Strife:Varla Stone (Dark Brotherhood)

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Overview
An important guest arrives...
 * Quest Giver: Dandras Vules.
 * Location(s): Habinbaes.
 * Prerequisite Quest: Loose Ends.
 * Next Quest: Bardic Desperation.
 * Reward: Glove of Sanguine Swiftblade, promotion to Operator rank.
 * Optional Bonus: One Daedric Dart.

Quest start
The party is tasked with retrieving a Varla Stone from some smugglers in Habinbaes, for no apparent reason. Dandras also tells the party if they bring back the slaves from the slavers, he'd love to give them a work offer, and the party a bonus.

Habinbaes
Other than the below changes, Habinbaes is exactly the same as written; here are the changes:

The Varla Stone is kept in a secret compartment, buried underneath the slave pen. To find this (without Doufliz's help), players need to find a note describing the secret stash spot, on a table next to Matuk gro-Magrish. The note reads:

''“Matuk, REMEMBER: the main treasure we need to keep AT ALL COSTS is under the one’s that work fingers to the bone. If you forget then you’re fired! From Almsi.”''

It takes an hour to dig for the stone with your hands, and no time using a shovel.

Finishing the quest
As the party returns to Ald Sotha, ''Dandras is talking to an agent that is blankly listening. The agent leaves without a word upon the parties approach. If the party has the slaves, Movis stops them smiling, and says: "Ah, my newest recruits. Well done, let's see how tough they are. Here's the bonus."'' He hands the party the Daedric Dart. ''"This is how we give bonus pay 'round here, great for those range types 'n even better to sell." He gestures for the slaves to follow them and leads them behind Dandras' desk which has a 7 foot black alcove behind him and the slaves disappear behind.''

The party can talk to Dandras. "Let me see the stone." The party can hand him the Varla Stone, ''he examines it and continues: "Ah, it's as beautiful as the legends" He takes a cloth out of his desk and begins polishing it meticulously, before wrapping it up and placing it in the desk and taking out a single glove. "Here, this'll be more than enough, whether you decide to sell it or wear it. Black Maw knows it's helped me!" He laughs. "You are now also Operators, I hope you'll continue to be this reliable to me in the future. For now though, your second contract, I wa..."''

''Dandras trails off, the room going silent. His eyes gloss over and he smiles at the sight of an unassuming Bosmer who had just finished wheeling a coffin down the ramp with Lucien and is now in the corridor between both main rooms of the sanctuary. The Bosmer looks around and wheels the coffin into the right room, placing it next to Dandras and chatting with Lucien all the while. Dandras says: "Ungolim assumedly, is this-" The Bosmer, Ungolim cuts him off, smiling: "Dandras assumedly, yes." Lucien and Ungolim finish talking and walk into the left room. Dandras takes a moment, putting his hand on the coffin. He continues. "Oh, yes sorry." He clears his throat. "You're needed to do a contract urgently. There is a bard by the name of Bondal Nornis in Dirty Muriel's Cornerclub just off of Wolverine Hall, take this blade and kill him with it; if it is not with this blade you will have failed. This blade is coated in a deadly poison that will kill him instantly." He goes back to looking the coffin up and down. "When you kill him, grab the strange talisman around his neck, and if you kill him while playing that blasted instrument, you'll get a bonus; we want people to know THIS time."''

The party now has completed this quest and has now moved onto quest Bardic Desperation.