🚀 go-pugleaf

"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>All the attacks your receiving.
>Perhaps you've built up a big bad reputation that needs to be resolved /paid 
>for.
>
>May be one way to vent out frustration is to go to some smallish settlement
>& mindlessly kill every body there - steal everything  then go give your 
>Hero up
>to the Law.
>I've not tried this but I suspect the sentence for mass slaughter n theft
>is much the same as a petty theft.

Dude, I'm a _vampire_.  Under what circumstances would a vampire ever
surrender themselves to be locked up away from "food" and possibly left
in the sun somewhere.

Which is why Whiterun no longer has _any_ guards and is missing a few
other npcs.   I came to shop, they attacked me and died.
I wasn't attacking them, I was just there to sell loot.

Why isn't there a stop point in there somewhere that after a certain
amount of kills/bounty they stop asking you to surrender?

"The last 72 people who asked you to surrender were told no, then killed
mercilessly, I guess I'll ask you to surrender to" - Soon to be dead
Guard.

It wouldn't be quite as bad if the guards actually had to detect you in
order to start their surrender script, but apparently you just have to
come in range of one of them for it to go off, then they flounder around
blindly and give up when you refuse because they can't detect you at
all.
Totally fucks immersion.

What really gets me is that this is all "By order of the Jarl" - the
same Jarl who know's I'm the dragonborn and the only hope of saving the
world from the dragons much less his towns - so WTF is he having his
guards try to kill me?

"That person is the only one who can save us, so lets arrest and/or kill
them so they can't."   Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it?

That's the kind of thing I mean by the writers not thinking this stuff
through.  

If I'm rotting in jail, I'm not fighting and perma-killing the dragons
ravaging your cities and towns - where's your friggen priorities, Jarl?

Hell, one of those people attacking me at one point was whatsername of
the Blades - the bunch that _serve and protect_ the dragonborn, yet
she's laying into me with a sword while all I was trying to do was shop.

Even when my response is to paralyze them and then ignore them, as soon
as they unfreeze they attack again, _knowing_ that I can paralyze and
kill them at will.

No friggen logic at all.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, 
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr