Where The Cat And Wolf Play... is a secondary quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It was released as one of the 16 free DLCs on 3 July 2015. Important: this quest is proximity sensitive and once started will fail if you leave the area. Show Walkthrough[]After killing off the alghouls in the previous quest, Contract: The Beast of Honorton, you'll now need to investigate to see what happened to Honorton. You can examine the body the necrophages were eating, but won't learn much from it. The nearest hut that the alghouls were outside of has a body, a stove, and a leshen's head that, if you had found the notice first, Geralt will remark someone beat him to the contract. Next, go examine the barn, where 2 more bodies and a piece of wood can be examined. An alghoul however appears just inside, so kill it off to finish examining the interior, where a blood splatter indicates the injured person wasn't a mere peasant. Further in are a few more bodies and a pitchfork. As you exit the barn a couple more alghouls are approaching the village, so kill these off as well to continue investigating. The other 2 huts have more bodies inside that can be examined, however you just need to examine the one with the dog corpse outside it for a short cutscene where a little girl is seen running off. Head just outside to find her doll and some footprints, which when followed into the other hut, show she ran right through one window and out the other. Note: If you left the barn for last, the cutscene with the fleeing little girl will be triggered once you examine the corpses there. Find the girl behind the large tree and use Axii (requires Delusion level 1 for a minimum of 30 Head to the area Millie indicated to find a bloody handprint and footprints you can follow which will likely take you right through a pack of wolves. Kill them off and examine the blood before continuing and finally coming across Gaetan. You can talk to him to learn his side, or decide to kill him right away. If you talk to him, he'll reveal the ealdorman offered a very paltry sum for killing the leshen and when he demanded the payment they had decided on earlier, they tricked and nearly killed Gaetan instead of paying him. You can then ask why he spared the girl if you want, before you decide what to do. If you choose to spare him, you'll get 200 If you choose to kill him however, note as a witcher he also makes use of signs, particularly quen. He'll also ask to use Swallow first to make it a fair fight. If you let him though, it'll turn out he'll try to blind you initially with a bomb instead. Once dead, you'll earn 200 Whatever you chose, head back and talk to Millie and it'll cut to you arriving in Oreton to see her aunt. You can answer however you want, but the aunt will mention it may be better for you to take Millie as times are tough. No matter what you say though she'll take the girl in, though if you give her 40 Journal entry[]Found village first:Life in Velen is not easy. Bandits and monsters prowl the woods. Armies trample the fields and raid the granaries. Disease is on everyone's lips - literally. Yet, as the popular saying in those parts went, nothing's so bad that it can't get worse - the truth of which the inhabitants of Honorton learned in the most brutal way possible. Their entire village was murdered, leaving only necrophages to walk the paths between its huts.Found the contract first:Geralt would often state that every witcher contract is the same. Read a notice, find who posted it, argue over the reward, seek out witnesses, etc., ad nauseam. I, however, always held that beneath these superficial similarities lay an ocean of difference. For example, Geralt would sometimes discover his employers had brought the beast upon themselves, while other times he'd learn killing the monster in question was but part of someone's larger (usually nefarious) scheme. And once, in Honorton... Ah, now that was another contract altogether.It turned out the brutal perpetrator of the massacre of Honorton was not a monster nor even a bandit, but one of Geralt's fellow practitioners - a witcher from the ill-famed School of the Cat.If Gaetan is spared:Gaetan, a witcher from the School of the Cat, murdered people he had sworn to protect. They themselves were, to say the least, not without sin - instead of showing due gratitude for his completion of a dangerous contract, they had tried to take his life in an underhanded manner.Be that as it may, if the matter had been put before a judge, Gaetan would have surely ended on the gallows. But Geralt was no judge. He was a witcher.If Gaetan is killed:Geralt held his duty was to protect sentient beings from threats no others could vanquish - no matter whether the beings in question were cheats or saints. Gaetan had proven himself just such a threat, so Geralt paid no heed to his justifications and killed the fellow witcher.If Geralt took Mellie to her aunt:As for the little girl who was the sole survivor of the massacre, the witcher did the only thing he could - he took her to her kin. He then bid farewell, hoping she would be given a warm nook to sleep in and a bowl of nourishing vittles every evening.If Geralt wanders too far from the village/Mellie (fails quest):As for the little girl... to speak truth, I don't know what became of her. Perhaps she managed to find her aunt in Oreton on her own. Or perhaps she ended in a wolf's belly. Objectives[]
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Videos[]Where the Cat and Wolf Play - The Witcher 3 DEATH MARCH! Part 84 - Let's Play Hard
What lines do I say in the play Witcher 3?"To slay beasts most foul - 'twas for this I was made, I kill as my calling, not just to get paid." - cheerful, bold. "Perhaps 'midst the guests he hides, in fear?" - intense, lively. "Seems men's hearts can love for changelings foster!" - joyful. "But a heart that is base, such as in this knave aches!" - disgusted.
Should I spare Gaetan?If you're looking for the objectively best choice in terms of loot, we recommend sparing Gaetan. You'll gain 200 experience and be granted a new quest called Take What You Want. This will lead you to a stash of goods near Keira Metz' cabin, defended by some bandits.
Are cats afraid of witchers?In Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books, cats detest Witchers, despite sharing the same eyes, and hate being near them. Geralt isn't too fond of them, either. Even in Wild Hunt, if you come across a cat in the world it will arch its back at you and hiss.
Who is the cat in Oxenfurt?Nibbles is a gray and black cat that can be encountered for the first time in Oxenfurt and then throughout the entire third game, including the Hearts of Stone expansion and the Blood and Wine expansion.
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