Tribunal talk:Hunt the Dark Brotherhood

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Interesting side note (spoiler) about Dandras Vules:

I just put here in discussions since I cannot promise other people will see the same thing. He really is tough! He uses enchanted bow/arrows which killed my level 5 player in 2 to 3 arrows always. After dying 4 times I stubbled upon an interesting quirk. I had a simple companion with me, and the 5th time I tried I opened the last door while standing off to the right side thinking a bit about what to try next. My companion ranged the rat - as expected - and then I noticed the arrows coming out of the door (tough rat? course not). I edged over (A-key) to see what was happening and to hit Dandras Vules with a few fire spells. As he turned his focus on me and my health dropped near death I edged back (D-key). However, I noticed he stopped firing when he thought his arrow path was blocked and just stood there glaring at me. My companion slowly emptied her remaining 50+ steel arrows into him, then took an iron battle ax we'd picked up as a skeleton drop and finished him off with 40 or more hits. I normally don't like "winning" this way; but found it novel to watch him ignore his active attacker completely and just glare at me as he slowly died.

[edit] Glitch while fighting Dandras Vules

Apparently, after you kill Dandras in any way (even including using the console) he would begin to spam you with messages which results in the game to lag, and cannot be solved in any other way than restarting the game. As of now, there is no way to complete the quest normally, as he cannot be looted, and the only way to get the journal entry (for the contract) is to cast Calm on him, then stealing the contract, making the next part of the quest available.