Chicken chase gold (bug?)

[♠.brT]

Either this quest is bugged, or it's a scam that even when you pass the dice roll to "get your money back" it still a scam.

So for this little quest, you have the option to gamble 30 gold or 300. I picked the 300 option because i'm a greedy bastard. Anyway, after winning their game the goblin reveals that she scammed you, okay not really surprising, what is surprising however is that you have 3 options for dice rolls to try and recover your money. I only tested two of these options, but i'm fairly confident that the other one has the same result.
And the result is that no matter what, you do not get your money back, you only get maybe 100 gold back. Now this isn't that big of an issue, fine it's a scam, silly me for trusting a goblin, but the problem however is that the dialogue and your character expression after passing the lithoid dice roll especially, heavily implies that you did get your money back. Hell in the illithid dice roll if you pass, the goblin will react absolutely terrified of you, and your character gets a big smirk on their face as if they had just compelled this scammer to give you their money to you as well as your money, yet in reality you only got 100 gold of the original 300 you gamble.

So anyway, either this is a bug and or it's an intentional scam regardless of the dice rolls you make, which makes the dialogue with the goblin after passing the dice rolls completely nonsensical.

[thekiwiman]

I had the same problem! I think it's probably a bug since the goblin says 'He're I'll give it back" (or something like that) and she never does. Oh well, at least the minigame was fun.

[Ironwu]

Not a surprising result, actually. You're not surprised that you got scammed a second time, are you?

[♠.brT]

As i said in my comment, as well as in another thread i made after patch 4 where the "issue" is still present.

If it's intended to be a scam, why then does the game give you 3 dice rolls to get your money back? but perhaps more important than any of this, is the fact that both the narrator dialogue as well as the dialogue of the goblin women after you threaten her, heavily implies that she gave you the money back. When in reality she didn't even gives you half of your bet, much less the winnings. If it's intended for this to happen, the narrator dialogue is straight up nonsensical. Also it's an odd thing that there is no perception check for the character to realize if they got scammed or not, even though there is a perception check in the grove when the kid pickpockets you while you are trading.

All of this points to this situation being a bug.. or an unfinished quest, because it's lacking the percetion rolls and the subsequent dialogue with the goblin if the player character catches the fact that the goblin didn't gave the money back.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

As i said in my comment, as well as in another thread i made after patch 4 where the "issue" is still present.

If it's intended to be a scam, why then does the game give you 3 dice rolls to get your money back? but perhaps more important than any of this, is the fact that both the narrator dialogue as well as the dialogue of the goblin women after you threaten her, heavily implies that she gave you the money back. When in reality she didn't even gives you half of your bet, much less the winnings. If it's intended for this to happen, the narrator dialogue is straight up nonsensical. Also it's an odd thing that there is no perception check for the character to realize if they got scammed or not, even though there is a perception check in the grove when the kid pickpockets you while you are trading.

All of this points to this situation being a bug.. or an unfinished quest, because it's lacking the percetion rolls and the subsequent dialogue with the goblin if the player character catches the fact that the goblin didn't gave the money back.

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[♠.brT]

I don't even have that save anymore.

[DragonMaster]

Originally posted by thekiwiman:

I had the same problem! I think it's probably a bug since the goblin says 'He're I'll give it back" (or something like that) and she never does. Oh well, at least the minigame was fun.

Thats why I don't play that con game any more. I just wait til I attack that goblin camp and wipe it out to get the Owl bear cub.<G>

[causality]

Just kill all the goblins. Fair reprisal for someone cheating you.

[WiscRangerLLC]

I also noted the same issue and reported it. I also pickpocketed the goblin immediately afterwards and she only had 3 gold on her. So, definately seems like a bug. On another note, I reloaded before the chase, and noticed that I was just shy of 300 gold in my inventory. So, I wonder if that had something to do with the bug. If so, she should say "you ain' got that kinda coin, bugger off" or something to that effect. I'll test it again with 300 gold in my inventory starting at the bed
and report back,

[WiscRangerLLC]

Tried it again with 300 gold in the inventory and left with only 100 after making the 300 bet, winning the chase game, and succeeding the the intimidation check. Seems kinda off and unintentional. Again, pickpocketed the goblin right away and the gold wasn't there.