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'Scenes From A Marriage' is a quest in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 3's Heart of Stꦆone expansion that plays out Geralt's endeavor to fulfill Olgierd Von Everec's final wish. After showing Olgierd's brother a final hoorah in 'Dead Man's Party' and securing him a particular house through a heist in 'Open Sesame!' Olgierd will ask Geralt to retrieve the rose he gave to his wife as a final farewell the last time he saw her.
Olgierd will direct Geralt to the sprawling Von Everec estate he once shared with his wife. The estate lies north of the Von Everec Family Crypt where Geralt contacted O𒉰lgierd's late brother. Upon approaching the rusted front gates, Geralt will hear yelling nearby and discover a th🐓ief standing atop a broken part of the property's bordering wall. And so it begins...
Updated on January 18, 2023 by Quinton O'Connor: 'Scenes From A Marriage' is a meticulous quest that starts with a tough fight and carries over into a beautifully haunting sequence of interactive memories. It's the sort of stuff Witcher fans can point to when telling non-gamers their favorite WRPG is more than meets the eye, and it's worthy of a guide overhaul to match its cadence.
Meeting The Caretaker
It doesn't take long ℱfor the thief to abandon the partner he was calling for🐼 when he catches a glimpse of a towering hooded figure in the distance. Naturally, this is a witcher's cue to investigate further.
By exploring around the estate into the back garden﷽ Geralt will come across a freshly doused lamp presumably belonging to the thief's partner, and drag marks leading further into the garden. It is he🍰re Geralt will discover the morbid gravesite dug by the estate's caretaker.
The Caretaker is one of the creepiest enemies you'll ever have to face throughout the entirety of The Witcher 3, and he proves equally challenging to fight. We have dedicated an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:entire guide just to him.
After mastering the unique pattern necessary for taking out the caretaker, two spirits will appear in the form of a cat and dog who will periodically guide you throughout the rest of the quest. They'll direct you into the mansion, telling Geralt the lady of the house is in her bed-chamber, but explore the garden before heading inside. Under the gazebo nearby, you'll find an Ornamental Hairbrush, which is one of three items you can coll𝓀ect as an option to use a little later in the quest.
The Von Everec Manor
Inside, Geralt will have to work his way up through the dilapidated manor to the bed-chamber which is relatively straightforward when using his witcher senses. Along the way, you will encounter a ♕wraith that pops out of a painting.
Taking on a wraith should come second nature at this point and you can deal with this one using the general tactics of Yrden and a blade lathered in spectre oil, but she does have one trick up her sleeve Geralt will want to be ready for. When the wraith gravitates upwards and emanates a scream effect (depicted by a green wave animation), take notice that a random painting hanging on one of the walls will emulate the same color.
Strike these paintings as quickly as possible as this ability allows the wraith to heal herself the same way the caretaker uses his spirits from the gra♔ve.
Once the wraith is dispatched, use Geralt's witcher senses to find the other two items that can be used in the next phase of the quest. These are Iris' sketchbook, a small painting of Olgierd and Iris.
Burial In The Front Garden
Upon entering the bed-chamber, Geralt will find Iris' rotting corpse on the bed. After learning a bit more from the cat and dog, Geralt will decide lying Iris' body to rest is the next log𒁏ical step, but he will first have to select an appropriate spot for Iris's Grave. The animal spirits will gu🀅ide Geralt through this portion of the quest as well, telling him about their mistress' character and what she would've liked.
After deciding on aꦚ spot near🐻 her painting easel in the garden, Geralt will have the option to speak a few words and lie one of the items he has collected from around the manor on Iris's grave. Choose from one of the three items to lay on her grave:
- Ornamental Hairbrush
- Iris' Sketchbook
- Painting of Olgierd and Iris
By respectfully ly🥂ing Iris' body to rest, Geraওlt will momentarily awaken her.
The Scenes
Once Iris' corpse has been buried the real endeavor begins. Her spirit will awaken and create a portal into a surrealism painted world that mir🐟ror's the Von Everec E🅺state. After following her into the surreal dimension,
Geralt will work his way through a series of seven scenes contrived of Iris's fragmented memories. You need to restore el𒀰ements within each one to make Iris's memories whole again and sometimes face down her nightma🦩res, thus fully awakening her spirit.
