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I received a bounty after helping myself to some items lying around Riverwood. Apparently I was detected, since I gained a bounty and a small girl voice claimed "You can't take that". I spent several minutes searching for whoever managed to detect me, but quite literally the only living thing wandering around (it was night) was a chicken - there WAS no small girl. Attacking the chicken resulted in an immediate bounty gain, killing it removed ALL bounties, the message stating 'Last Witness Killed.' While this is amusing, the idea of some sort of super chicken being aware of criminal actions needs to be addressed. Playing the updated Steam version.

Thanks.

That's hilarious. Also dissapointing.

Actually, after 20 further minutes of searching the town, I found a small girl hiding under some stairs. This still leaves me confused over why killing the chicken removed my bounties. So good news and bad.

So the legendary Minecraft spy chicken made it into Skyrim?

Looks like we better watch our backs around lava!

not only chickens, even dogs, lol

Ah well that explains everything...the answer is quite simple really. Its quite obvious that this cunning little chicken was in the midst of stealing large quantities of grain from a nearby shed when you wandered by illegally helping yourself to everything else the town had to offer. The criminal coq --- startled by your sudden appearance, saw the perfect oppurtunity to pin his petty theft on you, and being a master of illusion as this feathered fiend was, he took control of a young Nord girl's mind as she played carelessly down by the river. In a state of 'fowl' possession the little girl was commanded into the shadows near your location and forced to cry out her accusing remark -- never actually witnessing the crime herself. Having served her purpose, the renegade rooster relinquished his 'fowl' grip on the girl, leaving her shocked, sobbing and cowering under the flight of stairs where you later found her. Meanwhile, the devious bird; feeling quite proud of the panic he had caused you, strutted about clucking and laughing, while you tried to figure out what the hell was going on.

This is just like real life! Goddam chickeeeens!

Do the chickens have police uniforms on?

Now I know what my first texture mod will be.

Sapient chickens? But this isn't Fable 3! o___O

Skyrim have some neat bugs, like being killed by a giant and thrown into the sky à lá Team Rocket, or putting buckets on people's head to avoid being seen commiting crimes… but snitching chickens shouldn't be one. Chickens are too delicious for that.

Wolves also detect and report crimes, strangely. I attacked and killed a traveler, and didn't get the bounty removed until some wolves who saw it were killed.

Here's what I don't understand. According to http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/05/todd-howard-on-chickens-reporting-crimes-in-skyrim/, they've known about this bug since the first of October at least:


Laughs. Pretty funny. Glad you tracked it down. So... why did you not fix it then?

Absolutely brilliant.

This bug is hilarious. I can't bring myself to take issue with it, I love the fact that chickenkind is protecting Skyrim from evildoers. Next thing we know there'll be a chicken uprising, riots in the roosts and one fateful day, the chicken leader will be born... and after the battles, henceforth his name shall be known accross the realm as the one true leader, emperor and chicken supreme ruler of all.

All hail Chick Norris.

That bug is annoying and not funny in the slightest after you assassinated someone and the bounty doesnt go away because some random critter observed you.

They shouldve fixed it. Bugs are not funny.

Oooooooh....... thats why...