Hey all, new guy here. Just started playing arcanum doing a generic gunslinger build, leveling up the techs to get bombs and all that good stuff. Enough backstory, heh. My question is this, is there ever a way of escaping the guards, as I went into a magical shop and the guy attacked me, I assume it was because of my high tech rating, needless to say I blew him to peices. Problem is, now the guards are after me. Any help gratefully recieved. Thanks
Guards? I've been attacked randomly in Inns at Dernholm, Tarant, Black Root and Ashbury. Sometimes a Guard shows up and your faithful droogs pummel him to death. The Inn keeper wants you to leave. I got lucky in that the rest of the guardsmen didn't see it happen so they didn't attack me after I left the Inn. Don't know what to do if the entire Guard is after you though. Maybe exiting the town and reentering?
The shopkeeper shouldn't have attacked you like that. As for the guards... no, I'm sorry. Once they're hostile they stay that way. If you can get the hostile one to a secluded spot and kill him with no one seeing you should be okay. If however you kill too many you'll wind up gaining Tarant's enmity.
Okay, if you kill a shopkeep in front of a guard, you can kill that guard and drag both their corpses into a hidden part of the map. (Hold alt and click on the corpse while in an adjacent spot to drag it there.) OR, you can run as fast as you can from that one guard who witnessed your crime. Change maps or jump on the subway if you can, but flee. If you're out of his radar, you can go about your business and only that one guard will attack you on sight. Then you can wait for an appropriate ambush to get this one guard into the bushes behind the museum or somewhere secluded and kill him quietly. You can get away with it if you're careful. If you kill guards and shopkeeps in front of plenty of witnesses, you become "Enemy of [town]" and everyone will always attack you, even the chickens. (Such patriotic chickens!) My advice would be kill the witnesses and dump their bodies in a dark corner, then leave town for a few days. Failing that, restart as a mage with Dominate Will. It solves every problem with the law. "You don't need to see my identification. I'm not the one you're looking for. Move along."
Some more background, Frigo, I have about 8 beauty as well as the smoking jacket, I believe the shop keeper that attacked me had a disposition of around 10. The guards also didnt see me kill him, as once attacked I killed the shoppie and then waited a day, to see if that helped and all the guards still came for me. So I reload to before I go into the shop and instead go to ashbury and out of nowhere my posse start attacking some random non hostile halfling. I was wondering now, does your party effect how people react? Or indeed, what causes the party to attack random people
That one halfling in Ashbury inexplicably has some kind of random blood feud. Seems to happen to me when I have Sogg and am evil. No other npc seems to have the same peculiarity.
In vanilla, two villagers in Ashbury had wrong factions attached. The result of this was that they attacked you on sight if you are an enemy of Clan Maug. This was fixed in the UAP.
