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Old Friends, New Friends
Old Friends, New Friends is a short optional side quest where Coen catches up with Vladimir at the manumit hideout in Svartrau. It is quick XP, but it fails once the endgame starts, so do it early.
- Type
- Side
- Given by
- Vladimir
- Region
- Svartrau City
- Rewards
- 250 XP
Good to know
- It starts when you talk to Vladimir at the end of Where Loyalty Lies.
- Vladimir always waits in the hideout basement where you first spoke with him.
- Sharing a drink with him costs three time segments.
- It fails two in-game days after you start Rise at Dawn.
- Update 1.1 added an objective marker that had been missing from it.
What you do
Find Vladimir in the basement and accept his invitation for a drink. Later, two of Drogos's followers pick a fight with him, and you choose whether to join in. Helping means a fistfight against both men.
Objectives
1. Catch up with Vladimir. 2. Help Vladimir.
Tips
Your dialogue choices with Vladimir are free. Whether you help in the brawl or not, he has a few words and the quest ends. It gives 250 XP.
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