Sacred 2:Bandits

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Quest Objective: To cross the bridge
Quest Difficulty: 1 Star
Quest Giver: Automatic/Bandit (there are two ways to receive this quest)
Location(s): The bridge next to the Blessed Rock Manor that is on the road from Thylysium to Teardrop Hamlet
Prerequisite Quest: None
Next Quest: None
Reward: None

Quick Walkthrough

There are three ways to complete this quest:
1. Ignore the bandits

Just cross the bridge without talking to a suspicious elven guy standing in the middle.
The bandits won't tolerate such a lack of consideration and would attack you.
After you kill them the quest is done.

2. Pay some money

Talk to the Bandit. He would give you a choice: either to pay them some money or to battle them.
If you hit the accept button, you'd give some money to the bandits. It's actually quite a little sum at this time of the game.
After that the quest is completed.

3. Battle the bandits

Talk to the Bandit. He would give you a choice: either to pay them some money or to battle them.
If you hit the decline button, they would wait until you talk to their leader again or move.
If you move, they'd attack you.
After you kill them the quest is done.

WARNING: In some versions of the game this quest is bugged and some ways of solving it are considered failing it.

Be careful, those elves on the bridge are the bandits. If you try to talk to their leader, he'd say you the following:

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If you decide to accept (hit the accept button) their offer, you'd pay them money. On Silver it's usually a value of 500 gold. It's not so much, isn't it. But it would grant you an opportunity of crossing the bridge without coming to harm.
If you decide to decline, they'd wait for you to move and attack you.
If you cross the bridge without unnecessary words, they'd do the same.

If you don't want to pay them, you would have to battle the following:

No matter what you have chosen to do, the quest is complete now.

If you choose to battle them, your log would be the following:

If you choose to pay them money, your log would be the following:

In the original Ice and Blood this quest is bugged. Either way of solving it would give you two log entries, one of which would be empty and marked as failed.
Community Member Patch fixes this quest's behavior for Ice and Blood.