Can't sell Salamander brooches.

[youtube.com/Ragestew]

So in Act 2 I got the Messenger drunk and he told me who is paying for the brooches. But now the Messenger won't show up at the inn anymore and the guy that's paying for them won't buy them either...

[max.strauss]

You have only one single opportunity to sell the brooches to the messenger, under special conditions. Then he's gone.

You need three brooches for Leuvaarden - that's it.

Best thing you can do with the brooches afterwards? Forget them. Store them at the inn (if you are careful) or throw them away (if you are courageous).

[youtube.com/Ragestew]

Wow. So best thing would be to just not complete that quest and keep the Messenger at the Inn so I can keep selling brooches to him?

[youtube.com/Ragestew]

I sent you an add. Let me know what you think, I have an auto-save left in the game right now where he's still in the inn and I could start playing from there on again and not lose that much progress. I'll wait on your word before I play again.

[Ragnarök]

Or: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/659/?

[youtube.com/Ragestew]

hm... I generally don't like installing mods but it might make sense this time. It really makes no sense that I wouldn't be able to sell the badges anymore and I'd rather be able to sell those than go around getting my money by selling bread rolls and ♥♥♥♥ or what I've been doing for Chapter 2, which is sell all the torches that are in alot of people's homes

[youtube.com/Ragestew]

hey can you tell me the path of where those files are supposed to go for the mod you linked? Is it steamapps>common>the witcher>data>override ?

[Ragnarök]

I can't say for sure, I've never modded The Witcher, though I plan to on my next playthrough.

Override sounds correct since the game is based on Aurora. I used to mod Knights of the Old Republic which used Odyssey and 99% of the time mod files would go to Override. Practically the same engine, so I'd be confident enough to try it. But that's just me.

[Jaden]

It's an old thread but still shows at the top when you google this, so some clarification:

To be able to sell the badges I had to drink with the messenger, but I drank only 3 times then stopped (2 beer, 1 wine). Talking with him then showed the option to sell badges. I got 20 oren per badge although he said he would give me ten.
You should drop 3 badges before selling, because you need 3 for Leuvaarden and the messenger will buy all badges in your inventory at once.

After that I drank a fourth time with him causing him to say he's had enough. Then you can ask about work and get the tip about Leuvaarden. After the 4th drink you can no longer sell badges.