My favourite was the Dark Elf taking everything except the boots. Like, after the armor itself, I'd argue the boots are the most important piece. Imagine walking around the colder parts of Skyrim in bare feet.
@@Erians777 one other option is if you joined the civil war either as imperials you can say general Tullius didn't put orders here or something along those lines and if you joined the stormcloaks you just tell them off but both will result in them fighting and killing them
The best part about the thugs disguised as Imperials is that if you're in the Legion yourself when you run into them you get a unique dialogue option where you grill them for being such obvious fakers.
Kinda of like the homeless veterans pretending to be veterans its called "stolen valor" They get shut down quickly when they can't answer basic knowledge about there ranks
Would be cool if you could actually recruit them if you were on your way to a SC controlled fort. "Alright legionaries! Form up! You're looking at Legate Hroffstedr, but you will refer to me as 'sir'! Now fall in and ready for the fight of your lives! This is the last fort before we march on windhelm! Do well and there are bonuses coming in your next pay!"
"If you are not here to grant me a good death, then you can leave" Me, after seeing three Saber Cats lying dead around him: "No, I don't think I will" *proceeds to get kill animation in reverse order
You can get a charmed necklace from that encounter. When he offers you a bottle of Honningbrew, if you have one in your inventory, you can offer it to him & he has a unique response & gives you an amulet that reduces your carry weight restrictions.
I had revelers outside of winterhold get replaced by vampires with the revelers corpses hidden just out of sight using the revelers clothing and act to lure people in to eat.
@@ThrE3-GeS I've actually had both types of encounters from the reveling drinkers in just one play-through, the more time you spend along the mountains just south of Solitude the more you see them (they must have a high spawn rate there). Once there were 3 fighting until 1 stood then started the normal prompt with me, a week later nearby there were 4 this time all laying dead next to a few dead Thalmor agents and 2 dead wolves - I had just missed whatever encounter they had with each other, one of the revelers had a couple bottles of mead they usually offer and the blessed necklace they always carry. All my other playthroughs with them have just been the standard encounter for them, I think the others are flukes.
@@gobbleygourdiscursed6782 it's a random encounter, can happen anywhere. I got a similar event about 2 days ago but it was a hunter who turned into a werewolves and started attacking me
The Flying Wizard seems to be a throwback to the Morrowind days. In Morrowind, there is this enchanter/wizard called Tarhiel, which you encounter him falling from the sky near a road not far from the starting point of the game. He has these scrolls that increase your acrobatics by 1000 points.
I'm so rich in my current playthrough. If I see Deep-In-His-Cups, in this playthrough, he's getting the 10,000 gold. He got the hat. Dude's a legend. Edit: It happened. I went from 140k to 130k. Definitely worth it. What will Deep-In-His-Cups do next?
I had an encounter where a boy walked up to me in the wild near a dwemer ruin, and he offered me dwemer scrap for some gold. I'm almost certain it wasn't a mod cause it was actually voiced like all the other kids
In one of my games the traveling pilgrim and her dog doesn't even travel anymore, she just stays outside of whiterun stables insulting him occasionally
If you follow the farmer with the cow to the giants camp, you see the delivery, and how fast the farmer runs away after. Also, follow the headless horseman.
Don't fast travel as much, stick to the roads, and don't just ride past everything on your horse. It won't take long to see most of these. Some have prerequisites though, like finishing a certain quest or having a certain item in your inventory. I think the Challenger wizard only shows up if you have a mage based skill at a certain level, for example.
That line "Skyrim was once the land of many butterflies!" is a reference to when Bethesda screwed up and disabled insect spawning in the overworld! I remember those days...dark times...
he makes jokes or comments about stuff that happened during each games development. like a glitch with infinite butterflies. or in oblivion about "billy" not fitting in a breadbox. if the community complained about something enough Maiq usually has a comment about it too. ie the comment about other people because the elder scrolls isn't co-op. in oblivion he has a comment about the lack of dragons or that he can now wear boots after the community hated the loss of beast feet
The false soldiers were fun to bump into the first time, as there had been a sabre cat they'd joined in on fighting with me. I was playing an Imperial (and planned to join the legion) so I was happy to meet what I thought was a small band of Imperials in a random encounter. Then I noticed the bodies. So I figured, to keep the corpses company, the thugs could join them.
I remember getting the Deeps-In-His-Cups encounter for the first time like 5 months ago, he stopped me near Rorikstead And then hours later i walk out of riften and i found his dead body, i was actually kinda sad since we were drinking buddies (even tho we forget)
i tried following him back to wherever he was going but he found me right outside whiterun and was headed waaaaay southeast (riften?) but he runs too fast to keep track of him and i had to give up lmao
If you kill something near a reveler (like a dragon or wolf) they have unique dialogue where they praise you and they will give you an expensive item instead of a beer. edit: I was mistaken.
assuming you didn't make it up, you either remember it wrong or had it modded but the latter is unlikely (why would someone mod a random encounter). So you remember it wrong.
Ive never encountered, Babette, dead bandit's horse, or the vampire ambush. Another encounter is when a bandit asks you to hold some random enchanted item, followed by a mercenary finding you and asking about it. You have the choice of denying or keeping the item between them
There's also the option of handing the enchanted item back to the person it got stolen from. Not only does he thank you for being honest and hunt the thief down, but he kills the prick who stole said weapon in the first place. Win-win.
