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I got Skyrim yesterday, and I got as far as the quest from the whiterun wizard: to go and find a dragonstone in a tomb or somesuch, couldn't be bothered and went exploring.
I'm playing as a Nord with heavy armour,(usually) 2-handed sword and a load of sneaky skills....

However, I do have a question, you see, I may have slightly slaughtered the population of riverwood and thrown their corpses into the river.

My question is: whether this means that I will have lost the chances to do certain quests - there's a few who won't die, I assume to do with quests, but I'm a little worried that my killing spree was poorly thought out...

(I've also murdered the family owning the whiterun stables.)

Well, you probably havn't messed up any quests, but you most certaintly have an insane bounty on your head plus every guard in the vicinity trying to kill you.

You should hold off on the mass murder till you reach level 50+, at that point you are pretty much invincible.

and you actually need to do that Dragonstone quest to advance the story line(If you want to start fighting dragons and getting shouts)





I have a question about the Eye of Magnus quest

^ Thanks for that, you're right about the bounty, but I murdered the guards as well, so it's all good

Grey, I think you target the eye (did the quest a while ago and can't quite remember) and then it does something and you can hurt the thalmor guy.

The Staff of Magnus always comes with enough charge to break through the barrier around the college, break his hold on the eye and then kill him, with a bit to spare (which is why the DP that drops it never uses it, and uses his shock spells instead); if you're running out of power then you're doing something wrong, so if you're running low and nothing seems to be having any effect, switch tactics.

He did stop zapping the eye and start attacking me after a few seconds of zapping the eye, but he was still invincible. Do I keep targeting the eye once that happens?

Yes, I think the people who are in with you attack him too, so when you see he's starting to take damage (or the eye does something, i'm not sure) switch to him.

Dark Apostle 666 wrote:^ Thanks for that, you're right about the bounty, but I murdered the guards as well, so it's all good

I was going to tell you to slow down on the mass murder, but then I saw your name. You just can't help your self. It just your nature.

Dark Apostle, you cant have killed them all. Delphine in the inn is necesary.

Grey Templar wrote:He did stop zapping the eye and start attacking me after a few seconds of zapping the eye, but he was still invincible. Do I keep targeting the eye once that happens?

Zap the eye until it closes, then attack the thalmor guy, as he isn't drawing power from the then, because it is closed. If you run out of souls, the flying worm thingies drop lesser soul gems for that purpose.

Got Skyrim few days ago and Im all over it. Im yet only a level 8 Argonian warrior with shield/blade combo. I just wonder where I can sell my damn dragon bones, since I yet have no money for a house

Any standard shop, together with dragon scales.
I always do Riverwood trader, as the guy has plenty of money, Ive married his sister who also has a shop and live there, since I dont have a house yet.

If it will take long before you have a house, buy a Amulet in Riften and mary Camilla valerius in Riverwood. Free house.

thenoobbomb wrote:Dark Apostle, you cant have killed them all. Delphine in the inn is necesary.

Dark Apostle 666 wrote:However, I do have a question, you see, I may have slightly slaughtered the population of riverwood and thrown their corpses into the river.

My question is: whether this means that I will have lost the chances to do certain quests - there's a few who won't die, I assume to do with quests, but I'm a little worried that my killing spree was poorly thought out...

(I've also murdered the family owning the whiterun stables.)

Backstab, +bad ass knife, + the 15x dagger bonus is fething awesome. Lately, Ive been trying to not use my bow in favor of sneaking up and slicing some throats.

Join the Dark Brotherhood and get yourself a pair of Shrouded Gloves for x30 dagger damage in total

The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:Got Skyrim few days ago and Im all over it. Im yet only a level 8 Argonian warrior with shield/blade combo. I just wonder where I can sell my damn dragon bones, since I yet have no money for a house

Id save your dragon bones until you get 100 smithing, you can make dragon armor and upgrade it which sells for ALLOT. Also dont bother "buying" a house, use the free house cheat (you still need to have the money for the house but you wont spend it).

how do you recharge things with soul gems (on 360)?

