What would you do?, Roleplaying / Gaming dilemmas Options

[Renee]

I am going to start a thread called "What would you do?" And this thread will be for those uncertain moments when we're gaming, and come to some sort of crossroads. All the sudden, we cannot make a firm decision, so we phish out for others' opinions.

Since I am the one starting this thread, I will open up with my own roleplaying / gaming dilemma. And this one has some *SPOILERS* in it, so if you're playing Skyrim and doing the Thieves Guild questline... ya know.

So Bjorn Tubewyyld is in Markath, and the quest that he's doing involves going into Calcelmo's Dwemer Museum, where Bjorn is supposed to "borrow" some sort of research notes that Calcelmo wrote up. Before going into the museum, just by chance there had been one of those vampire attacks the night before. Bjorn needed some armor before going into the Museum, and he was on his way to the smithy so he could make some.

But there was a dead guard on the ground, along with a couple of fallen vampires. Bjorn saw his opportunity, and snagged up the guard's suit and helmet, which was super-convenient, because now he doesn't have to spend hours crafting up his own gear.

When Bjorn gets into the Museum, he is dressed as a guard, and just by coincidence, the place is crawling with guards. So I begin to RP the other guards see Bjorn, and don't know there's an imposter in their midst. At first this works fine, because the initial guards he encountered did not try to attack or arrest him for trespassing. But the deeper we go into the place (in different cells) now there are guards who choose to attack.

So the dilemma: on Xbox, I wouldn't have any choice. I'd just make up some reason why they're all attacking him. But on PC, I actually have the power to make these guys not attack Bjorn. Maybe I can put Bjorn into the guard faction (if there is one), maybe I can setcellownership to him, so that he wouldn't be trespassing.

And this second option makes for a stronger roleplay in a sense. Even though there's no action if I do it this way, the story makes more sense if he just walks in and walks out, finds the notes, and all the other guards are clueless.

What would you do?

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 7 2017, 10:42 PM