the other nightskins will always be hostile to you until you talk to davidson. davidson will be hostile to you if you kill his kin or if you don't kill them all before talking to him. last time i was there, i managed to get to him without him being hostile. i killed every nightskin besides him and the jailer. after killing the jailer, he become hostile to me when i saw him again.
In my experience, even
after I speak with Davidson and agree to help, the Nightkin are hostile. I know they won't be once you finish your part in actually helping them out, but before then they're a big pain-if you mind killing the friendly ghoul.
what svcks is i have Ed-E with me and he keeps shooting everythign on sight even though i have him on passive lol. I'm trying to find the leader but can't find him without Ed-E killing someone first. What's even more messed up is the dude that gives you the quest to find his girlfriend if i go up the wrong flight of stairs Ed-E kills him too because apparently he is still red.
I can leave Ed-E outside but it's really hard to defeat the nightkin without him. I guess i could just sneak through the whole thing using stealthboys?
This quest svcks.
I can empathize, there. Though I enjoyed it overall, it was ridiculously frustrating that both sides are stupidly difficult about things-I don't even know
why the ghoul becomes hostile if you go up the stairs. I tried about three times due to some confusion, and the last time didn't bother restarting to save the Nightkin(I spoke to Davidson thinking it'd prevent hostility from the others, when I found out it didn't I'd have to defend myself whenever they attacked-and once I got back Davidson was hostile. So he ended up dead.).
But yeah, for the first bit you simply have to have Ed-E wait a good deal away while sneaking about with your Stealthboys. There is a place somewhere in the area(inside a desk, I think?) with the key to the jail, so that you don't have to pickpocket any of the Nightkin-and don't have to kill them either.
The quest
can be done with total diplomacy, but because of some of the problems in dealing with both sides, it can be a real pain.