Crushed Corpses at the Camp

Ride across the low foothills of central Ard Skellig, heading roughly northwards (and a little west), using the main road and minor pathways to navigate to the Miners’ Camp entrance. A pair of tents pitched on the side of the thoroughfare. Dismount and use your Witcher Senses to locate the following:

• A set of human footprints leading away from the campfire--they lead off along a narrow path into the woods to the northwest.
• Further along the path lies a corpse. Repel a pack of five white wolves, and sometimes the clodding might of a cyclops, before inspecting the corpse. Its rib cage has been smashed in by a blunt instrument.
• Nearby are crawl marks--someone shuffled through here with a broken leg.
• Continue along the path roughly westwards. Something large felled the sheared tree stumps near the pond.

Search the immediate area for a cave mouth with crushed human bones at its threshold. This is the work of a rock troll.

Enter the cave, choosing the right fork in the tunnel to reach the troll’s lair. A solitary hermit troll is sitting and gazing at its rudimentary cooking pot. It announces its name--Wham-a-Wham--and attacks. Defend rather than attack and the troll calms down slightly, allowing a conversation (if you can call it that). It appears the miners encroached on the troll’s territory, were asked to leave, refused, and were crushed by Wham-a-Wham. You can:

• Explain, in rudimentary speak, that if this happens again, you’ll kill the troll. You leave Wham-a-Wham in his cave without engaging in combat, but with a small reward (Crowns and silver ore).
• Threaten, in no uncertain terms, that the troll won’t get away with this, and set about defeating this lumbering simpleton.

END: WHAT KIND O’ MONSTER SLAYER ARE YE?

After leaving Wham-a-Wham alone, or slaying the rock troll and gathering its head for a trophy, return to Blandare and inform Gjarr of your actions. Your reward (and Gjarr’s favorable perception of you) depends on what you decide to do. Let the troll live and receive a dressing down and fewer crowns. Kill the troll for a higher reward. (Alternately, you can also play dirty, leave the troll alone, get his reward, then attack him, and still get full reward from Gjarr.) Either way, the quest then concludes.