The setup:

An NPC needs to greet the player, then link to one topic, than that topic has "Goodbye", "StartCombat Player", "SetFight 100". A script cannot be used to do this (because it is a Bethesda NPC). An NPC could force quit the conversation in the greeting, thereby not starting combat at all.

If I place the "SetFight 100" in the greeting instead, that should start the fight if the player force quits the greeting, right? Will it mess anything up if the PC continues the conversation on to the topic, like they should?

(Off topic - we just had an minor earthquake rattle my PC here in California...)