The Herb Merchant

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  1. 1
    After visiting Lares, speak with Baal Kagan in the living cave. He explains that Baal Isidro is sitting on unsold swampweed in Silas's tavern on the lake.
  2. 2
    Get into the tavern by one of three routes: bribe the watch with 100 ore, fight through them, or put on digger's clothes - Swiney in the Free Mine hands them over to anyone who says they want to mine ore.
  3. 3
    Inside, approach Baal Isidro on the left side of the entrance. He rejects the offer at first - he sells his own weed. Buy him a drink, suggest selling the weed together and splitting the cut, and mention that Baal Kagan is not on his side.
  4. 4
    Take the bundle of swampweed from Isidro and sell it stalk by stalk to the bandits and mercenaries in the camp. If dialogue options run out, sleep until the next day and try the same men again. A lazier route: sell the whole stack to a merchant with enough ore.
  5. 5
    Decide where the profit goes: all to Lares for Aufnahme Neues Lager, all to Baal Isidro for his own cut, or both satisfied - the last costs up to 200 ore out of the hero's own pocket.
  6. 6
    Once Baal Isidro has his share (or is cut out), the quest closes. +500 XP.

Baal Kagan has grown tired of Baal Isidro's slow sales of the Brotherhood's swampweed. He wants someone with a harder edge to take the stock off Isidro's hands, move it into the bandit and mercenary taps of the New Camp, and bring the ore back. Getting into Silas's tavern where Isidro sits in a corner is the first problem - a hundred ore bribe at the door, a thrashing of the watch or a set of digger's clothes from Swiney in the Free Mine are the three usual answers.