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You know how you get attacked by a Dark Brotherhood assassin, and you find the note on them saying you were a target and "failure is not an option." Well who called the hit, and why do none of the members of the Dark Brotherhood mention this when you join?

I was wondering the same thing. I think it can depend, based on which people you've [****]ed off during the game. For example, I think the person who ordered the hit on me was Mavin Black-Briar. I have no proof, but since I stole a horse from her recently, I can picture her doing that.

I don't remember, I have a tendency to accidentally commit crimes. lol

A friend of mine said that a little girl hired the DB to kill him XD

On a similar, anyone else been attacked by a group of thugs?

I have, they have a contract that says who sent it
and mine was a guy becuse I killed his wife\daughter (the smith in the same town as the skyforge)

The most broad-across-the-board answer: do you remember what happened at the beginning of the game, where you had to choose between following the legion soldier or the rebel?

Well, the guy you rejected may have been the one who called the Dark Brotherhood down upon you. Fella just can't let go of a grudge...

Thanks for the input. No doubt one my second play though I'll be watching for that.

I'm mostly confused by the inane lack of stealth these assassins show. I mean, one of them came running straight at me whule crossing a bridge!

That's not subtle! Unless subtle is ramming open a gate with a tuba playing the blue danube.

I finally got around to murdering somebody after a second assassin tried to kill me. I got the message "Your actions have been seen" as well as "Bounty decreased in East..." don't remember the name of the town, but thought it was strange that I had a bounty at all, and that it would decrease after murdering someone.

Btw, murdered and adventurer for his full set of ebony armor.

I've heard that the attacks on you from the Dark Brotherhood simply occur once you've achieved enough renown, and I think if you have a good reputation. Though I wouldn't be surprised if specific people will order them as well, considering that's how the hired thugs work. Also, while it's possible the person you didn't choose in the intro made the contract, a few people have pointed out that once you're out of Helgen, both Hadvar and Ralof mention they wouldn't have made it out without your help, and have taken this as evidence that the man you didn't choose to side with was killed in the escape. The fact you never see the one you didn't go with seems to at least lend some credibility to the idea.

Perhaps the one you didn't side with got killed by the dragon, seeing as you pass through the same places and don't meet each other.

i got a contract put on me by a kid!

Was it Aventus?

I figure it was J'zargo, since I took the Arch Mage place that he wanted so much
Don't know why he thought some random assassin could kill me, but whatever

AeraDunmerMoon wrote:On a similar, anyone else been attacked by a group of thugs?

Yeah I have I killed them all found the one who ordered it and killed her

JVElEven wrote:I'm mostly confused by the inane lack of stealth these assassins show. I mean, one of them came running straight at me whule crossing a bridge!

That's not subtle! Unless subtle is ramming open a gate with a tuba playing the blue danube.

It's rather amusing, I've had multiple assassins approach me (full frontal) at an extremely slow pace (but not sneaking, they just walked up to me)

Or the time one tried to attack me while I was fighting a dragon and she ended up just as dragon food before she even pulled out her blade.

Puggles the Orc is used to people trying to kill him, but it's getting a bit much; Lortheim (the priest of Talos at Windhelm) hired some goons to rough me up and I had only talked to him once!

Dark Spark wrote:The most broad-across-the-board answer: do you remember what happened at the beginning of the game, where you had to choose between following the legion soldier or the rebel?

Well, the guy you rejected may have been the one who called the Dark Brotherhood down upon you. Fella just can't let go of a grudge...

Doesn't the other guy die in the escape?

Puggles wrote:Puggles the Orc is used to people trying to kill him, but it's getting a bit much; Lortheim (the priest of Talos at Windhelm) hired some goons to rough me up and I had only talked to him once!

With that name, I'd expect a Priest of Talos to be a tad disrespectful.

Asbjorn Fire-Tamer hired some thugs to 'teach me a lesson'. I just checked the wiki and it says that he does it when you steal from The Scorched Hammer in Riften, Although it's not confirmed. If someone would edit it in for me that would be cool, I can't seem to open the wiki at the moment.

I got a Dark Brotherhood assassin after me. ...I'm in the Dark Brotherhood. It's signed by Astrid. Is this a glitch?

Heimskr.

I was enjoying a moonlit evening in werewolf form when one of them screamed and ran directly at me from the other side of a bridge. I did the sprinting power attack and one hit killed her.

It was rather anticlimactic...