Not to my knowledge. Could be a bug. Sometimes I've done things to anger bastion but the rapport going down never actually showed up. I was using the blade of woe against enemies to be sneaky (I was in rp) and apparently bastion hates that.

Edit- Checked patch notes from Update 32 & 31. Nothing in there about Mirri no longer hating killing bugs.

Isn't it just Torchbugs & Butterflies? So if you grabbed a different bug...


(meanwhile, my character with Mirri is working on some old Cadwell's Silver quests. Today, I hit the one in Eastmarch that wanted me to collect.... torchbug wings. Um. )

You get a rapport decrease only from grabbing butterflies and torchbug, but there is a cooldown (5 minutes I believe), so maybe the rapport decrease was on cooldown?
Alternatively the voiceline simply could have not played for some reason.

My problem is that I go to grab a bug and even before the option to pull it apart and collect its guts appear, Mirri doesn't like me. It's just an accident Mirri, jeez.

whitecrow wrote: »

In my case it was a torchbug or butterfly, and it was the first time, so cooldown wasn't an issue.

Would be nice if there was a quest where MIrri has to fight a giant man-eating Torchbug and she ends up finding it okay to kill them, or a quest where a Goblin helps her and she no longer hates Goblins. Because honestly, not all Goblins in the game are bad and I find that some NPCs hatred of them is borderline racism.

SPOILERS for RIVENSPIRE***

Like that one Stibbons quest where the guy gets turned into a goblin, or in Cyrodiil when you have to poison a goblin who was pretty much not hurting anyone... Mirri can't go to Cyro but still, I find that some hate for the goblins are warrented whereas others are just plain ignorance or lazy character development on the Devs part.

Like goblins and high elves used to conduct business together if I remember correct from the Summerset quests.

DP99 wrote: »

I have her rapport maxed, and I accidentally grabbed a butterfly the other day, and she asked if I could get my alchemy ingredients from something else or something like that, and the notification came up that her rapport went down. I looked at the meter, and nothing seemed to really change though. I quickly did some other stuff that raised it up again though from just regular gameplay just in case though.

Its just one point decrease so it does not matter unless you farm them.

moleculardrugs wrote: »

whitecrow wrote: »

In my case it was a torchbug or butterfly, and it was the first time, so cooldown wasn't an issue.

Would be nice if there was a quest where MIrri has to fight a giant man-eating Torchbug and she ends up finding it okay to kill them, or a quest where a Goblin helps her and she no longer hates Goblins. Because honestly, not all Goblins in the game are bad and I find that some NPCs hatred of them is borderline racism.

SPOILERS for RIVENSPIRE***

Like that one Stibbons quest where the guy gets turned into a goblin, or in Cyrodiil when you have to poison a goblin who was pretty much not hurting anyone... Mirri can't go to Cyro but still, I find that some hate for the goblins are warrented whereas others are just plain ignorance or lazy character development on the Devs part.

Like goblins and high elves used to conduct business together if I remember correct from the Summerset quests.

(This was too good of an idea to pass up the chance to write it.)

Mirri and Varanis Arano arrive at the Wayshrine in Fell's Run. Fireflies dance around the shrine in a cloud while more drift down to the river in a flashing mating dance.

"They're beautiful!" Mirri squeals.

Mirri remains utterly enchanted with the swarm even when it gets too thick to speak without swallowing one. They get to the village inn and find the screen door and windows absolutely plastered with glowing bug guts. Varanis asks, "Can I at least scrape those off for potions?"

"You're horrid." She sees a poster and reads "Fell's Run Firefly Fetching Contest: collect bug guts for prizes. You're all horrid!"

The innkeeper is worried and very relieved to see two hardened adventurers. "People have gone missing."

Mirri says, "Maybe you should've left those pretty fireflies alone."

"Bloodfiends? Wolves?" Varanis asks.

"We don't know what to make of the tracks."

They head back out into the swarm, pulling scarves over their mouths this time like it was a Vvardenfell ash storm. The tracks are indeed odd: two rows of three indents in the river bank, and each set is a hop, skip, and jump away from the previous.

"Some sort of insect," Mirri theorizes. "I didn't think nix-ox lived out in Rivenspire."

"Whatever it is, it can fly."

They follow the tracks to a screen of trees, from which an eerie, eldritch glow enamates, flickering wildly. "A magic-using insect?" Varanis wonders. "Now I've seen everything there is to see."

Mirri peeks through the trees, turns the color of ash, and sinks back down against a tree trunk. "I didn't know they could be carnivorous. I...I can't. You'll have to kill it."

Worried about her friend, Varanis takes the next look. A torchbug the size of a mammoth has made its lair in the clearing. The bones of its victims are scattered around. It's swollen abdomen pulses with flashing light.

She hauls Mirri to her feet. "Come on, you can do it. Think about all the Detect pots we'll make from it."

"Varanis, I can't. It's too cute to kill!"

"It's a murderer. Besides, we'll probably get first prize in the contest."

It's a long, hard battle even for an archer and a dragonknight, and it's dusk by the time they head back down the village. At least they don't have any trouble finding their way.

The innkeeper meets them at the door. Varanis announces, "We killed it. If you need to bury the bodies, they're back there."

"Where?" The innkeeper asks. Then he looks over their shoulder to where their glowing footprints light up the road and trail back from the forest. "Right, I'll draw up a bath."

"Please do," Mirri says. Her hair is absolutely plastered to her scalp with luminescent guts and two torchbugs are trying to mate in her ear. "I feel horrid."