Secret Rendezvous

Secret Rendezvous
Act	1
Location	The Docks (night)
Quest Giver	Suspicious Lady (The Hanged Man at night)
End	Suspicious Lady (The Hanged Man at night)
Rewards	3
Appearances	Dragon Age II

Secret Rendezvous is an Act 1 side quest in Dragon Age II.

Bug! This quest is bugged but not normally happen.Sometime you will see Suspicious Lady in Hanged Man but you unable to click to start conversation nor start quest leave you unable to complete the quest. This quest can still be start quest by console code runscript zz_lgt_debug and workaround that but still unable to complete in some point.

Acquisition

The quest is received from the Suspicious Lady in the Hanged Man at night.

Walkthrough

Go to the Docks at night to intercept and break up the raider captains' meeting. Eavesdrop on their conversation for an additional reward. Note that even though the Suspicious Lady tells you that the secret meetings are taking place in Lowtown, you still need to go to the Docks to actually complete the quest.

There are two ways to listen in on the conversation. The easier way is to go up the stairs to the left and listen to the conversation from the ledge; however, this is dangerous, as you will then need to fight the group of Raiders hiding out there, however if Pier Pressure side quest is already completed, no raiders will be there. A more difficult but superior method is to enter the docks from the southern entrance (exit docks from there during the day and "travel" to docks at night), set your party on Hold, and carefully inch (pc toggle main character from run to walk) your way up the stairs hugging the wall on the left then, when on the second set of stairs inch down towards the captain until the conversation triggers revealing that someone in power in Kirkwall is blackmailing the pirates into specifically targeting Amaranthine ships. After the captains finish their complaining, one of their men will notice you and the fight will begin.

This can be a very difficult fight even without the added complication of the Raiders further up the stairs; both captains are elite Assassin-types and should be taken down hard and fast with as much crowd control as possible. Sending any fragile ranged characters down to the end of the docks to reduce the chance of the Captains aggroing them from stealth is advised - this will put them in range of the inevitable second wave when it spawns, but these are mostly trash mobs and of far less concern than the captains.

Return to the suspicious lady in the Hanged Man at night; let her know the raiders captains are dead and that their plans to attack Amaranthine Ships were overheard.

Rewards

• 1 and 250XP if you just kill them. Ring of the Archmage received.
• 3 and 400XP if you overheard them talking before killing them.
• Overland Render on the corpse of one of the Ship Captains.

Bugs

• It's possible to reach the end of the stairs by hugging the right wall and prompt the raiders to attack you without starting the conversation. After you killed them all you can listen to the conversation from the ledge. The quest will still update to "overheard the conversation", and when you return to the Suspicious Lady you will be able to tell of the conversation.
• There is a way to finish the quest without fighting the raiders. When listening to their conversation, save your game and the quest will auto complete.
• If, in Awakening, you saved before deciding whether to defend the Keep or the City, then used that save to first defend one and then restart to defend the other, then using that game as your history import will allow you to play both this mission and The Conspirators.
• When you enter the area from the entrance right beneath the group neither the conversation nor the fight is triggered. The conversation will be triggered when you go to the bottom of the stairs to your left.