What's your favorite silly quest?

Auberon1983 · May 2023

Meaning nothing serious, just silly, lighthearted fluff.

For me, it's "Goblin Marq" on Stros M'Kai. Guy gets drunk on his own home hooch and thinks he's a goblin. Quest takes maybe 5 minutes to complete, but always gets a chuckle out of me.

SilverBride · May 2023

Any quest involving Sheogorath.

Sarannah · May 2023

There are many funny quests, but I hardly ever remember them.

Recently did the right of theft(Manthir's debt) quest in greenshade. I always make him marry her, as I'm a sucker for love. Very funny outcome!

Also love all the stibbons quests, where he is messed up and gets more messed up after solving the quest. Goblin stibbons, statue stibbons, etc.

PS: The one puzzle I can't solve, the reaper's march color puzzle. I can never keep the brother alive.

GlassHalfFull · May 2023

While this quest is not my favorite, it was an interesting change of pace. I believe it is located in Auridon, in Skywatch, the quest involves racing frogs at a frog race track. It was kinda fun, and a interesting way to slow down from the pace at work and into game immersion.

cyclonus11 · May 2023

The Lady Laurent / Stibbons quest in Murkmire

Argonian: Relax your cloaca.
Stibbons: Uh... I don't have a cloaca.
Argonian: GET OUT!
...
Stibbons: I don't feel so good. *POOF* *Turns into egg*

That got a blurt-laugh out of me.

FrancisCrawford · May 2023

The Hoarfrost Downs quest in which one usually takes the poetry option.

Credible_Joe · May 2023

The quest in Murkmire in the Bright-Throat village. Not the main locale quest that flips the map icon to completed; the side quest at the bonding ritual.

"Why won't the suitors come out for the ***?" hang on, I'll ask them.

> He's dead. What? No one killed him, he was just old.

> They confiscated the stuff I stole. I won't go down until I have it back.

> I lost the present my partner gave me, and now I'm just not feelin' it.

Peak Elder Scrolls.

Paralyse · May 2023

My favorite one by far is Kinlady Ilunsare in Summerset. The quest is called "Obedience Issues."
You help the Kinlady find her missing dog, which ends up being

found at a nearby tomb, mourning the loss of the Kinlady's dead husband. Her deadpan reaction when you return to her with her missing dog and break the unfortunate news to her regarding her husband's untimely demise is absolutely hilarious.

Dringoth the Skeleton's questline in the Bone Orchard. All of his lines are funny, but some of them are truly epic:

The Vestige: "Whose bones do you inhabit?"
Dringoth: "No idea! Some dead Elf from another era. Probably won a war, lost a war, or refused to fight in a war. You know how it goes with these things."

The Vestige: "All right, let's go."
Dringoth: "Charging off like Fildenir Blood-Drunk, eh? Don't expect me to lend a hand. Perhaps a rib will do?"

All of Sereyne's questline in Northern Elsweyr.

Narsis Dren's quest in Vvardenfell, particularly if you

choose to leave him in the hole inside of the tomb.

OtarTheMad · May 2023

Quest on Bleackrock with the bosmer, cracks me up each time.

Also the Augur on Summerset and skeleton in Grahtwood quests...

spartaxoxo · May 2023

Stibbons and Narsis Dren are always good for a laugh.

Sarannah · May 2023

GlassHalfFull wrote: »

While this quest is not my favorite, it was an interesting change of pace. I believe it is located in Auridon, in Skywatch, the quest involves racing frogs at a frog race track. It was kinda fun, and a interesting way to slow down from the pace at work and into game immersion.

There is also a lizard racing quest above the Bergama town in Alik'r Desert.

Ohw, another funny quest is a delve quest in Rivenspire, after which you carefully tell the woman her husband is dead... her reaction is priceless. Not sure which quest it is, but she(the turn-in) is in the very center of the main town behind her house.

PS: Dringoth and the Augur should become companions!!

vsrs_au · May 2023

There's one in Eastmarch (I think?) where you need to hunt a particularly agile rabbit. The Nord who always seems to be losing his clothes is also good for a laugh.

