Shivering talk:Big Head

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[edit] Big Head causing trouble, solution for Console users

Console users do not have the benefit of installing the unofficial patch, and need some way to keep Big Head alive. It appears that there are two ways that Big Head can get himself killed by the guards. The first is that he will steal forks and food. This follows the normal rules of NPC crime, and you can avoid Big Head being killed simply by bribing him. Under the normal game mechanics the bribe money will go into Big Head's inventory, and he will simply pay his fine any time he is caught stealing. The bribe money will ensure that he can always pay his fine, because if he cannot the guards will kill him. The bigger issue is that Big Head will attack other NPCs. Even if he surrenders, and has the gold to pay his crime, the guards will continue attacking him until he is dead. I don't have access to SI in the editor so this next part is only a guess from my testing. It appears that this is caused by his find fork AI pack. At 2pm Big Head comes out of the Sacellum, and soon after Rendil Drarara comes out of his house and walks to the Sacellum. At some point Big Head picks him up, draws his weapon and runs to attack Rendil. Rendil has a fork in his inventory, and it appears that Big Head is failing to try to pickpocket it, but rather just tries to kill Rendil to take it. I was able to stop Big Head from attacking Rendil by stealing the fork from him. I verified that Big Head was looking for a fork by placing the stolen fork on the ground. He will sneak up to it and pick it up off the ground. I am not sure why he is deciding to kill NPCs without trying to pickpocket them, but you should be able to keep him from doing this by stealing all the forks from the citizens of Bliss. After pickpocketing everyone it appears that Rendil is the only NPC in Bliss with a fork in their inventory. --Shalley303 14:11, 12 April 2008 (EDT)