Ransid asks you to retrieve his mother-in-law's earrings from the Playhouse so he can buy some bread, beginning the quest Jewellery in Law. If you offer to give him bread, he insists on getting the earrings instead. Once you complete All the After World's a Stage in the Playhouse, you gain access to a room in the back where you meet Mara, the spirit of Ransid's deceased mother-in-law. You obtain Mara's Earrings after a short dialog in which you learn that Ransid is a drunk and a gambler.