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incredigoy

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Followed by allied non-companions
« on: August 22, 2017, 11:15:37 pm »

I became the hearthperson of some backwater town after killing some goblins, and ever since then I've had 6 or 7 soldiers follow me around on the fast-travel screen. They're clearly of the same town that I work for and haven't done anything to harm me since I first met them, but simply tell me they're on an important mission whenever I ask them what they're travelling for. What's going on with these guys?
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Re: Followed by allied non-companions
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2017, 11:18:50 pm »

Also, a quick note, since they lost me they went exactly to where I was headed to check out something that's going down at a town across the continent.
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Re: Followed by allied non-companions
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2017, 08:49:38 pm »

Did you try asking them about their job?
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Re: Followed by allied non-companions
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2017, 04:33:43 am »

Seems like trainee squads to me.
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Re: Followed by allied non-companions
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2017, 07:05:37 pm »

Same thing happened to me quite a time ago. I was followed by squads of fighters, which would just keep at reasonable distance from me, but always stalk me for some reason. It appeared they were a group of soldiers from a nearby town, checking me out, and as we were from the same nation never getting into attack mode.
At least that's what I concluded. Some of them are my friends now.

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Re: Followed by allied non-companions
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2017, 08:30:39 am »

Did you try asking them about their job?
Yeah, I asked them and what they told me checked out. Coincidentally, the town they hail from has "armies on the march" that seem to have actually conquered said town. Could that be it?
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conscripted a squad of traders, RNG gave me "the shield of meat".