20:40 Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red who came riding to Whiterun from ole Roriksteaad. And the braggart did swagger and brandish his blade As he told of bold battles and gold he had maade. But then he went quiet did Ragnar the Red when he met the shieldmaiden Matilda who saaaid, oh you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead now I think it's high time that you lie down and bleeeed. And so then came clashing and slashing of steel as the brave lass Matilda charged in full of zeal And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no mooooooore When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no more When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor
When it came to Taron Dreth, I made sure to have an empty Black Soul Gem and then killed Taron with the Mace Of Molag Bal. Afterwards, I used the Filled Black Soul Gem (with Taron’s soul inside) to recharge the Mace and sent the treacherous Taron to the Soul Cairn
Theres of a pair of boots that i dropped on a bridge outside honeying brew. Next time i was there they had floated up 15 ft in the air and thats where they stayed. I always look for my boots on the way by.
I was taking the hard way up a snowy mountain and stopped for a second, only for a dead horse to randomly spawn and start sliding down the mountain towards me.
Special mention about the drinking companions, you can actually offer them similar bottle of honningbrew if you have any in your inventory and they will give you an enhanced amulet. But if you offer them a bottle of black briar mead, they will eventually turn hostile and attack you
If you're dressed in nightingale armor or thieves guild armor for the thief encounter, he has different unique dialogue. In thieves guild armor, he says your his brother and gives you coin. You can also tell them you're in the thieves guild to stop him from fighting you If you're wearing nightingale armor, they'll say "Hail Nightingale! Luck has shined down on me and made me a rich man. Here is your cut, as promised. Good luck out there!"
He's called a liar by his familiars because he seems so be saying random stuff when in reality, he's teasing the next elder scrolls game. The Oblivion Maiq for example tells you that you're gonna meet dragons(which is seemingly a lie but comes true in Skyrim)
If you already have a bottle of Honningbrew Mead on you when you encounter the Revelers and offer them the bottle, that will get you a Charmed Necklace, a unique necklace with a Fortify Carry Weight enchantment that you can disenchant.
Yes, that's right. But it's only semi-unique. It's unique in the sense that's the only way to get it, but not unique in that there can be more than one in the same playthrough. You can run into the Revelers again, and provide a bottle of Honningbrew yet again. And other items that aren't unique can be disenchanted for the Fortify Carry Weight enchantment.
something that always bothered me was the lack of reputation, even if ur an dragonborn, legate,listener,guild master,arch mage,daedric worshipper and champion to all daedric lords, holder of powerful weapons and shouts, everyone will treat you like shit, which fits well for the shitstick i was in skyrim
The vigilants of Stendarr are funny to me. "Cavort with any Daedra, and we will hunt you down" like bitch, I have Cavorted with all of them, i am literally the champion of all the daedric lords, they all given me gifts lol
The student who wants you to use your Ward, so he can train. It would have been a funnier outcome, if Guards saw this, thought he was attacking you, and killed him.
The magic staff guy honestly just makes me sad because it only ends with you taking the staff from him or just exiting the dialogue. I really wish there was an option to be encouraging and give him a soulstone or a few to help him out.
There is another encounter you can get but out of the near 12 years I've been playing Skyrim, I think I've gotten it maybe 3 times. This guy will run to you for help saying he has been attacked by a vampire and he will ask for a potion to cure him of his infection. You can give him one or he will just go off looking for other people to help him.
I remember that encounter. And unless I'm mistaken, you had to lead Serana back to Castle Volkihar and accept the Vampire Lord's gift and/or have been contracted with Vampirism before. If you sided with the Dawnguard and destroyed the entirety of Volkihar post entering the Soul Cairn, you'd never get this encounter.
It's straight up an ode to Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, up to, and including Babette's name. Lestat the Vampire breaks a cardinal rule and turns a 10 year old child named Babette into a vampiric child. It's kind of sadistic, which fits the vibe of IWTV. If you haven't read it, I totally recommend reading the book.
@@alukenbachauthor worst part about it id definitely looking like a child, while being several hundred years old. You can't buy booze, can't do typical romantical vampire act and etc
@NiCoNiCoNiCola There are real adults who look like prepubescent children too. And yes, they DO have a very hard time finding love from anyone who isn't a depraved nonce.
You forgot a couple, Sigar, Namira's ring random encounter, then you forgot the bandits next to a dead woman who hoped to reclaim her stolen necklace, you also forgot a 2 CLASSICS, a group of stormcloak soldiers and a group of Legion solders, sometimes both at the same time fighting each other, or stormcloaks/legionnaires fighting Forsworn
I will never forget when I first seen the flying wizard me and my friend laughed till we cried. It's something we still bring up on occasion. Good times
11:20 "only the strong survive them" they aren't wrong on that, I had killed alduwin, mirak and the vampire lord with ease and yet still died to one on its own
You know you’ve played hundreds of hours of Skyrim when you remember every single encounter in this video. This was really refreshing and fun to see again.
The Dark Brotherhood encounter actually proved that you were the original contract the whole time and the abandoned shack test was a way to clear it and join the ranks (none of the three captives actually had a contract on them).
I think it occurs when you offended people throughout ur play, similar to the hired thugs for example. Because I had several DB assassins after me during my journey before I even spoke to Aventus and have not even stepped inside the orphanage.
There's one you missed where a wandering Chef called Balbus will tell you that he's collecting ingredients to give to the Gourmet because he's his biggest fan. If you've advanced far enough through the dark brotherhood questline then you can impersonate the gourmet and he'll give you some exotic ingredients, or if you kill him he'll drop a unique named item called Balbus' fork.
8:50 Wow I never knew that remaining silent would atill result in the Thalmor Justiciers attacking you lol. No matter which option you pick, they try to kill you.
Apparently, it is. I've learned the whole Ice Form shout and am going to do the Dragonborn DLC soon, so I'll try it out. There's probably no special dialogue, but I wanna try anyway.
