Foulty Towers

Now you have the deeds to a sprawling vineyard with spectacular vistas of the Sansretour Valley, you should spend some time enjoying the fruits of your labor. Return to Corvo Bianco, and head up to the slightly dilapidated main tower house. Thankfully, the unpleasantness you encountered the last time you were here has been cleaned up. Waiting outside for you is your majordomo Barnabas-Basil Foulty, a most excellent dogsbody. Ask him to tell you more about the place and he obliges in exquisite detail. Then request him to show you around the vineyard itself.

You begin with a wonderful view of the valley, after which you stroll through the grounds, as Barnabas-Basil regales you with stories of his own ancestry, and a smattering of facts about the history of the place. Feel free to continue the tour, or abruptly stop and wander off yourself; the latter isn’t recommended if you wish to learn where every area of interest is.

The tour stops at the following Locations:

• The servants’ quarters (your majordomo occupies the green home).
• Olive groves, and your vineyard where a strain of Carvanere is grown.
• The vineyard gardens, once a supremely lovely place. Now? A supremely weedy place.
• The old herbarium greenhouse, where the aroma of delicate flowers is said to still hang in the air.
• The stables and smithy, the former which served as an additional wine cellar.
• The cellars, now without a lesser vampire and horrific corpses.
• You head into the main house, which has a master bedroom, a dining room, kitchen, main hall, and an upstairs guest room (currently used for storage).

With the tour complete, Barnabas-Basil is confident that your innovations (the hanging of paintings, and upgrading of facilities) would breathe new life into the abode. In fact, that’s what the rest of this quest is all about!

Once you’ve optionally wandered around your new home for a bit, you can speak to Barnabas-Basil and request some renovations be carried out. He is thrilled, and asks what you’d like to do specifically. You have the following choices:

• (5,000 Crowns) “Let’s do some work on the interiors”: This transforms the paintwork on the exterior of the main house, and adds interior decorations and fine furniture to the main hall, master bedroom, dining room, kitchen, and guest room. This requires three full days to complete.
• “The grounds – be nice to improve those.” Barnabas-Basil agrees, and asks whether you want to install an armor repair table or grindstone:
• (1,000 Crowns) “Order a table,” and in one day’s time, you have an Armorer’s Table to hammer on.
• (1,000 Crowns) “a Grindstone to sharpen my swords,” and in one day’s time, you have a Grindstone.