so i decided to try poisoning people thru pickpocketing for the first time ever. i put a lingering damage health poison on a random meat seller in riften and she dies in about 5 seconds. the guards go nuts!! even tho i'm stealthed and or invisible they show up red and chase me down.
now here is where it gets weird....the entire town of riften (aka all of the vendors and citizens) turn on the guards and i have a huuuuuge melee on my hands over this stupid dead meat seller. so i start sniping down the guards and upon killing the last guard it gives me the message that the last witness is killed and 2k bounty removed....then all of a sudden i get 1k re-added and one of the citizens (the meat sellers husband? i dunno lol) shows up hostile so i kill him and get another 1k added.
is this how its supposed to work? i'm really confused.