Talk:Land of Opportunity/@comment-95.90.47.68-20130904105701/@comment-202.188.45.98-20130913122027

You appear to be correct - i presume Dark Arisen cleaned up more than a couple of quests, including this one.

The post-game scenario also needs correction: I saw both Sara and Pip at the refugee area, and Pip was saying they would've died if they were still living in the house. (After the quest is completed but before post-game, the family are standing under a tree at the edge of the Gran Soren fields.) So it's not true that the family is preordained to die - not buying the land actually saves them.

So in fact this means the best outcome would be to NOT buy the land from Fournival and let them get ousted. You do miss out on the reward items each of the family members give you though - while Sara and Pip give relatively common items, Jasper's item is unobtainable in a regular DD game while in Dark Arisen you need to purify a level 1 cursed item from BBI. I've done BBI casually for a bit, and did not receive this item, so I conclude it's not exactly common or easy to get.

Therefore from a purely practical standpoint you should buy the land - this nets you the family's reward items, even if it kills them post-game. However, if you make sure to forge duplicates of Jasper's item, in subsequent NG+ playthroughs you can let Fournival force them out, which will have them dislike you but at least they'll be alive post-game, so if anyone is feeling bad about letting them die can do this. It's also the cheaper option, although realistically anyone in a NG+ should have plenty of gold to spare.