An Eye for an Eye
Those under Roche's command rarely defied orders. When they did, the task of disciplining them fell to Roche's second-in-command, Ves. No one who endured a reprimand from this tight-lipped yet strong-armed soldier would ever think of insubordination again.
Yet this time Ves strayed from her usual loyalty and ignored Roche's orders by leaving her post without permission. Faced with an unusual dilemma, Vernon decided to turn to the witcher for help.
Map
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Objectives
4- 1Meet Roche by Hanged Man's Tree.Hanged Man's Tree
- 2Save Ves.Temerian Partisan Hideout
- 3Kill all the Nilfgaardians.Mulbrydale
- 4Meet Roche at his camp.Temerian Partisan Hideout
Journal
The peasants of Mulbrydale had helped Roche's guerillas in the past, so Ves decided to stand in their defense now, in their hour of need, though she knew this was a hopeless and nearly suicidal mission. Had not Geralt and Roche come to the rescue in the last minute, Ves would surely have died a premature death after being cut down by Nilfgaardians. Yet as it were, the imperial troops were defeated - and their leader was killed on the witcher's request.
The peasants of Mulbrydale had helped Roche's guerillas in the past, so Ves decided to stand in their defense now, in their hour of need, though she knew this was a hopeless and nearly suicidal mission. Had not Geralt and Roche come to the rescue in the last minute, Ves would surely have died a premature death after being cut down by Nilfgaardians. Yet as it were, the imperial troops were defeated - but their leader escaped with his life thanks to Roche's intervention and Geralt's support.
Yet Roche and Geralt did not come to the rescue in time. Ves fought to save the peasants of Mulbrydale - though she knew full well she stood no chance of winning against her substantially more numerous opponents. No historian will write of this struggle, nor will any bard sing of it, and no gravestone shall mark Ves' resting place.
Vernon Roche fell into dour spirits after Geralt's conversation with Radovid at the chess club. He didn't want to say right then what had blackened his mood. Instead, he asked the witcher to come talk to him at his hideout near Oxenfurt.
Though Geralt had promised to meet Roche at his hideout, he never showed. To this day I don't know if he forgot, didn't want to or simply had more important matters to tend to. The fact remains, however, that he never met up with Roche and never found out what the former Blue Stripes commander had been scheming.
Geralt's first reflex was to agree to help Roche with his trouble with Ves, but when he thought things over, he concluded he shouldn't get involved in an internal conflict between a superior and his subordinate.