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A Frying Pan, Spick and Span

SecondaryWhite Orchard
A mysterious gentleman had borrowed the frying pan from a little old lady and not returned it. While investigating this damned unneighborly act, Geralt discovered the delinquent borrower had other, more serious sins on his conscience... murder, for example. The half-burned notes Geralt found in his abandoned hut made it clear he was interested in the movements of Nilfgaardian forces and confidential military secrets - in other words, the man was a spy.

Fixing a softlock

Enable the debug console, then look for a fact under Gates the quest checks — one the quest is actively waiting on. If that flag never got written, addfact it to the value shown and the gate clears.

Setting a Set these to advance fact only marks a step done — it won't run the step or skip the quest forward, and it can't fix a softlock caused by a scene that never played or an NPC that didn't spawn (reload an earlier save for those). Save before forcing any fact.

Quest facts (15)

Set these to advance

8 facts

Completion flags this step writes — they record a step as done but won't run it or skip the quest forward on their own.

Player has axii ability
mq0004_player_has_axii_ability

Also used by Twisted Firestarter

Completed
mq0004_completed
== 1

In phase: Locked Shed

All clues found
mq0004_all_clues_found

In phase: Persistent

Clues found
mq0004_clues_found

In phase: Persistent

Fdb shack entered
mq0004_fdb_shack_entered
>= 1

In phase: Locked Shed

Lady comments
mq0004_lady_comments
> 1

In phase: Locked Shed, Persistent

Layers loaded
mq0004_layers_loaded
> 1

In phase: Show Layers, Wait For Layers

Quest accepted
mq0004_quest_accepted
>= 1

In phase: Locked Shed

Gates the quest checks

7 facts
Naglfar arrived
q501_naglfar_arrived
> 1

Also used by Now or Never, On Thin Ice, Reason of State

Accepted quest
mq0004_accepted_quest
== 1, >= 1

Gates: After Dream, Locked Shed

Breakable door destroyed
mq0004_breakable_door_destroyed
> 1

Gates: After Dream, Locked Shed

Burnt papers found
mq0004_burnt_papers_found
> 1

Gates: Persistent

Met woman
mq0004_met_woman
> 1

Gates: Locked Shed

Talking to woman
mq0004_talking_to_woman
< 1, > 1

Gates: Locked Shed

Thalers monocle found
mq0004_thalers_monocle_found
> 1

Gates: Persistent

Objectives

  1. 1.Break into the locked hut.
  2. 2.Look around inside the hut for a frying pan using your Witcher Senses.
  3. 3.Search the hut and use your Witcher Senses to determine what happened there.
  4. 4.Return the frying pan to the old woman.

Objectives a quest can show, in roughly the order they appear; some are optional or mutually exclusive branches.

Other Secondary quests

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