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Part 09: Vizima Confidential ------  Last time, we ventured down to the Vizima sewers to hunt a cockatrice in order to earn our release from prison. Down there, we met a rather stuffy gentleman named Siegfried, a knight of the Order of the Flaming Rose, and he watched our back when we fought and killed the monster. Now, we just need to bring the creature's head back to Vincent Meis, the captain of the city guard.    Odd. Few would dare venture here.More drowners? Wouldn't be a surprise, this place is crawling with the little bastards.  Welp, that's not a drowner.  Somehow, these Salamandra assassins knew we were in the sewers. Did the Professor have enough time between his release and us coming here to tip them off?   Who knew you'd be in the sewers? The captain of the guard, the loon from the jail, and the prisoners. I fought the cockatrice for my freedom. Hmm. A limited number of suspects. You'll likely solve the mystery when you find the leader of those bandits. I have a friend in Vizima, a detective. See him for help. Where are you headed? I have things to attend to at my quarters. Then I'll venture out in search of beasts, as the world is still filled with them. You did well, Siegfried. Glad we met. I need to recover my things.Siegfried turned out to be a pretty decent guy despite being a Knight of the Order. Not only did he help us out with the monsters, but also gave us that tip about the detective.   Here's the key for the passage to town. A few days ago, I locked the door to keep the cockatrice in. Thanks. I'd rather not go back the way I came. We might meet again if you ever visit the sewers. At times I venture down here in search of monsters. Ah, your sacred mission of protecting humankind? Your sarcasm is unnecessary. We're on the same side, witcher. You'll realize this one day. Farewell. And thanks.  Not much else to do here, so might as well follow Siegfried out of the sewers. There is the Lionhead Spider cultist lair somewhere in the sewers and we'll check that out at some stage, but we should at least get our equipment back first.   Welcome to Vizima. We'll be spending a lot of time in the Temple Quarter, so better get used to it.  As we emerge from the sewers, one of the first things we see is this odd relief on the wall. We can't do anything with it right now, but it might be something to keep in mind for later.  We'll go meet the detective shortly, but first I want to get our stuff back and have a chat with Vincent.  Our map isn't particularly helpful right now, but at least we know to head to the eastern part of the Temple Quarter.  The building up ahead is St. Lebioda's hospital, probably the most important landmark in the Temple Quarter. It's not the most pleasant place in the world: St. Lebioda Hospital journal entry posted:The hospital, named after the prophet Lebioda, was set up in a former temple of Melitele. To this day a triple-bodied statue of the goddess stands inside. Nurses and novices work there, trying to help those struck by the plague. It is not a pleasant place, filled with the moans of the suffering and the stench of their excretions. Those who do not survive the disease, meaning the overwhelming majority, are thrown into a pit behind the hospital. Every once in a while, the bodies are burned to prevent the plague from spreading. Recently the Order of the Flaming Rose placed the hospital under its protection.  Immediately to the north of the hospital is the Peddler Street, which is lined with various stalls and shops.   From there, we head southeast to reach the Heroes of the Guard Street and the guardhouse at the end.  This is where we find the dungeon and, of course, Vincent. Vincent doesn't seem to be at his post, though, so I suppose we're heading to the dungeon.  Next to the dungeon entrance, we find a notice board. Let's see if they've got any lucrative work for a witcher around here...  The swamp, eh? I don't think we can get there unless we find some way to get past the quarantine, but we'll keep that in mind.  The gardener at St. Lebioda's wants us to kill some echinopsae. We're going to need the echinops entry in our bestiary to harvest the parts he needs, though.  Hey, it's our good buddy Kalkstein from earlier, and this time he wants alghoul marrow for his alchemy stuff. We should stop by and say hello at some point.  The gravedigger wants us to kill stray dogs. That's not really witcher's work, though, is it?  Finally, Siegfried wants ten drowned dead tongues. That's all the jobs on offer at the moment, so let's head inside.  Might as well go talk to Jethro first so we can get our equipment.    