Help, I have got 2 early quests under my belt that I can't complete because I can't pass things to a certain moneylender and a certain farmer. I get the head symbol underneath the items that I am trying to pass and snide comments from the characters.

Anyone who can help me will receive my undying gratitude.

TR

If you're getting comments then its prolly not the right item. For the moneylender it should be a bunch of gems you get from Enkudi, and from the farmer the deed you get from Lord Garson

Get into a conversation with the said NPCs, then open your inventory screen. In the window at the bottom where there's usually a sack, chest, or dead body, there will instead be a little man. Click and drag the items from your inventory over him.

Not the most intuitive of interfaces, I'll admit.

Thanks for the solution, wei321. I was thrown off just like TarotRedHand, because when you're outside in the main game world, you can drag items onto NPCs to give -- e.g., giving rations to the priestess on her way to Aspreza in Ch. 1. I guess the 2D shop interface doesn't work the same way...

Yes, that may be weirdest of all! I just found an example: Chapter 4, giving the letters found on a corpse to the priestess Senena in Isten. She doesn't get a portrait and voice acting like the moneylender; just a plain narration panel.