Strife:Divine Helplessness (Dark Brotherhood)

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Content warning, this mission contains themes of Abducting, Rape, Necrophilia, and Torture.

I’ve specifically designed this questline to accommodate the fact that some people can not play this mission or might not want to, and this mission is available to be cut out and skipped entirely so players can still experience the plot. I’ve also made the reward for these quests just gold, so players are not missing out on any important or desired items.

Overview
Into the heart of depravity...
 * Quest Giver: Lucien Lachance.
 * Location(s): Ald Sotha.
 * Prerequisite Quest: Floating Rotten.
 * Next Quest: The Hunt.
 * Reward: 1000G.
 * Optional Bonus: None.

Quest start
With Lucien's improvised key, the players can head to Ald Sotha. Upon arriving, they are faced with the now aggressive worshippers. Note that the layout is as described here and is not the same as the base game, though the worshippers from the base game are all there.

Inside the sanctuary
After getting to the black door, the passcode is asked once again, but has not changed from its answer: "Blood, my brother".

''Inside, the sanctuary is empty and bare, everything is stripped out. Walking into the right room, the party sees a strapped down Doufliz. He is strapped to an upright platform and delirious, his left leg is torn off and you can see visible bite-marks in the rotting Daedra flesh. As the party approach him he quickly notices, telling the party in a hushed tone: "Hide, hide, please! If he sees you he will never come out and you will never get him, hide, hide."'' Repeating his argument until the players hide.

Once the party hides, ''Movis emerges from a hidden room and walks up starting to punch Doufliz, pausing every now and then to pull down his trousers. He starts to grab a dagger, cutting Doufliz and pleasuring himself to the act, laughing. Doufliz looks to the party.''

This goes on until the party interrupts him, he will fight back, with him saying during the fight: "You've figured it out eh! Would ask how ya got in but that don' matter now. Maybe it's my time to die, I've had my fun after all; that's why that bitch Severa left after I had my way! Hehehehaha..." The party kills him. Note that the Belt of Sanguine Denial is already given as a quest reward, and not looted from Movis.

With the secret room open, the party can go into Dandras’ secret room, now used by Movis, which ''is a small stone undecorated room of a dresser and bed, ruined by what looks like a rush to leave. The decapitated head of Bha the Bargainhunter is on the bed, and his limbs are strung up to the ceiling, stretched out long held together only by tendons. Blood is all over the walls, and the only organs not scattered along the floor is his Daedra heart, which is nowhere to be seen.''

There is a diary behind the dresser the party notice, that may or may not have fallen there and been forgotten.

Dandras' Diary
''“I met a bard today, by the fires of Dagoth-Ur he was a bad one, be carried around this outlander machine of frogs that made sounds of sorts. I like that the frogs are trapped there but my ears don’t. I am going to make friends with this ‘Bondal’, he has in his possession a Void Shard amulet, an item to ward the divine intervention from the wearer, I have need of it, especially with the upcoming ‘delivery’... I should be able to acquire it, dark goddess protect us from this s’wits idiocy.”''

Pages are ripped out, possibly a week’s worth...

''“I wasn’t able to convince the man to give me the amulet, by the mad queen he’s a dumb outlander but a stubborn one at that. I’m going to try a different approach.”''

A large amount of pages are ripped out, possibly a month’s worth...

''“Tonight, me and Bondal had a drink, soul of the black knight I hate hanging around with that n’wah, but its necessary. He confessed when the bar had died down that he hates being a bard, and wants a way out; I have managed to convince him to take out a contract on his own life and"''

Crossed out, it says: "I am going use the languorwine blade to get the job done, and take the amul"

Continuing on as normal: "I’m going to get the new hires to use the languorwine blade and they can take the amulet. I like them, they’re not too curious but they love killing, Movis doesn’t see it but I do.”

Two to three pages are ripped out, possibly a couple of days’ worth.

“They’ve done it, the contract needs to be resolute, which is now their next mission, but by the soulless one I have this Amulet; I can’t believe my fantasy is all coming together."

Crossed out, it says: "Movis doesn’t understand, he likes them alive which is cruel I think, if they’re dead they can’t feel, especially if thousands of years dead, I thin" Continuing on as normal: "The listener just arrived, by the mad queen he’s arrived! The night mothers with him, by the dark ones, her smell... I’ve sent that Ungolim on a dummy mission, we have some of the more understanding agents waiting for him in that foyada.”

Two to three pages are ripped out, possibly a couple of days’ worth...

''“I spent a night with the night mother, so taboo! The amulet allowed me to do this without intervention from the divines and spirits… I cleaned her up in the morning and she looks the same, so perfect, I could never disrespect her. Bha doesn’t understand this, Bha understands nothing, he’s in a cage now along with Doufliz and the cat. He wears armour but underneath that armour he’s just flesh, I’m going to kill I swear, I want to eat his bastard heart for what he’s said about me, when I’ve given him this opportunity. I’ve told the ‘blades party’ to take a short vacation, I can tell they’re loyal to Lucien that clueless n’wah, I can’t believe they put HIM in charge of the recruitment while he’s here, thank Sithis they didn’t ruin everything. Come morning they’ll die by Lucien’s hand due to MY trickery, and if they don’t, they’ll kill him and be loyal to me. We’re moving to the new headquarters soon. We’re keeping some agents in Vvardenfell to look out for either the party or Lucien, and keep our trading with Miun-Gei, that one gives some good deals for a slimy Argonian.”''

''There are no more entries after this. Except a strange ‘map’.''