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Hooligans for Hire · Pay the mercenaries in the Barracks to fight in the next battle. · Quests
Hooligans for Hire: Check recorded prerequisites and related quest steps.
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Current objective: Pay the mercenaries in the Barracks to fight in the next battle.
Values and uses
Completion and hand-in
First check that this quest is currently in progress. Having the required items or resources alone does not activate its completion dialogue.
The configuration binds a character here, but no independently verified name is available in the selected text. Locate the character using the task objective above; this is not evidence that any NPC can complete it.
Completion dialogue and payment
After the introductory mercenary conversation, choose the payment option at the barracks. The displayed cost comes from the current payment stage; an already-paid squad follows a different dialogue branch. Wait for the payment conversation to finish: the squad is then marked paid for the next battle.
Previous step
Choose this dialogue: Pay for a battle.
The money stages below advance after victories. The wine agreement uses an item payment instead. Check the cost shown in your dialogue; these are alternatives for different stages, not cumulative payments.
Consumed
- Money stage 15 silver
- Money stage 27 silver · 50 copper
- Money stage 310 silver
- Money stage 415 silver
- Money stage 520 silver
- Money stage 61 gold
- Wine agreementWine · quality 3 × 3
The completion choice, costs and effects are bound to the dialogue graph and behavior code. This is not a live-save test; the full earlier activation route is discussed separately.
Verified follow-up and entry
For the later mercenary-rates discussion, the money tariff advances after victories fought with paid mercenaries. When the current payment is 20 silver coins, choose “Pay for a battle.” and let both payment lines finish. After those lines, Inflation starts and unlocks “Mercenary rates”; the paid menu then offers that topic.
The first hiring payment remains its own objective. The later three quality-3 grape wines tariff must be selected through the discount quest chain and still requires an actual payment.
In-game heading or option
Mercenary rates
Related steps and operations
Keep the current objective’s requirements, earlier access conditions and other control locks. These are bounded configuration/script findings, not a saved-game test or certification of the full activation chain.
Connected quest steps
Completing these steps starts this quest
These are direct starts in completion scripts. Separate entries can be alternative routes, not a checklist. Event-driven starts and other conditions are listed separately where verified.
Recorded preceding quests
The checks above apply while this quest is active. This page includes the source-checked actions, dialogue steps and transitions shown above. The full earlier activation chain, intervening events, area access and dialogue visibility have not all been verified. Recorded preceding quests provide context; they do not guarantee that an option is available. An explained completion-effect list does not establish a complete walkthrough.
Next unlocks(5)
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- InflationSpeak with the mercenaries in the Barracks about their high rates.
- InflationAsk the mercenaries in the Barracks for a small discount.
- InflationBring wine to the mercenaries in the Barracks.
Prerequisites(1)
Quest relationships identify prerequisites; they are not a verified step-by-step walkthrough.
Sources
Quest requirements: completion checks and dialogue-price handling. Held items and consumed items are separate. Selected completion effects are interpreted from the quest script; nested conditions and remaining effects are not claimed as fully covered.
Frozen Windows game files and code verification; no game-save playtest or other-platform verification.