A Crisis of Faith

During your previous objectives (usually after the second of the three are completed), you’re stopped by a guard and told there’s been another murder! You’re to report to the coroner at once, back at the Mortuary. Hubert is waiting before he starts the autopsy. Ask about him and von Gratz if you wish. Then begin the grisly evidence-removal. The coroner produces a parchment made of human skin… “Patricia Vegelbud.” Not the heiress?! Off to her estate, and don’t spare the horse!

Whistle for Roach, and depart to the Vegelberg Estate, close to Wheat Fields (signpost). Speak to a gate guard, who is at pains to let you into this compound. You reach Lady Vegelbud’s daughter Ingrid, who doesn’t believe you, but seems content to check on her mother. Follow her past the fountain, where servants are burning a bonfire of holy books and reliquaries after Patricia’s crisis of faith. You enter the mansion, and reach Patricia’s bedroom.

Inside, you find Lady Vegelbud tied to the bed, and not in a good way. The murderer is escaping! Sprint across the room, down the stairs, and then head outside. You’re forced into combat with a few guard dogs, and then around five Vegelbud guards. Progress to the area around the stairs, and you’re stopped by a crossbow-wielding guard, who takes you prisoner.

Back with Ingrid, she admonishes the guard for his ineptitude, and asks why her mother was targeted. You can answer as you wish, though the clues you’ve found should indicate the choice that’s most accurate (that she blasphemed). Head to the bedroom and inspect Patricia Vegelbud’s corpse, where you find the note for the next victim: “Sweet Nettie—Crippled Kate’s.”