#that the enemy aggro wouldn't start ramping up until you actually fight them

[madmaryholiday]

decided to try a pacifist run in sons of the forest on low enemy aggro/health/armor to see if avoiding combat would let me progress through the game without being attacked.

i lived in relative peace with the local cannibals for five whole days (always standing my ground or walking away instead of running, not approaching too close, etc.)

and then they sent a giant raiding party and started attacking me anyway and i had to kill 6 enemies in a row.

and another 4 later in the day.

and a couple giants even later.

i gave up after ANOTHER giant raiding party started to close in the next morning, because there was no way i was going to keep up that frequency of combat.

apparently you just. HAVE to fight the cannibals eventually.

guess i'm sticking to peaceful mode.