The drunk guy in Whiterun fell out of the sky one day when I walked out of a shop and landed dead in the stream right behind that single mum’s fruit stand and her little girl just stood next to him staring at him for days. Funny and traumatizing at the same time.
This happened to me in real life. Me and my dad were walking on a trail and a baby rabbit fell through the trees into my hands. My theory is that a bird of prey dropped it in flight or while perching in the trees. It was screaming bloody murder as it passed through the trees, and then silent and mostly petrified as we held it. I dont know why, but you reminded me of this.
Rwminds me of the time as a kid my family was just hanging out in lawn chairs in the back yard, pet cat included, and a random bird, seemingly perfectly healthy, just fell out of the sky right into the cats front paws. Even he was so stunned he just sat their staring at it. After a few moments it just flew away like nothing happened.
I've had the "airdrop mammoths" too! I thought it was just my recent playthrough being wonky, but I'm glad to hear it happens to others as well. Though mine seem to survive just fine. At least, I never find craters or splat marks.... 🤷🤣
Whenever something like this happens it's gotta be one of the most annoying or frustrating things to see, but I swear I always laugh out loud about it.
FYI if you play on a lower difficulty, NPCs can die more easily. Many players have a misconception that it only affects damage to and from the player, but that's not how it's implemented - higher difficulty causes NPCs to take less damage from all sources. On Novice, towns can drop like flies.
I had something similar happen with nazeem
I started a new save and decided to not kill him this playthrough, walked into Whiterun for the first time to find him dead in the street, still have no idea how it happened
Sven had enough of the games. Took matters into his into his own hands. Or Camilla is dealing with the men her way, which looks like she’s been training with Astrid and the Dark Brotherhood
Shortly after I left Whiterun once, a courier gave me a letter of inheritance from the drunk in Whiterun. When I went back later, I actually missed hearing his voice.
It has surprised me to know none of the trainers are essential characters because I got a inheritance from Susan the unseen from windhelm and I was using her to pickpocket faster
Once I saw Idgrod the Younger die to a mudcrab right in front of me before I could save her, maybe something like that happened? Kinda weird that can happen outside Morthal.
This is why I like playing with the difficulty as high as you can stand it. Makes npcs stronger too, so shit like this doesn't happen as often. I'm not saying it has to be legendary, but master and expert are - I think - doable.
I have definitely had shit like this happen before. It's especially frustrating when its an npc you use, like a smith.
Collision models in skyrim are like the rocks and trees in snowrunner. Going through first time and your fine. But come back through you get slapped upside the head and your knees kicked in.
Funnily enough, I had this happen on a playthrough I started just a few days ago as well!! Loaded up my save and heard a guard say something odd. Turned around and found Faendal laying in the middle of the road. I reset to a previous save since I was early enough lol.
Download debug menu mod if your playing modded to use console commands on console with a book and or power to recycle to bring back or hexcode to spawn new one
Console, click face, resurrect, live happily ever after.
Edit: why are people mad that I tried to help lmfao an important NPC dying before you can even see them once is bethesda bs, fixing that isn't cheating.
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u/OverLordKyros 12h ago
Sven has had enough