Stolen Wine's Always Bitter

Task	Steps	Description	Reward
Stolen Wine's Always Bitter	Ask Around at the Winery Track Down the Thief Find the Stolen Wine Return the Stolen Wine	The foreman at the Mannshire winery has sent me after a worker who fled with a shipment of wine. My task is to recover the shipment and return it to its rightful owner. The thief's fate matters little, though the foreman would prefer that I persuade him to return to work willingly.	250 100 Reputation Mannshire Fortified / 350 200 Reputation 2 Mannshire Fortified / 400 250 Reputation 3 Mannshire Fortified 4 Grapes Free Bed

Halmar's Dialogue

After asking Elva for more information about Halmar, you can avoid combat and bring him back to the winery with the wine by choosing the correct options in the conversation with him.

• Elva!..

1. *Keep listening*

• Wait... You're not Elva, no matter how I look at it.

1. *Keep listening*

• Who are you? What do you want?!

1. Need a hint, or will you figure it out yourself?
2. Hand over what you stole. (Fight)

• Eh, I can guess as much. You're here for the wine and to drag me back to the village.

1. Could be. Tell me first - why did you run away?
2. That's the plan. (Fight)

• Why, you ask?.. I toil and till I sweat through my shirt... and still live worse than a pig.

1. *Keep listening*

• All the wine goes off to Brynn - we aren't even allowed a little sip. Where's the fairness in that?

1. *Keep listening*

• Once Elva's with me, I'll sell that crate myself, and then we'll be off to Maen. No one to push us around there, could even open a little shop...

1. I spoke with Elva at the winery. Heard her complaining how dense you are, and that the two of you aren't meant to be.

• Lies! It can't be true!

1. That's what se told me: you've got some daft notion stuck in your head and won't let her be. She isn't about to elope with some dolt. (Fight)
2. Why would she want to run off with you? She's got family here, a groom, her duties...

• I know that groom - can't even rub two coins together. Me? I've got money now.Enough to make sure she never has to work again.

1. What you have is a crate of wine still waiting to be sold. And even then, it won't be enough.
2. Reason's wasted on you, huh? Let's see about force. (Fight)

• It should fetch me at least three hundred crowns. If we don't throw that gold around, it'll last us a good long while.

1. A month or two, maybe... Once the money's gone, Elva'll run straight back to Mannshire. (Fight)
2. Haven't you heard what they do to the rich in Maen?

• The rich?... No one's rich with three hundred crowns.

1. That's what you might think, but to that lot it's a fortune. You'll be on the gallows before you know it.

• I've heard tales, but people talk all manner of nonsense... Maybe there's some truth to it after all.

1. *Keep listening*

• If not Maen, then where? The Council will just bind us to some lord.

1. *Keep listening*

• Can't go back to the winery either - they'll hang me there too...

1. They' won't. I spoke with your foreman - you might get a few lashes, but he needs his workers alive. Just give up the wine.
2. Here's my advice: the wine won't do you any favors. Leave it behind, and get yourself to Maen before the Magistrate catches up with you. (Let him go)

• Promise?

1. You have my word.

• Backed into a corner again... Blast it all to hell! The wine's buried over there, behind my things. Take it.

1. *Keep listening*

• You don't have to stick around, I'll return to the winery myself. Nowhere else for me to go anyway.

1. *Continue the conversation*

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