High Stakes - The Witcher 3
Rewards
Objectives
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- Find the scribe in the Passiflora and sign up for the high-stakes gwent tournament.
- Talk to the scribe.
- Strengthen your gwent card collection by winning powerful cards off other players. Current collection rating: ×5
- Gather 1000 Novigrad crowns.
- Return to the scribe with a strong deck and a thousand crowns for the entry fee.
- Mingle with the other contestants.
- Win your match against Bernard Tulle.
- Meet Sasha on the balcony.
- Win against Sasha.
- Return to the common room.
- Talk to Zoltan.
- Win against Finneas.
- Win against Count Tybalt.
- Defeat Finneas.
- Follow the guard to the crime scene.
- Investigate the crime scene using your Witcher Senses.
- Check for clues behind the brothel using your Witcher Senses.
- Use your Witcher Senses to see where the scent leads to.
- Meet Sasha at the warehouse.
- Find a way to get into the warehouse.
- Defeat Bernard and his goons.
- Climb up into the warehouse.
- Check what's going on.
- Retrieve your gear.
Journal
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Geralt is hardly an ace gambler. He has had a few good runs in dice poker tournaments, true, but these were always local affairs against opponents whose skill level left much to be desired. A tournament in the world's greatest metropolis - now that was a horse of an entirely different color. The high entry fee and stringent deck requirements scared off amateurs, so only wealthy professionals had signed up. Everything was in place for play at a high level in exciting company - in other words, my friends, for pure pleasure.
A halfling by the name of Bernard was revealed to be the thief. This supposed farmer took the coin and hid with it in one of the city's warehouses. The witcher raced after him and defeated him in a final showdown.
As for Sasha, she turned out to be a Nilfgaardian agent known as Cantarella. Her cover blown, she had needed the coin so that she could skip town. Later I learned that she did in fact successfully make it south - but that is another story altogether.
Perhaps Geralt would even have been tempted by Sasha's proposition. Before he could accept or reject it, however, another double dealer made his presence known. While they were talking one of the participants stole the coin set aside for the reward, beating Sasha to the punch.
A halfling by the name of Bernard turned out to be the thief. This supposed farmer took the coin and hid with it in one of the city's warehouses. The witcher raced after him and defeated him in a final showdown.
As for Sasha, she turned out to be a Nilfgaardian agent known as Cantarella. Her cover blown, she had needed the coin so that she could skip town. As part of my duties as a chronicler I must note that before she left, she spent a night with the witcher, conducting various covert operations until the break of dawn.
Yet Geralt did not manage to garner the tournament's grand prize. Such is life - you can't win them all, sadly. Geralt could only hope luck's cruelty at cards meant she would shower him with good fortune when it came to love.
It started with an indecent proposal. Sasha, one of the participants in the tournament, made Geralt a proposition so brazen even his jaded jaw dropped: together they were to steal the coin set aside as the tournament's prize.