Onwards And Upwards

After your short rest, you realize the Elder will kill you even if you manage to find your way out of this subterranean labyrinth. From your current position, climb to the small, flat cave plateau, and run left through the curved tunnel into a strange and terrifying place. Crumbling battlements, and streams flowing upwards? Drop into the investigation area, and loot some notes from a couple of sacks near the gravity-defying waterfall. Read them to gain a better understanding of your predicament.

Peering upwards, you see a dimly-lit passage above you, which leads back to the Unseen Elder’s “welcome room.” It seems impossible to reach. Head down the only tunnel (left and behind you if you’re facing the waterfall), following the set of footprints (which can be seen using your Witcher Senses), passing a lantern and a secondary tunnel to your left. When you reach the end of this passage, prepare to do battle with four Protofleders. There are casks to ransack as your reward.

Back down the main tunnel, continue down the main tunnel, disturbing three Protofleder vampires (take them to task using tactics of the Bestiary). After demolishing them in their cave, climb the side of the cave wall, which leads to a narrow, higher passage. Continue to follow the footprints.

Run through the narrow passage, to a stone bridge and cross it, heading through an archway. You reach the megascope of a wizard (probably the one whose notes you read) and can find further papers in a pile of old books on the ground. Give them a read, before examining the area:

• There’s a damaged megascope along with the books in the pile.
• A deep set of male footprints leads away from the books.

Follow the footprints to a stream that flows upwards. The footprints continue onward and upward. You carefully tread along the same route, until you’re standing on the ceiling. Gravity has flipped!