Was I tricked?

[prolovegirl]

We were all crowded round a dragon, fighting it, and in the excitement I accidentally half-shot an arrow which fell towards the ground a few feet away. After the dragon was dead, the guards were trying to fight me, and there was a body on the ground. Perhaps my shortfall arrow had got her. One guard confronted me but there was no choice to say "It was an accident! I was rescuing you and all of Solitude from the dragon! Doesn't that count for something?"

 

Instead, I only had the usual choice of three options. I chose "I'd rather die!" and ran away, and kept running.

 

I already belonged to the Thieves' Guild, so I looked in there for someone who could take half the fine and get the authorities off my back, like they did in Morrowind and Oblivion, but I couldn't find one.

 

Later I was travelling through a forest and a bounty hunter wanted me to pay him 1200 gold and said he would pay my fine, except for his cut of course. After I paid him, I checked my bounty and it was still 1000, but I assumed he would pay it when he got back to Solitude, so I didn't attack him.

 

However, when I fast-travelled to Solitude just now, after finishing many other quests, the guards are still on my tail, and my bounty is still 1000! Was I tricked? Are there fake bounty hunters in this game? Or did he get killed on the way back to Solitude, by a bear or something?

 

PLG

[Nekrafilia]

I can see the "bounty hunter" in a bar somewhere, telling his story to his mates who are all rolling around on the floor laughing at how the "poor little forest noob" was duped out of 1200 gold on the "promise" of paying off her bounty.

 

Maybe be less trusting in future?

 

Seriously, the whole "I just killed a dragon and saved your sorry butts, why are you attacking me for accidentally killing a chicken in the melee?" is a really annoying part of the game play. I killed a goat by mistake during one fight with a dragon in Riverwood and the guards attacked me. A freaking goat ffs.

 

The other annoying thing is a guard being able to stop your actions with a stupid dialog box when they catch you for a crime. The game should assume if you run off that you don't want to pay (same if you attack them), or if you deliberately target them and press the "use" key then you can talk to them.

[mclericp]

Yea i understand ur circumstances. it was really annoying when u try to save a group of guards from a damned dragon, u accidentally hit them and kill them, boom 1000 bounty.

What i do sometimes is, if there arent any1 else around except those 4-5 guards, kill all of them. If there aint no witnesses, ur bounty will go back to 40 for assault. Then, head to a town and pay up the 40g(remove ur stolen items first)