Necrotech_Master · May 2023

anything with sheogorath

anything with stibbons/lady laurant

anything with cadwell

dringoth is fun, and so is razum dar

jtm1018 · May 2023

Running around doing stuff for Rose just to make an appointment with meg and her raiders. When Rose could have made the appointment without the stuff she made me do and collect, dang it.

rpa · May 2023

There are so many silly quests, Blackwood Vunak delve quest 'In Need of a Bath' is perhaps one of the more frivolous. Vvardenfell Gnisis Egg Mine questline is also rather silly. Of Stibbons quests the Blackwood "An Abundance of Stibbons" is my favorite, it throws away any pretense of realism for stupid trivial puzzle. (And apparently it's also one of the most hated.) Also joy of exploding chikens in Shad Astula questline.

phaneub17_ESO · May 2023

My first playthrough Grahtwood, I wanted to know all sides of the story, and talked to a Flesh Golem... except I didn't talk to it, I put a dead boy into it by mistake. He was not happy at all.

16BitForestCat · May 2023

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:The_Fetish

One of my favorite silly quests is one that many players never find, due to the quest giver being in a hidden location (in the rocks above Softloam Cavern in Stonefalls). He also doesn't have any sort of quest marker over his head because he's a normal merchant, which means a lot of players will just ignore him even if they do run across him. On top of that, you have to buy a certain unique item from him, then use it from within your inventory to even trigger the quest. I'm someone who pokes my nose into every single corner of every single zone, have been in game pretty much daily since early access 2014, and I still somehow missed finding this quest until a couple years ago. I know it's because I originally played Stonefalls as an AD doing Cadwell's Silver before One Tamriel, when I could get killed easily by vet trash mobs, so I didn't explore EP zones as thoroughly as easier zones. But I'm still dismayed I missed it for so long.

It's very short (like, about five minutes short), rather ridiculous, and requires no actual combat that I can recall. No spoilers, so I'll just say it's about someone who REALLY wants to meet a Daedra.

spartaxoxo · May 2023

16BitForestCat wrote: »

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:The_Fetish

One of my favorite silly quests is one that many players never find, due to the quest giver being in a hidden location (in the rocks above Softloam Cavern in Stonefalls). He also doesn't have any sort of quest marker over his head because he's a normal merchant, which means a lot of players will just ignore him even if they do run across him. On top of that, you have to buy a certain unique item from him, then use it from within your inventory to even trigger the quest. I'm someone who pokes my nose into every single corner of every single zone, have been in game pretty much daily since early access 2014, and I still somehow missed finding this quest until a couple years ago. I know it's because I originally played Stonefalls as an AD doing Cadwell's Silver before One Tamriel, when I could get killed easily by vet trash mobs, so I didn't explore EP zones as thoroughly as easier zones. But I'm still dismayed I missed it for so long.

It's very short (like, about five minutes short), rather ridiculous, and requires no actual combat that I can recall. No spoilers, so I'll just say it's about someone who REALLY wants to meet a Daedra.

Oh! I don't think I've ever done this quest. Thanks for explanation.

RaddlemanNumber7 · May 2023

Listening to Narsis Dren squeal while I deliberately press the wrong wall buttons is my absolute favourite.

redlink1979 · May 2023

This side quest always made me laugh: The Barefoot Breton (in Rivenspire)

Grizzbeorn · May 2023

The "Nothing to Sneeze At" quest, given by Tilenra Sildreth in Suran, Vvardenfell.

It wasn't decimated by AwA, so you can still get the quest rewards on a per-character basis; one of which is
the "Sir Socks's Ball of Yarn" furnishing.

I have LOTS.

rpa · May 2023

The quest Sweet Rotmeth Brew at Stitches, N Elsweyr is also short and silly. You likely find quest starter keg and journal while doing Dragons at northeast of map south of Star Haven wayshrine.

Carcamongus · May 2023

Too many to pick a favorite.

