Assassination Plot, is it do-able? (Viking Conquest)

[Furry Eskimo]

I've gotten this quest multiple times, and each time I track down the contact, he says he can not tell me who order the assassination!!

Is this quest completable??

Or will they not tell me because I'm not as powerful as whoever order the assassination attempt?

[MeAndMeVSU]

I looked this up once before and from what I've seen it's not possible. They want you to get to the next part of the story line and killing the king kinda kills that. It's a shame because that first town is part of a wonderful trade route for jewlery and salt.

[Tuidjy]

Furry Eskimo is asking about something else - when you track the contact of an assassin whom you have defeated after he attacked you.

I have never been able to follow past the contact myself, but I have never played characters with Charisma beyond the lowest possible one.

Persuasion does not seem to help - my characters usually get to 8 or 9, and that does not work.

[Furry Eskimo]

This is rediculous!!
Noone seems to have any idea how to complete this quest!!!

[White Knight]

It does work (or it did once) but I can't tell you the how's or why's of it.

I've had characters who find the contact, and manage to pick a conversation tree that leads to him revealing the name of the lord who hired him.

Confronting the lord, results in a duel...I think? It hasn't happened in a long while and I just assumed it was broken? My current character has a very low Charisma, and has never managed to get anything from the village contact...I'm guessing Charisma might be the attribute in question?

Unless I'm mistaken, it's about relations with npc lords. Any one with a massive negative relationship with the character, can hire assassins. When you track it back to the lord and defeat him in a duel, it just forces a huge hit on his reputation/ honour? which merely makes him more likely to hire more assassins.

[Furry Eskimo]

Well my Worst relationship after 400+ days is around -6, so it seems weird.

I just want to hunt the man down, call him a silly goose, and then know who keeps failing to kill me.

I wonder if I can't get the information from them because I'm not feared. My reputation is Very high.
I hear most lords respect you more if you're feared. Maybe this affects my ability to threaten people.
I tried threatening a town a while back, just to see if I could, and they laughed at me, claiming I would never do such a thing.

[Mid Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Well my Worst relationship after 400+ days is around -6, so it seems weird.

I just want to hunt the man down, call him a silly goose, and then know who keeps failing to kill me.

I wonder if I can't get the information from them because I'm not feared. My reputation is Very high.
I hear most lords respect you more if you're feared. Maybe this affects my ability to threaten people.
I tried threatening a town a while back, just to see if I could, and they laughed at me, claiming I would never do such a thing.

I got it today. It is possible to arrive to the one who ordered to kill you. I don't know what influences the chances to get info from the guy you meet in the village, but I guess it's your renown and stuff like that.

The guy told me who ordered to kill me and it was one lord that I have never met. He said that he ordered to kill me because I'm a noone that has became as powerful as other noble lords and that I don't count anything. So at the end you can choose one of speech tree's answers. The one I've choosen (I will tell your liege about this *runs away crying*) makes him get angry (-55 relation), and he attacks you with his whole army (he had 300 bad boys). If you defeat him you finish the quest and it all finishes there: You loot all as in every normal battle and take prisoners. Unfortunaly the lord escaped :(

I hope I helped you. Maybe you can try other answers with that lord in order to get a duel or just let it be... I don't know, just try :D

[Furry Eskimo]

Big help, thanks!

You let me know that it’s possible, and that’s what I wanted to know.

I’m still busy training my super army reserve, so I have time before I decide to go all out and attack nobles.

[Mid Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Big help, thanks!

You let me know that it’s possible, and that’s what I wanted to know.

I’m still busy training my super army reserve, so I have time before I decide to go all out and attack nobles.

well it depends from who you have to fight with... I had a lord with an army of 300+ soilders but they were low ranked so I destroyed them with only 107 men.. You have 30 days to complete each quest, so you can see lord's army before attacking him :)

[RADDragon13]

It may be a year late, but I guess there arent many who experienced it: (Viking Conquest only)

Assassinations are very regular playing in VC as viking, so I have some tips there.

There seems to be a really, really low chance of the plotter to reveal his liege, but once one does, you have 3 options:

Confront him and keep pressuring him-
-Accept his bribe, kinda like free money!
-Challenge him to a duel (I WANT SATISFACTION), -15 when winning
-Tell his liege about it, makes a -20 lord into a -100

Bribe is income source, more money and slaughter!

When you win the duel (not army duel in VC), he apologizes, but you still loose relationship pts

Telling his liege is just a provocation, you cant do that actually, but the lord panicks and attacks you, with his army. Its the harshest outcome, as not only you loose a possible vassal for pretty much ever but might provocate his kingdom, or reverse with yours being provocated by them.
Unless its some Butterlord Harlaus who doesnt care.

[Furry Eskimo]

Yeah, it seems pretty dumb if you ask me.. There are no good options! Just variations on how much More they'll hate you if you confront them!! I wanted to let them off with a warning, so other people wouldn't trust them in the future and I'd be free of all their random assassins!!

[Evilsteve]

If you ask the lord who hired the assassins to give you money, you then get an option to say "I forgive you". In addition to the money, this gives you a reputation boost and slightly improves your relation with the would be murderer. This therefore is your "good option" to gain a benefit from confronting the lord.

[Furry Eskimo]

Well I've murdered like, Thousands of low-life murderers and thieves, so that's not the crew I'm trying to impress. XD
I just got tired of random assassinations, presumably from the same sorry sod, so I posted here looking to track down the bum and put an end to their failed stream of assassins.

[White Knight]

Originally posted by Evilsteve:

If you ask the lord who hired the assassins to give you money, you then get an option to say "I forgive you". In addition to the money, this gives you a reputation boost and slightly improves your relation with the would be murderer. This therefore is your "good option" to gain a benefit from confronting the lord.

This is interesting. I'll give that a try next time.

[Denis222]

In case someone is still interested, you can save scam to get villager to say the name of lord. You can save scam right before entering the village. Chances are roughly 10%.