Goom wrote:If you have committed a criminal act such as stealing or knocking someone out then you can be tracked and summoned whilst you are offline.
So you either have to be good and behave, or you have to hide your hearthfire in a house and build lots of walls to keep people out so they can't get to your fire to summon you.
the strange thing is that I haven't stolen from anybody or knocked anyone out. I wonder if I didn't log out fast enough. my dead body isn't even on my hearth fire. it's where it was when I logged off
I did read the wiki.