Daggerfall:Defamation

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detailed Walkthrough 2.1 Quest Offer 2.2 Quest Acceptance 2.3 Quest Decline 2.4 Quest Object 2.5 Quest End 2.6 Reputation Gain/Loss 2.7 Enemies

Investigate the rumors being spread about a local character. edit Location(s): Any Merchant or Innkeeper Reward: A magical item Reputation Gain: see Reputation Gain/Loss ID: a0c01y13 Required Reputation: One or more reputation Difficulty: Hard

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to a Merchant or an Innkeeper.
2. Ask around in town until you have a clue what is going on.
3. Find your employer's residence in the local town.
4. Enter the residence, find the letter, and take it.
5. Confront your employer with the content of the letter.
6. Head to the dungeon named by your employer.
7. Find the lover of your employer's sister.
8. Escort him to the place he mentions.
9. Collect your reward from him.
10. Be sure to follow the time limit.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Quest Offer

This quest is one of several in the random pool of Merchants/Innkeepers quests.

Merchant/Innkeeper:

Good day. (employer's name) is the name. You may have heard of me lately. Somebody has been filling the streets with horrible lies concerning my private life. I'll pay (random gold) gold to the person who puts a stop to them. What do you say?

or

The malicious, downright libelous rumors about me must cease and desist immediately. I need someone anonymous to trace these rumors back to their infernal source. Would (random gold) gold pieces be enough to buy your investigative skills in this matter?

[edit] Quest Acceptance

The merchant/innkeeper goes on:

You will? Excellent. Come back when you have some proof of who's behind all these nasty rumors about me. I'll give you the gold then. If you're not back within a month, I will assume that you have failed.

[edit] Quest Decline

The merchant/innkeeper answers:

I guess you heard the one about me not keeping my promises. Damn lies!

[edit] Quest Object

Ask around in town for rumors about your employer until you are given some information about what is going on. If you have access to the Spymaster of the Thieves Guild or the Dark Brotherhood, this will be much easier. You will learn from an informant in a local tavern, that your employer's sister had problems with her lover and wanted her sibling's help to deal with the matter. You will also learn of a specific letter, written by the sister. Ask for your employer until you know the name of his residence in town. Once you have the name, ask for that residence once you learn its location.

Head to your employer's residence and gain entrance to the residence, either by picking the entrance door's lock or by using an Open spell. Find the sister's letter within, pick it up, read it, and confront your employer with its content. He will say:

What?! What is this? Oh my... Please, please don't kill me! My sister put me up to it...I didn't mean any harm. She only asked that I scare him a little, you know, make him appreciate her more. I know I shouldn't have done it. Now I'm in over my head... you see, I paid a group of bandits to take him away and lock him in (dungeon). I figured this would scare him enough... but he hasn't returned! I went too far...I know. Please...you must rescue him! I thought I could cover it up, but I can't any more. You've got to rescue him, if he's not back when my sister returns...well, she'll kill me for sure!

Head to the dungeon he just mentioned and find the sister's lover within. When you have found him he will greet you by saying:

Thank (god's name) someone has found me! I thought I'd never get out of here. I've been wandering around these passages for days, trying to stay alive. What is that you say? (sister's name) and (employer's name) are behind all this! Well, you get me back to (residence's name) in (town) and I'll reward you well. And then I will take care of those two!

Just escort him to the place he mentioned and receive your reward from him.

[edit] Quest End

Upon arriving at the place, the sister's lover will thank you and say:

You have been honorable, (player's name). I thank you. Take this (magic item), my most prized possession, it is the least I can offer. We are friends forever, and I owe you. Leave (employer's name) and (sister's name) to me, I have something planned for them.

[edit] Reputation Gain/Loss

A successfully completed quest results in a reputation gain according to the table below.

Faction/Person	Reputation Gain
Questgiver's faction	+5
Questgiver's associated factions	+2

A failed quest (time limit expired) results in a reputation loss according to the table below.

Faction/Person	Reputation Gain
Questgiver's faction	-2
Questgiver's associated factions	-1

[edit] Enemies

• Random dungeon monsters