The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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**Grey Templar**

I took whiterun too, and I still ran into that problem. Made me start over.

**vodo40k**

Grey Templar wrote:Is it even possable to be Thane of all 9 holds?

It is indeed but there seems to be a glitch where the jarl of the rift will not open a dialogue box, therefore making it impossible to become thane of the rift. Becoming thane in the Rift, the Reach, Eastmarch and Haafingar also requires you to buy a house, but can be avoided with the "free house" glitch/cheat.

**Akroma06**

Ratius wrote:Ahhhh very interesting!

Spoiler:

I did attack Whiterun as Stormcloaks,

not sure the faceplam was necessary :(

I was coping and pasting from a different thread on a local forum that is talking about the same quest.. That's a major my bad. It's gone now though.

Spoiler:

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vodo40k wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:Is it even possable to be Thane of all 9 holds?

It is indeed but there seems to be a glitch where the jarl of the rift will not open a dialogue box, therefore making it impossible to become thane of the rift. Becoming thane in the Rift, the Reach, Eastmarch and Haafingar also requires you to buy a house, but can be avoided with the "free house" glitch/cheat.

What is this glitch you speak of? Is it a console only thing or can I do it on my 369 and will I be able to upgrade my houses?

**Ratius**

No problem dude!

**vodo40k**

Akroma06 wrote:
Ratius wrote:Ahhhh very interesting!

Spoiler:

I did attack Whiterun as Stormcloaks,

not sure the faceplam was necessary :(

I was coping and pasting from a different thread on a local forum that is talking about the same quest.. That's a major my bad. It's gone now though.

Spoiler:

As to the quest itself its actually kind of interesting, but I don't know if you can do it if you say join the legion and don't do the quests past the initiation will you have to continue the civil war quests or will it just end them?

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vodo40k wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:Is it even possable to be Thane of all 9 holds?

It is indeed but there seems to be a glitch where the jarl of the rift will not open a dialogue box, therefore making it impossible to become thane of the rift. Becoming thane in the Rift, the Reach, Eastmarch and Haafingar also requires you to buy a house, but can be avoided with the "free house" glitch/cheat.

What is this glitch you speak of? Is it a console only thing or can I do it on my 369 and will I be able to upgrade my houses?

No its quite simple really. Find the steward you want to buy a house from (it also works for buying upgrades) and make sure their standing next to something you can store money in. This is usually easiest at night as their beds are usually close to a chest/wardrobe/sack ect. Then quite simply request to buy the house/upgrade. While they are talking quickly exit the dialogue and store all your money in the container. Then wait for them to finnish talking and you will get the house key/upgrade without them taking any money. Then simply retrieve your money from the container, rinse and repeat. There are several vids that show you how to do this.

**Akroma06**

Wow!!! That's sweet. Would a companion work as a "container?"

**thenoobbomb**

The Windhelm house can only be bought if you have finished the quest with that murderer.

**Akroma06**

Ok...I've had it start in 3 other games not this one though. I thought you could buy the house as an optional starting point to the quest.

**vodo40k**

Akroma06 wrote:Wow!!! That's sweet. Would a companion work as a "container?"

Probably not as it would take too long for them to say "I am swooooorn to carry your burdens" and then open their inventory interface. The gold would be removed from your inventory by the time the interface opened.

**Necros**

on the PS3 anyway, if you click a person or merchant to start talking, you can jump to the end of what they're saying if you hit the X button. So you don't have to wait for Lydia to finish talking, just hit X to talk to her, wait half a second and hit X again and her menu opens up while she's still talking.

**vodo40k**

Necros wrote:on the PS3 anyway, if you click a person or merchant to start talking, you can jump to the end of what they're saying if you hit the X button. So you don't have to wait for Lydia to finish talking, just hit X to talk to her, wait half a second and hit X again and her menu opens up while she's still talking.

Ah thats probably true just quicker the other way, especially if your house has LOTS of upgrades.

**Akroma06**

Necros wrote:on the PS3 anyway, if you click a person or merchant to start talking, you can jump to the end of what they're saying if you hit the X button. So you don't have to wait for Lydia to finish talking, just hit X to talk to her, wait half a second and hit X again and her menu opens up while she's still talking.

Yeah I can press A on the 360 to just make her stop the current line. I was thinking of someone like faedenhal or sven who just says something like "sure" or "just leave me something ok?"

**Bakerofish**

for some reason this is the THIRD time I've been asked to retrieve the Helm of Winterhold and each time it's in a different cave...

also I retrieved the Musical Instruments for the bard college quests and now im glitched and they wont disappear from my inventory...and Im worried that some quest flags might not show since the dialogue options are now stuck at "I found the Lute/drum etc"

rar!

**Anvildude**

So, can you actually play the musical instruments?

**Chowderhead**

No. You become a bitch for the Guild and you fetch their gak for them.

I.E. Their instruments.

**remilia_scarlet**

Who here has joined the dark brotherhood? I did after I did all the quests for the companions, and unlocked the werewolf, which I might add is suhweeeet!

**Coolyo294**

Werewolf was blah, Dark Brotherhood is schweet.

**Alfndrate**

DB was awesome

I had to do the wedding quest as I didn't want a bounty to tarnish my perfect record... I did end up getting a 1500 gold bounty during that questline though... But I managed to go all Book repository on her...

**remilia_scarlet**

Coolyo294 wrote:Werewolf was blah, Dark Brotherhood is schweet.

Haha, it kinda is, but the immunity to disease makes it worthwhile. Yeah, you get that as a vampire too, but vampire is too much trouble.

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Alfndrate wrote:DB was awesome I had to do the wedding quest as I didn't want a bounty to tarnish my perfect record... I did end up getting a 1500 gold bounty during that questline though... But I managed to go all Book repository on her...

Really? I just walked right up to her, and did an instant kill attack, since one of the perks causes you to decapitate an enemy.

**Coolyo294**

remilia_scarlet wrote:
Coolyo294 wrote:Werewolf was blah, Dark Brotherhood is schweet.

Haha, it kinda is, but the immunity to disease makes it worthwhile. Yeah, you get that as a vampire too, but vampire is too much trouble.

Pffft. Vampirism is awesome. It augments my already super high sneak skill and lets me do all kinds of cool magic stuff.

**remilia_scarlet**

Yeah, but if you don't constantly feed, the villagers will attack you.

**Coolyo294**

The barracks in Hold Capitols are an extremely good place to find people to feed on, so I never become a lvl. 4 Vampire.

**remilia_scarlet**

yeah, that's true. I went to riverwood usually.

**vodo40k**

I did the DB questline, mainly for shaddowmere as horses die notoriously easily. I wasn't a fan of doing it as it doesn't go with my "honourable" play style, i.e I don't like killing innocent people. I only did It so I would have control of all the major organisations in Skyrim.
I found it funny when killing the "Emperor" when i was running from the trap with half of solitudes guards and legionaries after me, I was simply stopped by one guard and demanded I pay the bounty. I did so and every guard decided to go back to normal, aren't I still a wanted criminal? Guess not.

**supremeoverlordVECT**

Ratius wrote:
while doing the main-quest line, there was a convention like thing in high hrothgar. with the greybeards, stormcloacks, blades and imperials.

I dont recall this at all. What part of the main quest line does it take place at?

Try back in the castle in Windhelm for Ulfric.

well, immediatly after killing alduin.

i tried going to windhelm several times, but he's not to be seen anywhere! :(

**thenoobbomb**

He just doesnt like you

Because you smell like wet dog

**purplefood**

vodo40k wrote:I did the DB questline, mainly for shaddowmere as horses die notoriously easily. I wasn't a fan of doing it as it doesn't go with my "honourable" play style, i.e I don't like killing innocent people. I only did It so I would have control of all the major organisations in Skyrim.
I found it funny when killing the "Emperor" when i was running from the trap with half of solitudes guards and legionaries after me, I was simply stopped by one guard and demanded I pay the bounty. I did so and every guard decided to go back to normal, aren't I still a wanted criminal? Guess not.

I found it interesting that they thought 2 special guards could take me.
I'm the freaking dragonborn and an agent of Nocturna, not to mention general stabby badass.

**Melissia**

Both the imperial and stormcloak have good endings...

Spoiler:

**Necros**

I'm on my 3rd and so far favorite char now, going mostly all heavy armor, 2 handed & smithing with a little archery and enchanting thrown in. It's nice to be able to take more than 2 hits from big stuff. I did the thieves guild stuff just to get the skeleton key to keep for me forever. Master lock shmaster lock!

**thenoobbomb**

Melissia wrote:Both the imperial and stormcloak have good endings...

Spoiler:

The Thalmor are trying to get people to stop worshipping in Talos because if nobody worships Talos all of reality will cease to exist and they think that they can make use of this... somehow... to make only high elves exist, even though they won't be in existence to do so.

So stormcloaks have a nice ending because they prevent this outright-- Talos worship is free in their reign, and every Thalmor in the region get brutally murdered, and I'm okay with that.

At the same time... the Imperials seem to be much... nicer to everyone. Especially when you take over the last Stormcloak fortress-- the guy who becomes Jarl there is practically a saint. And of course, keeping the Empire together screws the Thalmor over too, as this strengthens the Empire to help them fight back against the Thalmor (especially after I've slaughtered every Thalmor I legally could). And besides, the Empire doesn't really ban Talos worship anyway, not in Skyrim at least, they're only humoring the Thalmor until they're strong enough to fight back.

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