[WIP] ShadowScale Quest Line

[Eshenaleros]

Originally posted by Xaeaix
It's also a confirmation of the idea that misbehaving Shadowscales need to die like fictionalised in the DB quest.

..or even Ruined-Tail's Tale, if you want to go so far as the quest Simyaz made.

The way I see it, this would be another "approached by someone looking for Help" kind of thing, and there's two ways i can see of going at it from there:

the first would be to have a shadowscale approach the Player to help him with some things. we don't know that he's a shadowscale yet - he's just another adventuring patron to us at this point, and he asks us to aquire some items, a few of which have been taken to Cyrodiil, while the majority have been spread over black marsh. for anybody who doesn't know the rights to use them, these items are simple trinkets, and only shadowscales have any idea what the rights are. These could end up being artifacts holy to sithis, or perhaps something similar to magicka batteries. This result is borderline epic, as you would need to stop this shadowscale from using the artifacts to wreak havoc when you learn that they aren't just trinkets

A rogue shadowscale doesn't want to live as an assassin anymore, maybe because of outside influences and the like. however, you wouldn't get an adventuring buddy like in Ruined-Tail's tale - you'd just be given bits of odd information while you attempt to go and make sure this person's tracks are covered. perhaps This shadowscale has become enthralled by imperial culture, and his/her brethren just don't like that. while the player is there, looking for another quest, a shadowscale comes in and has a conversation with the quest giver, which basically would amount to "Come back to us" "I don't want to" "then we'll kill you". The player would then be asked by the quest giver to use languorwine (something all DB advocates are familiar with) to fake death for the character. But afterwards, the player is approached by an armed group of shadowscales, and is attacked because he killed one of them, whether it was a defector or not, and they have earned themselves an enemy. they can be attacked a few times, but when the shadowscales realize they are outmatched they send a messenger to offer the player a chance to make ammends, if they accept, Thus beginning a quest or a few for the shadowscales themselves. This wouldn't earn them a rank, per-say, but it would make the shadowscales respect them more I suppose. maybe while the player is out doing one of these ammends quests, a shadowscale that resents having to rely on the player would do something to perhaps kill or imprison the player, maybe even just cause him to fail it. He escapes, gets back to the shadowscale quest giver, and finds nobody believes that this jerk of a shadowscale caused his quest to fail. he disrupts a few more quests and eventually the player gets prrof he's disrupting them... and that's all I have for that.

obviously, the second is a good deal more complex than the first one, and doesn't go borderline epic, which is likely something we want to avoid. it also seems it could tie in with Cold Blood Runs Warm