A Deadly Plot - The Witcher 3

Though Geralt avoided politics like the plague, there were times when he simply couldn't avoid getting entangled. This was very much the case when Roche and Dijkstra convinced him to find their co-conspirator. The man had gone off undercover to resolve a certain matter among the Nilfgaardians and simply disappeared.

It turned out the missing co-conspirator was none other than Thaler - Geralt's old acquaintance from Vizima, a man of many talents and a tongue to make a sailor blush. He was traveling disguised as a shoemaker when trolls seized him and demanded he cobble them up some decent footwear - like the kind humans have. Thaler didn't thrive in troll captivity and so was delighted to see Geralt, who took out his large oppressors with ease. Geralt had hoped that once he freed Thaler he'd learn something more about the mysterious plan to assassinate King Radovid, but Thaler's lips remained firmly sealed...

Upon finding Dijkstra mingling among the fugitive mages, then watching him assist them in their flight, Geralt got the sinking feeling the erstwhile spy would want a favor in return. He could not have been more correct, for as soon as the mages had set sail for Kovir's hospitable shores, Dijkstra confessed that he had set in motion a plot to assassinate Radovid and asked the witcher to meet him promptly at the Passiflora.

Dijkstra can be quite convincing at times, but on this occasion Geralt's reluctance to get involved in political matters won out over his curiosity and desire to earn some coin. Besides, doing a contract for Dijkstra's one thing, but participating in a coup - that's another thing altogether. Geralt decided to keep his distance, and hoped by doing so to keep his head as well...

When he learned Dijkstra and Roche were planning to find the missing spy, Geralt agreed to help - after all, a missing man's a missing man, and deserves aid whether he's a tinker, a tailor, a soldier or… well, you get the point. But when he thought things over more carefully, he concluded he shouldn't meddle in high politics, and he especially shouldn't participate in an assassination - and that's exactly what he'd be doing by finding the missing spy. He thus abandoned the task, and Roche and Dijkstra never mentioned the unfortunate matter again.