In one file I was a Greatsword user, but I also used Alteration for the Flesh spells. As I was leaving Jorvaskrr one time for a Companions mission, the asshole ambushed me, insulted me and proceeded to kill me half a dozen times with Fireball’s. I was not a very happy Dragonborn that day
I love how I’ve gotten most of these encounters even though I haven’t played much Skyrim, I just hardly fast travel 😂 also, with the revellers, if you say something along the lines of “why have one drink when you can have two?” He’ll compliment you on your drinking spirit and kindness and give you a gift! A charmed necklace, not sure if it changes at higher levels 😃
About that wizard challenger. I never met him at all until my 4th or 5th playthrough. In which I had no idea what going on and smash him with my sword all the same.
I always enjoy coming across the Revelers. They're so friendly & give me a drink for free! They're probably drunk ofc, but I still quite like that interaction. Just some guys wanting to share with a traveler.
When you try to ask the thief, “Does it look like I have gold?” There’s actually a second response if you look raggedy and have little to no armor on with a basic weapon. He says something like, “Now that you mention it, no you don’t. Get out of my sight”
Surprised they didn't include The Traveler. I guess it is because there's no dialogue with him, he just attacks. When you meet the Revelers choose the option to share your Honningbrew mead with them (assuming you have some), they will offer you a necklace that give you a +25 fortify carry weight.
I've gotten Deep In His Cups twice in one playthrough. The second time he came up while I was fighting a dragon which got me killed since his dialog left me frozen while the dragon attacked.
Had anyone else discovered that lighthouse that had the daedric creatures that ate and slaughtered a whole family it was definitely one of the scariest moments in skyrim for me.
The permanent random encounters (before the patch) are Balbus, Old Orc, Frightened Woman, Revelers, Aspiring Mage, Ardwen, and Sigar. Most of the encounters which are shown here are not unique. A unique encounter is when a requirement is met or completed such as Deep-In-His-Cups after A Night to Remember is done.
That makes sense. I have a mod that makes these random encounters occur a bit more frequently to liven up the province a bit. Luckily it only effects the appearance of NPCs without a name such as “old Orc” or “frightened woman”. Wouldn’t Ardwen be a unique encounter because it only happens when you’ve completed the Gildergleem? Wouldn’t Sigar also be a unique encounter because he only appears after you become the Champion of Namira?
@@biggestbigman4367 Of course, Ardwen (appears if you take Danica Pure-Spring approach) and Sigar are unique encounters but unlike other unique random encounters, these NPC's are not deleted from the game unless killed. Sigar is very interesting as he is the only NPC you can move into your home in Raven Rock, as long as you move the dead female High Elf there with the dead thrall spell, he will follow. For Ardwen, kindly escort her and the dog all the way near the wagon in front of White Run where she stays for the remainder of the game.
Thalmor are just salty a man achieved godhood before they did. Considering they already believe that Altmer are the Tamriel equivalent to angels who got tricked out of immortality by Lorkhan (the god who created men), you can bet your ass they'd be enforcing Talos's worship if he was an Altmer.
I once encountered skooma dealer with fullset of dragonscale armor, me like, Damn boi, how did you get that, even eorland grey man don't have have stock like that
Also if you meet thief in Skyrim while be a member of thief’s guild you can tell him about it and he will free you. Also if you have equipped thief’s guild armor he will give gold to you
5:46 Wait, he’s heading to high rock. Bethesda hinted the next elder scrolls map would consist of both countries of high rock and hammerfell, this could mean only one thing. Todd Howard, you’ve done it again
@@imma5269 modern day Bethesda would never acknowledge Daggerfall, cause people would play it and be like "why the fuck cant you do half of this stuff anymore?"
I was only about level 7 on my second playthrough when I encountered the Old Orc. I felt sympathetic to his plight, and offered to fight him. Holy crap, it was actually a fierce battle! In the end, I think I had maybe 5% hp left when I got my first cinematic of the game, jumping up and stabbing him in the chest! I won't lie, I actually bowed to the old orc.
@@dono2926You just have to be good at staying the right distance away to avoid getting hit, or if you're a mage past level 30 you'll be overpowered anyway. Battles are long but I prefer that.
Goddamit, Jeremy Soule. Why is your music so captivating? OKAY, guess I'll browse Nexus and reinstall Skyrim a 15000 time to see all of these encounters again and hear that soundtrack!
I’m remembering an encounter, possibly linked with Dawnguard dlc where a creepy mage vampire approaches you in any random town then attacks after some dialogue from him that I forget now, it was a long time ago.
10:50 I actually met those once near the spot where you most likely fight your first giant (near Whiterun). The funny thing is that the giant was there as well, slowly creeping closer and closer and eventually clobbered the Farmer during our conversation. He... did not survived it (nor the giant).
Yesterday I realized you can spare the milkdrinker encounter guy. When he pops the potion and gets downed you can sheath your weapon and he will give up and run away.
I’ve been playing since release on ps3 but a few weeks ago i finally got the Babette cut scene when i was running around as a werewolf. I had no idea it was her until she was like hey! I was like whaaaaaat
19:40 what you called " the dead bandit and his horse" is acutally 2 bandits attacking a merchant and his horse, the merchant gets of his horse and dies most times pretty quickly, but the horse(immortal?!) kills always the 2 bandits and just simply stands there after, the last bandit dies. finding the merchant is sometimes hard because he flees very often and can be very far away from the horse. he has a lot of stuff in his inventory!
I like how the thugs dressed as soldiers aren’t even very rude just nervous
My favourite was the Dark Elf taking everything except the boots.
Like, after the armor itself, I'd argue the boots are the most important piece. Imagine walking around the colder parts of Skyrim in bare feet.
