I deliberately failed the check with Roberts to test something - if you read his ledger and then go back and confront him, he now confesses and agrees to answer your questions. Perfect, exactly one of the things I requested. I also note the prominent window in his bedroom, also good for explaining how the body was slipped out.
On Pickpocketing:
Pickpocketing, Rank 1. Target: a book with weight 0.2. Cannot pockpocket – weight exceed my limit. Okay, I know that’s only Rank 1 Pickpocketing, but that is ridiculous.
Apparently with Rank 1, I can only pickpocket up to level 3 NPC’s at most (and there are only a handful of those in Cyseal)
Some NPC’s don’t stand still long enough to pickpocket them, and the random wandering doesn’t help. I’m thinking about Esmerelda here. It's quite hard to pickpocket her because Spetimus watches the right side of the store all the time, so you only have a limited window when she's on the left side to pickpocket her, but she moves erratically and rarely stands still.
