Daggerfall:The Bodyguard

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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

Provide personal security for a person.edit Location(s): Any Merchant or Innkeeper Reward: Random Gold Reputation Gain: +5 reputation with The Merchants Required Reputation: 1 reputation or more Difficulty: Easy

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to a Merchant or an Innkeeper.
2. Meet your employer before 21:00 at his residence in the local town.
3. Guard him until midnight and defend him against the villains.
4. Talk to your employer and collect your reward.
5. Be sure to follow the time limit.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Quest Offer

This quest is one of many others you can randomly get from the pool of Merchants/Innkeepers Quests.

Merchant/Innkeeper:

(player's name), I fear for my very life. Will you protect me? (villain's class)s have threatened to kill me tonight because I have refused to sell my land. I can pay you (random gold) gold.

or

You find me in desperate straits, my dear (player's race). I have received word from some (town) thugs that they intend to ransack my house tonight. I don't suppose you'd be available to do a little creative facial rearrangement on these fellows?

[edit] Quest Acceptance

Merchant/Innkeeper goes on:

Thank you and bless you! They will strike at (residence's name) in the three hours before midnight. Be there and wait with me for that time. Once they have been defeated, I will be safe once again.

[edit] Quest Decline

Merchant/Innkeeper answers:

Fear not for my safety, (player's name). I shall find another protector...somehow.

[edit] Quest Object

Head to your employers residence before 21:00. Ask around until someone points you toward it. Upon entering the residence following message pops up:

This must be the place. It fits the description (questgiver's name) gave you.

Wait until the villains show up, you can loiter to make time pass faster. The attackers can be from the Dark Brotherhood or the Thieves Guild and there will about three of them. When they show up they will attack you. Upon hitting one of them for the first time he/she shouts:

This is not your problem, stranger. Leave (questgiver's name) to us or we will cut you down where you stand!

Just kill them all, than wait until it is past midnight, again you can loiter to kill time. Talk to your employer and collect your reward.
A successful outcome of the quest may lower your reputation with the Dark Brotherhood or the Thieves Guild, depending on who sent the attackers.

[edit] Quest End

When you speak to your employer he says:

You have saved my life, (player's first name). I will gladly pay you our agreed upon amount.