We all have done something so thickheaded, so stupid, that it scerwed up our game. badly. I posted this topic so those of us who did stupid thins wouldn't feel so alone in the world. This is my contribution:

One time I was Roleplaying my Cleric, who was level 1 at the time, and was wandering around the Ascadian Isles. I was walking up on a hill when I noticed that it wasn't a hill at all, but a door to a crypt!

And so I entered, only to be immediately confronted by 3, count 'em, 3, Vampires. I fought on with my Mace, only to be battered and bloody, with the Vampires still very much alive. And so I ran. I had not saved previous to this, so running was my only choice.

I made my first stupid decision. I ran farther Into the crypt, instead of going out.

The Hallways seemed endless. I didn't hear anything, so I turned around, looking for any sight of my attackers.

I didn't see them.

And so I went deeper, hoping to ifnd a shrine were I could rest and heal up. I finally found one, and turned to close the door. Lo and behold, teh vampires were closing in fast.

That was when I made stupid decision Numero 2. I used my recently acquired ring of locking on the door. Stopped them readily enough, but I had no lockpicking skills, and no open spells. I was stuck. Forever entombed, and very much alive.

Too bad for my cleric, he would have done well in the game.

[ 11-24-2005, 08:40 PM: Message edited by: Kyrvias ]

Hahahaha, that's fantastic. I'm sorry, but it really is.

Well, can't think of a whole lot but I got an example. As made in a previous post, I have a looting problem. I found a smithy shop and found some items I liked. I saved beforehand and began to grab stuff in sight while the smith wasn't paying attention. Eventually got caught and he went to attack me as well did his guard. Well. I went to go reload and accidently pressed the save button. Kind of a crummy perdicament. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 11-24-2005, 08:59 PM: Message edited by: SomeGuy ]

Accidentally slaughtering all of Vivec.

Accidently slaughtering All of Vivec? How the hell did that happen?

When gaming on 'autopilot', all kinds of bedlam mannered madness is possible. I guess for some people, wiping out an entire population in a terminator automaton style, is just one of those possibilities. :D

Funny little anecdote Kyrvias. Stay awhile, stay forever eh? ;)

For me, one rather silly roleplaying decision I made was to merge my real life attachment to caffeine intense energy drinks like V and Redbull, into my Khajiit Monk, expressed in his fierce addiction to Skooma and Moon Sugar. I was gutted to learn that you couldn't make it in the game.
I'd steal it as often as I could and hoard it back to my storage space in Ahnassi's place in Pelgiad.
This perilous merging resulted in some extremely late nights, going to bed ocassionally at dawn etc. :D

Situation wise, I can't think of anything overly stupid at the moment other than the usual bouts of non-thought out tactics when outnumbered.
In my early level phase, I experimented with the khajiit unarmed attacks, often charging in gung-ho jumping up down thinking I was so cat like and dextrous) slashing all over the place. Didn't take too many deaths before I realised that wasn't the right idea. :D
Learing to refine tactics in the game was always good fun, often with lessons well learnt.

Taking on people Hand-tohand with your Khajiit? Smae thing I did with my argonian... wasn't pretty.

Well, once when I was captured, I vowed never to let the Dark Elves treat me so. As such, When caught assisting a brother in need, I had no option but to defend myself. One thing lead to another, and well, you know...

I see... Train of carnage, eh?

A really stupid thing I did was when I was playing my Thief character...

I had my Dark Brotherhood armor, a Bonemold Longbow with Steel arrows, and an steel longsword.

I ran into the daedric ruin, 6 Scamps on my heels. Since I didn't have a magical weapon, I was pretty much screwed. That wsa stupid decision numero uno.

My second mistake was running into the shrine while escaping hte scamps. I survived the whole shrine, backstabbing, then using my Amulet of Shadows to become invisible, then backstabbing again. Soon enough the defenders of the shrine fell.

Stupid decision #3 I didn't heal up when I finished with the battle. And so I crept to hte shrine, and noticed a few ruby's and emeralds lying, waiting to be stolen.

I figured, meh, who would need them.

Stupid decision #4. I took them and got attacked my a Dremora Lord.

And I ran. It was the only decision I found would work. I ran outside.

And got killed by the 6 scamps that were pursuing me.

Single-handedly taking down about 60 to 80% of the world's population - or at least, all of the major cities. *shrugs* I got bored and I wanted to see how long it would take them to take me down...