Who Did You Kill To Get Into The Dark Brotherhood?

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I just got the acceptance quest yesterday after sniping a sleeping mage by the waterside with my more... morally challenged character. :P To be fair he was a bandit for all I knew! Either way it was pretty handy as there were no guards anywhere nearby.

[eswoodard]

I killed Umbra for my invite. Not a bad deal all things considered, I get into the DB, pick up a quest item for down the road, and it also happens to be one of the best blades in the game.

 

I'm about halfway through the Dark Brotherhood quest line right now and it is a blast. Well worth that first murder (and all the other ones after that...).

[Rhydderch Hael]

My goody-two-shoes Breton used the Grey Prince as his blood-ticket to a Dark Brotherhood invite. But being a goody-two-shoes, he struck down Lucien when the talking was all over with.

 

My less-than-noble Imperial used the elder of the Odiil brothers as his blood-ticket into the Brotherhood. I partially failed the Killing Fields quest when the younger Odiil was killed in the fight and the father apologized for not being able to give me full payment due to burial costs...

 

...given that the kid never actually gets buried (he's still decorating the carrot crop with his ugly carcass!), I decided to show the cheap cretin what real grief is— I plugged the other son while he was working the field (beside the body of his brother).

 

 

I 'accidentally' got the invite when exploring a fort ruin. It was the first time I discovered an Adventurer. I simply saw this figure in leather armor standing in a dark passageway and concluded he was a bandit. Sniping with a bow, I was perplexed by the murder-message, reloaded the game, and struck up a conversation with the Orc instead.

[aussie az]

i killed the one of da mythic dawn agents in bruma knowing he would die anyway

[batesmotel34]

i killed the one of da mythic dawn agents in bruma knowing he would die anyway

Found an unusual way to join with my second character. I started the haunted ship quest in Anvil and started to fight the first ghost sailor on the ship when I realized I wanted a weapon that I'd left in my mansion in town. Left the ship and ran to get it. Turns out the ghost followed me off the ship and apparently started fighting with NPC's ont he waterfront. By the time I got back with my Daedric Warhammer and the ghost had been dealt with, there was a fight going on betwen some of the guards and other locals. The Argonian authoress (don't remember her name) snatched the cutlass of the ghost and apparently was then kiiled by one of the guards as she attempted to run off with it. (I was merely a bystander to all this.) Next time I slept I got a surprise visit from Mr. Lachance to recruit me for the DB. (And I didn't even get any bounty for the death even though I guess my character did let the ghost loose to start it all.)

[Rhydderch Hael]

For my latest character, I was mulling over just whom to send over to Sithis and earn the attention of the Night Mother. Then, I simply shrugged off one insult too many and struck down the 'innocent' with barely a thought into the consequence.

 

My Imperial Harbinger used Erana as his blood-ticket to the Dark Brotherhood, after finishing off the pertinent quest associated with her. Of course, before the quest was finished she was flagged with a crown icon and couldn't be killed— but afterwards... ;)

 

The logic dawned on me: this prissy old witch was too lazy to do some honest hard work and had to ask me to do the footwork for her? Oh, sure, she didn't know where to go. Well, neither did I. However, I asked around. I walked around. I found the danged place on my lonesome— something Erana should have done herself. But noooooo. She had some gullible chum fresh out of the Prison Sewer pipe to trudge his way into the hills for her. Well, phoo! No prize for her. I was happy to cheat her out of the deal.

 

And when she blew me off as some insignificant cur once I told her what I thought of her and her research, I answered with a sword blade through her ribs. Never mind the fact that a Guard was standing right there and that I had to lose half of my standing gold account to walk free— that High Elf ain't standing so high anymore!

[demonbuddy]

Gray Prince.

 

...And yes, the "someone is watching" message struck me as a bit odd, seeing as how I did it in a stadium full of people.

 

I was trying to role-play my knight and NOT murder anyone, never getting the invite to the Dark Brotherhood. So, I couldn't kill the Gray Prince without getting that message ("someone is watching"). In order to defeat the Gray Prince without getting the murder on my tally, I hit him with a weapon coated with a "poison-over-time". Then I sat back and waited for the poison to actually eliminate the last hit points.

