i went into a cave and found all these barrels of poisoon...i went into the blue board inn and there was more barrels of poison....i tried to pick the lock but it didn't work and i have level four lockpicks...is there a key or do i need level five lockpicks...and is splinter the guy who has poisoned the harvest...?
Once You find the cave in the farmlands with barrels of poison You have to fight an orc called Tipsix who apparently does the "dirty work". He drops the key to a room in the Blue Boar Inn. If You open the door in the basement of the Inn You shall discover more poison and questioning the owner of the Inn may result in gaining rather interesting info. I do not want to spoil Your game so "the rest is silence". And as for Your question: nay, he is not. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
in that case, maybe you fought tipsix and didn't realize it? he should have dropped a key, and that key will open the door in the blue boar inn basement. then you should be able to move on to the next step.
*Me pounders on the question for a while* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> If I am correct there are two caves that contain barrels with poison, You may have stumbled across the wrong one... Are You talking of a cave south-west of the farmlands?