Shadowing the House of Pleasure

[tibored]

I'm trying to play without alerting anyone to my presence, but I've run into a problem in the house of pleasure mission: How do you save the girl (the one who gives you the key to the artist's residence) in the alleyway from the two guards who are harassing her without alerting them? Amazingly, I was able to knock out Granny Rags' "gentleman callers" in the previous mission by shooting darts from the balcony above them, but there's no high ground to get to in the section of alley where these guards are. Is there some way I can either kill them or knock them out without alerting them?

[DuckFang]

if you use magic use a stop time and then use sleeping arrows on both of them and then use bink if you need to get away fast

[Dust]

I did it by blinking behind them when they start threatning her. I then switched to sleep darts, didn't fire, grabbed the one on my left (her right) and auto-picked-him-up. As soon as he was on my shoulder I shot the other guy with the dart, then moved back quickly.
Took me a few tries to get it right... I'll admit it's probably not the best way to do this, and ProSurviver's solution is better - I just didn't unlock Stop Time yet :)

[Dust]

By the way, it pays off to time the percise moment when you're grabbing the first guy - If you do it mid-speech the other one will of course notice... but you should also try to start choking the first guy as soon as the other one reads a long line of text - it takes him longer to say it all, giving you more time to act.

[MrWhaler]

there is high ground, including the lamps (there is two) and the rocks and if this doesn't help i stop time and sleep dart them

[tibored]

I've tried getting up on the lamps and rocks, but there's no way to do it without them noticing me and I also don't have stop time. I'll have to try Soganox's suggestion. . this'll be interesting. .
Thanks.

[[sfv]pacbowl]

Also keep this in mind, sometimes to get certain achievements it's much easier just to bypass content. I just did this mission last night to get ghost/clean hands and ended up getting the safe combo for Slackjaw and that's it. I didn't even mess around with the artists house. On my previous run though getting flesh and steel, I didn't mess with Granny or Slackjaw at all and bypassed pretty much evey rune, going straight for the main objective/exit. Just my 2 cents.

[tibored]

Originally posted by Soganox:

I did it by blinking behind them when they start threatning her. I then switched to sleep darts, didn't fire, grabbed the one on my left (her right) and auto-picked-him-up.

Could you explain exactly how you did this? What do you mean by "auto picked him up?" When I choke a guy out, he falls forward onto the ground and that seems to be what alerts the other guy. Is there some way to choke someone unconscious and pick them up without them falling forward?

In the meantime, maybe I will bypass this for the moment and try to pick up enough runes to unlock at least the first time-stop power and then go back and try to do this---I'm way too stubborn not to!

[godwoken]

What Soganox means by auto-picking-up is when you choke a person out, you can hold down F (or whatever key you set for using, picking up items, etc.) immediately after knocking the person out to hoist them up onto your shoulder, to prevent the person from falling forward and making noise.

[tibored]

I never knew that. Thanks! I'll have to try that out because I was able to get bend time 1, and not even that worked.
(by god, I WILL find a way to do this!)

[godwoken]

No problem! Oh, and the thing with Bend Time 1 is that while it is definitely useful, it only slows time, whereas Bend Time 2 stops time entirely. It's still very possible to be sighted with Bend Time 1. Good luck!

[tibored]

I know, I love Bend Time 2, but it takes so many runes! Anyway, I tried the F key trick and it worked! It was embarrassingly easy, actually. If there's one thing about playing pc games I suck at it's figuring out all the hotkeys and shortcuts. The first time I played Dishonored I got all the way to the Lady Boyle mission without knowing how to sheath your weapons and had to look it up. >_<

[Dust]

I'm glad it worked :D
Sorry I didn't explain myself properly, but RPGamer picked it up nicely - Thanks RPG.