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Contract: Shrieker

Witcher contractVelen and Novigrad

One thing about Geralt - he loves to meander. Instead of sitting in an inn near a warm stove, he is always putzing around fields and woods looking for gods-know-what. During one such stroll through the charming environs of Velen, he happened across tracks left by some kind of monster. Though he had no contract to kill any such beast, his witcher heart started racing at once...

Map

Map of the Contract: Shrieker objectives around Burned Ruins, Crow's Perch, Castle Village

Pin numbers match the objectives below. Open it on the interactive map →

Objectives

12
  1. 1Talk to the contract issuer.Crow's Perch
  2. 2Take a trophy from the shrieker.On the map
  3. 3Collect your reward from the contract issuer.Crow's Perch
  4. 4Check the Crow's Perch notice board.Castle Village
  5. 5Kill the monster.Burned Ruins
  6. 6Talk to the person who witnessed the shrieker's attack.Crow's Perch
  7. 7Investigate the site of the monster's attack using your Witcher Senses.Burned Ruins
  8. 8Find the monster's lair using your Witcher Senses.Burned Ruins
  9. 9Find the monster using your Witcher Senses.Burned Ruins
  10. 10Follow the blood trail using your Witcher Senses.Burned Ruins
  11. 11Drive the monster out of its lair with a Samum, Grapeshot or Dancing Star bomb.Burned Ruins
  12. 12Chase down the monster.Burned Ruins

Journal

It turned out a cockatrice had left the tracks. As this beast's name implies, it looks something like a rooster crossed with a basilisk and, according to Geralt, tastes a bit like chicken.

The cockatrice slain, Geralt took a trophy from its corpse and went to collect his well-deserved reward.

Not only did the people of Crow's Perch live in constant fear of the baron's mad impulses and the greed of his band of toughs, but they also had to deal with a vicious monster. They had given this beast a lovely, full-of-wholesome-folk-character name: "shrieker." It had tormented them so terribly that they had decided to pay for a witcher to take eradicate it. Geralt, who was far from deaf to the concerns of simple folk (and also was forever in need of more coin), decided to take the contract on this mysterious beast.