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The next major assassination contract for the Dark Brotherhood inOblivion Remasteredis Scheduled For Execution, an unusual quest that sends you back to the Imperial City Prison, where you began the game with Emperor Uriel Septim. While this is a Dark Brotherhood contract, this will also be the first chance you get to fulfill an optional objective that requires you to avoid killing.
This quest offers you the rare opportunity to retrace your steps to the early moments before you fully got your bearings, which makes this a satisfying tour to take. However, while you’re strolling down memory lane, keep your wits about you and prepare to get rid of Valen Dreth.
How To Start Scheduled For Execution
After you’ve finished Accidents Happen,make your way back to Vicente Valtieri to talk about your next mission:Scheduled for Execution.
Make sure youbring plenty of lockpicksfor this section, asopening locked doors is necessaryto progress.
This time, you will be tasked withkilling a prisoner named Valen Drethby infiltrating their cell using the Imperial City Sewer System.
Vicente Valtieri will tell you about a grate outside the Imperial City Prison which you may use to access your target.
You willreceive a bonus reward for not killing any prison guards,so keep your weapons holstered when you reach theguardsection in the sewers.
How To Infiltrate The Imperial City Sewers
Fast travel to the Imperial Prison Sewernear where you began the game andenter the gratingusing the key Vicente provided.
When you enter the sewers, the path will diverge right and forward.Go to the right and kill the mud crab,then enter the area with foul green sewage. Go through the door to the sewers toenter the next area.
In this next area, kill the rat and mud crab, then move on andenter the large southeastern room.
Turn left toward the north,dispatching the mud crabs along the way, and follow the sewage through a passage into another room.
Progress to the opposite side of the roomfrom where you entered andfollow the corridor northwestinto a room with two more mud crabs and a Hardlocked gate blocking where you need to go.
It may take a few tries, but once the door is open, continue onward into the next sewer section.
You’ll enter a large round roomwith a fish flopping in the center. Descend the stairs and follow the tunnel through a gateheading southeastand into the next room, andturn right where you’ll see a wheeland a sealed gate.
Enter the roomacross from the wheel,ignoring the wheel entirely. Deal with the rats and mud crabs, then ascend the stairs and pick the Average lock toenter The Sanctum.
Here is where you’ll want to make use of anyChameleonand invisibility potions, spells, and gear, as you’ll exit into an area swarming with guards.
When you hear two people in the middle of a conversation,tread carefully, and keep to the shadowsso you don’t attract attention in this area.
Sneak forward andwait for the guards to break up their chat and split up,then proceed directly through the door, quietly following the Redguard into the next room.
Then, as he continues walking along the left path, divert from following him and quietly sneak up the stairs and use the door to enter theImperial Subterrane.
How To Find & Assassinate Valen Dreth
Head forward and hug the far side of the room from where you entered,sneaking past aguardwith a torch who walks past youin the opposite direction. Move slowly to avoid creating noise, especially if you’re wearing Heavy Armor.
Progress southwest into the next roomand cross the room to head up the stairs and use thedoors in the southwest cornerto pass through an abandoned area into the Imperial Prison.
As soon as you enter this area, you’ll notice a green arrow on your compass, meaning Valen Dreth isn’t far now.
Sneak forward and up some stairs, northwest through the broken wall, andinto your cell from the beginning of the game.
Waitfor Valen Dreth to finish his conversation with theguard, then exit your cell andturn leftto find atablewith akey to Valen Dreth’s cell and an Imperial Prison key.
Approach Valen Dreth. He will ask you to help, but you know the real reason you’re there: tokill him.Use thekeynext to the table and open the cell to kill Valen Dreth.
You can also kill him with a bow, destruction magic, or summoning a creature to attack him. Just don’t let him run away if you open the cell.
Then, using theImperial Prison Key,you can leave via thedoor up the stairsto the right of Dreth’s cell.
Dash past the man sitting at the desk (you’re in a public area now, so he shouldn’t care) and out the door, and you’ll be able to fast travel back to Vicente Valtieri, without having killed a singleguard.
What Rewards Do You Get From Scheduled For Execution?
For killing Valen Dreth and completing the bonus objective by leaving all guards alive, you’ll earn theScalesOf Pitiless Justice.
If you kill any guards, you will receive the gold reward, but not theScales.
While carrying them, you’ll gain two points in Agility, Strength, and Intelligence, but lose two in Personality while you have theScalesin your inventory.
You also earnup to 600 gold,depending on level, as your standard payment.
With Scheduled For Execution behind you, you may move on tothe next Dark Brotherhood quest, The Assassinated Man.You can also speak to Teinaava to acquire the optional quest, The Renegade Shadowscale.
