Aggressive Takeover |
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| [PIC] Quest Giver |
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| Location | Driftwood |
| Suggested Level | 10 |
| Next Quest | n/a |
| Previous Quest | Red Ink in the Ledger |
Aggressive Takeover is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II. Short description goes here.
Important NPCs
- Garvan
- Trader Liam
Aggressive Takeover Objectives
- Follow the trail of blood.
- Find the corpse of Garvan's master.
- Dig down.
- Speak with the spirit of Liam.
- Execute Garvan.
- Bring Garvan's head to the spirit of Liam.
Aggressive Takeover Walkthrough
A trail of blood can be found west and north of Driftwood, just south of the westernmost troll bridge, which is protected by Grog the Troll. (location marked in quest Red Ink in the Ledger)
Following the trail a little east to an area roughly below the bridge leads to Garvan's supplies. A void-touched beastmaster and his pets will ambush you.
Using Wits you can discover a shallow grave with a limb for an elf to eat. Cast Spirit Vision in this spot and the ghost of Trader Liam appears (X:190 Y: 168). Talk to him to discover the truth of his death and agree to avenge him. You MUST speak to him and agree to kill Garvan to properly progress this quest. If you do not, Garvan won't give you any dialogue options that would lead into a confrontation with him.
Find Garvan in the above-ground tavern in Driftwood sitting at a table. The only way to kill him without causing the entire town to become hostile is to poison him with Tainted Stew. Exit the door near Garvan and walk toward the rear of the tavern to the outhouses and speak with the ill woman inside. She will hint that you can craft Tainted Stew from a Meaty Stew and any Void-tainted fish. You can purchase Void-Tainted fish cheaply from the fishmonger merchant in the Driftwood Square.
Speaking with Garvan with the stew in your inventory will give you the option to feed him the Tainted Stew. Garvan will then move to the other outhouse behind the tavern, next to the woman's outhouse. Speak to him through the door and he will emerge. Confront him about the murder of Trader Liam and he will attack you without making anyone else hostile.
Looting his corpse will give you Garvan's head. Hand it over to Liam and he will mark the treasure Garvan failed to find as your reward..
Rewards:
- 2000 exp for killing Garvan.
- If you return Garvan's head intact to Trader Liam, he will provide you with 6950 experience and the location of his treasure cache.
- If you eat Garvan's severed head looted from his corpse, your character will gain a permanent +1 Barter trait. You can use the Mask of the Shapeshifter to turn any character into an elf in order to eat the head. He or she will retain the trait even after turning back. Return to Trader Liam after eating the head for 5575 experience. You can still claim Trader Liam's treasure by finding it with Wits. (X:145 Y:235)
Tips & Tricks
- You can start a chat with Garvan and teleport YOUR char inside the kitchen. He will follow you there, simply close the door and kill him. No achiviement this way.
- Alternatively, you can trick him by pickpocketing something from him, waiting for him to notice he's been robbed, then run outside the tavern. Garvan will follow you, though not quite far enough not to aggro the guards; however, he will be out of sight, so you can teleport him the rest of the way to the bridge where it's safe.
- Buy a Meaty Stew from Lovrik or pick up one from the kitchen in the Tavern and craft it together with a Void Tainted Fish and give Garvan the Tainted Stew. Normal stew is not required, the tainted stew can be given first to advance progress.
- Liam's treasure can be discovered normally without having to do the quest.
- Liam's treasure usually contains at least 1000 gold and a legendary item.
- Location of the dead trader is X:190 Y: 168. You should see a blood stain.
- Treasure is located at X:145 Y:235, southwest of the Cloisterwood waypoint.
- It is possible to obtain the +1 point in Bartering without sacrificing experience. After killing Garvan, return to Liam with his head and initiate conversation using a party member you do not intend to give the extra point to. Progress the conversation until you are given the option to hand the head over to Liam and then STOP. Swap to the party member you want to get the extra point with and, using the Mask of the Shapeshifter, transform into an elf and consume the head. Return to the conversation with Liam, hand over the head and finish the conversation.
AnonymousThere seems to be a trick/bug to get the benefits of both eating the head and giving it to Liam (not sure if fixed yet):
1. Let the head held by a party member A who will eat it
2. Another party member B talks to Liam ghost
3. When you reach the dialog containing "Hand over the head..." option (not the dialog informing Garvan is dead), switch to A to eat the head
4. Let B choose the hand over the head option
- Anonymous
I was able to use a high persuasive member to single shot kill him from outside the door then persuade my way out of it
- Anonymous
I kinda messed up this quest as I fed Garvan twice before meeting the dwarf near the bridge.
What I did then as the option to feed Garvan another stew was no longer available - is that I handed him over the caravan supply (got XP), TPed him out. Killed him.
