this is sorta spoiley, for non-players, but i need some practical advice.
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i'm playing a Dunmer Assassin and am in the first town, messing around trying to get some skillz before i head out.
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so...im at the waterfront, killing muderabs and slaughterfish, practicing my movez and jumping around on the rockz.
chasing a particular slaughterfish who has, for some odd reason, left the water and is "swimming" all over the shoreline and rockz. :D

i'm slashing and following it, when the Dunmer Elone who lives in the huts with the outcasts starts screaming at me and attacks. i gather i musta accidentally swung at him when i was chasing down my prey.
well, i don't wanna die and he still attacks when i put up my weapon, so i look around... no one's paying attention... pull out my short sword again and after a swing or two, he's dead.

i loot him and "hide" the corpse and quickly back away, whistling as tho nothing has happened.

so, my question is...... did i really get away with it? i've talked to a couple of guardsmen and they act all normal.

and does that mean that outlanders are really that despised? we can off each other and no one carez?

anyone have any practical knowledge of this?

its getting dark, time for me to climb the rooftops and see what pretty baubles i can find...

thanks!

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yeah, well i've done the same thing on 2 persons...accidentally of course. My opinion is as long as no one sees you, you're fine. Btw, jumping around all the time can boost your acrobatics very fast. One question i have though is the leveling up seems pretty slow at the beginning. I mean, i had almost 2 or 3 hours of gameplay before getting my first level up, is that normal?

heya mage!!

thanks for the affirmative on that booboo of mine. :D

i agree. experience gains seem to be tough at first. actually, i found that the first couple of levels seem to go slow. maybe its because its a new & unfamiliar system. or its easy to get kinda distracted and be doing so many things that you kinda forget what you need to focus on.

also, like losing weight, if you watch the scale alla time, it seems like you're never going to drop those pounds. :D

it picks up tho.

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According to the game manual, if you accidentally attack a townsperson, you are supposed to turn yourself into the local authorities and pay a fine.

not if the person attacks you first, what i meant is i tried to solve the matter "pacifically" by stealing the stuff instead of mugging it. Unfortunately it failed and i didn't like the guy so much, so i didn't reload.

[ 05-04-2002, 05:10 PM: Message edited by: Mage of Mystra ]

I've done that once, also, and no-one seemed to notice. I was on a mission to relieve someone of a key, and I was having no luck pilfering it, so on the 300th try, after getting caught, I just killed him. I walked out of his house and right up to a guard and chatted away like nothing had happened. As far as I can tell, if you are not seen doing something, you aren't busted. Another time I was intent on getting a little something out of a chest in a closet. The owner kept objecting to my borrowing, so I finally just closed the door between us. It worked perfect, see no evil, hear no evil, call no guards.
I do wish they'd add a "nonchalant saunter" mode for when you have to walk past the guards...

has anyone been arrested and chosen to do the hard labor? i havent tried that, just wondering what happens. i figure resisting arrest is rather self explanitory

skill loss is dependent on how bad the crime was; you lost from more different skills for a worse crime.

it seems to pick randomly from your skills and reduce by 1 per skill per day you are in jail