Select the weapon in your inventory, it should have a prompt at the bottom right telling you what button to press.

how do you select the weapon, just scroll down to it?

Yep, I play PC but it should be pretty much the same.

Avatar 720 wrote:Join the Dark Brotherhood and get yourself a pair of Shrouded Gloves for x30 dagger damage in total

How exactly does one join them? Ive read (quickly Ill admit) on some forum, and it didnt make much sense to me, so Ive been doing theives guild.

vodo40k wrote:

The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:Got Skyrim few days ago and Im all over it. Im yet only a level 8 Argonian warrior with shield/blade combo. I just wonder where I can sell my damn dragon bones, since I yet have no money for a house

Id save your dragon bones until you get 100 smithing, you can make dragon armor and upgrade it which sells for ALLOT. Also dont bother "buying" a house, use the free house cheat (you still need to have the money for the house but you wont spend it).

Explain this one? Id love to get a house and not pay for it. I burn through cash thanks to keeping my smithing up

You join the Dark Brotherhood by breaking into Aventus Arentino's house in Windhelm, killing Grelrod the Kind, and then waiting for the message from the Dark Brotherhood.

@Kingcracka

what you have to do is find the person who sells you the house, wait for them to fall asleep and then ask them to buy the house. The quickly exit the chat thingy and deposit all your cash in a drawer, box, crate etc whatever. You'll get the house and your money will still be there. However you stil need the right amount of money.

I tried to finish the main quest with my level 30+ wizard but when I use the elder scroll the scene just sort of freezes and doesn't finish and I tried doing the fixes online but I'm kind of fethed so I started a new character. I am now playing as a nordic werewolf warrior goddess by the name of Alice Wolf. Hopefully I can finish the main quest and a few other side quests with her and then I can start a 3rd character after that. Thinking of going with a dark elf.

Tbh for me that is a slight shame I have with Skyrim, other than the kids, which would be immune from my wrath anyways, and would cause a huge gakstorm news wise had they allowed it.

I'm a little annoyed they put 'Immortal' npc's in again. From previews leading up to the release I was under the impression they where gone, and in such cases a secondary relative would replace the first.

Just find it breaks the immersion a little, if I want a character who is a psycho, let me live with the concequences of killing key npc's.

Although its not so much for the'psycho' angle, its bugging me for example as my main character has taken a utter dislike/hatred of the Imperial scum in Solitude. She'd love to wipe the place out. However its not possible. It was doubly frustrating as I thought she'd killed one the other day, got him with a finishing move, but they still get back up after a few moments.

Other than that, I can't think of any other gripe that stands out at all, which is quite remarkable for such a big game.

well i got it for christmas finally......and this is the first time ive left my seat......

Coolyo294 wrote:You join the Dark Brotherhood by breaking into Aventus Arentino's house in Windhelm, killing Grelrod the Kind, and then waiting for the message from the Dark Brotherhood.

JohnnoM wrote:@Kingcracka

what you have to do is find the person who sells you the house, wait for them to fall asleep and then ask them to buy the house. The quickly exit the chat thingy and deposit all your cash in a drawer, box, crate etc whatever. You'll get the house and your money will still be there. However you stil need the right amount of money.

Thank you both for the replies! Ill join the brotherhood after I finished the theives guild quests. But Ill do the house thing ASAP, because Im getting sick of holding onto all this crap, because I dont want to just leave it in some random box or on the ground. I did that once in Oblivion, and later to my horror, discovered the game erased all my stuff from the containers.

I just paid a 1000 gold fine in Dawnstar because I killed a man accidentally while saving the city from a freaking Elder dragon... I get no respect

Alfndrate wrote:I just paid a 1000 gold fine in Dawnstar because I killed a man accidentally while saving the city from a freaking Elder dragon... I get no respect

Such is the life of the Dovahkiin....

lol.

vodo40k wrote:

Alfndrate wrote:I just paid a 1000 gold fine in Dawnstar because I killed a man accidentally while saving the city from a freaking Elder dragon... I get no respect

Such is the life of the Dovahkiin....

I know! It only left me with 65 thousand septims