Officer Vai at the Jolly Juggler, or whatever

[Cephaler]

It says on Dudley's site that Vai will buy items at double the full price. I went to her and she's listing the buying price for the plate male I'm carrying at double the price (600gld.) but I can't sell it to her. Did they change this in BGEE? According to Dudley she'll buy this stuff, but I can't sell her jack, except for scalps. Am I missing something?

[DarkExcalibur42]

There used to be an exploit where you could sell her things like Wyvern's Heads and so on for double price. EE fixed it, so she only buys scalps now. Dudley's walkthrough is dated these days, but still very useful.

EDIT: Added emphasis to the word exploit. This was not standard game behavior, this was a manipulation of NPC Vai's scripting and not in the spirit of the game.

[Cephaler]

Those S.O.B's. I don't consider that an enhancement. That's sticking it to us. Whatever, I guess the best other place is the Nashkel fair. Heck I'm not even gonna bother with none magical items now. It's not worth carrying it around. Thanks Dark.

[Cephaler]

There's no reason to keep a scalp in your inventory any more. She's (Vai) worthless to keep around. As Imoen would say "I've done had enough of this!" :P

[DarkExcalibur42]

What are you talking about? The scalps are easy money from Vai. I save them all game to sell to her in huge stacks.

Chill on the vitriol. She was only ever intended to buy scalps, that's why she won't talk to you unless you're carrying one. It was an accident that she used to also buy any items with gold values so long as they had the prefix "MISC" in their item tag for the game (this is a coding thing that players would never have even seen anyway). That meant a few types of gems, the wyvern skulls, the idol of Kozah and so on. Usually these were just quest items anyway. You lose 50 gold from not being able to sell the idol (which is more fun to give to Ulcaster anyway), 500 gold for Balduran's Butter Knife, 1250 from the gem in Durlag's, and 250 for the lock of succubus hair.

Fixing this bug cost you 2000 gold over the course of the entire game. Unless you opt to sell quest items instead of earning XP, then you lost 2050 gold. Of course, you could have been farming Wyvern skulls (but if you're doing that you've nothing better to do and already beat the whole game).

The Winter Wolf Pelts can ALWAYS be sold to the guy in Nashkell for 500 gold.
The first wyvern skull nets you 2000 gold from the temple. Subsequent ones are 500 gold a piece to most vendors, and really you only loot probably 5 or 6 in the whole game I think?

Money in Baldur's Gate will never be an issue. You will end up with enough gold to buy everything you could ever want for everyone in your party.

[Pookie The Krogan]

Lies i farmed wyvers and havnt beat the game lol

[Furyus]

Originally posted by Pookie The Krogan:

Lies i farmed wyvers and havnt beat the game lol

then you just have nothing better to do

[DarkExcalibur42]

10 points to TreeFort for winning at if/then statements. Either you like philosophy or you're a coder. :P

[Pookie The Krogan]

but she has yet to show up for me got the message but no pesron D:

[DarkExcalibur42]

Officer Vai shows up in Chapter 3 after you clear out the mines. Have you already done that and still no sign of her?

[Pookie The Krogan]

im at BG in the last chapter lol
so yes iv cleared the mines, got the little kid that says yo she is at the inn. nope. she is not.

[Furyus]

She moves around a lot, did you check the back room through the hallway?

Maybe she hates you.

[redruM]

Same problem. Damn, I will revive this post after almost 4 years :D No officer Vai in Jovial Juggler. Cleared mines, but do not see her anywhere. So basically I have a problem with that quest and whenever I play RPG, I play as completionist.

[Julius Borisov]

Activate the console and use the following command:

C:CreateCreature('Vai')