For whom the bell tolls [KCD2]

Woowwwww I hated this quest so much. I don't have anything to say that people haven't already said - so this is what I did. Good luck.

My simple 20 step guide (extra steps included!!!) for getting this quest done with an emphasis on alchemy, minimal lockpicking and no pickpocketing:

  1. Carry the charcoal bags
  2. Talk to the blacksmith
  3. Forge the horseshoe
  4. Pick nettle and thistle
  5. Talk to the blacksmith about the damn horseshoe (save state)
  6. Hand off the horse shoe and talk to the horse guy about his past to get access to Lockpicks*
  7. Steal charcoal and a lockpick from the red pot in the smithy.
  8. Talk to the barking cook outside of the blacksmith and offer your help
  9. Talk to the cook again. Follow her to the kitchen. Don't pick her lock, just leave her.
  10. Talk to the hungry guard upstairs past the praying man
  11. Find him food in the bathhouse on the first floor
  12. Drink the fox and quick potions in the bathhouse
  13. Feed the guard to get access upstairs
  14. Talk to the groaning chamberlain in the kitchen. With your potion buff you should have better luck getting your speech to pass to get access to the alchemist bench.
  15. Go to the alchemist station in the opposite tower, find and read the book in the corner and brew digestive potion for the chamberlain
  16. Try to lockpick the box in the alchemist station for fever tonic ingredients - if you succeed, brew the fever tonic.
  17. If you fail your lockpicking every time like I did - loot money from the living room a couple of stories above the kitchens and buy more lockpicks from the horse guy. You need to open that chest!
  18. Bring the chamberlain his digestive.
  19. Convince him you want to pray to get access to the other tower
  20. Bring fever tonic to the top of the tower to thomas

Is this optimal? No. Is there a better, faster way? Absolutely!!! Did this work? Yes. Am I angry? Also yes.

Edited to reorder a couple of the extra steps