9 Videogame Characters Who Were Punished Far Too Severely

8. Skyrim €“ Shopkeepers Send Assassins After The Dragonborn For Stealing Pastries

Skyrim - The Dark Brotherhood We€™re staying with Bethesda now, because there€™s clearly going to be a morass of moral quandaries when you€™re able to steal absolutely anything that isn€™t nailed down. Yet as we all know, there€™s a way around doing this properly €“ you wait until that person€™s back is turned, and you pilfer to your heart€™s content. Some of the more inventive types will even put a bucket on the head of the vendor and just pillage everything. Yet occasionally, you will get rumbled, and bad things occur, usually involving fines. But occasionally, you get a retribution glorious in its perversity. Apparently, the shopkeeper saw you nick a sweetroll before gaily cantering outside, but they choose not to do anything about it at the most logical and effective time. Instead, they snap up the Dark Brotherhood, who will ambush you at some point because why the hell not. The first time it happens, you€™re actively confused €“ then you realise why it happened, and you start to take it as a necessary risk whenever you choose to pilfer in a shop. Apparently, a five gold penalty isn€™t enough €“ the people of Skyrim really like their trinkets, and are willing to send medieval ninjas after you to prove this.
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