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Contract: Woodland Beast

Witcher contractVelen and Novigrad

Monsters, like men, each have their own individual tastes and preferences. According to legend, dragons like to savor the delicate notes of virgins, while ghouls delight in the powerful flavors of rotting flesh. In the woods outside Novigrad, meanwhile, a beast had cropped up with a predilection for Redanian transport wagons. Not surprisingly, the captain of the nearby guardpost did not appreciate this culinary choice and put out a bounty on the monster's head.

Map

Map of the Contract: Woodland Beast objectives around Inn at the Crossroads, Border Post

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Objectives

7
  1. 1Talk to the commander of the guardpost by the bridge to Novigrad.Border Post
  2. 2Examine the site where the transport was attacked using your Witcher Senses.Inn at the Crossroads
  3. 3Follow the tracks using your Witcher Senses.Inn at the Crossroads
  4. 4Return to the guardpost captain for your reward.Border Post
  5. 5Kill the Scoia'tael.Inn at the Crossroads
  6. 6Gather squirrel tails as evidence.Inn at the Crossroads
  7. 7Retrieve your weapons.Inn at the Crossroads

Journal

It turned out the woods did not hide a "shaggy fuck-knows-what," as the captain of the guard put it, but a band of Scoia'tael. They were the ones attacking the transports. Geralt promised not to betray their secret, but in the end he changed his mind. You might say, dear reader, that he acted dishonorable, and you'd probably be right - but those Scoia'tael were no innocents themselves.

It turned out the woods did not hide a "shaggy fuck-knows-what," as the captain of the guard put it, but a band of Scoia'tael. They were the ones attacking the transports. Though the witcher codex would recommend charting a neutral course in such a situation, Geralt sailed according to his own moral compass. His needle pointed decidedly towards the elves' much-deserved death.

It turned out the woods did not hide a "shaggy fuck-knows-what," as the captain of the guard put it, but a band of Scoia'tael. They were the ones attacking the transports. The witcher codex would recommend charting a neutral course in such a situation - and Geralt, feeling the pain of the elves' lot in his very marrow, duly followed that recommendation.