Amusing Oblivion bug

Well, the bug itself isn't so much amusing, it's the resulting chaos that is...
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All I did was paralyse a few members. They apparently took exception to this, but not their mates. As a result, a quarrel as to whether I was within my rights to paralyse them broke out while I was invisible and out of the way. In any case, apparently all mage's guild members have the spell bound greaves, which results in them all going half naked when they enter combat...