I don't think there should be a problem taking awhile to solve the poison harvest quest. That is fairly elaborate, so most people take awhile to complete it.
Apparently the game thinks you need a -5 correction to your reputation. You can miss parts of the quest doing things in an unexpected order, but there is no penalty or previous requirements for either quest.
The merchants you trade with most often are going to have a 100% opinion of you anyway, so the drop is not be a big deal, as long as your reputation stays high enough that NPCs will still talk to you.
Reputation does not matter once you get to the wastelands, so you could wait until just before hitting the gong (to start the blessing ceremony) to complete these quests.
Last edited by Raze; 07/11/04 07:24 PM.