I allways liked to have a persuade option if your are "thane/hight lv, etc" of the city ruling those lands where u encounter them.
@@Erians777oh, which option is that?
@@Erians777 one other option is if you joined the civil war either as imperials you can say general Tullius didn't put orders here or something along those lines and if you joined the stormcloaks you just tell them off but both will result in them fighting and killing them
Bro it’s funny 😂 I wish if you were in full daedric armor or dragon armor they should have said OH SHIT THATS THE DRAGONBORN RUN
The best part about the thugs disguised as Imperials is that if you're in the Legion yourself when you run into them you get a unique dialogue option where you grill them for being such obvious fakers.
😮 noice
@@aiko0928 If you're a Stormcloak there is also unique dialogue where you attack them
Kinda of like the homeless veterans pretending to be veterans its called "stolen valor" They get shut down quickly when they can't answer basic knowledge about there ranks
@@burgerwolfbrown735"Three Imperials versus one Stormcloak? I like those odds"
Would be cool if you could actually recruit them if you were on your way to a SC controlled fort.
"Alright legionaries! Form up! You're looking at Legate Hroffstedr, but you will refer to me as 'sir'! Now fall in and ready for the fight of your lives! This is the last fort before we march on windhelm! Do well and there are bonuses coming in your next pay!"
-"M'aiq is tired now, go bother someone else"
-"ok"*cuts to bothering the old orc*
"If you are not here to grant me a good death, then you can leave"
Me, after seeing three Saber Cats lying dead around him: "No, I don't think I will" *proceeds to get kill animation in reverse order
One time I found the Drinking Revelers literally beating each other to death for no reason. The one that remained alive then gave me a bottle of mead.
You can get a charmed necklace from that encounter.
When he offers you a bottle of Honningbrew, if you have one in your inventory, you can offer it to him & he has a unique response & gives you an amulet that reduces your carry weight restrictions.
I had revelers outside of winterhold get replaced by vampires with the revelers corpses hidden just out of sight using the revelers clothing and act to lure people in to eat.
@@UA-camcanfuckagoat yes i robbed it from him, still in my inventory
@@Adierit are you sure they didn‘t had the cloths from the vigilants of stendarr with 3 dead bodies nearby?
@@ThrE3-GeS
I've actually had both types of encounters from the reveling drinkers in just one play-through, the more time you spend along the mountains just south of Solitude the more you see them (they must have a high spawn rate there). Once there were 3 fighting until 1 stood then started the normal prompt with me, a week later nearby there were 4 this time all laying dead next to a few dead Thalmor agents and 2 dead wolves - I had just missed whatever encounter they had with each other, one of the revelers had a couple bottles of mead they usually offer and the blessed necklace they always carry.
All my other playthroughs with them have just been the standard encounter for them, I think the others are flukes.
There is also a farmer you can found, at the day time he is very friendly, at night he turns into a werewolf.
Similar to beorn then from the hobbit but just not a bear
@@ninjabrycelee3066 there's also random werebears to be found in Solstheim
Wait.. where and whats the npc name
where?
@@gobbleygourdiscursed6782 it's a random encounter, can happen anywhere. I got a similar event about 2 days ago but it was a hunter who turned into a werewolves and started attacking me
The Flying Wizard seems to be a throwback to the Morrowind days. In Morrowind, there is this enchanter/wizard called Tarhiel, which you encounter him falling from the sky near a road not far from the starting point of the game. He has these scrolls that increase your acrobatics by 1000 points.
Scroll of Icarian flight.
Scrolls that wear off just before landing, so splat
@@HandleDisliker Yep! You gotta use another one before you land.
@@highmedic2351 or land in the water.
If you talk to him before he hits the ground he just says “I don’t even want to talk about it.”
I'm so rich in my current playthrough. If I see Deep-In-His-Cups, in this playthrough, he's getting the 10,000 gold. He got the hat. Dude's a legend.
Edit: It happened. I went from 140k to 130k. Definitely worth it. What will Deep-In-His-Cups do next?
What was the hat? Was it unique
@@chrismoran2896 na, he's just a person of his word
I had like 300,000 and did the same. I was like “hell yeah, dude, here’s that money!”
I gave him 750 and robbed it back afterwards ^^ but boy is the guy fast
Deep in his cups is the loosest unit
After the wedding assassination you can see the same group wandering around, they never got to the wedding, got robbed, and are trying to go home.
Lol!
Someone should follow them around & see their routes
Yes hahaha I love that
16:35 damn he's such a good bard that he can play the lute without even having one
its play back bro!
He's making the lute sound with his mouth
Ironically I just got randomly attacked by him as I loaded up my game a few hours ago lol
Skyrim's Michael Winslow
Bloody bards these days, all using backing tracks :P
I love this video cuz it just shows you the encounters, no music, no panorama, no narrator trying to bloat it with filler lol
I had an encounter where a boy walked up to me in the wild near a dwemer ruin, and he offered me dwemer scrap for some gold. I'm almost certain it wasn't a mod cause it was actually voiced like all the other kids
You're right, it's in basic game.
I ran into them near an orc camp.
Yeah those kids run near markarth's orc stronghold. Quite ballsy since the reach is the most dangerous place in Skyrim with all the reachmen and such
Yes i run upon them as well
In the eleven years Skyrim has been out I have never encountered those two kids.
In one of my games the traveling pilgrim and her dog doesn't even travel anymore, she just stays outside of whiterun stables insulting him occasionally
mine too except she's in riften
Stupid dog.
That happened to me in my current run, she is beside the stable verbally abusing the poor dog.
probably warmer than being stuck at one of the shrines on the way to high hrothgar
That happens to me every playthrough.
