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A couple of you have mentioned a Hearth Orlan Cipher detective. Couldn't that be the basis behind Kurren in Dunryd Row? He checks most of the boxes.

Oh good point. Aldwyn is who you're looking for in the Salty Mast.

Kill Penhelm before you take the affidavit.

Sacrifice Aloth or Kana to the blood pool in the temple of Skaen in Dyrford Crossing. You need Cruel 2 and to not have already spoken to it.

I am 99% that the armor can be worn no matter whether you directly put it in your inventory or pull it out later. I think they just prioritized it as a quest item rather than armor in the auto-sort.

Your Cipher can do both of these solo without doing a point of damage

Are you married to the Dozens for story reasons? I know you want the gold reward too, but it seems to me that the armor is worth far more to you than a small gold reward. Just don't give it to him.

You can turn in the quest, buy the items you want from the shop and then kill Osric. The sword icon on the center HUD will allow you to attack green targets.

Ok I lied, I wasn't done. Got Thaos to kill both statues. 4 kills. I will try and see if I can get the prologue kill count down from 3 tomorrow.

I don't know that there is. However, if you plan to defeat the drake on the 5th level of Od Nua on either the 2nd or 4th day of the month, you will get one in the hidden bone pile.

I think Druid could be ok for tanking too. It does have the benefit of some nice cone AoE blast spells that are best fired off from the front line. I also thought of a compromise for your non-metal team. There is a plate armor in the game that is mostly made of this living stone called Adra. It's got a good tanking property on it and it's Green! I know spoilers are ok here, but in case you don't want to know specifics:

If you are eschewing metal, you can still get by. The 6 less DR in leather will be noticeable early, but less so later. Luckily you can have high defenses in any armor (def, fort, will, ref). You can also get a large shield early on that is made of wood. As for the class question, any class can tank. Go high Resolve and Perception, dump dex, the rest to taste. Use a shield and pick defensive talents like Careful Attack and Hold the Line. You won't be as good of a tank as Fighter or Paladin, but way better than a bear.

Have you considered reaching out to one of the modders on nexus mods?

The issue I see is you don't have a main tank. A bear is not a main tank. So you basically have 3-4 off tanks. Furthermore, having a pet go down is bad for your ranger and you're going to have these pets going down regularly. At the very least make one of your rangers tank specced. I would go two bear/antelopes and a stag for aoe.

Ok finished. I gave up on Od Nua as I wasn't making much progress on Level 13. I had enough to level to 12 anyways so no big deal. A better player might give it a shot. Here are some final screenshots: I got the 6 personal kills I though I would get. I am going to guess that you might be able to get this down to 4 if you get lucky and Heodan takes down 2 of the 4 glanfathans, and if you engage the two statues at once and get Thaos or the other statue to kill the Judge. As for the party kills, while still technically a Pacifist run, I would say half of these were from my unnecessary excursion into Od Nua. That said, I would call this more of a Black Widow run, than a Pacifist run. That being said I think you could do this run with 50-60 party kills. I am done though.