Curie and I stopped by the Warwick Homestead to say "hi" yesterday. I had already been there, fixed their pump and done some trading, established myself as a nice person.

This time, I accidently hit the RB and activated 'Bash'. I connected with the little boy's jaw. Bad move - instant hostility from the rest of the advlts. I'm in combat armor with ballistic weave, so it's beneath my dignity to notice their attack, for now. My weapon is holstered, and I wait. I was hoping for some kind of "cooler heads prevailing" solution, where my weapon being put away might calm the situation.

A minute goes by, they're still shooting, and now Curie "hates this" and a screen pops up asking for Curie's reassignment - she wants to walk out on me! I'm still trying to process that bit of news, when that screen goes away. Only now, Curie is hostile, and firing!

I don't know what to do about Curie, because I have Inspirational(2), meaning in theory we can't hurt each other directly. I can seriously damage the other Warwicks though, so I chase them down because now I'm annoyed. Then I restore to an earlier save and everyone forgets.

Lessons learned:

1) Save early; save often

2) Be careful with the controller; No Fat Fingers!

I had an incident like that at Bunker Hill during a particular quest. I accidentally stole a desk fan while trying to loot a body for ammo. Even more hell broke loose, I got the pop up to send Danse to somewhere else in between his "hated" and "dislike" notifications. I think everyone hated me at that point so I just reloaded my last quicksave to 5 minutes earlier. Then just didn't loot anything until we were downstairs

I had Hancock with me when we encountered a group of traveling settlers being attacked by Gunners. I pulled out my Gauss rifle and fired a shot with VATS which killed a Gunner. However the Gauss rifle does AOE damage which hurt one of the settlers. This angered Hancock and well... needless to say I was forced to reload.

Alternatively, just sprint out of the settlement until you're out of their range and don't come back for 24-48 in game hours. They'll forget about it.

While trying to trade with Myrna in Diamond City, I accidentally stole something behind her. She did not react....everyone else opened fire on me.

haha OP I almost choked on my Frito.

since my game is modded to remove the essential status from npcs, I just did the ole follow through and murdered everyone.