If you follow the farmer with the cow to the giants camp, you see the delivery, and how fast the farmer runs away after. Also, follow the headless horseman.
Why?
@@xx_mr.valentine_xx6857 Headless horseman leads you to his grave and some good stuff.
he just leads you to a cemetery or something and get ambushed by a bunch of skeletons iirc
@@cataclysm7256 I think there is a master locked chest and an enchanted helm or something.
@cataclysm7256 he leads you to a chest? I followed him once and he just led me in a circle
the random encounters is what made this game so fun for me
As a skyrim player who have been playing since 2017, I can confidently say that this video shows me that I still haven't played enough skyrim.
Don't fast travel as much, stick to the roads, and don't just ride past everything on your horse. It won't take long to see most of these. Some have prerequisites though, like finishing a certain quest or having a certain item in your inventory. I think the Challenger wizard only shows up if you have a mage based skill at a certain level, for example.
@@whimsicalstray thanks for the tip! I'll try to minimise my use of fast travel.
Ikr, who tf is deep-in-his-cups
2017? Those are rookie numbers
I had the game in 2012 on my ps3 and I have legendary edition now on my ps4 and I still haven’t seen everything (especially now with all the content)
That line "Skyrim was once the land of many butterflies!" is a reference to when Bethesda screwed up and disabled insect spawning in the overworld! I remember those days...dark times...
That's amazing 😂
I laugh a bit too hard every time I find M'aiq, which I actually believe is a secret daedra lord.
Isn’t he the kind of hammer that breaks the fourth wall?
he makes jokes or comments about stuff that happened during each games development. like a glitch with infinite butterflies. or in oblivion about "billy" not fitting in a breadbox. if the community complained about something enough Maiq usually has a comment about it too. ie the comment about other people because the elder scrolls isn't co-op. in oblivion he has a comment about the lack of dragons or that he can now wear boots after the community hated the loss of beast feet
@@MrOsmodeus "What does it mean to combine magic? Magic plus magic is still magic" 🤣
@@HittokiriBattousai17 he’s not wrong. It’s just a more powerful magic
I love chatting with M'aiq. One of his dialogues is about breaking weapons. Touching the durability system in Oblivion.
The false soldiers were fun to bump into the first time, as there had been a sabre cat they'd joined in on fighting with me. I was playing an Imperial (and planned to join the legion) so I was happy to meet what I thought was a small band of Imperials in a random encounter.
Then I noticed the bodies. So I figured, to keep the corpses company, the thugs could join them.
m'aiq the liar is definitely my favourite, i'm always bumping into him and his dialog is quite funny
He once had 24 bottles of skooma on him. You can pickpocket him without a bounty
@@Notmiddleg I did that a few weeks ago, it makes me wonder if all the things he says are under the influence of skooma
There's a long video covering his lore over multiple ES games
I remember getting the Deeps-In-His-Cups encounter for the first time like 5 months ago, he stopped me near Rorikstead
And then hours later i walk out of riften and i found his dead body, i was actually kinda sad since we were drinking buddies (even tho we forget)
Now hes Deeps-In-The-Ground
@@BradleyCTurner your comment has put me deeps-in-my-feels
@@BradleyCTurneryour comment made me laugh I'm about to be Deeps-In-This-Hell for that 💀
i tried following him back to wherever he was going but he found me right outside whiterun and was headed waaaaay southeast (riften?) but he runs too fast to keep track of him and i had to give up lmao
If you kill something near a reveler (like a dragon or wolf) they have unique dialogue where they praise you and they will give you an expensive item instead of a beer.
edit: I was mistaken.
I think they only give you the item if you offer them Honningbrew Mead
@@meow1136 no there's a specific voice line that they say where they directly address you killing a wolf or thief.
Edit: iirc
They give you a charmed necklace for a bottle of honningbrew
Also trying to give them Black-Briar Mead will show their disgust and decline it
assuming you didn't make it up, you either remember it wrong or had it modded but the latter is unlikely (why would someone mod a random encounter). So you remember it wrong.
1:00 You can see the looted bodies of the imperial soldiers in the background.
Ive never encountered, Babette, dead bandit's horse, or the vampire ambush.
Another encounter is when a bandit asks you to hold some random enchanted item, followed by a mercenary finding you and asking about it. You have the choice of denying or keeping the item between them
Babette can be encountered if you go down the dark brotherhood quest line
to encounter babette you need to have finished the dark brotherhood questline and have the dawnguard dlc
There's also the option of handing the enchanted item back to the person it got stolen from. Not only does he thank you for being honest and hunt the thief down, but he kills the prick who stole said weapon in the first place. Win-win.
20:40
Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red who came riding to Whiterun from ole Roriksteaad. And the braggart did swagger and brandish his blade
As he told of bold battles and gold he had maade. But then he went quiet did Ragnar the Red when he met the shieldmaiden Matilda who saaaid, oh you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead now I think it's high time that you lie down and bleeeed. And so then came clashing and slashing of steel as the brave lass Matilda charged in full of zeal
And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no mooooooore
When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor
And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no more
When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor
😅
Guess Matilda is in trouble now
When it came to Taron Dreth, I made sure to have an empty Black Soul Gem and then killed Taron with the Mace Of Molag Bal. Afterwards, I used the Filled Black Soul Gem (with Taron’s soul inside) to recharge the Mace and sent the treacherous Taron to the Soul Cairn
Based
@@zalldeokami3497 considering what he’d done, he deserved it
"No Azura for you, buttmunch"
@@JorgeTorres-vr6zt I’ve been called worse. (Edit) And I’m more of a Mephala follower than Azura anyway
@crimsonmaelstrom573 well. Taron Dreth is a Dunmer, and Dunmer usually follow Azura. I was talking to a hypothetical Taron in this case :o
I was entering a cave and out of nowhere, a bandit fell from the sky right in front of me, great game.