Town did aggro but as soon as you kill him, hostility disappears. I then looted his head + caravan supply again.
Tainted stew is lootable throughout driftwood quests. You don't need to craft it, had 4 in my bag at that point. If you haven't got any - buy it from the cook in the tavern. If cook is dead, other merchants have it. If the town is dead then yeh craft it.
- Anonymous
Tainted stew = Stew + any Void-Tainted Fish. I've crafted one tainted stew, offered it to Garvan. He ate it, got sick, went to the outhouse, I've followed him and when he got out from the outhouse I've teleported him to the bridge X:329 Y:173. The fight started immediately without aggroing the rest of the people. Took the head from his corpse. The end.
- Anonymous
Ez way to kill Garvan:
1. Talk to him
2. With another party member, nether swap him out back close to the broken bridge
3. Kill him
The townsfolk will appear hostile during the fight, but once you kill Garvan the fight will end and they'll be non-aggressive again. At least that's what happened to me on tactician.
- Anonymous
I have killed garvan 18 times over and over and his corpse never has a head to pick up. Just a couple grenades,, his key a couple pots a jug and the box I gave him just a few minutes before. Is there a glitch in my game? Is there anyway to complete the quest with Liam without the head?
- Anonymous
Generally a fan of returning the head to Liam on this one. 1375 xp on the whole party isn't worth that much but it'll be a while before the single point in barter even offsets the money you make from selling the item rewards from returning the head
- Anonymous
Just do the quest as normal. Once you kill Garvan, the town stops wanting to kill you.
- Anonymous
You can use netherswap to move Garvan away from townsfolk. 1) have a party member speak to garvan 2) have a party member outside the tavern by the nearest door 3) Neverswap the party member chatting to garvan & then garvan will walk out of the tavern to speak to your party member 4) ??? 5) profit
- Anonymous
Have him tainted stew and he attacked me by the outhouses. Everyone else still went red on my mini map.
- Anonymous
It has to be a "void tainted" fish, a "poisoned fish" will not work to combine
- Anonymous
Some info not found anywhere I looked. If you craft tainted stew before talking to liam, you won't have the option to give it to garvan, you have to craft another one and then it works. There is an item called "stew" in the inn kitchen which can also be used, apart from the meaty stew from meistr house or vendors.
- Anonymous
a good way to kill him without alerting the people in the Inn is to stand at the door, use the teleportation skill on garvan and tp him away from the Inn, and you can kill him alone.
- Anonymous
1) Take the Garvan's head. 2) Let a character that is not your barter talk to Liam, and follow through the dialogue until you reach the point where you need to give him the head; 3) Use your barter character, put on the mask of shapeshifter, turn into an elf, eat the head; 4) Click the talking character portrait, and choose 'give the head' dialogue; 5) Profit.
- Anonymous
If the town attacks you when you attack him do not worry. Once he is killed the town returns to being neutral.
- Anonymous
Who ever struggle to feed this bastard with the stew. It's have to be the stew you can get in the tavern AND it must be combined with one of this void poisened fishes.
- Anonymous
For those who are having trouble killing Garvan without aggroing the town: 1. After giving him the tainted stew, have a party member speak to him outside the toilet 2. position another party member on the other side of the bridge 3. switch to your mage and nether swap him to the other side of the bridge. unlike teleport, nether swap does no damage to him and he will still be locked in conversation with the first party member. this can be done again until he is far away from town. 4. Kill! Tothing else worked for me but this went off without a hitch! (ps4)
- Anonymous
A bit of an exploit: you can get a party member to talk to Liam until he asks for the head, then get your elf to eat it before selecting to give him the head; presto, you get both!
- Anonymous
Trader's Secrets seems to override Thrifty and they don't seem to stack
- Anonymous
Step 1: Make***** food. Step 2: Serve***** food Step 3: Wait till he has to go on the toilet. Step 4: wait for him to be done. Step 5: kill him when he gets out. This is the Master Plan
- Anonymous
Make sure to eat the head with your barterer (use the face disguise item to turn him into an elf if he isn't already), as it gives you +1 bartering
- Anonymous
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I had already killed the woman who makes meaty stew so i couldn't bu any. You can find one to pick up in Meistr Siva's house, and Effie, in the dwarf basement under the tavern sells one as well.
- Anonymous
Alright this should help everyone. Once he is running back and forth from the outhouse just confront him when he steps out. He will attack you and the town will all turn red BUT once you kill him they go back to normal, no questions asked, at least for me.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
You can have the two bonus, go to Liam to give him the head, start the chat, then when you get the option to give the head, change char to the one with the bartering skill, eat the head into the inventory ( if you are not an elf equip the makeshift mask ), to win the bonus, then switch back to you char speaking to Liam, and "give back the head" option still works xD
Spirits don't need material things :p
- Anonymous
Didn't wanted to go through collecting fish to poison the guy, I placed myself in range of teleport from outside of the taverne, teleported him far away, killed him quickly and I didn't get flagged by anyone.
