I'll give the enchanter charm thing a try. If it eats my book it's not like there was any other way for me regardless

So here's how I did it:

Had a druid zone in and give me share wolf form so I wasn't KOS
Had an enchanter give himself ogre illusion in oggok
we walked up to clurg and sat in the corner
he mezzed the bouncer, then charmed clurg

I went through the dialogue, gave him book and now am a happy owner of a stein of moggok!

While not ideal or easy to have the help of a high level druid or enchanter, it is possible!

Thanks for tips guys.

Congratulations! Bottoms up!

This needs to be fixed. I handed them in 1 at a time like I used to do long ago, and like what it said to do now, and lost the items.

You can do other quests with 1 item at a time, and then you come to this one that takes a lot of time and it doesn't work. Grr.

I made this multiquestable with the last patches. Can turn in 1-4 items at a time.

Moving to resolved.

Edit - Disregard. Completed quest today with a fresh DE Agnostic Enchanter, no Alliance used at any point.