Theres of a pair of boots that i dropped on a bridge outside honeying brew. Next time i was there they had floated up 15 ft in the air and thats where they stayed. I always look for my boots on the way by.
I was taking the hard way up a snowy mountain and stopped for a second, only for a dead horse to randomly spawn and start sliding down the mountain towards me.
Special mention about the drinking companions, you can actually offer them similar bottle of honningbrew if you have any in your inventory and they will give you an enhanced amulet. But if you offer them a bottle of black briar mead, they will eventually turn hostile and attack you
If you come near me with that unholy mud I would attack you too
0:00
Me: *In Solvenguard.* "Was it worth it?"
Wizard: "Yes!"
If you tell the Stray Dog to go home and then follow him, he'll lead you to a small shack with his dead owner and a note
M'aiq be spitting fax
so he's a fax machine
So true!! I love M’aiq!! 😼😼😎😮💨💯🔥
Very true. Skyrim is super tolerant, trust.
If you're dressed in nightingale armor or thieves guild armor for the thief encounter, he has different unique dialogue.
In thieves guild armor, he says your his brother and gives you coin. You can also tell them you're in the thieves guild to stop him from fighting you
If you're wearing nightingale armor, they'll say "Hail Nightingale! Luck has shined down on me and made me a rich man. Here is your cut, as promised. Good luck out there!"
“M’aiq is tired now. Go bother someone else”
But your name is the Liar, TELL ME MORE!
He's called a liar by his familiars because he seems so be saying random stuff when in reality, he's teasing the next elder scrolls game. The Oblivion Maiq for example tells you that you're gonna meet dragons(which is seemingly a lie but comes true in Skyrim)
If you already have a bottle of Honningbrew Mead on you when you encounter the Revelers and offer them the bottle, that will get you a Charmed Necklace, a unique necklace with a Fortify Carry Weight enchantment that you can disenchant.
Yes, that's right. But it's only semi-unique. It's unique in the sense that's the only way to get it, but not unique in that there can be more than one in the same playthrough. You can run into the Revelers again, and provide a bottle of Honningbrew yet again. And other items that aren't unique can be disenchanted for the Fortify Carry Weight enchantment.
something that always bothered me was the lack of reputation, even if ur an dragonborn, legate,listener,guild master,arch mage,daedric worshipper and champion to all daedric lords, holder of powerful weapons and shouts, everyone will treat you like shit, which fits well for the shitstick i was in skyrim
Praise the mods then, good mods, sweet 1000 mods for mild modded playthrough
Halt! You are under arrest for killing the chicken in Riverwood!
@@aiko0928 Guard: What say you in your defence?
Me "Chicken is yummy"
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If you don't kill every group of Thalmor you come across then I can't be seen associating with you.
They're so tough tho😭 and then they send people after me 💀
@nuru889 simple send those people to the soul cairn
@@Robin_hsr12late reply but I just trap them in my soul crystals forgot the name of them then smack it into a daedric great sword
The vigilants of Stendarr are funny to me. "Cavort with any Daedra, and we will hunt you down" like bitch, I have Cavorted with all of them, i am literally the champion of all the daedric lords, they all given me gifts lol
I was wearing the daedric armor, had the Dawnbreaker sword in hand and Azuras Star in my inventory and had one say that line. 😂😂
This sneaky lizard creeping up from the distance just broke me. Haven't laughed like this in a long time
I've been playing skyrim for over ten years and I still find things that I've never seen before, just amazing!
The student who wants you to use your Ward, so he can train. It would have been a funnier outcome, if Guards saw this, thought he was attacking you, and killed him.
*IM FLYING, IM REALLY FLYING!*
_Falls from the sky_
Wut-
*Dies* 💀
The magic staff guy honestly just makes me sad because it only ends with you taking the staff from him or just exiting the dialogue. I really wish there was an option to be encouraging and give him a soulstone or a few to help him out.
Deep-In-His-Cups deserves the money
There is another encounter you can get but out of the near 12 years I've been playing Skyrim, I think I've gotten it maybe 3 times. This guy will run to you for help saying he has been attacked by a vampire and he will ask for a potion to cure him of his infection. You can give him one or he will just go off looking for other people to help him.
I remember that encounter. And unless I'm mistaken, you had to lead Serana back to Castle Volkihar and accept the Vampire Lord's gift and/or have been contracted with Vampirism before. If you sided with the Dawnguard and destroyed the entirety of Volkihar post entering the Soul Cairn, you'd never get this encounter.
lol i love the concept behind babette adorable yet terrifyingly deceiving character
It's straight up an ode to Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, up to, and including Babette's name. Lestat the Vampire breaks a cardinal rule and turns a 10 year old child named Babette into a vampiric child. It's kind of sadistic, which fits the vibe of IWTV. If you haven't read it, I totally recommend reading the book.
@@alukenbachauthor worst part about it id definitely looking like a child, while being several hundred years old. You can't buy booze, can't do typical romantical vampire act and etc
@NiCoNiCoNiCola There are real adults who look like prepubescent children too. And yes, they DO have a very hard time finding love from anyone who isn't a depraved nonce.
A great book, indeed! Psychology is deep there. The movie is also as delightful.
