Next of Kin Quest Bugged

[Freelancer Missouri]

No matter what I do I will get an automatic bounty. Even taking out the family member in Muck Valley Cavern will get you a bounty.

[Dr.Abscondus]

The trick to not being seen is not to be seen. If they see you then you get a bounty.

[Freelancer Missouri]

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

The trick to not being seen is not to be seen. If they see you then you get a bounty.

I thought the trick was no witnesses, lol. So I have to one shot them.

[Freelancer Missouri]

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

The trick to not being seen is not to be seen. If they see you then you get a bounty.

I just tested it and even when unseen, I still get a 40 gold bounty.

[Carador]

The problem already existed in the original version. But there are a some solutions. Google is your friend. Try “oblivion next of kin bounty”.

[Freelancer Missouri]

Originally posted by Carador:

The problem already existed in the original version. But there are a some solutions. Google is your friend. Try “oblivion next of kin bounty”.

Google was the first thing I did and it wasn't very helpful. The only solution I could come up with was 75% Chameleon and save scumming. It kinda worked.

[Soul in Shadow]

let them hit you at least once before you deal any damage to them, the game counts them as self defence and won't assign a bounty. The mother and inkeeper brother can be provoked to become hostile.

For the Guard captain sister hit her with a frenzy effect when near other guards so that they kill her for you. Alternatively hit her with a reasonably long lasting DoT effect and then holster your weapon and conceal yourself with invisibility or stacked Chameleon effects, you should be able to get away with a relatively paltry 40 gold assault bounty at most.

[Freelancer Missouri]

Originally posted by Soul in Shadow:

let them hit you at least once before you deal any damage to them, the game counts them as self defence and won't assign a bounty. The mother and inkeeper brother can be provoked to become hostile.

For the Guard captain sister hit her with a frenzy effect when near other guards so that they kill her for you. Alternatively hit her with a reasonably long lasting DoT effect and then holster your weapon and conceal yourself with invisibility or stacked Chameleon effects, you should be able to get away with a relatively paltry 40 gold assault bounty at most.

I one shot the in keeper so he wasn't an issue. I'll try to provoke the mom when I do the quest again. The guard captain would not fight other guards. She would attack civilians though. Frenzy didn't last long enough, unfortunately.

What I ended up doing was going invisible after a murd and paying off the bounty at the thieves guild.

[AlterEgo3561]

The NPC targets for this quest are weird. The mom seems to have an abnormal health or defense stat not sure what, but she took two hits to kill with stealth which is bizarre when I can kill an armored bandit and most other things in one hit.

The guard had the same issue, I kept my character at level 9 and used the skooma den trick to raise sneak to 100 so attacks bypass armor, then raised bow to like 90 and attacked her with an elven bow and arrow. She still took two hits to kill from stealth. Raised blade to around 90 and tried that, again, two hits.

Googling seemed to indicate this was always an issue. It's just so weird that these two NPC's are so strong for no discernable reason.