Dringoth's quest, one of the few I repeated on a second toon. That skelly should definitely become a houseguest. Pretty much anything involving Rigurt and Stibbons (particularly his Blackwood quest). The Clockwork City storyline quest in which you help the Blackfeather Court beat some rivals in the junkyard. The N. Elsweyr one involving Gordon the Guar (it's on a farmhouse near Rimmen). Oh, and the Blackwood daily involving Vunalk: every now and then I link the bog dog dung in zone chat and offer to sell it for some outrageous price.

Least favorite silly quest: Galen delve daily that requires me to post tour handbills all over a place full of very hostile - though somewhat merry - Maormer. With ideas so brilliant as advertising tours for dangerous pirates, I won't be surprised if Savage Systres files for bankruptcy anytime soon.

joergino · May 2023

Carcamongus wrote: »

Dringoth's quest, one of the few I repeated on a second toon.

Agreed. That's most likely the only quest all my characters on all my accounts have done and any future characters are very likely to do it, too.

Hapexamendios · May 2023

I'm going with the All Flags Curse. Lady Laurant's dialogue is so out of character for reasons and the ending is hilarious. Good for Stibbo.

LannStone · May 2023

Also the Naked Nord quest in Deshaan (claims a witch stole his clothes)
BTW, the humorous quests and often-unexpected funny dialogue were what made the earlier chapters of ESO so much fun
It seems each new chapter gets less humor, does it not?

Castagere · May 2023

Take your lumps quest Southern Elsweyr

ZOS_Phoenix · May 2023

Greetings,

After review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic (Quests and Exploration, as the topic is regarding quests specifically).

Thank you for your understanding.

16BitForestCat · May 2023

spartaxoxo wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:The_Fetish

Oh! I don't think I've ever done this quest. Thanks for explanation.

No problem! When I stumbled across this quest, I posted it to my gaming group, about 30 people. Literally not a single one of them had ever heard of or done it. I even had two different quest marking addons installed, and neither one had this quest added. Makes me wonder if there are any other unmarked quests I've missed....

I didn't even find this quest through the game itself--I found it through a series of coincidence and search engine research. Back around 2020, I randomly had a memory of reading a gaming news article during a 2013 ESO beta, where the writer mentioned buying an item from a merchant that triggered a quest. I couldn't remember ever having done a quest like that, so I wondered if that content still existed in the live release. I don't recall what I searched for next, but after some time, I found a social media thread where someone mentioned stumbling across the quest on their early-days Pact character, and posted the name of it. Which I then looked up on UESP, and here we are. I love game secrets as much as the next player, but I'm not entirely thrilled that I had to go outside the game to even know of this one's existence. It might have been different if my main had been EP instead of AD, and Stonefalls had been my early-content zone.

(Oh, look, yet another thread moved to die.

)

EDIT: Not gonna make a new and off-topic comment to address this, so I'll just say it here. To vsrs_au: it's already been pointed out to your rude reply that the reason why we have "stop moving threads" posts is because it's a long-proven standard that threads moved off General Discussion die out quickly. I use the Recent tab myself, but it looks like many or most other people don't even know Recent exists or what it's for. So they only check General and miss discussions happening in other categories.

And, by the way, not only was your response rude, it's also completely wrong.

As proven by this very thread. Why don't you take a look and observe how there was an active on-topic discussion here...which ended the moment a mod moved the thread to another category?

LannStone · May 2023

16BitForestCat wrote: »

(Oh, look, yet another thread moved to die. )

Moved to Quests and Exploration?
Lol, I never even knew that was a category

vsrs_au · May 2023

LannStone wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

(Oh, look, yet another thread moved to die. )

Moved to Quests and Exploration?
Lol, I never even knew that was a category

That complaint's getting a bit old. Every single forum I've ever used on the internet has had multiple categories, and I've had no trouble browsing through them. I regularly browse through more than 10 different categories in this forum, and it doesn't affect my ability to keep up with the latest threads.