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[Trapezohedron]

I love how the Skyrim Guards think they still have psychic powers.

I am sorry but only Cyrodil guards have magic psychic "find the perp" powers.

Actually, they're at Dabbling in psychic skills. My assassin summons a bow, kills a target, and cloaks in quick succession while hidden. Then the guards, when they see the scene of the crime, alert every single one in town instantly, and when I uncloak, far away from the target's corpse, they still kill me.

I had to use a calming spell to make them realize the error of their ways.

[Dutchling]

Found a lich guarding one of those walls containing power words. After dying twice I just walked to the wall, learned three words and walked away. Lich is sad.
I still need to to the main quest in order to actually use the words but at least I have three more reasons to kill dragons

[Neonivek]

Found a lich guarding one of those walls containing power words. After dying twice I just walked to the wall, learned three words and walked away. Lich is sad.
I still need to to the main quest in order to actually use the words but at least I have three more reasons to kill dragons

Ohh that wasn't a Lich. Too bad you didn't kill it though the reward is decent I guess.

Then again... It is tough to kill it.

Also I fought my first "Resistant to everything" boss. I couldn't hurt it until I summoned a bow and fired at it.

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The most hillarious part of Skyrim that gets to me everytime is that the quest rewards are often EXTREMELY disproportionate to what you actually did.

"Thank you for delivering my essentially free salted meat. 500 gold for everyone!"

Better yet as I found out. 500 gold is specifically an ENTIRE weeks wage for a miner who is working half to death.

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Also does anyone have a Soulgem guide? I don't want to keep wasting soul gems.

[Dutchling]

I will try to kill him later on as I try to collect all their masks, but right now I just wasn't able to do it.

[Neonivek]

I will try to kill him later on as I try to collect all their masks, but right now I just wasn't able to do it.

Don't really blame you. It took me a few tries and I was using Magic Stun Lock.

Still worried about running out of skill points.

[Croquantes]

Soul gem guide? You don't need one! I find them everywhere, and when I go to a shop I buy whatever souls they have and sell them dragon parts in return.

[Dutchling]

I have also found one lich/wizard/whatever with three black gems. They make it a lot easier to enchant stuff as I hardly ever find something with a common or better soul.

[Neonivek]

I guess since All Soul Gems are useless for you except Grand Souls (Azura, Black, and Grand)... I shouldn't worry.

Not that they are all bad... It is just that there is no difference between using a lot of lesser souls to charge a staff then anything else.

And when Enchanting a Lesser Soul gives you just as much EXP as a Greater Soul

[scriver]

So, this is driving me crazy. I just have to know. I'm very bad with names, so I'm sorry to say I've already forgotten those relevant to the question, but I think you can understand. Stormcloak City (Windhelm?) townquest spoilers:

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Does anyone know a way to accuse the real murderer? I did the quest, imprisoned the court wizard, and went on my merry way, looting much dungeon and exchanging much coin. Then I return, thinking I'd sell the necklace to the owner of that "House of Strange Things", and notice some Firesalt (which I'm trying to find as well) on one of his shelves. I collect it and rummage through the rest of his house to see if there are more anywhere, and come upon a locked key-only chest, which immediately made me go steal the key of the owner and open the chest - and lo! In there was a third Butcher Journal (stating clearly that it was the owner of the Strange Things House who was the murderer, I mean, he signed it), as well as several mummification tools. He is obviously the killer, but now I can't find a way to accuse him, even when reloading an earlier save before I had completed the quest. Do you know of one, or might this just be something that got cut from the game and they forgot to remove? It seems very unlike Beth to be so very subtle like this, but if they are, that would be great.

I just realised, though, I haven't tried talking to the wizard before telling the steward yet. I'm going to have to try that later and see what happens, but still, if anyone have answers?

Also, when I tried to sell the necklace (since I had told the guy I'd hold on to the necklace for now when I did the quest, thinking I would need it as evidence or somesuch) he of course didn't have any such topic anymore. Bad end-tieing, Bethie, you could've done better. I see no reason I should still have to be on the quest to be able to sell.

[shadenight123]

@scriver

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go rest somewhere after accusing the wizard for a day or two.
come back, another murder will happen.
speak to the guard, then to the men next to the jarl, then go down in the cells to speak to the mage.
(in event of him being too far away to talk, use tcl to move through the bars)
that should lead to another quest related marker (something like: wait for him again at night)
look at another npc getting killed by your man, follow him and butcher him like the stard he is!
oh, then i dunno about hte amulet. i still have it as quest related stuff, but can't seem to get rid of it.

[irbis]

Found a lich guarding one of those walls containing power words. After dying twice I just walked to the wall, learned three words and walked away. Lich is sad.
I still need to to the main quest in order to actually use the words but at least I have three more reasons to kill dragons

Ohh that wasn't a Lich. Too bad you didn't kill it though the reward is decent I guess.

Then again... It is tough to kill it.

Also I fought my first "Resistant to everything" boss. I couldn't hurt it until I summoned a bow and fired at it.

--

The most hillarious part of Skyrim that gets to me everytime is that the quest rewards are often EXTREMELY disproportionate to what you actually did.

