Why are NPCs around me yawning all the time?

Octopuss · August 2017

I have no idea what's going on, but everytime I mount a horse and ride around a city, I regularly keep hearing yawning noises. That sound is annoying the sh.. out of me. Does anyone know what's going on?

Sigma957 · August 2017

Perhaps they are bored?

ecru · August 2017

Maybe they're tired of standing around in the same place for years on end.

JasonSilverSpring · August 2017

Are you using the scholar personality by any chance? It will at times cause your character to make an odd noise which sounds like a whimper to me but could be thought of as a yawn sound.

Octopuss · August 2017

No, I don't even know what it is.
I can't even figure out where is the sound coming from. It just happens at random times. Always i cities though.

Octopuss · March 2020

Necro time!
It looks like something specific to Daggerfall. I've noticed it again now with the festival.

Ilsabet · March 2020

It's not Giblets the dog whining because you won't take his quest, is it?

Bananko · March 2020

Octopuss wrote: »

That sound is annoying the sh.. out of me.

Literally or figuratively?

SickleCider · March 2020

Daggerfall is some of the worst noise pollution in this game in general.

SpiderKnight · March 2020

Go to Reaper's March stables, you'll hear a guy yawn every 3 seconds.

ZaroktheImmortal · March 2020

Those npcs never get to sleep. Zenimax has them working so hard day and night. It's amazing they're still standing.

xXMeowMeowXx · March 2020

They’re waiting for the performance fixes :'(

SeaGtGruff · March 2020

They've been going through the same motions and saying the same lines to every new and old PC who wanders along. Of course they're exhausted! They don't even get to go home and go to bed every evening the way NPCs in other TES games do. The most exciting thing that's happened to them in years was having dragons fly over their cities last year.

bearbelly · March 2020

Ilsabet wrote: »

It's not Giblets the dog whining because you won't take his quest, is it?

My vote is for this, if what you're hearing is specific to Daggerfall.
Giblets will follow you around just as... ummm... doggedly (pun really not intended, but I'm going with it)... as Stuga*.
Only, instead of talking (because he's a dog), Giblets whimpers at you until you pay attention to him.
I could see someone mistaking that for a human yawn, if you don't realize where the sound is coming from, and Giblets is very often following behind you, so you won't always see him.

*Stuga I can ignore, but a sad sounding dog breaks my heart, so I have to take the quest, every time.

Dojohoda · March 2020

Mounts have sound effects; especially the fancy ones. Is it your mount or your pet?

SeaGtGruff · March 2020

No, I don't think it's the dog whining. There are several places where NPCs yawn around you, although right now I can't think of any particular location where this occurs a lot.

bearbelly · March 2020

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

No, I don't think it's the dog whining. There are several places where NPCs yawn around you, although right now I can't think of any particular location where this occurs a lot.

So, it could be the dog whining.

Neoealth · March 2020

bearbelly wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

No, I don't think it's the dog whining. There are several places where NPCs yawn around you, although right now I can't think of any particular location where this occurs a lot.

So, it could be the dog whining.

There is a big difference between a yawn from a human and a dog whine...

I've heard the same thing exactly as op describes.

SeaGtGruff · April 2020

You know, I think it might be the guards, especially the ones who have to stand in the same place a lot, such as in the bank. Every so often they will yawn, arch their back, stretch their arms, and roll their head from side to side to stretch their neck.

Mancombe_Nosehair · April 2020

As an ex neighbour's boyfriend once yelled out, "you're boring me to death woman!"

DragonRacer · April 2020

Yes, definitely notice yawning a lot in some places.

Speaking of ambient sounds... please tell me I'm not the only one who hears the faint tinkling of wind chimes every so often in the Rimmen crafting area? Doesn't happen a ton, but every now and then it's as if a breeze has rustled them. It's quite nice and reminds me that it'd be awesome to get some actual craftable windchimes that make that sound (the Murkmire ones have a wooden windchime sound, rather than a metal/glass tinkling like what I hear in Rimmen).

worrallj · April 2020

They're tired of having the same conversation over and over for the last 6 years and never sleeping

Sylvermynx · April 2020

DragonRacer wrote: »

Yes, definitely notice yawning a lot in some places.

Speaking of ambient sounds... please tell me I'm not the only one who hears the faint tinkling of wind chimes every so often in the Rimmen crafting area? Doesn't happen a ton, but every now and then it's as if a breeze has rustled them. It's quite nice and reminds me that it'd be awesome to get some actual craftable windchimes that make that sound (the Murkmire ones have a wooden windchime sound, rather than a metal/glass tinkling like what I hear in Rimmen).

I've heard that too. I'd LOVE to have a craftable glass windchime!

Veinblood1965 · April 2020

xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »

They’re waiting for the performance fixes :'(

This is hands down the best reply I've seen in a long time.

Ilsabet · April 2020

I wish the OP would come back and tell us if he's figured out what he's hearing.

Nanfoodle · April 2020

They have been doing the same job for 6 years and you are about to sell them the same random junk they don't want. Spoiled food bits? Sure here is 3gp. NPC life is drab.

BisDasBlutGefriert · April 2020

They're sick of waiting on load screens?

Banana · April 2020

It's the performance update

Waynerx8 · April 2020

Probably fed up of listening to ZOS' s repetitive excuses time and time again.

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