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Wanted achievement in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

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Escape from jail

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• PraXis91x

  29 Oct 2016 29 Oct 2016 29 Oct 2016
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  You can get this achievement very early in the game. When you go to Whiterun to talk to the Jarl, there is a guard that comes up to you when you are walking up to the doors. Make sure you have a lockpick.
  
  1.) Save your game.
  2.) Pickpocket the guard (he will catch you) and present some dialog options.
  3.) Choose the option that you surrender and you wake up in a jail cell.
  4.) Pick the lock in the grate on the ground and make your way to a ladder.
  5.) Wait for the game to load the next area (guard barracks I think) and the achievement should pop.
  6.) Reload your save from Step 1 and continue the mission.

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  Same as the guide but you can also do this doing the dark brotherhood questline closer to the end. You'll more or less be forced to chat to a couple guards, the prison is a little harder to get out of but just sprint to the end and then reload an earlier save.

  Posted by Notorious Kiwi on 15 Jun 18 at 15:10

  I just want to add, if you are struggling with picking the lock (as I believe you only get given one when you spawn in the prison) it might be worth playing through the thieves guild quest line. Before the final mission (darkness returns) you will be in possession of a skeleton key, which is basically a lock pick that wont snap. This is what i used to escape the prison cell, as it meant i could just brute force the lock open without reloading the save.

  Posted by Teigan72 on 17 Jun 20 at 13:34

  Another option if you are struggling with the lock is to prepare - I just dropped 30 picklocks on the ground in the cell before arresting. It is easy in Solstheim as there is only one cell.

  Posted by qwe1313 on 05 May 21 at 11:49

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• KangarooMyDoo

  27 Jan 2021 28 Jan 2021 28 Jan 2021
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  Tip before we start (Save your game before you do anything)
  
  Alright, first thing is first go to WhiteRun and find a guard hit him and then hold X to sheath your weapon. Once you sheath your weapon a dialogue will come up and the option you want to choose is submit to jail or something along those lines
  
  Now that you are in jail and have loaded in find a trapdoor on the floor near a body, it will have a novice lock on it but is far from hard and should not give you much issue. Once the trap door is open jump down and work your way through the tunnels until you come to a door, the door will be expert but take the stairs to the right of it and circle around and go through the tunnel above it and you can drop down behind it. Keep working your way through and you will find a wood ladder which will allow to enter into a guards barracks. Once you enter the achievement should pop but if it does not exit the building
  
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