"Thank you for delivering my essentially free salted meat. 500 gold for everyone!"

Better yet as I found out. 500 gold is specifically an ENTIRE weeks wage for a miner who is working half to death.

--

Also does anyone have a Soulgem guide? I don't want to keep wasting soul gems.

well you can check this
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Souls

and especialy this (if you feel strong enough)
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Black_Star

[Sirian]

Also does anyone have a Soulgem guide? I don't want to keep wasting soul gems.

About soul gems and enchanting, if you want to make money with enchanting, the best enchant that i found so far is the "banish" one, but i think that you need to be high level to find it in shops. Anyway, once you have it, you can make a lot of money even out of petty soul gems (but note that for some reason, the price of self-enchanted goods seems to drop as you go higher in skill, even though the enchant itself gets better). Previously, my best enchants for money were Absorb health and before that, Turn undead.
Enchant iron daggers with that and you'll get monies (and of course you'll train your enchanting skill).

Now, the biggest problem that i faced when training enchanting was finding enough petty soul gems for all those 1 hit point wonders out there. The easiest way seemed to be checking the shops often, and in particular the college of Winterhold, since you can get soul gems from half of the mages there. When out hunting for souls, i always have with me a weapon enchanted with soul trap (1sec), and finish the creatures with it (i sorta roleplayed mine as a sacrificial dagger). Even a low level soul can make a good soul-stealing enchant with many charges, because of the low duration.
Petty/lesser/common/greater souls should be used on vendor trash to train enchanting, while Grand souls should be kept for your best equipment. Here's a quick rule of thumb for soul ranks, from my experience :

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Petty : most animals (deers, wolves, skeevers, foxes, goats...), skeletons, regular draugr...
Lesser : low-mid tier of monsters, basically most semi-dangerous-if-unprepared monsters.
Common : dangerous creatures at low levels : Frost trolls, bears, mini-unnamed bosses..
Great : Giants, some dungeon bosses.
Grand : Mammoths and Dragon priests. At my level of progression, mammoths are the most reliable source of grand souls, but there are probably some other tough creatures out there with grand souls.

When i'm hunting for souls, i make sure to have at least 15 petty/lesser/common soul gems, 5 greater, and as many grand as i'll be killing mammoths. If i'm not hunting souls, i only keep the Azura's star, and i recharge my weapon with it as often as possible.

Edit :

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I just read the wiki about the Black Star, i'm kinda disappointed to learn that the black version can also trap "white" souls, unlike what the game tells you. It makes the normal star inferior in every way, even though i'd still take it, for roleplay reasons. But i'll definitely take the black one if i make a new, more sneaky character.

[scriver]

@scriver

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go rest somewhere after accusing the wizard for a day or two.
come back, another murder will happen.
speak to the guard, then to the men next to the jarl, then go down in the cells to speak to the mage.
(in event of him being too far away to talk, use tcl to move through the bars)
that should lead to another quest related marker (something like: wait for him again at night)
look at another npc getting killed by your man, follow him and butcher him like the stard he is!
oh, then i dunno about hte amulet. i still have it as quest related stuff, but can't seem to get rid of it.

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Wow, that is disappointing. What good is it to have a free-roam game when the quests are not built for the player finding stuff "out of turn" when he is roaming free? What if a player (like I did originally) suspect the Owner of being the killer and goes to look in his house themselves (like I didn't - I disregarded my quest-savvyness (because seriously, the proprietor of the House of Strange Things not being the perp? Unheard of ) and followed the rails instead) and finds it? Why should he not be able to tell the steward immediately and accuse the right guy the first time? Seriously, Beth really need to get new writers. I'm not even asking for better - dramaturgically - writers this time, just people who understands the format of the game they are making, for gods sake.

[Glowcat]

@scriver

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

go rest somewhere after accusing the wizard for a day or two.
come back, another murder will happen.
speak to the guard, then to the men next to the jarl, then go down in the cells to speak to the mage.
(in event of him being too far away to talk, use tcl to move through the bars)
that should lead to another quest related marker (something like: wait for him again at night)
look at another npc getting killed by your man, follow him and butcher him like the stard he is!
oh, then i dunno about hte amulet. i still have it as quest related stuff, but can't seem to get rid of it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wow, that is disappointing. What good is it to have a free-roam game when the quests are not built for the player finding stuff "out of turn" when he is roaming free? What if a player (like I did originally) suspect the Owner of being the killer and goes to look in his house themselves (like I didn't - I disregarded my quest-savvyness (because seriously, the proprietor of the House of Strange Things not being the perp? Unheard of ) and followed the rails instead) and finds it? Why should he not be able to tell the steward immediately and accuse the right guy the first time? Seriously, Beth really need to get new writers. I'm not even asking for better - dramaturgically - writers this time, just people who understands the format of the game they are making, for gods sake.

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Erm, actually it IS possible to stop the killer with only investigating the house (and not imprisoning the court wizard). You know how you said you should have talked to the wizard first? 

[scriver]

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Well, that makes me a little bit happier, however, what I was complaining about was that I couldn't get the real killer just by finding the journal and the tools before when it's "time" to get there on the railroads. In a free-roam game, that's pretty sloppy writing to not account for that possibility.