Title says it all. Recently created a nightblade (current lvl 18) and out of all my characters this is by far my favorite. The mix of stealth, illusion magic, and his daggers is amazing. I plan on mixing in some thief skills later on. A couple side notes, I'm not the best RPer but I try to make it interesting. No real backstory besides after escaping his execution, Dravin (dark elf) made his way to riverwood and whiterun, needing to make money he loaned himself and his "skills" to the highest bidder for any type of bounty work he could find. After realizing how much he enjoyed the thrill of the hunt and kill, he decided to help a young boy by killing a nasty old woman in riverwood. After this he was able to find like minded people in the DB. This is where I am now in my story. I did start the MQ and regret it now but figure I will complete it with this character at some point.... (thanks for sticking with me, this far) now my question...

How do other assassin/thieves RP? I'm talking more about the random adventuring around skyrim. I know I will be doing the DB and thieves guild quest lines and I'm sure I will do some other random quest lines but I'm talking about when you arnt doing any formal quests, what type of "stuff" are you doing to stay in character?

Hope this makes sense. Lots of ramble but I was pondering this at work and wanted to see what other thought.

The thief I played for a while would scope out merchants during the day blending into the crowd wearing casual attire. During the night he would attack, the merchant was probably not happy the next morning.
When I was introduced to the dark brotherhood my play style changed, I would sneak into bandit forts during the night in between quests and stealth kill everyone and move bodies to evade detection. I play that character for awhile but I prefer a spell-sword style.

I like the idea of "working" at night. I havn't really been focusing on that yet but I think I'll start to. Anybody else have any RP ideas for an assassin/thief character?