Take your belongings from the trunk before I sell them. And remember the reward on the cockatrice's head. Vincent gets very excited about trophies. Ah, I can finally relax. I'll inspect what we've confiscated here. Hmm, good quality gear... As it turns out, we're carrying so much stuff that we need to leave something behind. As far as I can tell, we can't just move stuff from our inventory to a chest unless it's specifically for storing our stuff, so this gets a bit fiddly. Eventually we manage to get all our important items back, and Jethro can keep the barghest skull and a few pints of beer. For some reason, I'm now imagining Geralt taking a full pint of beer out of his pocket like Adrian Edmondson in Bottom.    Don't leave the Temple Quarter. You must be kidding. We keep a close eye on you witchers. Didn't I hear you say that everyone's equal...?  Impressive. That's 400 orens reward. Well deserved. Do you handle monsters, too? I'd rather not waste my men on that. I pay anyone who kills a monster. Just bring proof. What pays best? Right now my budget includes reward money for the cockatrice in the sewers and for some bloodthirsty plant that kills people in the swamp.So just the echinopsae, then.  True. A special reward - this runic stone. Use it well. The city should offer more rewards soon. How's the Salamandra investigation going? Patience, witcher. All will be explained tonight. Any way I can help? Stay clear of the warehouses in the slums. It's a sensitive case that doesn't require your sword... just yet.So, obviously, we'll be going there pretty soon.  It's a secret operation. How do you expect me to go - with an assault team in full plate armor and a bugler? Relax, I'm no rookie and I got a few things up my sleeve. No doubt... Err... We'd rather just have the witchers' secrets back, if that's okay with you.  Our next order of business is going to be "get rid of all this useless crap in our inventory" and we'll get on that right now.  The Svarog rune stone is another temporary sword upgrade, which imbues blades with magic. Not too shabby, although much like the grindstones I always forget I have these things.  Before we do anything else, let's sell off some of this crap on Merchant Street. Sadly, the merchants that'll buy most of the stuff we're carrying aren't around just yet because it's so early in the morning. At least there's these two guys, I guess.   I don't think I want to know. Anyway, this guy buys food and drink items, so we're offload some of the more useless ones. The other merchant deals in jewelry and luxury goods, but we don't have much of that stuff to sell.  Let's just go and shove all this crap into storage. To do that, we're going to have to find an inn, and there happens to be one down here in the slums.   There are some dogs down here we could kill if we were going to do the errand for the gravedigger, but let's just leave them be for now. Besides, I'm more interested in that guy yelling about bribing guards.  Well then, that's some pretty useful information.  Apparently, this thug has been dealing drugs to Jethro. That might be something to keep in mind.  Anyway, here's the inn. Let's head inside.    There's a bunch of stuff we can do here, but right now we're only interested in storing our items so let's have a chat with the typically grizzled innkeeper.    We'll just shove all our useless crap into storage, and then we're off to... err, what were we doing? Oh yeah, meeting up with that detective.   If we feel like it, there are plenty of prostitutes Geralt can pick up around here (and earn a card because of course), but we don't have time for that kind of stuff now. This lady is special, though - the fact she has a name and it's in green indicates she's an NPC of some importance.    Depends. I'm open to suggestions. Let's talk. All right, we'll chat... but I'm counting on more. Surprise me.Let's see where this goes.    Many girls like you working in Vizima? Plenty. But I'm the prettiest. No doubt. Any work for a witcher? Some men are troubling my girls. Take care of it and we'll compensate you... generously. There're three places they frequent at night... Mark them on my map.  Right. Obviously, we'll have to wait until nightfall to actually complete this quest, but at least we know where we need to go to help out these ladies.   The Order's armorer here sells an "excellent leather jacket", a nice upgrade for Geralt's armor. Unfortunately, we don't have money to buy it right now.    Meet Detective Raymond Maarloeve. Yes, that is his name, and he also talks like a noir detective, with the voice actor doing his best Humphrey Bogart impression. CD Projekt Red didn't feel like being subtle when it came to this guy.   I'm looking for some information. Is this where I'll find it? Good question. I used to work for the lawyers Codringher and Fen. Satisfied? The names mean nothing to me, but I'll assume that's a recommendation. As a professional, you understand information has its price...    Azar Javed. Name mean anything to you? I've heard it... Why are you looking for Javed? Usually I charge for information, but I'll give you this bit for free...   