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Contract: The Merry Widow

Witcher ContractVelen
Geralt took a contract the gravedigger of Lindenvale had hung on the village's notice board. It seemed the village cemetery was full of monsters who seized children as their victims.

Objectives

  1. 1.Explore the cemetery using your Witcher Senses.
  2. 2.Investigate the lair using your Witcher Senses.
  3. 3.Go to the cemetery.
  4. 4.Defeat all enemies in the cemetery.
  5. 5.Follow the scent of cadaverine using your Witcher Senses.
  6. 6.Kill the grave hag.
  7. 7.Take a trophy.
  8. 8.Collect your reward from the gravedigger.
  9. 9.Check the Lindenvale notice board.
  10. 10.Take the skulls.
  11. 11.Put the skulls in the cemetery and wait for the grave hag to come.
  12. 12.Talk to the gravedigger.

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

Advanced: quest facts and console commands (13)

These are script references, not a tested repair sequence. Keep a separate save before changing quest state.

Quest facts (13)

Flags written by quest scripts

12 facts

These flags record script state. Setting one does not run the associated objective or reliably advance the quest.

Cementary cleared
mh106_cementary_cleared

In phase: Gravehag

Cementary monsters killed
mh106_cementary_monsters_killed
>= 1

In phase: Gravehag

Completed
mh106_completed
== 1, >= 1

Also used by Witcher Wannabe

Grave done
mh106_grave_done
>= 1

In phase: Gravehag

Investigation done
mh106_investigation_done
== 1

In phase: Gravehag

Block noticeboard
mh106_block_noticeboard

In phase: Gravehag

Skulls found
mh106_skulls_found

In phase: Gravehag

Soup found
mh106_soup_found

In phase: Gravehag

Angels seen
mh106_angels_seen
>= 5

In phase: Gravehag

Gravehag lured
mh106_gravehag_lured
>= 1

In phase: Gravehag

Initial talk
mh106_initial_talk
>= 1

In phase: Gravehag, Reward Giver

Lair found
mh106_lair_found
>= 1

In phase: Gravehag

Gates the quest checks

1 fact
Job taken
mh106_job_taken
>= 1

Gates: Gravehag

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