Oblivion:The Siren's Deception

Quick Walkthrough
# Learn from Anvil residents about gang problems.
# Speak to Maelona and Gogan.
# Head to The Flowing Bowl and wait for a woman to approach with a tempting offer.
# Go to Gweden Farm at the pre-arranged time.
# Confront the gang about their activities, and kill them all.
# Receive your reward from either Maelona or Gogan.

Detailed Walkthrough

Gang Problems
You may hear from some residents in Anvil about an all-female gang of thieves who pick only on married men. They lure them in with their charms and then rob them. You will be pointed in the direction of Gogan, who lives in Gogan's House at the west end of Anvil.

At his house, you will find both Gogan and his wife, Maelona, who tell you that Gogan was tricked by the thieves and that they stole his wife's ring, which was a family heirloom. They will both ask you to help them, and suggest that you start at The Flowing Bowl, which is where Gogan was approached.

Approach the Gang
Head off to The Flowing Bowl down by the docks and wait. Two women (Signy Home-Wrecker and Faustina Cartia) enter The Flowing Bowl and approach you. If you are male, they seductively invite you to have a "night of fun" at their farmhouse just outside of town; if you are female, they invite you to join their gang. You are told to meet them after 11pm at Gweden Farm, which is now marked on your map.

''Note: due to a bug, the player may become locked in the farmhouse with no means of escaping. Thus it is advisable to save before entering the farmhouse if playing on a console.

When you arrive at the farm Faustina will be inside. Do not''' immediately attack her; you must first talk to her. She asks you either to take off all your clothes and weapons if you're male or, if you're female, to confirm that you want to join their gang. Refuse to do so and tell her that you know what she's up to.

The Jig Is Up
thumb|right|Oblivion:Gogan|Gogan and Maelona
After you say this, Signy and Tsarrina appear. Normally all three attack you, and force you to kill them. If you have previously increased Signy's or Faustina's Disposition toward you, however, they may not attack. In this case, you still need to kill them to complete the quest, but initiating combat will cause their deaths to be counted as murder. To avoid this, simply talk to them, which should lower their disposition toward you.

After you kill your attackers, Gogan and Maelona come in through the door, dressed in City Watch armor. They explain to you that they work for the City Watch and that they needed a stranger like you to help foil the thieves. They thank you and reward you with a level-dependent amount of gold (see chart below).

Before leaving the farmhouse, be sure to search and loot the sirens' corpses (after you leave the main room of the farmhouse, their corpses will all disappear). On Faustina's corpse you will find the Witsplinter, a leveled enchanted dagger, and the Gweden Basement Key. The key provides access to the basement, where you will find a stash of all the things they stole from the married men in town. It is not possible to return these items to their original owners, as there are no additional related dialogue options, so you are free to keep the items for your own use.

After Gogan and Maelona have left the farmhouse the front door is permanently locked, so be sure to take everything you want with you before leaving.

Reward


Notes
After you complete this quest, a special edition of the Black Horse Courier is published: "Anvil Tarts Thwarted!".
If the Mythic Dawn Sleeper Agent Isolde attacks you in The Flowing Bowl after the completion of the Dagon Shrine quest, the resulting fight may kill one of the sirens, rendering this quest uncompletable.
Several of the items found in the Gweden Farm basement are rare zero-weight items: Ernest's Fancy Pants, Ernest's Best Shirt, and Heinrich's Shirt.
This quest is one of the few occasions in the game in which your gender influences events.
When offering you the task, Maelona promises that "I'm willing to give you all the money I have to get it back. 100 gold.", but in fact the reward is leveled.
The house is also inaccessible after it is left, so it is recommended that you take all desired loot before leaving (especially the unique zero-weight items, which are very useful for enchanting).
There are unused voice files that suggest that at a certain point in development, it was actually possible for a male character to take up on the Sirens' offer instead of getting into a fight.
An earlier version of the quest gave you the option to force Faustina to back down and surrender, then take her into custody, while the other sirens still seemingly died. The leftovers of this include the unused quest stage 110, several script and package references and an unused marker in the Gweden Farm Basement where Faustina was supposed to flee to.
22px 22px The French and German localisations of Oblivion have the dialogue for Faustina still intact for this alternate ending. Through mods, it would be possible to re-implement this content for these languages.

Bugs
  
 
  This can be fixed by using the console command  , or by increasing disposition beforehand (through use of fortify personality or speechcraft). They should then initiate conversation normally and allow the quest to continue.
 
 
Loading a previous save is the simplest known fix for this.
  Use the console command  , which will advance the quest, and then turn the women hostile using either console commands or attacking.
 
 
 
 
  Move them to your location by using the console commands  prid    (  for Signy, and   for Faustina) and then  . You will also have to advance the quest after they are dead using  .

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