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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Complete Edition eGuide Episode 2: Main Quests: Blood And Wine Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away

Putting The Boot In

Related Quests: Main Quest: The Cage au Fou, Main Quest: Wine is Sacred

Locations: Mere-Lachaiselongue Cemetery, Beauclair Port, Bootblack Boy’s Stand (Unmarked), Toy Store ‘The Rocking Horse’ (Unmarked)

Characters: Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, The Bootblack Boy

Enemies: Workers

Objectives

  • Find the bootblack who appeared in the vision.
  • Visit the boy during his work hours.
  • Defend the bootblack from his attackers.
The Bootblack Boy

The Port District of Beauclair lies to the northwest of your current location in the Cemetery. While Regis rests up, journey there yourself, locating the bootblack stand during business hours (after 8 AM, and before 8 PM). When you arrive, a group of dock workers are advancing on the Bootblack Boy, accusing him of intentionally dirtying their boots with a chamber pot. When you arrive to intervene, answer them how you wish; they aren’t about to let you stop them from belting the boy. The situation degenerates into a bout of fisticuffs.

After a few well-timed wallops, the dock workers lie groaning on the pavement. A patrol of guardsmen arrives to see about the commotion, and you explain either that the dock workers are making things difficult for you, or there was a simple misunderstanding. Either way, the workers are rounded up, and taken to the nearby prison. This leaves you to talk to the Bootblack Boy himself.

He’s a precocious scamp to be sure, reckoning you’d work well as a duo. Humor him if you wish, before asking about Dettlaff. The boy also seems to be a huckster of some repute, offering information in return for a small donation to his operations. The amount required is 500 crowns! You can:

  • (500 Crowns) Pay the diminutive shakedown artist. Visiting him later on lets you see that the Bootblack Boy has used your funds to expand his workshop.
  • (420 Crowns) Negotiate him down to around 420 Crowns.
  • (Axii Delusion level 2) Or inform him you’re not about to pay him.

Regis arrives just in time, as you might be thinking of strangling the Bootblack Boy. Appealing to the boy’s innovative nature, he offers a special concoction to help clean more boots, in return for the location of Dettlaff’s portside home. It has a red door.