<font color=33CC33>I trust you all (or most of you) know who Algernon is and why is he a special NPC. I've been stealing that cloak off him for years now, every time I played the game. I never wondered though, if there's might be any quest where the cloak would come as a reward. So if you know something please post here.</font>

There is some guy in baldur's gate somewhere who asks you to get the cloak for him.

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(clipped from a walkthrough)
A Dwarf named Pheirkas has need of Algernon's Cloak, so long as you don't kill Algernon. Go to the Feldepost's Inn and filch it off of him (if you haven't already), and bring it back for a reward: 300 exp, and 200 gp. Pheirkas: Baldurs Gate NW section (AR 0100) Feldepost's Inn: Beregost (x 1406 y 2640)

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Insane

300 exp, and 200 gp = reward??

I'll rather keep the cloak. Whatever, I haven't met Pheirkas or just can't remember him.

When I read this the first time I also thought that there were missing some zeroes here [img]smile.gif[/img]

I would suggest that you keep the cloak and say [img]graemlins/finger.gif[/img] to Pheirkas instead.


BTW I never met this guy, so I do not know if [img]graemlins/finger.gif[/img] is one of the dialog options :D

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Insane

<font color=33CC33>Hmmm... Now that you mention I think I remember, but I'll have to go see him to refresh my memory. Anyway, thx.</font>

A lot of "FedEx" quests give rewards that are pitiful than the item you're bringing back; Gurke's troubles with the Belt Ogre, for instance. This is a nice indicator of just what kind of Roleplayer you are: A powergamer would complete the quest, collect the reward, and if (s)he feels they'd be better off not completing the quest, they'd Reload and keep the item. A roleplaying Paladin, on the other hand, might feel honor-bound to return the item to its "rightful" owner.

I am a power playing XP-holic, who role plays where it doesn't 'hurt' too much. I always end up with something that in 'role play terms' could explain, why I kept those boots, why I pickpocketed that cloak and so on. I am a master of 'bad' excuses [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Insane

It's the best damn item in the game... PERIOD!

So keep it and go make use of it on this Pheirkas fella.

Given this cloak, even "Noober the annoying" could become a formidable foe!

[ 04-24-2003, 03:26 PM: Message edited by: Sir Heinrich Godfrie IV ]

Sir Heinrich is on the money. Turning over the cloak is a bad deal. The reward for giving it up is paltry in comparison to its true value. I once was in a "mood" and used it to literally charm a platoon of npcs - all off to their doom. No one was safe. It is also the cure for those times a civilian turns hostile and you dont want to kill him. I understand the developers of BG2 changed the cloak because it was so abused.


Bow to the meow