Hired thugs?

[dias_flac_0g]

Lol.

It seems like Hulda from the banered mared in whiterun hired some thugs so they could "teach me a lesson".

My question is why did she do it? I stole the argonian ale for that homeless guy in the street. However when I stole it no one saw me. I made certain of it. No one was in the kitchen and I was in crouch mode with no one looking at me.

I also don't have any bounties at all.

So my question is how did she find out that I stole it? She never saw me or anyone else for that matter.

[Zlobenia]

Game logic.

[Clever Monkey]

wait until you kill someone and exit the building and get juped immediately by assassins hired by a friend of the victim and then get an inheritance becuse you charged the ebony blade with the victim in the first place because they were your friend.
Ya, confusing. welcome to Skyrim.

[mpd1958]

There must have been a chicken somewhere, they can't keep their beaks shut. Bunch of tattle-tails.

[gnewna]

If you want a somewhat plausible "in universe" explanation, well, doubtless someone saw you wander into the kitchen, either from the bar area, or through the kitchen door, and this got back to Hulda.

But yeah, she just automatically knows because game. Similar to how things are mysteriously just known to be stolen, even very generic things like 'wooden bowl'. (That said, if you'd only befriended Hulda by doing a bit of chopping wood for the fire, it wouldn't even have counted as stealing...)

[cfs111]

Maybe she got Olva the Feeble to "devine" who the thief was?

[dias_flac_0g]

Originally posted by gnewna:

If you want a somewhat plausible "in universe" explanation, well, doubtless someone saw you wander into the kitchen, either from the bar area, or through the kitchen door, and this got back to Hulda.

But yeah, she just automatically knows because game. Similar to how things are mysteriously just known to be stolen, even very generic things like 'wooden bowl'. (That said, if you'd only befriended Hulda by doing a bit of chopping wood for the fire, it wouldn't even have counted as stealing...)

Haha you can actually befriend Hulda? I didn't know.

It's funny cuz no one has ever hired any thugs to get me. So it was a fun experience. I was walking from Helgen (clearing out the banits) to riverwood and it was like 3am so I hug out for a bit by alvors house and made some leather. Then I went to the Northern exit of Riverwood (where the bridge is) and saw 3 shady looking npc's all with heavy armor and then one of them said we are here to teach you a lesson.

I was like wtf?

I'm usualy always a "good guy" type of character so I was like who would want to teach me a lesson? All I do is help people.

It was a hard fight too. Since I was only lvl 4. I'm on a new save ^-^

[gnewna]

Heh! My last experience with them was on a character where I was operating a 'no reloads' policy - if something went wrong, I rolled with it. So of course I accidentally stole a pie or something in the Bee and Barb while trying to talk to an NPC who was sitting at one of the tables... Couple of in-game days later, I was waiting by the cook fire at Shor's Stone to propose to Sylgja when she finished work for the day, the wait time ran out and BOOM "we're here to teach you a lesson..." All tremendously embarrassing for my character, but luckily Sylgja didn't seem to realise the thugs were there because she'd done something "bad" (by accident...) and accepted her proposal.

[Ashunera]

its a random chance for them to attack you

[voehringer_nitron]

On one of my characters I went up to a guard that was asleep in the barracks in Solitude and pickpocketed some things from him, including an Amulet of Mara that I used to ask Ysolda to marry me. I later had Thugs sent after me, and the letter was signed "Solitude Guard." If I had gone up to him on the street and stolen from him, I could understand him figuring out who it was, but him asleep and me undetected?

[mpd1958]

When I first started playing, before I knew about the 60 fps rule I walked into an Inn and things went flying everywhere. So I thought, "Sorry, I'll clean this up" and picked up an egg off the flour, The innkeeper yells thief and I think WTH! and booked out of there. A few days later the thugs show up. The letter they had was from the innkeeper, so I went back and and tried to kill the SOB. Thats when I found out about essencial NPCs.

[voehringer_nitron]

That's kind of like when I first started playing Oblivion. I escape the sewers, and see the ruins right across the way and go there and clear it out, then headed into the city. Stopped at one of the inns and saw a fork on the table and used the manipulate function on a fork, I didn't actually take it. The innkeeper called out "Guards! There's a madman on the loose!" The guard came in and confronted me for the one gold bounty on my head. I paid it off, but from then on I made it a point of honor to steal all the forks I could. If they're that important to you, I'm taking them.

[♥ Barney ♥]

I was searching round Dragonsreach for books and accidently picked up a plate that was marked as steal, dropped it immediately and thought nothing about it. Next day, that snotty cow who sweeps the floor in Dragonsreach hired some thugs to come and beat me up...

[gnewna]

Originally posted by dak09081977:

its a random chance for them to attack you

Nope, well, the exact time is somewhat random (though it's usually in a few in-game days, and most often seems to happen when I leave a major city, or am in a town), but they will (or should - bugthesda etc) only appear if you have either stolen something or I think sometimes they get sent after a murder/assault (when they will have a slightly different note.)

[Sareth]

i took and item from hulda inn but it was only a note and got a 1 gil bounty (which i paid off) and she still sent hired thugs after me..........OMG this is like killing a chicken all over again lol

[Poil]

Originally posted by gnewna:

Originally posted by dak09081977:

its a random chance for them to attack you

Nope, well, the exact time is somewhat random (though it's usually in a few in-game days, and most often seems to happen when I leave a major city, or am in a town), but they will (or should - bugthesda etc) only appear if you have either stolen something or I think sometimes they get sent after a murder/assault (when they will have a slightly different note.)

Random chance WHEN YOU STEAL SOMETHING