Some were simply me waiting hidden until the guy was almost dead and then knifing them for the kill.

Some were mages who spammed all north on the north road (or east on eastern or whatever) without having fly up so they just never got a command in

A lot though were me knifing and them fleeing and me being able to chase and reknife and repeat that process.

I imagine their commands went something like this.

flee
PANIC you can't escape!
flee
You fled from combat!
flee
You aren't fighting anyone.
Mochodin has arrived.
flee
You aren't fighting anyone.
q return
Mochodin's knifing MASSACRES you!
You can't quaff a potion in combat!
flee
You fled from combat!
flee
You aren't fighting anyone.
Mochodin has arrived.
q return
Mochodin's knifing MANGLES you!

And so on.

I didn't use trip much because thiefguy wasn't great at straight up meleeing down someone unless they were even wussier than him (mages).