A Real Friend

If you decide to join the Guild of Mercenaries in $town, your first contract will be a seemingly pointless escort job.

$daughter basically wants us to take her elderly father for a walk.
Old people sometimes get an urge to wander. That man wants to visit his friend
and he's been increasingly restless lately, so she thought she may allow him to go,
even though that friend may be long dead or may not exist at all.
Just go where he tells you to do, he will probably forget what he wanted on the way
and you can take him back home.
Just make sure to get a lot of fortify fatigue potions with you,
in case he gets too tired to walk.
They live in a two-story house around the corner.

Go to the house to pick up the old man. His daughter will give you some details:

You see, my dad is very old. His memory is failing him more and more often
and his mind is playing tricks on him. Sometimes he sets out to go visit his friends
and only then remembers they are dead, or wants to visit shops or taverns that no longer exist.
Usually I take him for a walk around the town and he either forgets his idea
or realized that there's nowhere to go anymore.
But lately he talking about his friend who has a small farm in the countryside
and he fears that friend is in trouble.
The problem is that I don't remember that friend, so I have no idea if he's alive at all,
or where that farm may be. Chances are the friend and his farm don't exist, so don't be surprised.
Please go where my father tells you to go and bring him back.
I'll give you these potions in case he gets too tired to walk.

Talk to her father and agree to travel together. He’s slow, so you will have to be patient. Follow him and protect him from hostile creatures, if you meet any on the way.

Eventually he will lead you to a small farmhouse. Go inside and you will find another old man — his friend was real after all.

Talk to that man and hear his story:

Thank gods! $father, my friend! And who is it, your grandchild? All grown up now...
It was foolish of me to remain here. I need to move to the town as I'm now too weak for farm work,
but I'm too weak to even walk there, and no one has come here in months so I couldn't even ask for help.
I'm so glad you folks came for a visit!
Can you bring me some potions of fortify fatigue? Any alchemist will have them.

If you haven’t used the potions that $father’s daughter gave you, just give them to $fathersFriend. If not, you’ll have to ask the father to wait and visit an alchemist in the town. One way or another, give the old man’s friend the potions and escort them both to the daughter’s house.