Hi all! I am so in love with this game, but I am having trouble. Please excuse me for I do not remember characters names very well I just started. So after I created my character and mt captor helped me escape the dragon, he had told me to go and talk to his cousin, brother, something like that, anyway I get to the city, Riverwood I think, and get to the blacksmiths house at night, he is not outside so I go up to the door and it asks me if I want to open it, so I do and him and his wife are in the house with his children and they are PISSED! The dude that helped me escape is also in there. Now this blacksmith and his wife want to kill me so I run but can not get away, I kill his wife and him and steal some of their stuff.

My question is, WHAT THE HELL did I do wrong? Was I supposed to knock? wait till morning? Now when I go back to the city people are trying to kill me and I have to return this golden claw. Please help me! So next time I don't just walk into some ones house and have to murder them.

You have to wait till morning to talk to her, if you just pick the lock on someones house of course they are gonna be pissed lol. My advice would be to load a previous save and wait till morning to talk to her and everything will be ok. She will be walking around town, most likely headed to the wood mill as that is where her husband and her work.

dont enter someones home at night wait till day time. u were trespassing if entering there home at night

People never seem to like it when I go into their house at any time of day, but then again, I'm a thief.

Some of the rules of real life society kind of apply in Skyrim.

People don't like you stealing their stuff. They don't like you being in their house, uninvited, at 3 am. They don't like you hitting them, either.

And for chrissakes, don't steal their sweetroll.

LOL! Thanks guys! I guess thinking about my actions and their consequences are important in this world.

STOP! CRIMINAL SCUM! you have violated the law, pay the court a fine or serve your sentence :tongue:

Yup, that's how it goes.

But there are a couple other rules to bear in mind that also exist in both reality and in Skyrim:

Don't get caught.

And if you get caught?

Stay one step ahead!

You break into their house in the middle of the night and then wonder why they're pissed? lol.

It was night/evening when I got to Riverwood...I imagine it is if you don't stop anywhere on the way and go straight there. If it indicates that the door is locked (by stating its difficulty, like "macphile's House - Adept"), picking it would be breaking and entering. If it doesn't indicate that it's locked, the people should give you an opportunity to leave on your own, I think. "Get out" and stuff. It's a trespass. I have 2 on my record.

I was breaking in to a woman's house in Solitude. A guard saw what I was doing and warned me, but I had just picked the lock so I went in anyway, and the guard was somehow already in the house! He was in front of me! Scared me to death.