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In the previous episode of The Witcher 3 Saga I went on a deep jungle search for The Pellar's goat princess, to my luck I have found her alive and very well intact. How she made it through the pack of wolves and other dangers is still unknown to me but I was able to return her to The Pellar and he in turn offered a great deal of vital information that led to a small quarrel between me and The Baron.
Unfortunately The Baron kept information from me that would have proved usefull if I knew it before, none the less the information led to more clues being uncovered one of them being The Baron's unborn daughter and that she turned into a Botchling, however we used this to our advantage to turn the Botchling into a Lubberkin that led to even more information being unveiled.
The Path Of The Lubberkin
In the mid of night after the Botchling was named and buried it then took some hours before the Lubberkin came out. The Lubberkin isn't some underworldly creature it's more of a helping spirit.
The purpose of changing the Botchling into Lubberkin was for it to lead us to where Anna and Tamara might have gone and it proved to be usefull at the end of the day.
The Lubberkin led me straight out of the small keep into the forests on the path that they fled on this was an especially dangerous path filled with Drowners and Rotfiends.
Both are equally dangerous.
The Drowners proved easy to overcome since I only had to challenge two of them, yet they still do a lot of damage because they come flying out of the water when you expect it the least. Fortunately for me I had the Quen spell activated which gave me a layer of armor for any surprise attacks that might occur.
Luckily these water born creatures are no match for silver steel.
The Lubberkin led me to an old abandoned hut someways off from The Baron's castle.
It seemed somewhat desolate and I didn't think I would find any clues there but I found more than I bargained for, the Lubberkin is surely proving usefull.
Some of these clues where clothes left behind, seemingly only women's clothing which mean that they must have passed through here, along with a well crafted bracelet that must have fallen of during the haste to get out of there and horse footprints within the yard it self, now this begs the question why would a horse be led into a abandoned hut?
They must changed clothes for a disguise, well dressed women are surely to be stopped by thieves on roads like these.
At this point I am wondering why the Lubberkin chose this path leading me through all of the dangers.
As if the Drowners wasn't enough already, he had to lead me into a pack of six Rotfiends.
Luckily I got out somewhat unscaved and unharmed but this does not mean that I didn't take some beating and this would have been the last incident on the path of the Lubberkin.
But leading me through the Rotfiend's nest did have it's upsides, I came down a half eaten horse which could have only been Anna and Tamara's. My only worry now is that I have no clue if they are alive or dead but the trail didn't end there._
After a long and treacherous slogging through mud and rain fighting monsters of all kinds all the while gathering clues.
Eventually the Lubberkin stopped at a fisherman's hut along side the river, this must mean that Anna and Tamara must have went through here.
At first the fisherman denied that anyone was ever there or that they've seen anyone in the area, luckily one of his kids misspoke and that gave everything away. After that I told the fisherman to just stop with the toying and tell me all he knew.
Turns out the fisherman helped Anna and Tamara escape from the Baron. His reasons for doing so seems more than valid, he argued that they were heavily abused and that everyone even knew about it yet no one lifted a single finger to help them so he felt obliged to do so.
Wasting no time I raced back to The Baron to share what I've learned and to be honest this is getting very irritating at this point as I've learned nothing of Ciri thus far and this was to be the deal so The Baron better start spilling some very big beans on the table or else I am out of this search for good.
By the time I know anything of Ciri's whereabouts she would be long gone.
Well upon returning to The Baron we had a lengthy chat and he finally gave some information on Ciri. At first he wondered why I haven't yet gone to search for his daughter in Oxenfurt and I made it abundantly clear that I was first to get some information around Ciri.
The Baron must be a fool thinking I am going to let anything just slide like that, our circumstances are totally different, He needs me but I don't need him.
And so he spilled some valuable beans.
Now since I've not yet found The Baron's wife or daughter and I still had no idea where his wife might be he decided to only tell me half of what he knew about Ciri and thus far everything I've been told doesn't really add value to my search for Ciri.
But since I do want the rest of the information as it might just help me in one way or another I did do as he bidded and that was to look for Tamara. I have had sources telling me that she might be in Oxenfurt but for the time being I will be searching for her in Velen. It's closer and if she ends up not being in Velen I can move onwards to Oxenfurt.
So here we are on the edge of the warfront in search of some Baron's little mischievous brat.
Until the next episode! Keep on gaming like you've only got one life left!
Dated 09/04/2023
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