Had another wtf/lol moment. This one was due to a glitch of sorts.
So I was taking a bit of time off before doing the next quest in the Dawnguard DLC. I had some stuff to sell, and my Conjuration was finally high enough to buy the Dread Zombie spell tome (my Conjuration is at like, 80 something now, and DZ requires atleast 75 I believe) so off to Winterhold I went. One stop shopping and all with the fence inside the college.
So once I was done with all that, and on my way out to close out a disturbance left over by the Eye of Magnus (it was close by so I thought I may as well do it since I was there) - a Traveler passes by me while I'm riding Shadowmere. I notice he's wearing a hooded black mage robe though and I look at him for a second then start to move on. Only to hear behind me something along the lines of, "You're dead now!" and the crackle of spells being cast.
I hop off Shadowmere and turn around.. Guess who? Mr. I-Travel-In-A-Hooded-Black-Mage Cloak-Like-It's-Perfectly-Inconspicous. lmao
So between the Winterhold guards, Shadowmere, Serana and I, he's done in pretty quickly.
Apparently he was a vampire of some sort because he summoned a Gargoyle - or maybe that was Serana? I'm not sure. Glitch número uno here - I go back to loot him and he seems to have disappeared. Fell through the ground I'm guessing?
Then when I go back to loot Mr. Traveler, I hear: "Stop in the name of the Jarl!"
Worried I hit a guard by mistake, I go up to the guardsman saying this but no bounty dialogue comes up, just normal guard dialogue. So I move back and then I notice - the guard is staring down at the dead Traveler. He has his weapons drawn and everything. He continues to try and get this dead dude to submit with all the typical dialogue. On top of that, I'd looted the Traveler anyway - so the corpse was obviously, in a loincloth and boots. lol
So imagine a Winterhold guard trying to get a stripped, dead vampire to submit with weapons drawn and everything, and you'll get the mental picture. I waited for him to snap out of it until I ran out of patience - he wasn't stopping, though.
This totally had me cracking me up. I figure maybe this was the guys first vampire attack and he just got so excited he wants to fight him all over again or something. lol
Even stranger still, I went back a bit later to buy back the Dragon Elder Scroll (due to yet another glitch because I had it already but no one at the Fort would take it lmfao), and I found the guardsman - who had apparently had a heart attack after I left from all the excitement, because he had died while I was gone.
Still giggling just thinking about it.
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