The Road To The Toad

Journey southwest to the second city of Oxenfurt, and locate the open well in the northern part of town. Climb down the ladder, and examine the following using your Witcher Senses:

• Boot prints from a man.
• A smaller set of boot prints from a woman. She came alone.

Continue into a large sewer chamber of grating and gates, and fight off a Drowner. Then continue your Witcher Sense search:

• Find a corpse in the south-east corner near a grating. It was felled by a blade, not a monster’s claw.

Further into the chamber are the cries of a woman in distress. This turns out to be a field medic for the Redanian Army, vainly attempting to revive one of her soldier escorts. You’re surprised to recognize her as Shani, an old and dear friend, sent here to gather a sample of venom spewed by the monster residing here. Converse as you wish. Though she needs no help, you both agree to find the location where the monster attacked.

Follow Shani to the bent grating. Use your Witcher Senses to reveal a section of weakened wall on the right, before using Aard to demolish the wall. Walk into a subsequent chamber, where further evidence of the monster’s violence is found. Converse with Shani as you wish; only one of Shani’s men is still unaccounted for. You can either search the area for the skeleton key held by the commander in order to make your way down the sewers or you can jump down the hole in order to explore the sewers more quickly.

After reaching the lower level of the sewers, prepare to battle around six to eight Drowners. Afterward, examine the corpse here where an interesting discovery is made. Battle a few Drowner stragglers until none remain, and optionally locate the slime patches (showing the beast was just here) and further corpses. Move toward the central sewer chamber where you agree to lure the beast out. Naturally, you’re the bait.