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Quest Idea: "The Plot" - ChaosCarlos - 08-08-2007
The Plot - Scenario 1:
This quest begins when you're approached in a tavern/inn by a seedy looking man who tells you his employer is interested in hiring your services for a considerable price. You must meet him at a certain time (during the night) in a place I'll leave to your own choosing.
You meet this person's employer and discover him/her to be a wealthy looking individual. It turns out that he/she is the son/daughter of an extremely wealthy lord/count/mayor ect, ect. However you're told that your would-be employer is second in line to inherit his/her father's estate. Your job is to assasinate his/her older brother.
The world isn't perfect for there is a catch. You have to make it look like your employer had nothing to do with his/her brother's death. There will be a few optional ways to kill him.
1: By bandits. With this method you'll be required to wear a certain outfit to make yourself look like a bandit and steal three items in his possession (His clothes won't count).
2: Food poisoning. You'll learn from rumors that your employers brother is deathly alergic to a certain mushroom. You can add this to his dinner (this is done at a certain time of day) However you mustn't be seen adding it to the broth in the kitchen.
3: Ambush. Hire a group of local thugs to ambush the brother. You can do this by claiming to be on a mission from his father (who is away on business) to fetch his son and escort him to wherever his father is. He will follow you as any companion would but after you reach a certain point outside the town your thugs will attack and he'll be killed in seconds. You MUST NOT attack him, for witnesses will claim to have seen the attack and report it to the guards.
I'll leave the thinking up of anymore ways to you.
The Plot - Scenario 2:
If you choose not to accept the job you'll be attacked by your employer and the seedy looking man from the tavern/inn. Killing the employer will alert the guards since he/she was a prominent figure in the town.
The Plot - Scenario 3:
If you accept but don't plan on killing the brother then you can inform him of his siblings greed and murderous intent. The brother will ask you to gather evidence so he can prove to his father that his son/daughter is not the person he once knew. You'll need THREE pieces of evidence, like in the Oblivion side quest CANVAS THE CASTLE.
Searching your employers home reveals a diary in which he/she mentions how he/she feels cheated and under appreciated about not being allowed to share the inhertance fully, that he/she only gets a smaller amount of 1000 gold.
Other forms of evidence I leave to you. Thanks for reading and thanks for letting us contribute our ideas for this mod.
- bob196045 - 08-09-2007
Thanks CC and Welcome to Silgrad
This is a nice little quest, I am sure we can fit it into the game, if you have specifics in mind that you would like to see happen please post them
look forward to more ideas !!
Enjoy
Bob
- ChaosCarlos - 08-09-2007
Specifics? Well I was thinking of rewards for scenario's 1 and 3. For the first scenario I was thinking maybe 200 gold and a dagger or some other cheap broken weapon in need of repair, to me the employer doesn't seem like the type to let you walk away with a decent weapon.
As for scenario 3, again gold and perhaps if the father is a count or a lord you can join the ranks of his knights (the local faction). In doing so opening the possibilities for other quests in the future. If not that then perhaps the price of the local house for sale is lowered by either half or a quater, depending on your disposition.