Why do they all attack me for killing a chicken?

[imsorrisuck]

I killed a chicken in River Wood thinking it would be fun. All the sudden the whole town was after me trying to kill me for killing a chicken! Seems a little outrageous!

[LooneyToon41]

Lol, i did exactly the same thing. I was throwing around my Fury spell (playing as Altmer), and hit a chicken by mistake... yikes, you would have thought i'd called Cheryl Cole a slut in a Newcastle pub. Total mayhem, and i was toast. , as i'd just started the game.
Decided to load up an earlier save....

[Rhcpftw]

Vikings love meat.

Yummy in the tummy.

[JVElEven]

It's an owned chicken. You basically killed their property.

[Wolfie]

Yes, it counts as an asult and evreything, tell me what do you think happes when you go to someones place and kill one of their creatures? ow days we call the cops, ack then? they tried to fight you, and so do their freinds and such, in riverwood thats asicly evrey one

[Talamare]

In my experience, If I set a human on fire, I lower my hands pay 40g and Its done

If I set a chicken on fire, GG BRO GG, They wont stop attacking EVER

I was one time heroically saving a town from a colossal dragon, when my powerful but wild flames accidentally scorched one of their chickens
The entire town instantly felt that I was the bigger threat to the city than the Dragon and killed me

[Wolfie]

Riverwood doswe ot have gaurds some times so you cant pay the fine


if you where to atack them with out gaurds it acts the same as a chicken

[perylousdemon]

In my experience, If I set a human on fire, I lower my hands pay 40g and Its done

If I set a chicken on fire, GG BRO GG, They wont stop attacking EVER

I was one time heroically saving a town from a colossal dragon, when my powerful but wild flames accidentally scorched one of their chickens
The entire town instantly felt that I was the bigger threat to the city than the Dragon and killed me

Yeah, I've always felt the whole bounty system was a bit borked. Like the one quest in the Dark Brotherhood questline where you have to

Spoiler:

kill Vittoria Vici.

Sure, you'll probably get caught trying to escape, but you just hand them 1000 gold and they're perfectly content to let you go about your business. Kills the realism a bit, IMO.

[Talamare]

In my experience, If I set a human on fire, I lower my hands pay 40g and Its done

If I set a chicken on fire, GG BRO GG, They wont stop attacking EVER

I was one time heroically saving a town from a colossal dragon, when my powerful but wild flames accidentally scorched one of their chickens
The entire town instantly felt that I was the bigger threat to the city than the Dragon and killed me

Yeah, I've always felt the whole bounty system was a bit borked. Like the one quest in the Dark Brotherhood questline where you have to

Spoiler:

kill Vittoria Vici.

Sure, you'll probably get caught trying to escape, but you just hand them 1000 gold and they're perfectly content to let you go about your business. Kills the realism a bit, IMO.

Maybe but too realistic is also problematic

Alright, Youre going to be locked up in jail for 20 years

[perylousdemon]

Maybe but too realistic is also problematic

Alright, Youre going to be locked up in jail for 20 years

A balance would be nice. Like, you can choose to pay gold to avoid jailtime for minor things like thievery or assault, but you're forced to either resist arrest or go to jail for x amount of time if you murder someone.

[D_Lay]

It'd be better if you could directly compensate the person for doing something so minor as slaying a chicken.

[Wolfie]

I dont call that minor, more so back then, chickes cost a foutrne.
thats how they eat, it's a big deal and im not even kidding

[Squiver]

"I killed a chicken, but the chicken was the only witness to the crime, so I don't receive a bounty... ... That's deep, man."

[Wolfie]

Even I dont get how they can report the crime

But as said it makes snese to me, but I live on farm land while most here probely dont know how much they cost, even more so in old times

[RatKiller]

Chickens don't want to be sword.

[stormbringer]

In my experience, If I set a human on fire, I lower my hands pay 40g and Its done

If I set a chicken on fire, GG BRO GG, They wont stop attacking EVER

I was one time heroically saving a town from a colossal dragon, when my powerful but wild flames accidentally scorched one of their chickens
The entire town instantly felt that I was the bigger threat to the city than the Dragon and killed me

Yeah, I've always felt the whole bounty system was a bit borked. Like the one quest in the Dark Brotherhood questline where you have to

Spoiler:

kill Vittoria Vici.

Sure, you'll probably get caught trying to escape, but you just hand them 1000 gold and they're perfectly content to let you go about your business. Kills the realism a bit, IMO.

UH, killed WHAT realism? This is a game about DRAGONS, MAGIC SPELLS, and many other things of that sort. Realism in this game can only be said about the graphics.

[ThE cHoSeN oNe LDB3]

Its the property of someone so its destroying property that belongs to someone.

[Black Thunder]

It's an owned chicken. You basically killed their property.

Yup, it got owned pretty much.

[BlackDrake]

What I dont understand is how they can be a witness to a crime...cows do the exact same thing! Killed someone (wanted their armor...really wanted it) and it gave me 1000 bounty! Killed the nearest cow after realising..."Last witness killed. 1000 bounty lost from The Reach". hmmm...

back on topic, it's someones property, so they will attack you for it. There should be an option to compensate for it though...have you tried yielding or anything?

[OblivionDuruza]

The funniest thing, I've heard this exact same "killed a chicken in Riverwood" story so many times you'd think it were a scripted event

[JVElEven]

It's because we're all homicidal maniacs.

The guy behind the literal Skyrim trailer (Tobuscus) did that in his Let's Play as well. By the way, you should check that one out. He's seriously funny. Mostly because he has no freaking idea about what he's doing.

[Iaius Amaius Heron]

The funniest thing, I've heard this exact same "killed a chicken in Riverwood" story so many times you'd think it were a scripted event

So Riverwood Chicken is the new Fargoth?

You heard it first here, folks!


OT: Yeah, if some random dude waltzed into my hometown and stabbed my pet, you bet your daedric warhammer I'm gonna gank you!

[LooneyToon41]

There should be an option to compensate for it though...have you tried yielding or anything?

Just 'Sage and Onion stuffing' ...yummmmm

[IABlindKidI]

Never, ever, shield bash a Chicken. I learned that lesson when the town Blacksmith turned me into a Khajiit shishkebob five minutes in to the game.

[perylousdemon]

UH, killed WHAT realism? This is a game about DRAGONS, MAGIC SPELLS, and many other things of that sort. Realism in this game can only be said about the graphics.

I know that, but you'd think the crime system would make a little more sense. I mean, come on. Animals counting as witnesses to crimes when they can't even tell anyone what happened? Sure,

Spoiler:

Barbas can rat on you, but he's sort of special in that he can TALK.