the assassin lord's dirty work
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2020 1:52 am
so, when you side with the assassin lord, he tells you he wants you to do dirty work, but he never actually gives you any dirty work to do
so, the assassin lord had ought to give you some dirty work to do
heres a few ideas that can be implemented rather easily:
#1: at the location on the world map where you found the assassin lord, you can go back and visit him, should you side with him, or maybe theres a secret entrance somewhere else that he'd like you to use
#2: go to shatur, elvala, or last hope, and lure a certain person outside of the city to be killed by assassins for crossing the assassin lord; there may or not be a dialogue option to tell the guy not to leave town because assassins want to kill him
#3: the assassin lord has discovered the blood master's profitable operations; the assassin lord wants control of it, and you're going to help him get it... seeing as how doing this will secure the assassin lord a large increase to his income, he'll give you measly 2000 gold for completing this quest... instead of giving you a small percentage of the income, which would be a drastically larger amount of gold over time
obviously, you'll have to keep most of the slaves alive in order to get the full 2000 for completing the quest, and he might give you something extra if all of the slaves live
#4: something that the assassin lord wants is buried in last hope's graveyard; the relevant grave is on level 1 of the place, as opposed to level 2, and defiling this grave, which you can only do if you're on the quest, will spawn a fairly powerful boss that has the thing that the assassin lord wants
#5: one of the krogs trapped in the necromancer's ruins are secretly one of the assassin lord's men; the assassin lord wants you to save him
obviously, there has to be some sort of pressure upon the player to do these things, and the failure to do these things in a tolerable span of time, or worse, crossing the assassin lord, will cause the assassin lord to run out of... patience
he does tell you that crossing him would be unwise, and so, the failure to these things should be quite detrimental to the player, and unavoidable, except by doing what he told you to do in time
also, he won't give you access to the font if you don't do all 3 things before heading east, and, obviously, crossing the assassin lord will prevent you from taking the tricks of the trade prodigy, unless you already had it
so, the assassin lord had ought to give you some dirty work to do
heres a few ideas that can be implemented rather easily:
#1: at the location on the world map where you found the assassin lord, you can go back and visit him, should you side with him, or maybe theres a secret entrance somewhere else that he'd like you to use
#2: go to shatur, elvala, or last hope, and lure a certain person outside of the city to be killed by assassins for crossing the assassin lord; there may or not be a dialogue option to tell the guy not to leave town because assassins want to kill him
#3: the assassin lord has discovered the blood master's profitable operations; the assassin lord wants control of it, and you're going to help him get it... seeing as how doing this will secure the assassin lord a large increase to his income, he'll give you measly 2000 gold for completing this quest... instead of giving you a small percentage of the income, which would be a drastically larger amount of gold over time
obviously, you'll have to keep most of the slaves alive in order to get the full 2000 for completing the quest, and he might give you something extra if all of the slaves live
#4: something that the assassin lord wants is buried in last hope's graveyard; the relevant grave is on level 1 of the place, as opposed to level 2, and defiling this grave, which you can only do if you're on the quest, will spawn a fairly powerful boss that has the thing that the assassin lord wants
#5: one of the krogs trapped in the necromancer's ruins are secretly one of the assassin lord's men; the assassin lord wants you to save him
obviously, there has to be some sort of pressure upon the player to do these things, and the failure to do these things in a tolerable span of time, or worse, crossing the assassin lord, will cause the assassin lord to run out of... patience
he does tell you that crossing him would be unwise, and so, the failure to these things should be quite detrimental to the player, and unavoidable, except by doing what he told you to do in time
also, he won't give you access to the font if you don't do all 3 things before heading east, and, obviously, crossing the assassin lord will prevent you from taking the tricks of the trade prodigy, unless you already had it