Kikimores, as you may recall, are insectoid monsters that were introduced in The Lesser Evil, where Geralt rode into Blaviken with a dead kikimore in tow.  I suspect Salamandra has built a large scale operation, with gold simply greasing the wheels of their political ambitions. They're conducting genetic experiments, dangerous ones. Regular thugs wouldn't have the knowledge or means... Who's working for Javed? Any guesses? The captain of the guard, who dropped that investigation, disappears nights. Maybe you can squeeze some information out of him. Is that all? We might have one more lead. The city guards detained someone who could provide information. The guards? At the city jail? Yes. Find a way to question that prisoner. In the meantime, learn what you can from the guards. Count on it. People open up to me all the time.  He may be one of the leaders, though in this town the guards capture pawns while the big fish swim free. We'll know for certain once you question him. We'll see.That's as good a start as any. Now, if there's nothing else, we should get going.  You don't say.  Wait here a while. Make them nervous. Surprise those who want to surprise you. I'll leave at midnight.There was other stuff I wanted to do during the day, but whatever. Might as well see what's going on with these guys following us.   Oh, what a surprise. It's the Professor.     The Professor walks off, and Geralt decides to go say hello to his little buddies.    So much for that ambush.  Next up, we'll go find out why Vincent Meis is sneaking around at night and going into random warehouses in the slums.   This guy doesn't seem to mind us being here, so let's enter.   There's Vincent, and there's a bunch of Salamandra goons. This looks suspicious, but we shouldn't do anything drastic just yet.    Err, Vincent, you're kinda out of the frame so if you could just... oh, never mind.  And yeah, we could just go right ahead and accuse Vincent of working with Salamandra, but that seems a bit rash because we don't know anything about what's going on here. Let's just hold our horses and find out what the whole deal is about.   Let's not play "Who killed who." That's the past, we're interested in the future. Your future, which will be unpleasant if Javed learns you cheated him. And believe me, he'll learn shortly if you don't start talking... You're bluffing, you don't scare me...  The Professor? I don't know. He went off somewhere... Bullshit. You need encouragement... You promised me protection in exchange for me testimony... On my mother's grave, I know nothing! Stop him... You're a cop. This is murder, you gonna stand by and watch? Hm. I guess Vincent isn't much for proper procedure. He's still more than a little suspicious and may or may not have Javed on speed dial, so we'll need to interrogate him later.   Justice has prevailed... or something to that effect.  One of the thugs was carrying some fisstech, which we'll put in our pocket for safe keeping.  And here we go. Our first day in Vizima proper has been full of excitement and intrigue, and next time we'll go see how Vincent will explain himself as well as hopefully find some more clues. We should also pay Shani a visit at some point... ------ DMorbid fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Welcome back and keep up the good work!
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Make sure you get that barghest skull back!
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Xander77 posted:Also, I do believe the professor "ambush" is both the first time Geralt just allows the bad guys to stroll away, and one of the many frustrating times when Geralt initiates a fight but doesn't actually draw his sword until the bad guys had time to surround him and start tearing out his kidneys. Good catch on the typo there as well. With The Witcher, I'm having to transcribe the dialog manually because Capture2Text doesn't work too great with these subtitles. It was fine in Jade Empire and Persona 2 because those games had white text on a dark background, but since the text here is on top of the game graphics it just freaks out the OCR completely and results in a garbled mess 90% of the time. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Despite liking the game and how it allows you to do thing sort of out of order, this part is something I dislike exactly because of that. So many quests start almost simultaneously but the game seems to think you're doing them one at the time. At times I had the feeling that I was missing entire stages of ongoing quests. The warehouse quest is an example. Vincent Meis is thinking on his feet when Geralt shows up uninvited and that part is fine. Afterwards he's acting as if he and Geralt had planned it all along and I was really confused. He does say something happens "tonight" in the warehouse but the quest text doesn't convey that and I at least left the quest alone for like a week of in-game time.
