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Im playing Oblivion on 360 . And I met this nice elven rune stone up on a big hill west of the imperial city. It had flowers, stones dotted around it or nearby, and I think it was named murn or urm rune stone, cant remember exactly. The thing is, when I activate it, it says something about seeing under my hands, enchanting my weapons or something. I thought cool, now I finally can enchant and that by a rune stone! Guess what, once I selected "yes" my heros hand rises up glowing yellow..then the game FREEZES!! Irritating, I have tried to approach it from both sides, but no prevail, have restarted the white box up to 3 times just for this stone lol! But nothing. All I know I plated alot on my 360 that day and the time I tried to activate the stone by saying "yes" was around sunseth, maybe the insane color scheme of the sky had a card in this? I really dont know.
So whats up with this exactly? I just hope this isnt for every other rune stone and that they arent important for any main, minor and miscellancelous quests....

Heres the location of the rune stones that fits my description. be warned its also a location spoiler for other things....

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It sounds like a graphics glitch. Some stones only work at certain time of day I think, but if you can say yes or no, then it is active.

Spoilers
Activating the moon stones is not needed for any quests but you can get some handy spells and bound weapons. Each one gives a different bonus but some spells are exclusive to that stone. That is, you must pledge your alliegence to a stone to get the powers from it. If you pledge to another stone you may lose the previous power. Some powers are persistent though.

SO are there any workarounds for avoiding the game to freeze, because of this rune stone? Activating the stone on another time of the day? Oh and I found a very neat stone not far from the imperial city, got a power to unlock locks at hard level
I think it was a moonstone...yes it was but the color on that moon stone was red...different from the stone that caused the game freezing. I guess they can all be colored differently...

I called XBox about the freezing and they said that the freezing to due to the cache oferfilling and locking up...or something like that. Thay told me that you should press and hold "A" from the time you put the game in until the Bethesda logo with the gear disappears. To be safe, just hold A until the IV in oblivion appears. My game has never frozen up on me since I started doing that. (They said that this will clear the cache and keep it from locking on you. Whatever that means)

As far as the stones go, save before you use them. Some of them will erase any benefits previously gained form other stones.

Thanks alot for the help, Im gonna try that soon.