Why don't the guards help?

[HerrDave]

I've been attacked and killed by members of the dark brotherhood while standing by like 3 town guards, wtf is going on, do I smell bad?

I got chased down by a rogue mage on a bridge, ran to an imperial fort, and they practically placed bets on whether or not I'd die

Spoiler! I did.

On top of that, none of my controls/settings are saving through sessions.
They're reverting to the defaults every time I boot up the game :\

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to make your settings save: set main morrowind file to run as administrator. most likely you will need to run steam client as administrator, too.

for the first playthrough is recommended to uncheck tribunal file in the launcher. both expansions in morrowind are designed for mid game or post game character.

the simple explanation for why guards do not react is: you have bounty on your head and head hunting for the most part is legal in morrowind.

[Reginald CZ]

They are afraid of them.

But that's strange, because they helped me against monster, such as the annoying cliff racers.

[HerrDave]

How do I have a bounty on my head if I've only just started?

Wouldn't the guards be hostile to me if I had a price on my head for a crime, too?

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Originally posted by HerrDave:

How do I have a bounty on my head if I've only just started?

Wouldn't the guards be hostile to me if I had a price on my head for a crime, too?

it's not that kind of bounty... it's part of tribunal's storyline.

[Valden21]

Originally posted by ////:

Originally posted by HerrDave:

How do I have a bounty on my head if I've only just started?

Wouldn't the guards be hostile to me if I had a price on my head for a crime, too?

it's not that kind of bounty... it's part of tribunal's storyline.

Yeah, Tribunal's supposed to start that way, to give you the impetus to investigate.

[HerrDave]

Investigate what?

I wait around to heal because I'm a noob from the latter games and I get attacked by an assassin 2/3 times and the guards won't intervene even when I run the knife-wielding n'wah (kek) past three imperial legionnaires! D:

I asked the guards when I lucked out and killed one of the assassins and it went kinda like this.


Imperial Guard
"BOY howdy you're in trouble, wouldn't want to be you! :D"

What do I do?

"Go talk to the man with the most roman name I've ever read in Ebonsomething, HE'LL tell you how screwed you are too ;)"

Thanks imperial defender of my life and the realm! :D

Is this the breadcrumb I'm supposed to follow to stop these super-lethal attempts on my character's life?

[Reginald CZ]

I think that when you talk with the guy at Ebonheart, assassins will stop attacking you in your rest. You can check uesp wiki[en.uesp.net] to have more info about this badly implemented quest.

[Valden21]

Originally posted by HerrDave:

Investigate what?

I wait around to heal because I'm a noob from the latter games and I get attacked by an assassin 2/3 times and the guards won't intervene even when I run the knife-wielding n'wah (kek) past three imperial legionnaires! D:

I asked the guards when I lucked out and killed one of the assassins and it went kinda like this.


Imperial Guard
"BOY howdy you're in trouble, wouldn't want to be you! :D"

What do I do?

"Go talk to the man with the most roman name I've ever read in Ebonsomething, HE'LL tell you how screwed you are too ;)"

Thanks imperial defender of my life and the realm! :D

Is this the breadcrumb I'm supposed to follow to stop these super-lethal attempts on my character's life?

The guy you're told to talk to will give you the information on what you need to do next. Heads up, you're going to the big city!

Btw, there's a reason these Dark Brotherhood assassins are so powerful compared to you. Originally, Tribunal was released back in 2002 as an expansion pack for Morrowind. The original intention was that you would start the expansion after you finished the main questline for the base game with a fairly powerful character. But when the GOTYE version came along, something in the timing got screwed up, so the Dark Brotherhood attacks begin MUCH sooner than they used to.