- Anonymous
If you're having trouble making Tainted Stew, buy the Meaty Stew from Prudence and Tainted Fish from Trader Thun.
- Anonymous
He didnt become aggressive after talking so i bought some strew from the cook and some tained fish from the square, combined them and he ate it and went to the outhouse. After he came out i talked to him again and he attacked.
- Anonymous
Since i couldn't use the recipe, used the water+electrical discharge on floor near Garvan to remove magic armor, then Maddening song from Lohse near him: he attacked me and did not triggered aggro from villagers. Easy kill.
- Anonymous
If you want to learn trade secrets on a non elf character, you can just use Fane's mask to turn into an elf then consume the head as an elf. It works, so your bartering hero can get it. Having this is far better than the quest reward, bartering at 8 now 8)
- Anonymous
The recipe is bugged. I have multiple recipes, dozens of void tainted fish and several meaty stews and it won't allow me to craft it. I have spoken with the woman in the outhouse and the cat using Pet Pal.
- Anonymous
Garven is at the Inn in Driftwood. Liam is at X:202 Y:165.
I fed Garven the tainted stew, and now he's running back and forth to the outhouse.
But when I confront him about Liam, and HE attacks ME, I still aggro the whole town. I tried standing as close to the broken bridge as possible and teleport him across it, but when the battle starts, I also aggro the entire town. No idea how to take him out without having to kill everyone.
- Anonymous
Just teleport him out the through the nearest door and shut up the door immediately, ez kill
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It wont let me combine the fish. It showed that I unlocked the recipe but then it doesn't actually show up in my recipes.
- Anonymous
One way to provoke Garvan outside is to simply steal from him. Lure him out as he chases you, then kill him where others cant see. Or use teleport once he's outside so he's further away from other eyes.
- Anonymous
If you're having trouble getting Garvan out of the inn, just stand outside in the alleyway and teleport Garvan past the outhouses towards the broken bridge. Try and talk to him immediately if he tries to run away, and then it should initiate combat with him afterwards. Just finish him off and hopefully none of the other NPCs aggro. It worked out just fine for me.
- Anonymous
After talking with Liam I found the journal entry mentioning the secret stash in Cloisterwood. There is now a red flag marking the spot on my map.
- Anonymous
I gave him the head but he didn't point me to any treasure, he said someone already took it, which I'm guessing is me, but I didn't get anything worthwile on tactician in the area, which leaves me to believe that this quest is only worth it for the meagre 2k kill xp for Garven & 6k xp that it gives once you give him the head, Bartering as a stat is completely useless when you can recruit mercenaries and max out their thievery then have them use multiple thievery gear, so yeah, all this quest gives is the xp for the 3 mobs close to the npc then Garven + finish xp.
- Anonymous
outside the tavern, there is a cat, you may need to interact with it and feed it three tainted fishes to unlock the recipe for making tainted stew.
Also, you may need to give Garvan ordinary meaty stew twice to unlock the option to give him a tainted stew.
At first, I cant combine tainted fish with meaty stew to obtain the tainted stew. That makes me believe the things listed above may be a trigger for making tainted stew.
- Anonymous
I tried to simply poison the stew, but he reacted as if it were normal. So dumb this isn't an option.
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If your barter person isn't an elf, you can use the Shapeshifter's mask or equivalent to transform into a elf and eat the head to get the skill point. Worked when I did it with Lohse.
- Anonymous
When I give Liam the head, he just tells me that he has nothing to give me anymore and disappears, no mention of any hidden treasure. Where is the treasure located, does anyone know?
- Anonymous
take note of where he stashed his reward reload and eat the head and go dig up the loot gaining both rewards
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I simply confronted him, he became hostile, then a fine paste on the floor along with his bodyguards. The spirit in the room accepted it all the same, and the magisters in the hallway didn't even bat an eye at the bloodbath in the room with the door open.
- Anonymous
To kill Garven without attracting unwanted attention feed him the Meaty Stew you buy from the barmaid and combine it with any Void fish (they are all over the, just look in a fish barrel). Offer him the stew and follow him to the latrine and kill him.
If you have an elf and decide to eat Garven's head you get a talent that gives you +1 to Bartering.
- Anonymous
Go to the Fish Factory and speak with the employee's.... find a certain fish... and go from there... Garven does like stew ;)
- Anonymous
Got him out of the tavern by feeding him tainted stew, killed him in front of the latrines but do you cut off his head?
You can use your gigachad summon to kill him from afar
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