Pious

[bclund]

Has anyone here ever just stolen Pious dice and left the monastery without anyone noticing?

[Rookie-31st]

I'm playing on hardcore now and this is my plan. I'm just finishing Band of Brothers before going to Sasau. I can report back if I succeed.

[Vote Quimby]

Can't pickpocket it off him. Either from his dead body(on my third run i just killed him), or from his Rattay journey.
No rep loss from killing/not bringing him to court. But I'm kinda tired of this monastery crap.

[Mike]

I knocked him out, brought body outside of monastery and killed him. Otherwise dice will not show in his inventory.

[bclund]

But knocking him out will wake up everyone in the monastary?

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by bclund:

But knocking him out will wake up everyone in the monastary?

only if you are "caught" - if your stealth skill is high enough, it is possible to kill or knockout Pious while he sleeps, without waking anyone nearby (Padfoot Potion can help)

however, this is a skills contest, so probability based - increased stealth skill, along with dark & quiet clothing can "increase your chances ", but it's not guaranteed, so save often.

if someone notices the crime, about a dozen Sassau guards show up from nowhere

p.s. the location of Pious relative to the others can make a difference too, so trying a different evening when he's on a different pallet can also help

[bclund]

OK. Good to know. I tried with max stealth, using potion, and a really good outfit, but it did not work. I guess I was just unlucky. I thought it might be scripted to force a monastery run of some kind.

[Vote Quimby]

Sure it is scripted to run monastery of some kind. Either kill or bring to Rattay.
Monastery is only fun in first run, after that it's soo boring.

[Mike]

No, knocking him out may wake only librarian who sleeps next to him, but this guy goes to bed late, when everybody is sleeping already, you can knock him out on way to dormitory, when you will carry Pious out, someone will wake up and ask what is going on but by that time you will reach stairs and nobody will follow you. But there is one thing you have to do prior. Stairs from dormitory lead to basement and there is a door out of monastery with very hard lock, you need to unlock that door at some point in the game, this door will stay open afterwards forever. That is you escape route with body - just go downstairs to basement and out .

[2GenL]

Originally posted by bclund:

OK. Good to know. I tried with max stealth, using potion, and a really good outfit, but it did not work. I guess I was just unlucky. I thought it might be scripted to force a monastery run of some kind.

Go on a rampage and kill everyone in the monestory one by one. Then you can get to pious without issue