Arne Jacobson

Arne Jacobson is an unhappy human refugee in Rivington during Act Three.

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I thought it'd be different here - that people would help us.

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— Arne Jacobson

Involvement

Act Three

Arne can be found just outside the entrance to the Rivington General with Belron Strongstep. He is complaining to Belron about the unreasonably high cost to pass the South Span Checkpoint to enter Baldur's Gate, where he had hoped to find safety. Belron attempts to reassure Arne with various alternative options such as pawning his wife's ring.

Idle banter

Arne Jacobson: I'm done for. Don't have the coin to get into the city, don't have the strength to face another tenday on the road.

• Belron Strongstep: We'll figure something out.
  • Arne Jacobson: Flaming Fist will start clearing outsiders from Rivington and the refugee camps soon. Mark my words.
    • Belron Strongstep: There's more than one way to skin a tressym. We'll find a way into the city - you have my word.

Arne Jacobson: I've barely enough coppers left to eat, let alone buy papers to enter the city.

• Belron Strongstep: I could pawn my ring.
  • Arne Jacobson: You are not pawning your wife's ring. It's the last thing you have of her.
    • Belron Strongstep: She'd want me to sell it if it helps me feed a friend.
      • Arne Jacobson: She was a better person than both of us.

Belron Strongstep: We've got options, kid - how do you feel about Neverwinter?

• Arne Jacobson: It'd be no different. We might trek all the way there and hear the same? "No refugees."
  • Arne Jacobson: Might as well starve here as starve there.
    • Belron Strongstep: People will help. You'll see.