrim seems less evil than Oblivion. They even make the first couple contracts against guys who probably deserve it (except maybe Narfi). Maybe it gets creepier, I’m not that far in. All I remember from Daggerfall is “kill random guy/monster” and repeat infinite times.
If only it had an appropriately named quest. Something like “Destroy the Dark Brotherhood.” No, it needs more. How about an appropriate exclamation mark? Destroy the Dark Brotherhood!, Yeah, that’s the ticket. Unfortunately you’ll need a time machine to start it.
Congratulations, you have discovered the purpose of the “conjure stuff farther” perks ;). For the record, Sanguine’s Rose and staffs in general seem to summon at the farthest distance already.
Not really, what I wanted to do was use my Dremora to get the enemies attention while I remain hidden, or use him to kite a group into a trap. Also, because of the way mana regen works, I prefer to conjure outside of combat then head in. That way I have more mana for make-go-BOOM!
It’s not impossible, but tricky since casting spells without the illusion 50 perk draws attention. No way to command the buggers though.
Re: Wiping out the Dark Brotherhood
Haven’t done it, but as I understand it, you still have to kill the old lady, but when you get kidnapped, you can kill the recruiter instead of the prisoners to get that quest.
Ah, yeah, forgot about the not-silent casting thing - Illusion was pretty much the first magic skill I pumped up because casting frenzy spells on random people in cities amuses me :). Also Stormcloaks (sadly, at my current level and even with the “works on higher level animals” perk I can’t seem to frenzy mammoths yet).
I don’t know how a stealthy mage type could do without that perk, really. It’s night and day.
I have a question about one of the Dark Brotherhood quests- (minimal) spoilers follow:
I just started Recipe for Disaster, and how the heck do I kill Anton? Even if I’m squeezed in a corner and nobody can see him, killing him immediately sets his two assistants on me. I can stealth-kill one of his assistants, but that always seems to make the other turn around and freak out. Do I just need to wait until my stealth skill is higher to do this quest?
Haven’t done the quest but can’t you wait until he goes beddie bye ? That’s how I killed Grelod without the other, nicer orphanage lady breaking into hysterics.. Or I suppose you could get that pickpocket skill that lets you [del]do exploding pants[/del] poison people on the sly, though I haven’t tested it at all and don’t know whether it works as well as sneaking grenades in people’s pockets does in Fallout.
Unfortunately you’ll need a time machine to start it.