Sure, I will fully admit to being at fault here.

I shouldn’t have whacked that NPC sitting by the opening campfire with my wooden club.

Listen, I just wanted to see what would happen, all right?

A female character from Palworld with a big red and black WANTED sign over their face

“Assault x1”, it stated, trying to be all GTA without the star rating.

“You’ve been spotted!”

it continued, and then swarms of Lv.24 guards appeared from absolutely nowhere.

A female player character attacks an NPC and becomes a criminal in Palworld.

I jumped down cliffs, jumped into rivers, fast-travelled, all to no avail.

I spent so long trying to run away from them that the in-game timer turned from day into night.

Eventually, I realised I just had to give up, so I resigned myself to an early death.

A PIDF guard pursues a female player character hiding behind a wall in Palworld

Would they ever stop coming for me as a result?

I wonder whether tempering the PIDF’s relentlessness has made its way onto Pocketpair’s giant to do list.

I hope it has, because woe unto anyone who accidentally biffs an NPC fighting a Pal or Alpha.

You might get way more than you bargained for.