Tryin' not to read Narf's post...but I just wanted to pop in and say that I will never ever again have a problem with the Dark Brotherhood.

Mainly because it doesn't exist any more.

Muahahahaha.

Is it possible to join the dark brotherhood? If someone is hired to kill me then, am I notified? I must know.

Quote from: beejazz;490483Is it possible to join the dark brotherhood? If someone is hired to kill me then, am I notified? I must know.

Yes, it is possible.

Once you're hired, I'm not entirely sure that they will take a contract to kill you.  However,

*SPOILER*



once I'd become embroiled with the Dark Brotherhood a loading screen did one of those pop-up factoids that said "Long ago the dark brotherhood held strictly to five tenets, but that is no longer the case" or something like that.  Basically, IIRC from Oblivion one of the tenets was "don't kill other DB members".  If they're not adhering to the old rules, then it may be that someone can hire the DB to kill you even if you're already a member.


*MORE SERIOUS SPOILERS*:














You get hired by taking a freelance murder job given to you (no shit) by an orphan.  He thinks that you are a DB assassin (he performed the Dark Ritual, the little scamp!) and compels you to murder the headmistress of a    an orphanage (who is a real superbitch anyway).  After you do this, a courier gives you a note with a black handprint on it and the words "WE KNOW".

The next time you sleep, just like ol' Lucien LaChance did in Oblivion, the Listener for the DB shows up, except she's dragged you to her hideout.  She has three people bound and gagged in the room and tells that the kid's Ritual had already been answered, but the Hand hadn't gotten to him to take the contract yet.  She tells you to make good on the problem you caused the DB, and orders you to murder one of her captives, and become a member of the DB.  

She's not marked as "essential", so you can instead kill her (which I did - I'm not down with playing an assassin).  This "Fails" the Join the Dark Brotherhood quest but initiates a "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood" quest wherein when you follow the directions (report what you've done to a guard) you're started on a very brief two-waypoint/one-mission quest line to kill everyone in the DB sanctuary.

Which I did.

The net result is fame (not in the same sense that you have a numeric score that increases like Oblivion had, just that a lot of people now know you and congratulate or thank you for wiping out the DB), and 3000 GP plus all the loot you pull out of the DB sanctuary...

@beejazz - I haven't played, I'm just repeating what I heard at the smoke pit today:  Yes, you can join, there's a kid somewhere who starts the questline which, I believe, leads to the aforementioned orphanage stuff.

I seriously think 60% of the people at the military base where I work are playing Skyrim every waking non-work moment and talking about Skyrim (and dreaming about it, and pining for it) throughout the workday.

It's stunning, really.  And depressing that my household is on a 'no new games' moratorium while we save up for a new (big) TV.   Christmas can't come fast enough.

Quote from: VectorSigma;490486@beejazz - I haven't played, I'm just repeating what I heard at the smoke pit today:  Yes, you can join, there's a kid somewhere who starts the questline which, I believe, leads to the aforementioned orphanage stuff.

I seriously think 60% of the people at the military base where I work are playing Skyrim every waking non-work moment and talking about Skyrim (and dreaming about it, and pining for it) throughout the workday.

It's stunning, really.  And depressing that my household is on a 'no new games' moratorium while we save up for a new (big) TV.   Christmas can't come fast enough.

What's the point of having a big tv if you don't have Skyrim to play on it.

Recently, I was wanted for stealing books from the Bard College. A dragon attacked while I was in Morthal. I was fighting the dragon, and so were the guards. Suddenly, a group of the guards turned from fighting the dragon and attacked me for being a thief. The dragon then killed us all.

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After killing the evil woman who ran the orphanage (quest gained in Winterhold from a boy everyone is talking about who is trying to summon the DB), the next time I slept in a bed, I woke up in an abandoned shack. A Dark Brotherhood assassin greeted me. She had 3 victims tied and bound. I was to figure out which one was the real target and kill them. I was told I could not leave the cabin until someone was dead.

You can kill any of the three, it doesn't matter which. Or you can kill all 3. In any case, you get to join the Dark Brotherhood.

I killed the assassin. By doing so, I could never join the Brotherhood, no matter what. I did open a quest line to wipe them out, though.

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After killing the evil woman who ran the orphanage (quest gained in Winterhold from a boy everyone is talking about who is trying to summon the DB), the next time I slept in a bed, I woke up in an abandoned shack. A Dark Brotherhood assassin greeted me. She had 3 victims tied and bound. I was to figure out which one was the real target and kill them. I was told I could not leave the cabin until someone was dead.

You can kill any of the three, it doesn't matter which. Or you can kill all 3. In any case, you get to join the Dark Brotherhood.

I killed the assassin. By doing so, I could never join the Brotherhood, no matter what. I did open a quest line to wipe them out, though.

That is the best quest.  Fuck the Dark Brotherhood.*



*=on this playthrough

Silly cultist assassins. You're stabable too.

Last day on the job + employees that love me = GameStop gift card.

Just picked up Skyrim.

Quote from: vectorsigma;490586last day on the job + employees that love me = gamestop gift card.

Just picked up skyrim. :d

one of us!  One of us!

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;490541Silly cultist assassins. You're stabable too.

When I enstabulate cultists, they stay enstabulated.

Playing a High Elf caster-type. Destruction is my highest skill so far, but I want to level up my Conjuration and Restoration more. I have not had too much trouble with most of the monsters. Most die fairly quickly due to dual spells, although some can still be tough.

I found it funny when I made a zombie of a bandit I had just killed and he turned around and attacked me.

Just a mere 12k away from training up to 70 in heavy armor...my dreams of a being a heavy armored stealth assassin get ever closer to realization!

I've lost a few quest goals under miscellaneous. Anyone else having problems like this?