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* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'', you'd think that one of the two Blades who accompany you through the tutorial/opening quest would think twice about leaving the Emperor in a side passage alone with a barely-armed and unskilled prisoner, rather than sending the PC out to be assassin fodder while one of them protects the Emperor.
** Or, even just break down the gate which prevents you from getting to the sewers in the first place. It's barred from the other side sure, but the PC has access to a flame spell at the very start of the game, and considering the Blades are higher in rank than the Imperial Legion guards, their swords may be able to break or force a heat-weakened lock.
*** The gate was locked by the assassins, who have planned this ambush in advance and already know what the Blades are capable of, so obviously they're going to lock it with something the Blades can't easily defeat.
** There is a Mage Guild quest where you must retrieve the Ring of Burden for a recommendation. In reality, {{spoiler|he is really trying to kill you via drowning}}. One would imagine he knows that Argonians can swim and breath underwater. If you are an Argonian, he fails to recognize this point {{spoiler|and will still try to kill you with the same method}}.
*** The real idiot in this quest is the guy who was sent to retrieve the ring the first time around: {{spoiler|he goes down the well, grabs the ring, finds himself stuck at the bottom because of the ring's weight...and stays there and drowns. He never considered simply ''dropping the damn ring'' and getting out of there.}}
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** "Great Chase through time" has some almost hilarious ones. Carmen orders her [[Mook]] to steal something and then gives them hints to hide some place. Some of these places make a bit of sense (Baron hiding over the edge of a ship, Jacquelyn Hyde hiding inside a cave), others are soemtimes a bit funny (General Mayhem managing to hide inside a tapestry) but other times, they're ''hilariously'' obvious and they're hiding in ''plain sight''. Adventure-[[Game/Fetch Quest|Fetch Quest]] aside, some cases could ahve been over in a few minutes if people simply looked around a bit. (Julius Caesar apparently never thought to look ''behind'' the column that was ''right next to him'', the servant holding the camel that Bugg Zapper was hiding behind never noticed it was a cardboard cutout, Isabella somehow didn't notice a chart in her room that detailed landmasses that at the time were unknown to her, Beethoven doesn't immediately identify the foreign instrument in his orchestra, and Thomas Edison doesn't even think to look at the battery that is ''right in front of him''.)
*** The Beethoven one deserves a special mention. Renee Sance should have spotted that the Sousaphone, not invented for about another 50 years, is in an ''1808'' orchestra. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Unless you buy into the interpretation that the good guides know very well where the criminal was hiding (most of the time) and wanted you to figure it out yourself.]]
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