Muder on the Road-Random Encounter.

[Jeff Kaos]

I've come across this twice now and for the life of me I can't figure out what the hell it is. I either come across a dead body and when I start to loot it someone appears and accuses me of murder. OR I see someone else looting a dead body and they accuse me of murder. The only option is to confront them and every dialog option must be said no matter what and everyone comes out as a "success". Then I tell the other person I'm reporting them for murder and then they run off and say their going to report *me*. If I chase them down and kill them I get a warning which indicates I'm harming an innocent person.

Can anyone explain what the hell this encounter is about and how to resolve it? The first time it happened right after I saved the game and since it's so ambigous I decided to let it eff off and just reloaded my game and went around it. But this time I'm too far into aques to do that.

[Connobar]

Anytime I've run into it, the person accuses me and I pass the speech check and say I'm hunting cumans and then I tell them to report it to someone. We all go on our merry way, except the naked corpse on the ground.

[Guarinda]

sometimes they can admit they commited the murder themselves, either way i always endup killing them so im not too sure about the different outcomes.

[Flanker1Six]

I did it (conversation tree) the first time.

All subsequent encounters have ended in tragic arrow or sword related deaths for the NPC. :)

[RodentRavager]

I play the Hulk, when Hulk threaten to smash they always admit to murder. Then I take their bribe and kill them anyway, for the rest of their groschen. The Reaper always gets his due.

[halfmonkey]

Kind of like the beggars random encounter, it can be different every time (including if you save right before that person and reload.) It's also somewhat bugged, I think.

Sometimes the person is actually innocent. These folks usually spawn and run out from the bushes.
If you have the option to force admission, sometimes the person is just a wretch with a story about how it went down as accidental or self-defence. Killing them in this case counts as murdering a civilian.

Other times, it's pretty clear they're a murderous looter.
What I hate is the obvious dialogue lines that imply the person is going to attack you, but they don't. Nor is there any way to cleanly exit those conversations.

I've taken to getting through the talk and then knocking them out afterwards anyway, regardless of guilt or innocence, and robbing them blind. It's funny that a character claiming to be poor and starving usually has 27 Groschen and four apples on them, so I don't feel too bad about it.