During the beginning of a multiplayer game, while first entering the Friendly Arms Inn (the building itself, inside) we stole a lot upstairs to the point of being attacked by 1 guard. We killed him and then the Flaming Fist dude popped up so we ran (after being killed a few times, reloaded and really booked it outta there). All this happened before we recruited Jaheria and Khalid...oops! But we picked up Xzar and Montaron before all of this. We tried waiting 24 hrs (game time) to go back but Flaming Fist popped up.

So we thought to just bounce down to Beregost and return later, maybe a week of game time? To our surprise Flaming Fist guy popped up in Beregost not too long after we arrived, even though we were being good! Is this because we caused a really bad reputation back in Friendly Arms Inn? Or is it due to Xzar and Montaron being Chaotic Evil and Neutral Evil? If reputation, how long until we can go back in peace or must we "up" our reputation first? Also is there a way we can check our reputation anywhere? (I'm assuming it's low)

Between all our save points we're pretty much stuck getting killed by Flaming Fist security. It may be time to restart from scratch and not be such assholes...