To The Woods

Just south of Novigrad is an infamous inn with a delightful name. Approach the Notice Board outside, and read the message entitled “Devil in the Woods.” It appears Brean Hotsch has tracked the local woods, and found them home to a cruel evil of some kind. Strapping dwarven loggers were hired to harvest the lumber there, but only one returned, babbling about a monster. Enter the lakeside inn, and find the Brean the halfling propping up the bar. Barter with him for a better price if you wish, then agree to find the witness to the woodland horror.

Scour the inn for a pipe-smoking dwarf in a corner. Be warned, you may have to listen to some bards as you cross the premises. The lumberjack seems half-cut, but valiantly explains how his mates lost their lives in a vicious attack.