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With Friends Like These… achievement in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

With Friends Like These…

Join the Dark Brotherhood

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How to unlock the With Friends Like These… achievement

  • ItsJustAChazeItsJustAChaze
    03 Jan 2017 03 Jan 2017 08 Jan 2017
    To join Dark Brotherhood, make your way to the Aretino Residence in Windhelm. There, you will see a boy named Aventus Aretino who is trying to do a ritual. He will give you a quest called "Innocence Lost" which will lead you to kill Grelond the Kind.

    After doing this and finishing the quest, thus starting the Dark Brotherhood questline, you will either have to wait 24 hours or so for a courier, which will hand you a letter with a black hand print and the words "we know" on it, or sleep in an owned bed to get kidnapped.

    Here is the crucial point, when you are kidnapped by Astrid, this gives you the quest "With Friends Like These..." where she wants you to kill a captive.
    Make sure you agree to do this and kill the captive or all three if you want and do not, I repeat, do NOT attack Astrid. Attacking her will give you the quest "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood" and thus voiding the achievements related to this quest line.

    Once you kill the captives, Astrid will tell you to go to the black door that is in southern pine forest, there you will be asked by the door about the sound of music. Pick the first option "silence, my brother" and enter. Go talk to Astrid, the quest will finish and the achievement should pop there.

    Hope this helps.
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    TimmayI got the note with the 'we know' but was never kidnapped. Also can't sleep in any owned beds?
    Posted by Timmay on 22 Aug 19 at 15:34
    M1lkManI couldn’t sleep in any owned beds either, but I went to Riverdale and rented a room from the Inn and slept for 24 and woke up and started the quest automatically, hope that helps
    Posted by M1lkMan on 11 Jun 20 at 12:05
    IxTankShotxIFor me at least nothing works. I did the innocent quest. Slept.. Waited.. Etc. Nothing. Hopefully it will happen eventually.
    Posted by IxTankShotxI on 30 Jun 20 at 23:59
    Heath StriderI got It by travelling to Morthal after completing Innocence Lost, then after the courier gave me the note I slept in a bed for one hour at the Inn and automatically woke up in the Abandoned Shack. I hope this helps.
    Posted by Heath Strider on 20 Sep 20 at 13:57
    Mittens2317For those struggling to get kidnapped, I waited 24 hours, fast travelled to Whiterun, slept in the player designated bed in Breezehome, and got it that way.
    Posted by Mittens2317 on 31 Jul 21 at 04:12
    TemppuliOmg guys.. its IMPOSSIBLE to sleep in owned bed in the game 😁 The guide maker had a brainfart or means A bed YOU OWN.

    Any inn or house bed you own will work.
    Posted by Temppuli on 05 Dec 23 at 22:38
    s1m30nMy achievement for this and eye of Magnus won't unlock despite hitting all requirements. I've tried reloading the save and starting new play throughs. Any ideas?
    Posted by s1m30n on 02 Mar at 18:27
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