Saw a couple of strange things today. Both involved the “Ginger in a Pickle” quest…
There I was on a forest path following the directions to the camp of the “other searchers”. Up ahead, I saw a large battle going on in the road, looked about 4 vs. 4, armored guys vs. bandits. From the distance, I thought it was Talmberg guards vs. Bandits, so I went up to lend a hand. However, upon closer examination, it turned out to be bandits vs. Cumans, and they realized they had a party crasher simultaneously. So the closest pair of adversaries quit fighting each other and came running at me.
Oh bloody Hell! So I started back-peddling and after a while, the bandit got ahead of the Cuman, who promptly stabbed the bandit in the back. So the bandit turned around and started fighting the Cuman again. So I thought I’d go up and blindside one of them, but as I got close, they both noticed me again and turned my way, so it was backpedal again. And this time the bandit backstabbed the Cuman and they turned on each other again. this happened several times until the Cuman finally killed the bandit and I finished off the Cuman.
So, I went back up the trail and the rest of both mobs were still going at it. I decided I’d been quite lucky and doubted this sort of thing would happen again, so I took a long detour through the woods off the path without getting involved further.
Eventually, I got to the camp. I wasn’t there to be friendly with the “other searchers” so I popped one with an arrow and both came running. While backing away, I managed to beat one up pretty good, but then his own partner stabbed in the back and killed him. and that ended the battle. the remaining guy totally ignored me, even when I ran him through the chest. He just gave me a funny luck and walked back to camp. So I had to follow him back and go through the whole dialog to be able to fight him again. Seemed a bit odd 