Completion of Half Elven Expert Task

[Laffsong]

To add to what is known:
Kedge Keep: Kill 50 mermaids
Kedge Keep: Loot ? Ocean Ink
North Qeynos: Deliver ? (unstacked) Ocean Inks to Vor Westrider
Kedge Keep: Kill ?
Kedge Keep: Loot ?
North Qeynos: Deliver ? to Vor Westrider

--20 Ocean Inks must be looted, subtask was updated as complete when 20th Ocean Ink was looted.
--The task window says 20 Ocean Inks are to be delivered to Vor Westrider.
--Already having looted 36 Ocean Inks, after 50th Mermaid in Kedge Keep is killed the task window changed to say give 4 Ocean Inks to Vor Westrider.
--Back in North Qeynos handing over 4 Ocean Inks to Vor changes a task window counter from 0/4 to 1/4.
--So you give him four more. Mine were stacked, and he accepted them, 4 at a time, and the counter went from 0/4 to 1/4 to 2/4 to 3/4 with each turnin of 4 Ocean Inks.
--I gave him only 16 (4 x 4) in all although the quest task had originally said he needed 20. Bugged I guess.

Here is the log of the Ocean Ink turnins:

[Sun Mar 13 22:55:00 2005] You say, 'Hail, Vor Westrider'
[Sun Mar 13 22:55:00 2005] Vor Westrider says ''And hail to you as well, traveler. What news? It's nice to hear from someone of mixed heritage like myself. I often fear our kind will never be fully understood by either elves or human. Though we pass through their lands, we are always a little [uncomfortable] in either community. At least we half elves understand each other.'
[Sun Mar 13 22:55:16 2005] Your task 'Clearing the Eastern Sea Lanes' has been updated.
[Sun Mar 13 22:56:31 2005] Your task 'Clearing the Eastern Sea Lanes' has been updated.
[Sun Mar 13 22:56:40 2005] Your task 'Clearing the Eastern Sea Lanes' has been updated.
[Sun Mar 13 22:56:52 2005] Your task 'Clearing the Eastern Sea Lanes' has been updated.

--The next task is to kill "five cauldron sharks of any kind" in Kedge Keep. I killed cauldron sharks and cauldron hammerheads.
--Loot needed is one shark skin which is a common drop from the sharks.
--Final task is to deliver one shark skin to Vor Westrider.

On turning in a shark skin to Vor Westrider:

[Sun Mar 13 23:44:47 2005] Your task 'Clearing the Eastern Sea Lanes' has been updated.
[Sun Mar 13 23:44:47 2005] Vor says, 'Well done. Lucky I found you or that job never would have gotten done. As promised, here are those armor runes. Let me know if you need any more of these [patterns]. Sure as the sunrise, there's always more work to be done around here.'

--You receive the Expert's Book of Half Elven Culture.

[Verdandi]

Updated!

--Back in North Qeynos handing over 4 Ocean Inks to Vor changes a task window counter from 0/4 to 1/4.
--So you give him four more. Mine were stacked, and he accepted them, 4 at a time, and the counter went from 0/4 to 1/4 to 2/4 to 3/4 with each turnin of 4 Ocean Inks.
--I gave him only 16 (4 x 4) in all although the quest task had originally said he needed 20. Bugged I guess.

You can't give them to him stacked. As of, oh I dunno, a long time ago (a couple years at least), you can only hand things to npcs unstacked. Even stacks of 2, 3, or 4 will only register as one. If you'd handed him one at a time, he should have been happy with just 4.

Now the task window changing from telling you to deliver 20 to telling you to deliver 4 is another thing.