Ok from what I have learned in my many hours playing The Quest, always, always, ALWAYS work it off after you do a crime.
1. Do a crime if you want to play the game evil-lee.
2. The guard asks you if you want to pay the fine or work it off when you try to leave/enter a new city.
3. Choose the "Work it off?" conversation choice.
(This will teleport you to a cell)
4. When your in the cell, walk back and forth
(Do NOT pick the lock and 'escape')
5. When you walk back and forth it only takes a couple of times before you are teleported back out and the guards become you friends again