You forgot a couple, Sigar, Namira's ring random encounter, then you forgot the bandits next to a dead woman who hoped to reclaim her stolen necklace, you also forgot a 2 CLASSICS, a group of stormcloak soldiers and a group of Legion solders, sometimes both at the same time fighting each other, or stormcloaks/legionnaires fighting Forsworn
I will never forget when I first seen the flying wizard me and my friend laughed till we cried. It's something we still bring up on occasion. Good times
11:20 "only the strong survive them" they aren't wrong on that, I had killed alduwin, mirak and the vampire lord with ease and yet still died to one on its own
Those jellyfishes hit so hard. I'd rather not fight one at close range so i hit it from afar.
Another Happy Landing
I never got the drunken argonian, that's amazing!!! I've played 2000 + hours of it
You get it after completing the quest "A night to remember"
I haven’t either, but I know it exists. Funny, I tried not to fast travel the last time I played, but I didn’t stay on the roads too much either.
You know you’ve played hundreds of hours of Skyrim when you remember every single encounter in this video. This was really refreshing and fun to see again.
The Dark Brotherhood encounter actually proved that you were the original contract the whole time and the abandoned shack test was a way to clear it and join the ranks (none of the three captives actually had a contract on them).
Elder scrolls detective?
Not true, if you use the spell that shows you the path to your goal - Clairvoyance - it points out to the one on the right.
@@ivanoliveira9551Not true either. It's random
@@gerardwayseyelashDebunked. I have had several times used Clairvoyance, they all lead to Vasha, the Khajit merchant.
I think it occurs when you offended people throughout ur play, similar to the hired thugs for example.
Because I had several DB assassins after me during my journey before I even spoke to Aventus and have not even stepped inside the orphanage.
There's one you missed where a wandering Chef called Balbus will tell you that he's collecting ingredients to give to the Gourmet because he's his biggest fan. If you've advanced far enough through the dark brotherhood questline then you can impersonate the gourmet and he'll give you some exotic ingredients, or if you kill him he'll drop a unique named item called Balbus' fork.
8:50 Wow I never knew that remaining silent would atill result in the Thalmor Justiciers attacking you lol. No matter which option you pick, they try to kill you.
Mad respect for the old orc
"Im not on the age to pick wives so ill die"
I wonder if it's possible to paralyze the flying wizard with an arrow before he hits the ground and save him.
Yes it is.
You can also save him by hitting him with the Ice Form shout before he lands.
It is. You need good aim
Apparently, it is. I've learned the whole Ice Form shout and am going to do the Dragonborn DLC soon, so I'll try it out. There's probably no special dialogue, but I wanna try anyway.
@@Notmiddleglate but of you stand more underneath him it makes your odds better
Im glad im not the only one who got absolutely mullered after coming across the mage challenger. Really put me in my place 😂
In one file I was a Greatsword user, but I also used Alteration for the Flesh spells. As I was leaving Jorvaskrr one time for a Companions mission, the asshole ambushed me, insulted me and proceeded to kill me half a dozen times with Fireball’s. I was not a very happy Dragonborn that day
I love how I’ve gotten most of these encounters even though I haven’t played much Skyrim, I just hardly fast travel 😂 also, with the revellers, if you say something along the lines of “why have one drink when you can have two?” He’ll compliment you on your drinking spirit and kindness and give you a gift! A charmed necklace, not sure if it changes at higher levels 😃
If you offer them Blackbriar Mead they'll get mad at you
@@barsbay7598 don't blame them, Maven Black-Briar can go to heck 🤣🤣
@@simonemichelleI don't just steal her horse. I try and kill it
About that wizard challenger. I never met him at all until my 4th or 5th playthrough. In which I had no idea what going on and smash him with my sword all the same.
The drinkers will give you a sweet carry weight pendant if you instead say why not have two and give them a bottle of Honningbrew mead yourself.
I always enjoy coming across the Revelers. They're so friendly & give me a drink for free! They're probably drunk ofc, but I still quite like that interaction. Just some guys wanting to share with a traveler.
Poor Courage even in skyrim he is being told his stupid :(
Stupid dog!
12:28 - I told you, it's the wedding of ✨VITTORIA VINCI✨
When you try to ask the thief, “Does it look like I have gold?” There’s actually a second response if you look raggedy and have little to no armor on with a basic weapon. He says something like, “Now that you mention it, no you don’t. Get out of my sight”
Surprised they didn't include The Traveler. I guess it is because there's no dialogue with him, he just attacks.
When you meet the Revelers choose the option to share your Honningbrew mead with them (assuming you have some), they will offer you a necklace that give you a +25 fortify carry weight.
I've gotten Deep In His Cups twice in one playthrough. The second time he came up while I was fighting a dragon which got me killed since his dialog left me frozen while the dragon attacked.
Be honest guys, was that the first time any of you have heard the Thief's dialogue for giving him the gold?
Had anyone else discovered that lighthouse that had the daedric creatures that ate and slaughtered a whole family it was definitely one of the scariest moments in skyrim for me.
im not sure if Charaus are daedric, dunno tho they might be
That was a horrifying quest
I think it was falmer if I’m not mistaken
How nostalgic.. i wish i could go back to 2011 when i first played this game after getting it on christmas morning 😔
In the thousands of hours I’ve put into Skyrim. I am shocked to have never seen that one mage shoot up into the sky
The permanent random encounters (before the patch) are Balbus, Old Orc, Frightened Woman, Revelers, Aspiring Mage, Ardwen, and Sigar. Most of the encounters which are shown here are not unique. A unique encounter is when a requirement is met or completed such as Deep-In-His-Cups after A Night to Remember is done.
if a requirement is needed to be met then how is it random.