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Valiantman posted:Despite liking the game and how it allows you to do thing sort of out of order, this part is something I dislike exactly because of that. So many quests start almost simultaneously but the game seems to think you're doing them one at the time. At times I had the feeling that I was missing entire stages of ongoing quests. The warehouse quest is an example. Vincent Meis is thinking on his feet when Geralt shows up uninvited and that part is fine. Afterwards he's acting as if he and Geralt had planned it all along and I was really confused. He does say something happens "tonight" in the warehouse but the quest text doesn't convey that and I at least left the quest alone for like a week of in-game time. I was just about to post something to this effect, and it's right around here and in particular Geralt's interactions with Vincent that it becomes really apparent. There's also the part where Vincent says "all will be explained tonight" after Vincent asks him how the investigation's going, as if they had spoken about it before... but they hadn't, because Geralt was off killing a cockatrice. This bit, after Geralt arrives in Vizima, seems to have a litany of pacing and flow issues that I don't recall there being in other parts of the game- it feels particularly disjointed and awkward in a way that you can't really lay at the foot of translation issues. (Which have their own goofy charm, as in the pear/peach conversation between Geralt and Carmen, which is just kind of  )
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I do like how things come together to give the impresstion that there's this understanding between the guard captain and the Witcher that we as the players aren't entirely privy to, regardless of how it was actually intended to play out.
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Let's Read Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher Book 1: The Last Wish Story 7 - The Last Wish The Voice of Reason - part 6 posted:Nenneke wants Geralt to stay a while. If he's hiding from Yennefer, then he should know she already visited the temple, and didn't bother asking about his whereabouts. Geralt would still rather leave before she returns, and asks Nenneke to give Yennefer the jewels he got as payment for slaying the Striga. Letting the reader know that Geralt and Yennefer won't find a comfortable "happily ever after" before even telling the story of how they've met is a pretty bold move. Let's see if it pays off. The Last Wish posted:Geralt and Dandelion are fishing for their supper. Dandelion manages to lose his initial catch, but ends up hooking a tangle of branches and ooze with an amphora in the middle, a magic-looking seal upon it. Dandelion has read enough stories to know exactly what that is - a genie that will grant him three wishes! Geralt, on the other, knows enough about magic to assure him that: A) You don't find a Djinn just lying around, sealed in a pot B) Djinns are terribly dangerous, so don't mess with anything that might contain one. They tussle for control, break the drat thing open, and some smoke starts pouring out, coalescing into a monstrous, beaked head. They're both deeply broken people, full of pride that won't allow them to ask for the emotional support they desperately need. And, on a more superficial level, Yennefer is a control-freak (and a bitch) while Geralt is a freaking teenager, unable to handle his feelings to the point he pretends he doesn't have any. He flees responsibility despite outright wishing for it. We'll have a chance to go over their relationship in the following books though. Besides establishing this relationship, there really isn't much to talk about. Krepp is possibly the most decent member of the clergy ever depicted in the witcher universe. By the way, the story (as opposed to my summary) actually keeps the nature of Geralt's first wish secret up to a point, to act as a punchline - but then shows its cards way before the reveal, when Yennefer titters about the meaning of the "exorcism spell". Lame. We've come to the end of the first book. Only took me a few months. There's still an epilogue left though, so stay tuned for that. Witcher powers: * Heliotrop proves to be a defensive charm against magical attacks as well as sonic damage. * The witcher medallion more explicitly acts to resist magic. * Geralt uses "a Sign" to strike at the Djinn, to no avail. Could be a specialized attack sign, could be another Aard.
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Xander77 posted:After all, Geralt laid neither finger nor blade upon the esteemed knight. I mean, if that's how you want to interpret the rules, Geralt could have just kicked him in the balls and been done with it.
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Stroth posted:I mean, if that's how you want to interpret the rules, Geralt could have just kicked him in the balls and been done with it.
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So that's the origin of Geralt and Yennefer. Makes me glad they are living out a lovely marriage on a winery in notFrance.
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I just want to say how being reminded me of the novels made me appreciate The Witcher 3's stories even more. I don't suppose it's too much spoilers to say that Geralt isn't cured of his amnesia in this game or in Witcher 2 but somewhere in between 2 and 3 (if anyone thinks so, I'll edit this out). Storywise Witcher 1 kinda reboots the story and 2 is a pretty great followup for it but neither really continues the novels. The third game on the other hand manages to expand on both the earlier games and the novels in a way that is worthy of both.
