Objectives
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The courtyard and archway leading to the professor’s house is guarded by a quartet of Witch Hunters (including one with a crossbow). Deliver swift death to them all, before checking the door of the house. It is locked, forcing you to look to the ladder attached to wooden scaffolding on the opposite (south) side of the cloister. Ascend the ladder, and a second one, gingerly climbing up and across the sloping roof to the tiny balcony lit by a lantern. Use Aard to break through into the house. Descend the stairs, optionally investigating the following with your Witcher Senses:
- A Silver Lamen, not used in ages.
- A shattered mirror, possibly broken by sound.
- A copy of Giliian Aboco’s Lesser Key (a tome about demons).
Feel free to ransack the place before descending another flight of steps, where you discover the Professor himself, blind, slightly addled, and fearful of stepping outside a protective pentagram. Ask and answer him how you wish, optionally asking whether the Professor is a prisoner. As the Professor explains his research about Master Mirror, also known as the Man of Glass, you can question Shakeslock about the magic circle and other information about O’Dimm, before asking whether Olgierd made a pact with this evil incarnate. The Professor offers an illuminating reply regarding a pact signed in blood, and a price to be paid. Optionally ask about Vlodimir, Olgierd, and then about Olgierd trying to break the pact. Finally, optionally ask how to rid yourself of your facial marking, before thanking the Professor for his help.
Just then, the earth shakes, most strangely, causing the Professor to stumble out of his magic circle, trip, and land awkwardly while you try to prevent a bookcase falling on him. Alas, Professor Shakeslock is no more. Retrieve the key from the Professor’s body. Head out of the Professor’s house, climb the ladder to the west to reach the lookout tower, and dive out into the waters around the Academy.