no of course I didn't barter for the broaches, I took them from someone's corpse or something like that. But also they didn't help at all, I had them on me, and I was accelerated and... still died, it wasn't even close, the fiend simply owned me. I kept coming back to see if that was some unlucky fiend and if I can actually kill one. Didn't appear to be so.

The lawbreaking thing... we'll discuss it when your character is gone.

goodluck