Oblivion talk:Fort Alessia

Weird Things at Fort Alessia...

I passed from here on my way to Cheydinhal, and I witnessed some weird things.

First: When I arrived near the fort, I saw a person. I went a bit closer but still on a big distance (about 30 feet), and that person detected me, pulled off a dagger and came and attacked me. When she went near me, I saw that she was a Marauder Archer. Why didn't she use her bow to attack me? She had one, in her corpse I found a Steel Bow. Also, during the battle she attacked almost exclusively with forward power attacks.

Second: Also near the fort, I saw a Marauder. He started moving to my direction but suddenly, he changed direction, went to fight a mudcrab, killed the mudcrab, and continued moving towards me. That happened three times before he could reach me.

Third: When he finally reached me, before he started fighting me, a Mountain Lion popped out of nowhere and killed him incredibly easy, in 4 hits.

Any ideas about what is causing this? --Rigas Papadopoulos • Talk • Deeds • 08:57, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Bethesda Softworks and Oblivion AI. --SerCenKing ^Talk 10:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Any better explanation? What bugs me most is why the Marauder Archer didn't use her bow. --Rigas Papadopoulos • Talk • Deeds • 11:41, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Is it possible that she didn't have any arrows? The other two incidents seem completely normal to me. --GK^talk2me 02:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I found 10 arrows in her body. --Rigas Papadopoulos • Talk • Deeds • 10:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

All archers put away their bows when you get within a certain distance, and never take them out again. If you had ever been close enough, that would explain it. rpeh •T•C•E• 11:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I've never been there before with that character. I started the game with "coc weye" and started roleplaying (no fast travel). I went directly to Cheydinhall, then I went to Bravil (I did not went through Fort Alessia), I went south of Cheydinhal, I made a stop at the Imperial Bridge Inn, then I swimmed all the way to Bravil, and then on my way back to Cheydinhal, I passed from Fort Alessia and witnessed all those oddities. --Rigas Papadopoulos • Talk • Deeds • 12:14, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I mean if you went close to the archer at any point during combat they will put their bow away and switch to their melee weapon. rpeh •T•C•E• 12:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I said that I was far when she detected me, and she instantly pulled off her dagger when she detected me. --Rigas Papadopoulos • Talk • Deeds • 13:10, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Actually that's not what you said: you said "about 30 feet", which isn't that far. As Sun-Tzu once said, "At close range, an archer is an unarmed man" and that might be close enough to trigger the switch, especially if you'd been closer at any point. rpeh •T•C•E• 13:19, 16 November 2010 (UTC)