That makes sense. I have a mod that makes these random encounters occur a bit more frequently to liven up the province a bit. Luckily it only effects the appearance of NPCs without a name such as “old Orc” or “frightened woman”. Wouldn’t Ardwen be a unique encounter because it only happens when you’ve completed the Gildergleem? Wouldn’t Sigar also be a unique encounter because he only appears after you become the Champion of Namira?
@@biggestbigman4367 Of course, Ardwen (appears if you take Danica Pure-Spring approach) and Sigar are unique encounters but unlike other unique random encounters, these NPC's are not deleted from the game unless killed. Sigar is very interesting as he is the only NPC you can move into your home in Raven Rock, as long as you move the dead female High Elf there with the dead thrall spell, he will follow. For Ardwen, kindly escort her and the dog all the way near the wagon in front of White Run where she stays for the remainder of the game.
Seems like ur talking about scripted encounters
Awesome vids as always! Keep making more
I never noticed the sound effects in Solstheim. The same howling from Morrowind.
Totally, beautifuly haunting...
The wizard challenger woke up and chose violence😂
16:36 impressive how he can mimic the sound of a lute with his mouth while singing
The people of Skyrim are more open-minded about certain things than other people in other places", yes ! Thank you Mai'q !
Thalmor are just salty a man achieved godhood before they did.
Considering they already believe that Altmer are the Tamriel equivalent to angels who got tricked out of immortality by Lorkhan (the god who created men), you can bet your ass they'd be enforcing Talos's worship if he was an Altmer.
I once encountered skooma dealer with fullset of dragonscale armor, me like, Damn boi, how did you get that, even eorland grey man don't have have stock like that
He's very rich.
Also if you meet thief in Skyrim while be a member of thief’s guild you can tell him about it and he will free you. Also if you have equipped thief’s guild armor he will give gold to you
Nightingale Armor* not just thieves guild.
Late reply but why not kill them and take everything
5:46
Wait, he’s heading to high rock. Bethesda hinted the next elder scrolls map would consist of both countries of high rock and hammerfell, this could mean only one thing.
Todd Howard, you’ve done it again
Daggerfall was set in high rock and hammerfell, would be surprised if that was the setting of 6
@@imma5269 Yeah, but only in the illiac bay.
@@imma5269 modern day Bethesda would never acknowledge Daggerfall, cause people would play it and be like "why the fuck cant you do half of this stuff anymore?"
@@imma5269 Hammerfall has been the next ideal area, mainly because they’re independent of High Elf control.
I was only about level 7 on my second playthrough when I encountered the Old Orc. I felt sympathetic to his plight, and offered to fight him.
Holy crap, it was actually a fierce battle! In the end, I think I had maybe 5% hp left when I got my first cinematic of the game, jumping up and stabbing him in the chest! I won't lie, I actually bowed to the old orc.
Here's your crown of battle, king 👑
What difficulty were you on? I couldn't kill this dude.
@@dono2926 I was on Adept for that one, as is typical for me. I only ever did one Expert playthrough, and I've never even touched Master
@@shaggyleegaming7068 Master and Legendary aren't worth it tbh, it turns fights with bandits into death matches.
@@dono2926You just have to be good at staying the right distance away to avoid getting hit, or if you're a mage past level 30 you'll be overpowered anyway. Battles are long but I prefer that.
6:55 a sabre cat attacked when I found this and I thought the mead was poisonous because one of them was dead with. It in his inventory
Goddamit, Jeremy Soule. Why is your music so captivating?
OKAY, guess I'll browse Nexus and reinstall Skyrim a 15000 time to see all of these encounters again and hear that soundtrack!
good call
I’m remembering an encounter, possibly linked with Dawnguard dlc where a creepy mage vampire approaches you in any random town then attacks after some dialogue from him that I forget now, it was a long time ago.
When I first saw Babette outnin the wild. I thought she was just a lost kid. Her being kid definitely work to fool people
I’m glad I’m not the only one that instantly died to the challenger lmao
15:06 5 gold lmao the stingy dragonborn
I love M'aiq the Lair. Bro is WISE
10:50 I actually met those once near the spot where you most likely fight your first giant (near Whiterun). The funny thing is that the giant was there as well, slowly creeping closer and closer and eventually clobbered the Farmer during our conversation. He... did not survived it (nor the giant).
that wizard at the end is such a chad. sweeping the snow in minimal clothing, challenges the dragonborn, fucks him up, leaves.
well there seems to be only one I have not encountered. Been playing this game since the first time it came out. Thanks for sharing.
8:53 I give you Sithis' silence, and you try to send me to him? You first, sheep! *one-shots all 3 Thalmor with Mehrunes' Razor* 👿
It wasn't just only redguard "milk drinker" it can be Nord as well.
Yesterday I realized you can spare the milkdrinker encounter guy. When he pops the potion and gets downed you can sheath your weapon and he will give up and run away.
If a thief tries to rob you when you’re the leader of the thieves guild, you can grill him for doing it and he gets scared :)
I’ve been playing since release on ps3 but a few weeks ago i finally got the Babette cut scene when i was running around as a werewolf. I had no idea it was her until she was like hey! I was like whaaaaaat
19:40 what you called " the dead bandit and his horse" is acutally 2 bandits attacking a merchant and his horse, the merchant gets of his horse and dies most times pretty quickly, but the horse(immortal?!) kills always the 2 bandits and just simply stands there after, the last bandit dies. finding the merchant is sometimes hard because he flees very often and can be very far away from the horse. he has a lot of stuff in his inventory!
i love little things like these in videogames!
There's also the theif that stole the magic item and the hunter looking for him and the woman bitten by vampires. Also the Ebony Warrior.
That took a lot of time to pull together... thank you
The flying wizard is surely a reference to Morrowind
Considering where it happens, 100%