Its a bug. One of the media testers found it during the 3 hour game play (Same NPCs I believe), the Dev told the journalist that it was a bug.

oh cool, thanks, any chance you can find that interview (if that was an interview) ?

i hope it's just a Delphine issue :/ if so i'll try to avoid killing too many people in Riverwood lol

Eventually I succeed and am able to quick travel back to town.

I appear in the middle of Riverwood it's not quiet here. I hear someone shout something. An arrow flies by, not particularly close, but I can't see who shot it, nor its intended target.

Then four of the townspeople round a corner. There's three men and a woman. They're dressed not for adventuring or dungeon crawling, but for their daily tasks. Maybe one's a butcher, another could be a tavern owner. I'm not sure, but they're running right at me and they seem angry.

They are angry. I'm not sure why, but suddenly this angry mob is out to kill me. I run from them, trying to lose them in the town's few roads. Eventually, I get enough distance to make my way to the merchant, to turn in my quest.

Seconds after starting my conversation with him, the room fills with the angry townspeople. They start attacking me, I can't run or defend myself because I'm in the middle of a conversation.

I manage to break free and run away. They keep chasing me. I ask one of the real PR people sitting in a real nearby chair, of our real hotel room, to come have a look. Is this normal, I ask?

He seems surprised. Try running away, he suggests.

I run. They follow. We run up the mountain side, the angry mob chasing me. Eventually I turn around and use a bit of magic to get them to attack one another. Then I run away.

Solved, I say.

Only it isn't. The survivors appear back in town a minute or two later, they're still after me.

Did you kill someone, or attack someone? Maybe you stole something, the PR guy asks?

No. They just attacked me. Is it because I'm a lizard man, I ask half seriously? Maybe the game just doesn't like me, I suggest?

I ditch the posse this time by jumping in the river. I can breath underwater, it seems they can't even swim.

I travel to another town. But when I arrive a guard attacks me. Word has gotten round it seems.

I manage to pay off the guard and clear my surprise, apparently unwarranted warrant just in time for the play session to end.

It's pre-alpha code, I'm reminded by the attending PR folks.

That svcks. What platform?