Hard Bargain

Hard Bargain
Details
Type	Task
Occurs in	Act 3
Quest giver	Rinatto
Location(s)	Hearthsong Hearthsong Market Alarhî's House
NPCs involved	Rinatto Alarhî Iŵen
Experience gained?
XP type	Minor
XP level	6
Outcomes and rewards
Kill Alarhî and return Rinatto's money	Twin Elms: Moderate Negative reputation Rinatto start selling traps
Kill Alarhî and return Rinatto's money	Twin Elms: Moderate Negative reputation Rinatto start selling traps
Persuade Alarhî and return Rinatto's money	Twin Elms: Moderate Negative reputation Tiny Beetle Rinatto start selling traps
Persuade Alarhî and return Rinatto's money	Twin Elms: Moderate Negative reputation Tiny Beetle Rinatto start selling traps
Help Alarhî and show Rinatto the beetle cage	Twin Elms: Moderate Positive reputation 1200 Tiny Beetle
Help Alarhî and show Rinatto the beetle cage	Twin Elms: Moderate Positive reputation 1200 Tiny Beetle
Help Alarhî and make Rinatto leave town	Twin Elms: Major Positive reputation 1200 Tiny Beetle
Help Alarhî and make Rinatto leave town	Twin Elms: Major Positive reputation 1200 Tiny Beetle

Hard Bargain is a task in Pillars of Eternity.

Quick walkthrough

• Talk to Rinatto in Hearthsong.

• Ask around about Alarhî in Hearthsong Market. [optional]

• Deal with Alarhî in her home in Hearthsong.

• Deal with Rinatto.

Walkthrough

Meet Rinatto at near the entrance to the Celestial Sapling Inn in Hearthsong. He claims that Alarhî sold him some herbs that don't work. He asks you to go to Alarhî in Hearthsong Market and get his money back.

In Hearthsong Market, speak to Iŵen to learn that Alarhî has gone home. Alarhî's home is the north central home in Hearthsong, just west of the exit.

When you speak to Alarhî, she tells you that the herbs are fine, and that Rinatto is just too far gone for them to work. At this point, you have some options:

• You can insist that Alarhî return the money, and then fight her and her entourage.
• With 10 Lore or Twin Elms Reputation 4 (Champion), you can persuade Alarhî to return the money (not a sum of actual money, but a quest item). You also get Tiny Beetle.
• You can agree to her plan to try to convince Rinatto to leave.

Return to Rinatto.

• If you return his money, he will move into Celestial Sapling Inn and start selling traps. (Twin Elms: Moderate Negative)
• If you give him the message from Alarhî you will get the option to do a dexterity 15, constitution 13, or resolve 15 check, or an "I wouldn't do that" choice which all end up in Rinatto killed in a cutscene (you can loot him for an Exceptional Blunderbuss, worth 1000 ). Instead of speaking to him, you can also just attack and kill him (the two non-Glanfathian NPCs nearby will join the fight, however not the Glanfathians, no reputation change at all). When you report to Alarhî you get a Moderate positive reputation increase for Twin Elms and 1200 .
• If you threaten his reputation (deceptive) you will be able to either give a Diplomatic response, or with 18 might an aggressive response, to convince him to leave town. When you report to Alarhî you get a Major positive reputation increase for Twin Elms and 1200 , and a 10% discount in Alarhî's shop.

You will get a Tiny Beetle pet whatever you do, unless you kill Alarhî.

Notes

• If you made Rinatto leave town, he will be waiting to intercept you in Elmshore with a bunch of thugs as revenge for being expelled. You can loot his exceptional blunderbuss, and his Grimoire, an exceptional morning star and a bunch of fine equipment and some money, equalling several thousand .
• You must have spoken to Anamenfath Bethwl in the Passage of the Six before you can get Rinatto to leave peacefully, as coercing him into leaving relies upon the Glanfathans knowing you're a Watcher.