I'm playing Ultima VII part 2 and trying to make a little coin. I went and killed some trolls and grabbed a couple pikeman bodies and headed back to Renfry. He tells me he'll pay 100 Monitari once they've been cremated. I toss them in the machine, the urn comes out. I grab it and go talk to him. And nothing. No money, no new dialgoue, etc. Do I have to be a Knight first? Or is there something else I'm missing?

I think the process goes like this:
- You talk to him while you're carrying a pikeman body so he can acknowledge this.
- You cremate the body.
- You talk to him again to receive the monetari.

Then you need to talk to him again, having him acknowledge you're carrying another body. Rinse and repeat.
You don't need the urns. (In fact: Leave them where they are: Maybe there's a flag underneath that tells the game you cremated a pikeman, I'm not sure.)
You also can't just burn 10 bodies in one go: You'll have to keep talking to him for every body you cremate.

I doubt you'd need to be a knight first, since you can pretty much fool Renfry into believing you are one.

I tried it that way the first time and it didn't work. The only thing I found online (https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Renfry) says to have the urn. I reloaded and tried that.

I'm using Exult so wondering if this is an Exult bug.

Renfry will only pay for Pikeman bodies. Not any ol' Knight. He won't pay for Shmed's body, and he won't pay for some of the bodies of the Knights in the Troll Cave. There's a female Pikeman body in that cave that he will pay for, but I believe the two bodies in there aren't Pikemen, there're normal Knights, which Renfry won't pay for.

The easiest way to get a Pikeman body is to kill them I'm afraid...which is very unAvatarlike. There are also a bunch of Pikeman bodies you can snag when you go into the Goblin Village, and I think you can witness goblins killing Pikeman if you go to one of the towers where goblins are and you may witness a Pikeman getting slaughtered.

As Gotcha noted, you'll know if you have a body that Renfry will recognize as a Pikeman if you talk to him about duties, then Body, and then he acknowledges that you're carrying a Pikeman. If he doesn't, then you're probably carrying a normal Knight, not a Pikeman.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll give it another go.

Edit:

Ok, so that helped. Seems I had the female body in my avatars backpack, which he was accepting, but I was cremating the other bodies, knights I guess. It also seems that the knights way more than the pikeman, so maybe a way to determine who is who. Thanks again.

Indeed, the bodies will have to fly the green 'n white colour pattern, so either the black-haired deceased female knight, or the regular found-everywhere patrol knight. Sorry, I didn't realize you were stuffing just any armoured body in there; haha.

Keeping the streets clean. *thumbs up*