Something that would cause the Valtheim Bandits to sometimes not stop the player?

[Nephenee13]

Normally when you approach Valtheim Towers the first time, you get stopped by a bandit and get mugged. I've had it happen tons of times.

But I started a new character to test something, and this time they aggroed all over her.

 

So I reloaded and tried again, same thing.

Made a new character, default race this time, and it worked as intended.

I made another new character, same custom race as the first one, and again it worked as intended.

So what broke them on that first character's game? The only differences were some MCM settings though I have no idea what in my mod list could cause that as part of an MCM setting.

 

Anyone else ever encountered this issue, or a similar one?

[xTrogdorx]

Perhaps a cloak effect triggered as a hostile spell on the bandits.