No, giving her the money right away should be the option - since you have chosen that specific angle and quest path between other options.
There should be an option not to take the money and just leave Roberts alone. He didnt actually do anything wrong anyway.
There could be the option of taking all of it, or just taking a cut and letting him slide.
But if you do, you should have an option to play RPS with her about going to Aureus, or just getting her to give up on accusing Roberts because she got more then a fair price for the sheep. (or there could be a RPS on how much you give her)
If you pay her off before, she does NOT tell Aureus, if you just tell her who stole the sheep but don't pay her, then she runs off, and you lose the chance to pay her. Make it a case of greed versus doing the right thing.
Basically - yes. Exactly.
The situation like it is now doesnt really make sense and is very constrained for no reason.
No amount of inventing badly written dialogue sentences or imagining things that are actually not presented in the game can change that.
I trust that Larian would not write those replies in such a laughably bad way, btw.
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When im identifying items in my inventory, i have to right-click on the glass every single time for every item. while when trading i click on "identify" only once and then proceed to identify all items with changed pointer.
It should work like that in my inventory too. Just one right-click on the identifying glass to change the pointer, which would remain like that for as long as i want, until right clicking to change it back to normal.