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I'll be posting an update tomorrow, unless my computer explodes or something. I don't have any excuses for dragging my feet this time (aside from the usual issues with my stupid broken sadbrain wanting to kill me), I just haven't felt like doing anything not work-related.
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Xander77 posted:
Great writeup, as usual. Even more so - it finally gives me an excuse to vent about stupid nerd stuff - spoilers for the books and for W3 under the tags. GOD, do I hate the 'reveal' of the wish's wording. What exactly did Geralt wish for was, not surprisingly, a matter of debate for terrible nerds in Poland (I remember arguing about that in the dial-up modem era) and 'Ooohhh, bind our fates together' is just such a wet fart. Maybe it's just me being too attached to my pet theory but after the exchange between Geralt and Nenneke in Voice of reason, after Yennefer's reaction to it (quoted in Xander's post), after everything that happened in the later books - the answer that makes most sense is that the wish was for them to have a child. And that wish is fulfilled in Ciri. That's pretty much it. Thank you for letting me share.
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RedSnapper posted:Great writeup, as usual. Even more so - it finally gives me an excuse to vent about stupid nerd stuff - spoilers for the books and for W3 under the tags. That's a very interesting theory! I've never participated in any form of Witcher fandom, and it never occurred to me that there might be a debate as to what the wish entailed. I can see playing around with the exact specific wording, maybe, but that Geralt specifically asked for their fates to be entwined seemed obvious from the text to me? If anyone asked, my version of the wording would be "I wish for our lives to be one" since he specifically was trying to prevent the Djinn from killing her. The thing to keep in mind here is that the first Witcher book is very much a riff on European fairy tales. When it comes to wishes, fairytale logic deals mostly with consequences of not knowing what you ask for. Clever wordplay to get results is the realm of trickster stories, and pan Sapkowski seems weirdly uninterested in those.
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My computer didn't explode just yet and the update is on the way, but it's probably going to be delayed until tomorrow because I didn't have a lot of time to work on it today. Sorry about that.  I'm also going to prepare a bunch of updates this time around, so I have some sort of a backlog going on.
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I am sorry, but I'm going to have to officially put the LP on hiatus for the time being. I genuinely tried to put together an update this past week, but it turns out my life is such a garbage fire at the moment that I just can't focus on doing an LP (at least anything that requires effort) until things get better, and frankly I don't know if they ever will.  This really loving sucks, because I was enjoying playing the game and doing these updates whenever I was able to. Despite its reputation as a game unsuitable for LPs, The Witcher itself is not the problem here.I'll keep the thread open in case I get around to posting the occasional update (and for Xander's excellent Let's Read writeups - thanks a lot for posting so much great content and, frankly, keeping the thread going these last couple of months while I've been busy or just useless).
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Hope you can update again soon, that's all I can say. And thanks for what content you were able to post thus far.
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I'm sorry to hear about that. But, as always, life is more important than LPs.
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The curse strikes once more  Good luck.
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Yeah, LPing wears on you by itself and should be put aside when more important stuff happens. Good luck!
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Could you post your save file? Oh, and a basic breakdown of how you get the images for the LP?
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If you're planning to continue the LP where I left off, that'd be fantastic and I'd be glad to help in any way I can. To capture images, I just go through the recorded gameplay footage in Adobe Premiere and then hit the Export Frame button when I need to. Then I batch resize and convert to JPGs in Irfanview, and upload the final images to LPix. I actually have the images for the next update ready to go, I just never got around to writing the update itself: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xy6wS1EGB8BE3b52oUoOns3Rjpc_4PQQ As for my saves, I went through the 750 meg folder to figure out which of these million save files might be the the one for this point of the LP. It should be one of these: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Q1PQ0ZYC1OdRx8_Bw2d8AWaCPVgnOIFA
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Valiantman posted:*getting excited* ... I should have done this via PMs.
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I'm excited too. I love this game, and am prepared to wait for whatever timing is necessary.
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