Eaesdropping
Your targets do not always have to assassinated, they can be dealt with in neutral means. The ways to go about finding out these means is usually by eavesdropping and interacting with as many NPCs as possible, and they'll leak useful information that will lead to neutralization... If you have your thinking cap on.
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