Toussaint: Spoontaneous Profits!

Plucked From The Pheasantry Cellars

While exploring the strange and dilapidated manor house perched on the hill overlooking Caroberta Woods, which is filled with a strange collection of spoons hanging from ropes and sitting on sideboards, enter the main dining room of the residence (where the three skeletons lie by the table). Look for a small side table in the southeast corner with a few small candles on it. Also resting on this wooden table is a strange spoon, which is actually a key! It bears sophisticated crafting, as well as a small tag. Be sure to read the Spoon-Key Note.

The note makes mention of a particular lock the Spoon-Key opens, and the fabled Pheasantry Inn, located in the poshest part of Beauclair, holds the answers. Head there (the nearest Fast-Travel points are The Gran’place or Nilfgaardian Embassy), and enter the drinking establishment. Step up to the bar and ask the Innkeep “ever seen a spoon like this?”. She remarks the cutlery seems to be a fanciful bouillon spoon…or a key! She directs you to the cellars where the previous owner left all sorts of knick knacks.

You’re given free run of the place, so head behind the bar, and down the stairs into the cellar. Pass by the kitchens, into a small side corridor with a couple of cobwebbed armoires. The one in the corner glows red, requires a good looting! Remove the tome from inside, and give it a read. This is a rather precious cookbook containing hundreds of recipes. However, the last page has some chaotically-written lines regarding what exactly the Spoon-key unlocks—the legendary studio of Gor’Thon Ram’say, an elven cook famed for his culinary masterpieces!

Heaven’s Kitchen

Take a trip to Dun Tynne territory, in the northeastern part of the Duchy, and follow the road northeast from Basane Farm. Perched on a rocky outcrop are the ancient remains of an elven ruin, the Danamebi Temple Ruins that the cookbook referred to. Head up the steps, into the archway and down the subterranean stairs to the locked elven door. The Spoon-key opens the door. Just as the cookbook had predicted, the interior of the temple is indeed the studio of Gor’Thon Ram’say! Among the loot is a chest containing some exceptional recipes, a formula for Mutagen transmutation, some precious gems, and other valuables. On your way out, don’t be surprised if a trio of Wraiths appears to hinder your thievery.