After stealing a horse for Louis Letrush many hours ago in Skyrim, I noticed half-a-Louis near the stables outside Whiterun. He seemed to be stuck in the ground. It was odd, sure, but this sort of thing is reasonably common in games like this.
However, a few hours later I was walking past Whiterun again, and, well – watch.
Exactly the same thing happened to me. The stuck one was there for quite a while before his clone turned up, though. I’d got used to him by that time and didn’t take much notice as I walked past, so I ended up doing a kind of double-take: “Yes, Louis, nice to see you again. Get someone to dig you out of that h… wait, what? You’re twins now?”
Stupid Bethesda. Still, unbelieveably good game. I can’t fathom how some people claim to have “done everything” in 50-60 hours. I played, over two characters, for closer to 200 and was still finding the odd new thing towards the end. Come to think of it, there are still a couple of Achievements I never got round to…
Arse. Used my nom-de-political-blog there. ‘S me. From CSS.
I’ve got eight (8!) Louis Letrushs now outside Whiterun Stables. They’ve been slowly multiplying. I had the half guy for a while but he vanished.
I’ve managed to fix this bug!
Normally, you cannot kill Louis, as he’s marked as a “special” character.
However, I read on UESP wiki that if you see an Orc killing Louis in the wild, the ones outside Whiterun Stables become mortal and can be killed.
So I tried it and it worked! Some time ago I remember the orc killing him in the wild. So I killed one of the 8 Louis from afar with a bow, and the other 7 attacked me. After wiping them out and looting their bodies, I moved away for a few in-game days.
After returning to Whiterun Stables, all 8 of the bodies have vanished and none have respawned, yet.
Result!
Why would I want to do that though? This bug is AWESOME! 🙂