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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5753860" data-attributes="member: 7883">I have a question...Given the open world nature  of the game, in theory anything can happen.But I had an odd event the other day.  I was on the A Night to Remember storyline, and woke up in Morgaz or whatever that city is in the far west side of the map.  Anyways, after picking up some quests, I walked out of the city to go home.  I set my feet on the road, and decided to walk back to Whiterun, instead of fast traveling, as I figured I may as well walk it the long way so I can see what there is to see in this wide world.Anyways, on my way through the outskirts of the city, I passed a farm, and stopped to chat up the farmer.  Turns out, he was very disappointed in his son, who had moved away to another town, and never visited anymore.  He gave me a letter to bring to him, in which he said how disappointed he was in his son.  I was thinking, "harsh, but ok...maybe they'll have a reconciliation if I bring the letter".Interesting premise for a quest.  So I got to walking again (apparently I didn't bring my horse with me on my drunken night of debauchery, but I *did* bring Lydia).I crossed the bridge outside the city, and am climbing the foothills when I hear a roar echo off the mountains.  I turn around, and see a dragon flying in.  It blows a jet of flame with me, and I drive it off with some lightning bolt spells. And the dragon flies at the city.....right at the farm.And all the guards swarm in to fight him off, and I'm on foot running back across the valley while the dragon is torching the farm and everything else it can see.I get there and finish killing the dragon, and while looting the body, I find the crispy fried corpse of the farmer who just gave me the quest.In the end I did give the letter to the son....but now it's a letter from a dead father, saying how disappointed he is that his son doesn't visit more often.  But the dad's now dead....which the game doesn't seem smart enough to recognize.This leads me to the question.....what if this had happened with a main quest line?  Where I was supposed to bring something *back* to someone?  And they got torched?  Does that cause a bug?  Does the quest just automatically fail?  Or are NPCs in such a position unkillable?Also, if my horse, my wardog, or my retainer Lydia die, are any of them replaceable?  So far my horse is the only one who hasn't died, and he's taken on dragons.  I've traditionally had those instances as the only places that I load a saved game, as I'm not sure if they can be replaced.Banshee</blockquote>

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