 

Sometimes it takes a few bottles of poison; just make sure the poison and not your weapon does the final blow. This technique has allowed me to kill a few people without it being classified a murder (just an assault). It helped in the Daedric Quest where you have to soul trap people - except for the argonian, who had poison resistance. It took some creative ideas to kill the lizard without murdering him...

 

With other players of less moral fiber, I usually lead monsters into Legion Patrol. Help the Legionnaire, but just enough that he just *barely* wins the fight... and then backstab his weakened body. :ph34r: No bounty, probably little damage to yourself, and a decent set of armour and weapons.

 

Demonbuddy

[Ottomus]

Gray Prince.

 

...And yes, the "someone is watching" message struck me as a bit odd, seeing as how I did it in a stadium full of people.

 

I was trying to role-play my knight and NOT murder anyone, never getting the invite to the Dark Brotherhood. So, I couldn't kill the Gray Prince without getting that message ("someone is watching"). In order to defeat the Gray Prince without getting the murder on my tally, I hit him with a weapon coated with a "poison-over-time". Then I sat back and waited for the poison to actually eliminate the last hit points.

 

Sometimes it takes a few bottles of poison; just make sure the poison and not your weapon does the final blow. This technique has allowed me to kill a few people without it being classified a murder (just an assault). It helped in the Daedric Quest where you have to soul trap people - except for the argonian, who had poison resistance. It took some creative ideas to kill the lizard without murdering him...

 

With other players of less moral fiber, I usually lead monsters into Legion Patrol. Help the Legionnaire, but just enough that he just *barely* wins the fight... and then backstab his weakened body. :ph34r: No bounty, probably little damage to yourself, and a decent set of armour and weapons.

 

Demonbuddy

 

Thats actually called murdering.

[Michelene]

My Imperial Harbinger used Erana as his blood-ticket to the Dark Brotherhood, after finishing off the pertinent quest associated with her. Of course, before the quest was finished she was flagged with a crown icon and couldn't be killed— but afterwards... ;)

 

The logic dawned on me: this prissy old witch was too lazy to do some honest hard work and had to ask me to do the footwork for her? Oh, sure, she didn't know where to go. Well, neither did I. However, I asked around. I walked around. I found the danged place on my lonesome— something Erana should have done herself. But noooooo. She had some gullible chum fresh out of the Prison Sewer pipe to trudge his way into the hills for her. Well, phoo! No prize for her. I was happy to cheat her out of the deal.

 

Erana makes an excellent choice if your char swings that way (DB); if you go up to her apropos of nothing, before starting on any quests in the area, she tells you in no uncertain terms how useless you are. Oh, but later, if she learns that you're in a certain Guild, she sure changes her tune. All sickly sweet then, she is. Bleah, she deserves what she gets.

 

I accidentally killed Umbra, there's a post in here on the topic somewhere. I was trying hard not to kill, but he came out of nowhere...

[cryocry]

 

My Imperial Harbinger used Erana as his blood-ticket to the Dark Brotherhood, after finishing off the pertinent quest associated with her. Of course, before the quest was finished she was flagged with a crown icon and couldn't be killed— but afterwards... ;)

 

The logic dawned on me: this prissy old witch was too lazy to do some honest hard work and had to ask me to do the footwork for her? Oh, sure, she didn't know where to go. Well, neither did I. However, I asked around. I walked around. I found the danged place on my lonesome— something Erana should have done herself. But noooooo. She had some gullible chum fresh out of the Prison Sewer pipe to trudge his way into the hills for her. Well, phoo! No prize for her. I was happy to cheat her out of the deal.

 

Erana makes an excellent choice if your char swings that way (DB); if you go up to her apropos of nothing, before starting on any quests in the area, she tells you in no uncertain terms how useless you are. Oh, but later, if she learns that you're in a certain Guild, she sure changes her tune. All sickly sweet then, she is. Bleah, she deserves what she gets.

 

I accidentally killed Umbra, there's a post in here on the topic somewhere. I was trying hard not to kill, but he came out of nowhere...

 

 

 

 

Umbra was a he in Morrowind, it's a she in Cyrodiil.