Oblivion help. Cant sneak.

[Chris2wire]

Im doing the Ultimate Heist quest and Im at the part where I drop thru the fireplace into the middle of sleeping guards. I CANNOT sneak no matter what. I try wearing my dark bro outfit and walking slow, using chameleon, whatever I can think of, and of course crouching, but as soon as I move they hop up after me. This quest is impossible to finish with ppl after you...

Worst part is I CANNOT go back.. Its impossible. I have to figure something out.

 

[EyeMWing]

I don't remember dropping down into sleeping guards.

Try waiting (realtime waiting, unfortunately) until daylight before you hit the chute.

Alternatively, you already have the scroll, right?

Drop down and RUN. Run like hell. Go DIRECTLY to Armond Christoph or S'kriiva, and bribe the guards. The guards won't stop chasing you yet, so let them catch up, and start attacking you - hold block, and activate the guard as if you were going to talk to them. They'll stop attacking.

If you don't have money to do that (you should, because you should only get the bounty for the tresspassing, which is like 5 gold, so you only have to pay 3), go ahead and get arrested (try to get arrested in one of the outlying cities so you end up in a weaker prison). They should take all your stolen stuff (including the scroll) and put it in an evidence chest for you. Then it's just a simple matter of going back into the prison after your sentence is over, asking to visit a prisoner, and then while the dude unlocks the door for you, you break into the chest and grab the stuff.

 

[Chris2wire]

No, I dont have the scroll. This is the part where you leave the "old way" cave/sewer and go into a middle of a room with sleeping guards. Im not to the scroll yet...

 

[thirdeye]

No invisibility/chameleon spells/potions?

 

[Chris2wire]

Just weak chameleon but clearly its not helping

 

[sygyzy]

Wear the cloak of invisibiilty and cast a spell of distraction. Throw smoke and mirror balls down the chute before you go in and make sure to put on a mask so you can see through the fog. Also, hold shift to walk and ctrl to crouch as you slowly sneak past the guards.