Okay, in the alpha, I encountered a quest for a tomb outside of Teyn. Inside the maze like tomb where you have to search for this one person's partner, there is also a vampire that is locked up inside of a room.
Opening the room up and talking to her will make her tell you that she was imprisoned there and that you can either kill her or show her kindness. If you show her kindness and release her, she will teleport out of the tomb and let you have all the other stuff inside of the room she was locked in.
Later the player will find her attacking Teyn.
I know this quest exists but I'm suggesting an expansion for vampire players. You see, I felt a little upset that all that work to release her was wasted since she attacked Teyn forcing me to kill her.
I was thinking "I gave you the chance to be free and this is how your repay me?"
Anyway, a thought occured to me to expand upon this. Upon encountering her attacking Teyn, a dialog window will pop up.
Three options will appear which will allow you to choose your response. Here's what I came up with:
Option 1:
"I trusted you and hoped you would change your ways. However, I now see I was wrong and must protect these people from the likes of you."
Outcome:
Choosing this option will affect the way the people of Teyn feel about you being a vampire positively. If you pick this option and kill the vampire, the people of Teyn will talk to you and greet you as a hero. Thus allowing you to have normal conversations with them and do business with the merchants (wait, are there merchants in this town? Can't remember. anyway) This will change if you decide to attack them later on however. This option will also decrease the disposition of your vampire clan mates towards you as they will find you helping mortals disgusting.
Option 2:
"You give other Vampires a bad name and now you must die fellow immortal as punishment for your mistake."
Outcome:
This option is more the player defending the honor of other vampires because this one is running renegade and attempting to overthrow the balance between humans and vampires. Doing this will not affect the towns people in a positive or negative way but will give you reputation for your Vampire clan.
Option 3:
"These people are my prey, and I will not allow you to have them"
Outcome:
This is the more selfish option and is basically for those that want to play the all around bad guy. of course, this option being selfish, it will have no good effect on you. The people of Teyn will hate you even more now. However, I'm not sure how it will affect your clan yet but most likely negatively in some way.
Vampire getting released (expanded)
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Teyn is an Imperial settlement, and the Imperials supposedly have a less uniformly negative opinion of vampires than Dunmer, with tales of heroic vampires and former vampires and such. It could work. I do think if the player were to actually say "I trusted you and hoped you would change your ways" the disposition of the townspeople would be negatively affected, though. I'm assuming they had no idea the player had set her loose before that. Even if the player saves them, if they know he created the mess in the first place they'd have no real reason to feel grateful.
On the other hand, I think the second reply could still generate a very minor disposition increase, or that the townspeople might be a little more polite in telling you to leave. Even if it isn't for the sake of helping the townspeople, a vampire who effectively polices other vampires is better than your average vampire. I'm not sure whether the reply would be very in-character for Morrowind vampires, though.
On the other hand, I think the second reply could still generate a very minor disposition increase, or that the townspeople might be a little more polite in telling you to leave. Even if it isn't for the sake of helping the townspeople, a vampire who effectively polices other vampires is better than your average vampire. I'm not sure whether the reply would be very in-character for Morrowind vampires, though.
Well the idea of the first option was related to the fact you expected this vampire to know better and just move on with her life after being released. Instead, you come in to find that she's running amok and now she's a wrong you have to right but at the same time, I kind of agree, you released her in the first place so why should the towns people like you more?
On the plus side, it could work with them liking you more because you're defending them, despite your mistake. There's a chance the townspeople of Teyn could forgive you if you were to do this. Your intentions on releasing the vampire were noble after all. Being locked up for such a long time, you'd think this vampire would have had time to think. Instead, she stabs you in the back.
On the plus side, it could work with them liking you more because you're defending them, despite your mistake. There's a chance the townspeople of Teyn could forgive you if you were to do this. Your intentions on releasing the vampire were noble after all. Being locked up for such a long time, you'd think this vampire would have had time to think. Instead, she stabs you in the back.
I'm just suggesting the player doesn't indicate his own guilt in the affair so explicitly, maybe saying something like this:
"You could have lived peacefully, but instead chose to terrorize these people. I will not let you kill them."
The meaning would be clear to the player and vampire, but not to the townspeople.
"You could have lived peacefully, but instead chose to terrorize these people. I will not let you kill them."
The meaning would be clear to the player and vampire, but not to the townspeople.