oh also i encountered more glorious bethesda-y glitches in cyrodiil!
usually this 'time to slide off into oblivion' glitch only happens after i've been killed:
sliding through buildings into the floor, unable to do anything while a battle rages around me.
oh and because we were up on a hill when it happened:
sliding through the aaaairrrrr Then the game let go of my character and dropped him onto the road below where he proceeded to break his gaddam legs.
i thought 'oh that's weird, so i really DID slide a distance? it wasn't just some internet lag happening where only my screen was weird? my character really did just nyoom off into the distance? wow.
but then somewhere todd howard coughed and my character was teleported back to where the sliding started, like none of it happened. Which... is how this glitch usually resolves itself because no i did not move anywhere, it was just weirdness on my end...
EXCEPT. my elf's legs and body were still broken. I STILL HAD THE FALL DAMAGE. eso just punished me for daring to experience a glitch.