I see your breaker, but I never even got that far... I got the quest from the dwarf and talked to Patrick and never got any option in dialog about the breastplate... Since conversations with Patrick never involved the breastplate, I ended up talking to everyone in Verdistis to try to figure out who had it...
And as for deathatthedoor or whatever, those responses did nothing to address those points.. You went into the conversation without any real knowledge of the points I brought up and your answers showed... Were you one of the kids that raised their hands in class just to hear your own voice?
