Who needs a Marathon when you have Vilja??

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OK, this is my second play-through with Vilja... first one went off without a hitch. Nowww...

I get to the part where Vilja wants to go out for dinner. We happened to be in Riften and my current house is Proudspire.

Vilja says it's been nice but now I'm getting tired... let's blow this joint.

So Vilja leads me out of the city of Riften... after a while, I tell her to hurry it up. So we run from Riften to Solitude. "This is fun, isn't it?" She doesn't go home- she runs around the house and back out of Solitude.

Run, run, run, OK, I figure she's going to Dawnstar maybe. Nope- run, run, run... through a herd of Mammoths up to the Windhelm bridge. She turns around and heads south. Back to Riften? Pfft. I told her to stop and make camp. She's still on her night-out dialogue. I reset her scripts... still on the same dialogue. Finally I tell her to knock it off and I take her to my custom hunting cabin by Shore's Stone.

"Lovely time. Should do this again. Getting a bit tired." This was definitely a hiccup! Mind you... it's been quite a while since I rescued her and I've been paying close attention to what she says/ demands/ requests so as not to screw up the romance thingie. But THIS was nuts- I got the grand tour of Skyrim while clinging to her petticoat.

I'm guessing I should probably back-track to an earlier save and when the time comes, just take her to the Winking Skeever, which is close to home.

Also, at this stage, I'm guessing there won't be any more versions of Vilja in Skyrim. But IF there are, could I suggest that a quest marker be placed on the map so that I know where she wants to go? The same for "Lead the Way" would be nice.

[CollinMacleod]

Hmm. Pathways... Some of the navmesh is buggy here and there, if she is leading she cannot warp into the house... Proudspire is pathed to enter through the stupid basement as I recall. If you tell her to take the lead and surprise you however, you can indeed ask her where she is going... At any rate make sure the basement door in unlocked...

[Slash]

We've used the basement door several times already, so it wasn't locked. Vilja did get caught in a navmesh loop the first time I played with her, just south of Rorikstead, but that was easy to abort as she wasn't engaged in any quest stages then. This time she got stuck in the "Let's go out" stage as well as the navmesh loop.

Meh- I backed up a couple of saves. No wonder she complains about the quality of her shoes... guess I better get her a pair of Nikes

[Slash]

*facepalm* I didn't experience this the first time I played Vilja... but this time I decided to look behind the chapel before going in. Ripped Halvdork to shreds. If I could have, I'da cut off his nuts and thrown them in my Thalmor Junk Barrel.

THEN... what did I hear?? A "witch" resurrected him and dragged him off? After I jumped on his dead body?

All I can say is he better have an army with him next time I run into him!!!