Iorveth's Path -- Flotsam I: The Final Flotsam Side-Quests

Iorveth's Path -- Flotsam I: The Final Flotsam Side-Quests

Now that we have completed the game play for Roche's Path, it is time to go back to our save and load it to just before we started making the irrevocable decisions, and we need to make sure we hit EVERY side-quest, since we came up two-levels short of Level 35 on the first run through... 

So head to the Blue Stripe HQ first thing and you will find a celebration is taking place.  Go into the back room and speak with Ves to get invited to a knife-throwing contest!  As you are throwing at the targets a group of locals come in and accuse the Blue Stripes of desecrating their religious statue.  Roche is in a bad mood and he starts taking it out on the locals -- Ves begs you to do something and a timer starts so you have to decide quickly...  If you do nothing or say it is not your business the side-quest ends right there, but if you try to intercede with Roche it continues -- obviously you want to intercede.

Use persuasion on Roche and he will back down, at which point Ves bitches at you, and then offers you a drink.  Accept it and you sit in on a brief conversation, and then Ves proposes an arm wrestling competition -- everyone against you!  You wrestle Thirteen -- and beat him -- then wrestle Fenn -- who you also beat handily!  Your prize is a sword and lots of drinks...  In fact too many drinks as it turns out, because you wake up wet, sticky, and confused, naked in a field.  Did you have sex with Ves?  You don't know!  Did you have sex with Fenn?  Maybe, but you just don't know!

One of the locals happens upon your hung-over sorry-assed state, and you get him to tell you what he knows, which is that Madam Margot is who you should be talking to!

Reaping the Wages of Booze -- The Hung Over Side-Quest

-- Heading for the Bordello --

When you reach the Inn go inside and then downstairs, and you will find Margot in the room on the right in the bordello (you have to pass through the public room downstairs to get to it) -- you should have looted more than enough Orens to pay her off, and when you do she tells you what she say -- and it is not pretty. 

Hey it turns out you did not get laid, you rode the prostitute!  It seems Ves tried to stop you and that makes her our next destination.  Good lord Witcher, when you tie one on you do not screw around!  We find Ves in the Blue Stripes HQ, and she is actually pretty nice about this -- drunk AND a tattoo!  Woohoo I call that a successful party!

Thankfully she gathered up your kit -- grab it from the trunk and that completes the mission Jung Over and nice one mates!

Now before we forget to do this, head down to the plaza outside of the Inn and talk to the group of women gathered near the herbalist and incense shop to learn that they are concerned that he is selling addictive incense.  Go and chat him up and intimidate him into closing the shop so you close out another side-quest, Little Shop of Dreams.  Good on ya mates!

Now make sure that you have the following Alchemy Ingredients in your Inventory: Troll Tongue, Eye of Aracha, an Endrega Embryo, and some Essence of Death.  If you don't check your storage and if you do not have them there, you will need to gather them from the woods! 

If you are missing anything chances are what you are missing is the Eye of Aracha, which you can only acquire after the meeting with Iorveth -- so let's take care of that now shall we?

-- Meeting Zoltan --

Change the active quest to Assassins of Kings then head to the Inn and talk to Zoltan -- tell him that you know Loredo's plans, and then that you need to talk to Iorveth -- Zoltan will take you to Iorveth, so follow him and you have idle conversation -- when you arrive at the site Geralt detects the elves and urges Zoltan to say the password, and then you have a meeting with one of Iorveth's Lieutenants.

The clearing that you are told to meet them at is actually something of a trap -- there is an Arachas here and it appears and you battle it.  As soon as you defeat it QUICKLY loot its body so you obtain the Eye that is needed for the other quest, and then the CS kicks in and you meet with Iorveth, who speaks very rudely to you.  I asked him to release Zoltan and he mocks that request -- If you tell him that Loredo was right about him, the elven archers kill you -- so don't do that.  If you tell him you want Letho, and then tell him that Letho betrayed him.

Obtaining the needed Arachas Eyes

When Iorveth learns of this treachery and that his colleague still lives, he reacts with anger towards Letho -- good!  You can now use chat options about different subjects -- and you should since it gives you information you do not currently possess.  Clearly Iorveth has a higher goal that he is working towards, he is not simply an anarchist -- when you ask after his goal he gets evasive, but tells you anyway.  Pay attention to his answer because it is the first hint that you get for what is going to come in the sequel to this game.

The plan is simple -- you are to tie up Iorveth and lead him as your prisoner to a confrontation with Letho, who it is hoped will reveal his true intentions.  That will provide Iorveth all the confirmation that he will need -- so you do that, and Letho falls right into the trap, and then

Talk to Letho to learn as much as you can from him -- clearly he knows you -- and you learn that there are more than one Assassins of Kings!  This plan of theirs has far-reaching consequences, and even though you have some sort of personal relationship with Letho, you still feel that you are not exactly mates or anything.  Exhaust the chat options and then tell him that you do not have to fight, which causes Iorveth to act and that is when Roche and his forces arrive!

Once the ruse is up you need to cut Iorveth loose and, when Roche arrives, give him his sword since we are now following the Iorveth side of the story.  At this point Iorveth starts to battle with Roche and Letho knocks Geralt into the baths below, and we have a battle with him that ultimately ends with Geralt being disarmed and Letho escaping.  Note that no matter how close you can come to taking all of his HP you simply cannot kill him, as it is not part of the story at this point.

Letho has his say, and then escapes -- be sure that you pick up your sword -- Letho threw it down on the ground nearby before he left -- because if you do not you will lose it.  You may want to loot any loot that is here as well, and then leave with Iorveth, in the hopes that you can save Triss before Letho gets to her!  (You cannot).

Note that at this point the quest The Scent of Incense may or may not be failed even though you have already completed it.  This is a bug -- if you completed it it is still completed, it just shows as failed here.

You flag a new quest -- Where is Triss Merigold -- and Iorveth departs.  Check your inventory to be sure that you have the Arachas Eyes (as long as you looted its body quickly as instructed you do) and that means you have all of the ingredients you need to complete what is basically the last side-quest of this area.  Ah, but before we do that we have one other minor task to perform...