Questions about the Assassination of Lodriss quest

I am playing a good party and tell her about the assassination plans. Then when I talk to Skole he attacks (predictably), but then the entire bar joins in, which causes me to kill Lodriss and get the assassin rep. Is there a reason that Lodriss and the pirates and the village people all attack when I fight Skole and his goon?

Thanks,
Chad

 

I believe even though the whole bar gets into "fighting mode" you are only supposed to kill Sokle himself and he's body guard-The guy standing to the right from Sokle. Other than those two you should not kill anyone else in there.
As long as you killed Sokle and hes buddy then the battle should end afterwards.

 

Well one of two things keeps happening... Either Lodriss attacks the body guard and he kills her (still giving me credit by labelling me her assassin. Or if I surround the guard she comes after me... Either way, when I kill the guard my cleave attack sometimes takes her out... Hold or Charm person work or would she be hostile from then on?


thanks,
Chad

 

Ok, I just did the conversation with Skole and started the fight through dialogue... Cast hold person on his thug so he couldn't smack Lodriss... But when I killed Skole and his thug Lodriss and the pirates came after me anyway... Oh well the quest is complete as soon as you give her the gem as evidence so I don't need to kill them... It was more a desire to rid the world of a couple extra evil-doers...

Thanks,
Chad

 

I've seen this happen before. I have no idea what causes it. Normally fighting Skole will not bring Lodriss and the rest of the bar into the fray, but sometimes things get bugged. What patches are you running?

 

A different tack...

Have you tried using non-lethal combat on the folks you don't want to kill? You may still have to hold somebody or other to keep them from killing the wrong person. Might give you a different result.

 

I followed the sticky directions and am running official patch 1 & 2, the Co8 patches with front end and portrate/voice pacs. Like I said, no big deal, I moved on, can't kill all the bad guys, then we would all be out of jobs (or after work time wasters, aka video games, as the case may be...)

 

From my experience, if you talk with Skole where even Skole only just mentions the assassination job of Lodriss as a target and the assassination job is turned down, any melee combat afterwards in the boatman tavern will include everyone, pirates + lodriss + Skole & goon, and there is nothing to prevent that from happening short of a new update for that quest.

[EDIT] If you are going to kill the regular patrons in the boatman tavern, make sure you complete other Nulb quests including the Nulb quest - Grud's Fish Story, prior to killing the characters in the boatman tavern.

 

I've been able to get Skole to ask me to assassinate Lodriss, then rat him out to Lodriss and then have him initiate combat with me the next time I talk to him and be able to kill him without the rest of the bar joining in the vast majority of the time. Every once in awhile, though, it's happened as it is happening to Chad without me doing anything differently.

Just like I've had times where I've gone to brawl with Tolub, had no magical effects or items running, and had him accuse me of cheating and the whole bar attacks.

 

Nice one Sitra You posted this in the CMF thread? That way when next update gets done all the modders will be using this for compatibility

 

Woow... how the hell did I miss that? This must go
to the CMF submissions thread.

 

life > ToEE

it'll be done when it's done Allyx

 

One question about this quest -- is it supposed to give XP?

I'm playing Co8 5.7.0 with a 3-member CE party and received Skole's gems, but no XP. My party was level 6 or 7 at the time.

(I don't usually do this quest since I don't often do evil parties, but figured I'd have a go with an evil party to shake things up a little since there isn't much new content in 5.7.x.)