Re: buggy mage guild quest?

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:52:01 -0700, mserley
<michaelserley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I've taken the one where you have to put someone to sleep 3 or 4 times. 
>The person has never been there. The first time, I thought it might be 
>because I didn't have the bought sleep spell when I took the quest - I 
>bought it after clicking yes. But after that I made sure I already had 
>it, but still nothing. Anyone else experienced this?

The first time I did this quest I had a problem with it because I was
looking for one of the two-dimensional people you usually find on a
quest, but the person I was looking for was a three-dimensional type
that looked like one of the enemies you run into in a dungeon.  Is
there no one in the house at all?  If there are some people there, go
into info mode and click on everyone there to match the name you were
given.  Is there an upstairs where you have to climb up a ladder?  Is
the building in one of the more southern provinces where you see those
long curving buildings with several doors?  If so, try next door to
where you have been looking.  Some of those places are duplexes with
no internal connection, but they are considered to be the same house
by the game.

If none of this works for you, try riding or walking out of town until
the wall or houses are out of sight, then return.  Sometimes this
resets the characters.  Once when I fought a creature in an attic, I
knocked it into the void through the slanted roof by the ladder and
had to leave town a few times before it came back.

>Another question is on picking quests. If you turn a quest down, does it 
>lower your rep? I remember reading a FAQ about it once that said save 
>before taking quests so you can reload if you take a hit, but I can't 
>remember if it said to reload til you get a good quest, or just if you 
>take one and fail, and I haven't had any luck finding a FAQ that covers 
>that again.

You can refuse quests until you find one you like without damaging
your reputation.  The only things that lower your reputation with a
faction are failing in quests and not doing a quest for more than a
month or so.  The latter usually only really affects you if you have
just joined a faction and don't show up for your next quest for a long
time.  That can get you expelled.  Most factions will take you back if
you take quests for them anyway.  I think the exceptions to this are
the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood.  You may get new
invitations from them if you continue in your thieving or killing
ways, though.
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Nyctolops