dance with the devil

[CreutzFeldJak0b]

is it actually possible to have a somewhat positive ending?
i tried beeing the good guy so i boxed the attackers into sumbmission and told them to leave but they just reappear after some time and once they see me, they start running away again until they reappear .....

[Uldra]

jup not sure if its a bug or if that ending is not ment to be.
Ether the 3 Witches die or the bandit aka woodcutters
ether way the outcome seems to be the same.

my personal solution

I killed the bandits, killed the herb women aka mother of witches and now I will assasinate all the other 3 witches in their sleep :) figure its a better death than getting burned alive

[Pepe]

And terminate the priest for good measure... I tried various solutions too but was finally out of schnapps... and a little bored. The thing that saddens me a little is that if you stay out of the ritual, and thus don't be drugged, the "woodcutters" are still on their "savage" form... So i think this outcome was not planned.

[CreutzFeldJak0b]

i tried killing everyone (woodcutters and women) but even that didnt trigger any other dialog options.

[Stoibs]

Yeah honestly this has been the biggest disappointment and low point of the game for me so far. Like, you try to be clever and put effort into knocking them out instead of going for lethality but either way one of the two parties just end up dead anyway due to either bad design or 'plot' reasons.

Pity because everything else so far that I've played has been really good about the little decisions you do and being more grey in terms of your choices, instead of just being binary one way or the other.
Then you hit this quest and it's very railroaded and linear to one of two endings despite what you do specifically to prevent those outcomes.
Very disappointing.

[Astralflame]

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Originally posted by CreutzFeldJak0b:

i tried killing everyone (woodcutters and women) but even that didnt trigger any other dialog options.

the quest seems poorly done, i don't understand how henry even came to the conclusion those guys are woodcutters. For me they came out screaming generic enemy stuff saying "we found some little fun". When I get back to the priest to finish the quest henry goes on about them being woodsmen and them trying to kill the women for being witches. None of the dialogue really matches wtf happened, I see this in some other parts of this game but this one quest made just was blatanlty off, felt like i wasted my time doing the damn thing.

Also if you choose not intervene the bandits or so called woodsmen are in there hallucination form all kitted out like some fantasy barbarians.

[Biggus_Dikkus]

damn if you do danm if you dont

[Astralflame]

Originally posted by protectyaneck:

its called a whole game with only surface treatment, you all fell for the lies of choices and consequences in the world, which there isnt

i'm more upset with how empty the roads are, although this mission is annoying just because the dialogue is off and the choices seem pointless. It really is a slog of a quest, as for the whole game the world is freaking empty I don't know what happened but I don't have events on the roads anymore. No more bandits and no more cumans assaulting local soldiers, world just became empty.

[fefvy]

i spend a day for it but i got nothing