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. None of Dandras' belongings can be seen, and it looks as if Movis had moved in to the room, unbothered to clean it. 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.''

On the dresser there is a strange ‘map’ they can see and take. Behind the dresser the party can find a diary belonging to Dandras that may or may not have fallen there and been forgotten.

''Summarised, the ruined diary explains that Dandras used Bondal to get his Void Shard amulet, which allows the user to ward off any divine intervention gods may have. He successfully used this to have relations with the Night Mother, without divine repercussion. Either way, after a couple of failed attempts to get the amulet, Bondal confided in him he wanted to start a new life, which was done using the players in Bardic Desperation and Bardic Resolution. He also captured Ungolim, and killed Bha in the secret room out of view of Sereyne and Doufliz, eating his heart.''

Finishing the quest
Other than this, the players can unstrap an exhausted Doufliz and take him back to Lucien. ''As Doufliz enters the shack he passes out. Lucien and Sereyne are visibly shocked and distressed by the sight of Doufliz.''

Sereyne: "Doufliz!"

Lucien: "By Sithis, what happened to this Daedra!?"

The party can let Lucien know what happened and give him the map. If the party found the diary they give him the diary he will not say anything, but skim through the diary.

Lucien: "Sereyne, you can take care of him, right? I need to gather my thoughts, give me some time, please."

''Lucien walks outside. When the party is ready and goes to leave the shack, they see Lucien outside gutting a dead cliff racer. He uses the cliff racer’s beak to kill a fish in the water and bring it back to the house to cook and eat, walking past the party and closing the door behind him.''

The party now has completed this quest and has now moved onto quest The Hunt.