(07-07-2015, 07:29 PM)Verad Wrote: reasonable doubt
The biggest difference between stumbling into a tavern covered in blood and leaking entrails and turning up to an event and launching into an attack is that one gives you the option of reacting while the other requires you to do so. Sure, someone could just emote "Won't someone help that man?" and be done with it, but you're not given much of a choice when someone walks up and begins combat on not just you, but everyone around you.
It's possible he was just looking for an in, but you don't start up conversation with strangers by asking them how big their squishy bits are. Not if you want conversation to continue normally, anyway.