[Absalon]

Itoao, assuming it's a convince parley as you indicated in the thread on vgtact (inspire blocked), it should be doable.

You mentioned he has these cards:

Brilliant Analogy 0 cost 2 Inf
Keen Remark 0 cost 2 inf
Acid Tongue 0 cost 2 inf
Litany of Logic 0 cost... get my drift here
Shrewd Allegation 0 cost 2 inf

Keen Remark gives you 2 flattery, which enables you to play Enticing Whisper.
Litany of Logic gives you 2 reason, which enables you to play Itemized Comparison.

Acid Tongue and Brilliant Analogy only give 1 reason and 1 flattery, respectively, but they are on longer refresh timers than the other 2.

Shrewd Allegation gives you 2 inspire which you can't use.

Do you have repeals yet? If not, check with your trainer. As a Mordebi, you are demand based, so you will get a repeal called Flat Dismissal. When he plays Litany of Logic and gives you 2 reason, you can play Flat Dismissal and turn that into 4 demand and then use your racial assertion.

If you have Flat Dismissal, I would use that instead of Itemized Comparison.

So your deck would be:

Snippet of Wisdom
Flat Dismissal
Mordebi Candor
Enticing Whisper
Fan the Flames (if you have it...if not, then Frank Discussion...or you can substitute a 1 point comment)

In 4 turns the NPC will get 8 influence. In that same time, you'll play Snippet of Wisdom (2 inf), Flat Dismissal (0 inf), Mordebi Candor (5 inf) and Enticing Whisper (3 inf). You should come out ahead.

If you don't have repeals and the trainer doesn't offer you the quest for repeals, there is a quest to parley with soldiers. I don't know the exact name of it, but you can try asking in the diplomacy channel ingame (/join dip). I'm sure someone will know it. This quest was added to the game to help people who were stuck get to 40 so they could move on to civic dip, but you can use it to get your skill high enough to get the repeals quest from the trainer if you need to.

If you don't have repeals and you can't get them from the trainer and can't find the soldier quest, then try this deck:

Snippet of Wisdom
Itemized Comparison
Aggressive Statement
Enticing Whisper
Fan the Flames (if you have it...if not, then Frank Discussion)

Within the first 5 turns you should be able to play Snippet twice, and each of your assertions once, for a total of 13 influence compared to the NPC's 10 influence.