Your Choices Matter - A Dark Brotherhood Expansion SSE

Introduction

Official SSE port of the same titled LE mod. This mod extends the Dark Brotherhood questline in many ways, and adds a possible alternate ending. The ending (vanilla/alternate) you get will depend on the vanilla choices you, the Player make, throughout the story. Like in The Witcher 3! Completely voiced dialogues, using vanilla and xVASynth assets.

The Features in Detail part of this description contains story spoilers for the vanilla Dark Brotherhood story.

Demo video for 2. 0. 0:

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Features in detail

Possible Alternate Ending:

Did you ever notice, that during the Dark Brotherhood quests, you usually get dialogue options like: Of course Astrid, thanks! - ON YOUR KNEES EVERYONE THE LISTENERRRR's HOME!!! SITHIS!!!!!! - (Remain Silent).

On my first playthrough, I genuinely believed that my choices will matter. In the end, they did not, there is only one ending to this masterpiece - but that changes now. The mod monitors such vanilla dialogue choices, and some more choices you make, and the Death Incarnate quest will happen according to these actions. If you get the alternate ending, then Astrid is not the one who betrays you.

Cicero's fate and walkthrough (Story spoilers):

If you spare Cicero's life, the dialogue where you lie to Astrid that you killed him has been transformed to a proper speech check, that also requires some extra incentive from the player to be able to pass.

If you fail this speech check, it's a huge leap towards the vanilla ending, because Astrid knows you're lying!

Walkthrough (gameplay spoilers):

The speech check all by itself is set to the hardest difficulty available in the game. Astrid is not stupid. She will sense it if you lie.

To reduce the difficulty, you should grab the Jester's Clothes (any piece will do) from the Dawnstar Sanctuary, and bring it with yourself to show them to Astrid, that you brought Cicero's clothes as proof of his death. This reduces the difficulty of the speech check to average.

If you get the alternate ending where both Astrid and Cicero survive, you receive a quest called Arch Enemies that will deal with their not-so-friendly relationship.

Further features of the alternate ending:

[*] After completing the questline, you will also receive Astrid as a follower. She has radiant and idle dialogues, reacts to situations such as entering dungeons, admiring nice sceneries, and sensing danger. She's also free of follower-caps: she does not count to your current follower numbers, so she can tag along eve