So someone caught me stealing ONE gold coin off their table... guards came and I paid my bounty of 1 gold. A few hours later that guy hired 3 thugs after me... lol?

Maybe this gold coin was made of diamond.

Try eating fruit in the room you rented in an Inn, thats not even marked as stealing, and have the innkeepers young daughter order a 3 man hit on you.

Serious wtf moment.

Think yourself lucky, some of us had thugs on us and we were not even caught stealing!

that's one area that's seriously messed up. came upon a camp with 1 sleeping npc. stole a couple of soul gems, regular gems and looted a chest nearby in the camp. next day 3 thugs with a contract taken out by that npc. if he was sleeping the whole time how did he know it was me?

Daughter: "Daddy! He took my apple! Let me kill him please?!"

Innkeep: "Alright, honey, go kill 'em. No one steals my Daughter's Apples."

Sons of Skyrim always sleep with one eye open...

I wouldve murdered him and then took his stuff. Even the boots off his feet. No witnesses.

being an npc sleeping in an unmarked camp i was thinking there might be a quest involved later... :tongue:

I killed a chicken, and three men killed me for it.

I get thugs chasing after me alot, but I haven't stole anything on this particular toon. What gives?

Yeah, I had a similar experience. I got randomly ambushed by three thugs with a contract from some inkeeper. Unfortunately for them, they got a vicious and fatal beatdown from Lydia and me. If this was real life, I would love to walk into the inn, set the contract on the counter and say "I think this belongs to you" just to see the look on the guy's face.

For people who wonder why they got attacked, here was my situation as best as I can remember: When I got to the inn I was at my max carrying capacity so I rented a room and offloaded a bunch of stuff into a chest in the room and then set out to explore the town. After finishing a couple of local quests, I returned and found that my time in the room had expired, so the chest was now marked as "steal". So I re-rented the room but it still showed that I was "stealing". But I said "eff it, it's my stuff" and took it anyway.

If the innkeeper wants to keep sending disposable thugs to their deaths over that, I guess it's his prerogative. If it eventually gets to be an annoying distraction, I will simply go take care of the innkeeper for good.

Hired thugs can be a bit silly.

I remember I was on a part of the main story where I had to fight a dragon and when I met the dragon these hired thugs jumped me with him from the side. I cast calm on the thugs and tried to hide hoping when calm wore off the thugs would attack the dragon since they no longer should know where I am. I returned to hidden state and calm wear off. At this point the hired thugs, who should have no idea where I am, resume slowly walking to exactly where I just hid while a dragon is attacking the other person in the quest and she is doing a ducking thing. They calmly ignore the rampaging dragon and find me without any trouble unfazed by anything going on. I try it again to test and the same thing happens. You CANNOT hide from hired mercenaries.

So I am killed by the thugs and the dragon double teaming me and reload my save. I learn the psychic mercenaries that, despite their pathetic combat abilities, are so badass they could care less about dragons when they have a job to do were hired by a guy who saw me pick up an empty mug of his by mistake and then put it back down.

Some people REALLY don't like when you touch their stuff.

I got the dark brotherhood after me once....damn ninja.
i somehow must have pissed someone really off by taking that delicious apple pie at the inn.

I was in the middle of a sneaking mission when 2 thugs were waiting for me when I went to the next area to burn the beehives. If the island was sealed off to outsiders by mercs how did these 2 get in at all? They must have just spawned there. With shadow warrior I took em out before they could blow my cover, but it was pretty f'ing ridiculous that they can just interrupt a mission like that.

Embry was the one who sent thugs after me. When I confronted him about it, all he had to say was: "My favourite drinking buddy!". Two-faced bastard's not getting any ale from me ever again.

hey it's the principle of the matter XD
I had hired thugs come after me while I wasn't even caught stealing
definitely robbed this lady entire house but she never caught me
guess she put 2 and 2 together when all her valuables were missing right after my visit.

I had the Dark Brotherhood come after me right after leaving Helgen on my character. I still have no idea why. I also got thugs sent after me in Falkreath, and the bounty was signed ~R. No idea who that is, I don't remember stealing anything.

I hate them! I came out of a dungeon and got attacked by three hired thugs, two spriggans and a dragon simultaneously. I was like, come on man...

ROFL !

You sir, made my day !

did he sign the contract with just the letter "E"?

the only time I saw the Hired Thugs was really non-sequitur.

I broke into Sigurn's (sp?) house in the middle of the night in Whiterun. I robbed some things, I attacked him in bed and ended up killing him in a fight.

Then these Hired Thugs show up during my first dragon fight to kick my ass, hired by a guy who was dead 2 minutes after meeting me. Wtf?

I even went back to his house to make sure he was still dead - yup, lying all mangled across his bed. Huh.

What about the 'Letter from a friend' you receive for completely random dragon shout usage?

"You using your dragon shouts at -random open ruin, out in the wilderness with no people around- made people uneasy..." .

...Really? That wasn't a spriggan after all then? :turned: