Game Mechanics: Linara Parlone not accepting quest items

[LizardNecro]

I was trying to do the mystic cloak quest yesterday. A high level enchanter, Fawqueue, was helping me by charming Linara Parlone in Najena.

I am a dark elf mage, so normally Linara scowls at me and will not respond to hails.

The enchanter charmed her, and at that point she conned indifferent, and responded to hails. She responded with quest text for [help] and [key]. However, when I tried giving her the tarnished bronze key from the priest of najena, when I hit the button to confirm giving her the key, I would get a message saying that this NPC cannot accept this item.

The enchanter tested giving her other items. He tried giving her a rusty spear, which she rejected with the same message. Interestingly, her graphic showed her wielding the spear even though she rejected the item!

Here is evidence that charming npcs to do this quest should work

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...06194083739324