Quest Idea 1: Through the eyes of the Condemed

[InsanitySorrow]

There is a condemed man that as been wrongly accused of murder, in his plee of being not guilty he said it was through magic he did not understand and that he did not intentionally kill anyone. The elder council naive in thier old age tossed him into the dungeons for a lifetime.

The condemed man hears the guard talking about you and the fame you have brought upon yourself. The condemed man asks to speak with you and you oblige. He explians his predicament and after some tiem spent reading up on this ability you find some information that you yourself dont understand but he does, he suggests learning through his eyes. He casts a spell since he knows a small bit of magic he picked up and transfers your mind into his body, Through a condemed mans eys you see the truth......

*The truth you see will have to be planned, outta ideas.

[bob196045]

This sounds interesting

I am just going to ramble on here, these are not questions for anyone in particular, just questions to be answered so that when we move this to Quest Dev. I won't need to ask them again

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We need to figure out what "the truth" is,

is this referring to the truth about what happened in his case?

the player can have "visions" of what the NPC saw, a dream sequence of sorts.

Starting the Quest: "the condemned man hears the guards talking about you and asks to speak with you.....

How would he get this message to someone who will listen?

Guards, Guard Captain, another prisoner who is being released ??


Moved to submissions ..............


Enjoy
Bob

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

how about it really teleports you to a new area, and you see the man and whatever the truth is. If you read or saw Harry Potter 4, kind of like the pensive maybe.

[bob196045]

Nice suggestion IATE

We can go with that.

This would be teleporting to the condemned man's past ? to view what really happened ?




Bob

[TheImperialDragon]

We'd need Oblivion Script Extender I think, but it can be done.

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

No, It can be done ingame. You've teleported places from NPC's and spells, right? Just like that, add in weird lighting and make it so you can't move, then just sit and watch.

[TheImperialDragon]

Originally posted by IAMTHEEMPEROR
No, It can be done ingame. You've teleported places from NPC's and spells, right? Just like that, add in weird lighting and make it so you can't move, then just sit and watch.

I was referring to the OP, but your idea works too.

[Green @nt1-n00b]

sounds sweet like a visual version of the vampire dreams witch might I add beth so could have done this way.

id play teh quest

[InsanitySorrow]

We need to figure out what "the truth" is,

He was wrongly accused, he was the fall guy for an assasination

the player can have "visions" of what the NPC saw, a dream sequence of sorts.

The player will travel into a dream sequence and see the mans past, and the truth

Starting the Quest: "the condemned man hears the guards talking about you and asks to speak with you.....

The guard asks for your help and you go to speak to him, the man hears and calls you over.

How would he get this message to someone who will listen?

Hmm lets brainstorm that

Guards, Guard Captain, another prisoner who is being released ??

A gurad captian maybe?

[bob196045]

Originally posted by InsanitySorrow
We need to figure out what "the truth" is,

He was wrongly accused, he was the fall guy for an assasination

(lets elaborate on that a bit more, if he is being set up to take the fall, the real murderer must be someone of distinction, someone who may have some power in the community)

the player can have "visions" of what the NPC saw, a dream sequence of sorts.

The player will travel into a dream sequence and see the mans past, and the truth

An Idea of how to this: Once the player and the NPC meet or even if they don't, the player can be given instructions from the NPC to go to his home and optain a item(potion) which will cause this effect to begin

Starting the Quest: "the condemned man hears the guards talking about you and asks to speak with you.....

The guard asks for your help and you go to speak to him, the man hears and calls you over.

The guards probably wouldn't do this, a fellow prisoner being released would probably be better, have the NPC give a note to the fellow prisoner and have that prisoner find the player and give note, this sequence can be activated once the player reaches (xx) level

How would he get this message to someone who will listen?

Hmm lets brainstorm that

As above

Guards, Guard Captain, another prisoner who is being released ??

A gurad captian maybe?

As above

Summary:

The quest should become active once the player reaches level (???)

The NPC is accused of assasinating someone important

The NPC hears of the player and feels he or she is the one who can help

The NPC gives a note to a fellow prisoner being released with instructions for the player to (???) "suggestion" the note says I have been accused...yada yada yada... please go to my home and you will find (????) this will allow you to see what really happened, please find the evidence and report it to the guard captain...your reward will bre great...

Player goes to home finds "item X" enters into dream sequence
player is teleported to a place can not move see's the murder happen, see's bits and pieces of the clues

Player returns from sequence, has to locate the real murderer (who would be an assasin, hired by another (the higher up, nobel or some other of higher status)

Find the evidence and report it to the guard captain, NPC released gives reward
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Assasination: The assasinated NPC could have been a guest in the (Prisoners NPC) home, the assasin can be waiting in the shadows, and when both NPCs are not looking the assasin backstabs him or her and disappears, leaving the blade in his back, one of the servants enters and seeing the dead body screams catching the ear of a guard who is patrolling near the home, the guard comes in and see's the dead body and after questioning the servant arrests the fallguy.....


Evidence: The player can witness this and see the assasin and their should be something to distinguish the assasin from others, the player can ask around own if anyone has seen someone with that distinction... a inn keeper in town will mention that she as seen someone fitting that discription, but that person had allready checked out.. ask to look in the room and you will be given a key... go to room and after a easy search and a stupid assasin, find a note with instructions to kill. the instructions will be signed with an initial (this initial should be the same as the accused) (makes it a bit harder) again asking the locals about someone whos name starts witht he letter will reveal 3 others (the accused and 2 others)

Enter the homes of the other 2 and question them, of course both will admit to knowing anything, but one of them should be more offended then the other, the one who is more offended gives the player a sense of some wrong doing. search this NPC's home..... find his/her journal, notice some entries about the "accused player" on the desk will be a rolled paper like a scroll, when you pick it up you get a message which says something like " their is no writing on this scroll but you can make out the indents of a document which was written prior, you can make out part of the name it is addessed to a few lines about the victim and the initial at the bottom

Question npc's about the name of the assasin, and after a few attempts and getting the name wrong you find someone who knows this person...
you find where the assasin lives and go to his home, the assasin is not their but you find a note and the reward money, the assasin walks in and surprises you. thinking your a thief calls out for the guards, but you promptly disclose your knowledge of the events and give the assasin a choice, admit what he did and who hired him or die.

Reputation Question Is it used in OB?

If repuation is used in OB then this can be what determines what the Assasin will choose to do. (whatever method is used can work)

A) the assasin attacks and is killed by the player, in which case all the player can do is take the note and the reward money to the guard captain and say this is who really killed (person xxx) he was hired by (xxxnpc) and the prisoner(accused) can be released and leave the rest to the guards

B) the assasin can confess and can be taken to the guards, the accused gets released and the guards arrest the assasin and the npc who hired
him.

Reward: Should be something of value, not gold


More ideas please?


Enjoy
Bob