Courtyard Gazebo
🌸This one isn't a requirement for the quest, but completing it along with the other scenes earns the "Curator of Nightmares" achievement (on non-Nintendo hardware, at least) and enriches the tale by painting a fuller picture.
Geralt will start in front of a gazebo wi🅠thin the painted realm depicting the Von Everec estate. Inside the gazebo, he will find a scene of Olgierd and his wife Iris and after using his witcher senses to scan the scene he'll find a palette and book to collect. Geralt will need to place them appropriately within the scene to restore Iris' memory.
- Place the palette on the table.
- Place the book in Olgierd's hands
A Toast By The Fountain
Find the glass sitting on the fountain's rim and place it in Iris's extended hand. After completing the scꦆene, a cutscene will play out the restored memory, during which Iris will mention her fear of spide𝔍rs just as a giant arachnid appears between the hedges.
When the cutscene ends, Geralt will need to dispatch the nightmare consisting of the giant spider and several smaller spider minions before moving into the house a🍒nd onto the next scene.
Dinner With The In-laws
Heading in the direction of the half-formed nightmare that appears momentarily after dispatching the spiders, enter the manor through the kitchen and continue through until it opens into the dining room where Olgierd and Iris will be sitting to eat with Iris's family. Geralt will have to use igni to set things right in this scene.
There is a painting hanging on the wall opposite the fireplace that Geralt may cross-reference to Iris's skewed memory. The painting depicts that the fireplace and two candelabra sitting on the table cl🌟ose🐽st to the family were alight during the dinner.
After witnessing the tension between Olgierd and his inlaws, Geralt must fight a spectre version of Olgierd.
Late Nights
This scene is broken into two acts. Geralt should make his way through the house from the dining room up to the bed-chamber on the upper level. He'll find Iris sitting on the bed, Olgierd bent over the washbasin on the other side of the room, and a blood-stained towel in-between. Geralt should place the stained rag next to Olgierd at the washbasin.
The scene will then move into the next room where Iris is working on a portrait of Olgierd. The living tableau should mirror the painting Iris is working on, so again, Geralt may use the painting for reference. He'll need to collect the various items seen on the table from around the room, thܫen arrange them on the table as they are depicted in the painting.
- Grapes (left)
- Goblet (center)
- Apple (right)
The scene will play out and carry over to Olgierd's study, across the way. Geralt will have to take a different path and dispatch a few more spectres instead of following Olgierd directly, but the passageway will lead to the other 🅺side of the hall and come out directly in front of the study.
Olgierd's Study
Following Olgierd into his study, Geralt will see a partially completed pentagram on the floor. He needs to fill in the broken lines with chalk and place Beeswax candles along the perimeter circle of the pentagram. The scene reveals Olgierd is trying to break a magically binding contract, which by now Geralt can surmise is the ruffian's agreement with Gaunter O'Dimm. The scene will end with Olgierd setting his study ablaze and Geralt must escape through a wintery painting.
The painting will drop Geralt in the middle of a blizzard in the courtyard where he must run to shelter before the bitter cold depletes his health. running down the curve𓆉d steps straight ahead and cutting directly across the courtyard, Geralt will run straig🍒ht through an open cellar door and into the next scene.
Broken Vows
In the cellar, Geralt will find Iris, her father, and Olgierd. Geralt will again need to gather items f♒rom around the room to restore the proper scene. Olgierd is sitting with something missing from his hand while Iris's father is standing as though reading aloud from a scroll. By exploring the cellar with his witcher senses, Geralt will discover a mug and the marriage contract between Iris and Olgierd.
- Place the mug in Olgierd's hand.
- Place the marriage contract in the father's hand.
Poor Replacements
Continuing upstairs to the private dining room, Geralt will come upon a miserable scene of Olgierd and Iris after Olgierd's heart has completely turned to stone. He has created magical "monstrosities" as Iris calls them; the cat and dog that have been guiding Geralt around the estate and the caretaker he faced in the back garden at the start of the quest. To restore this scene, collect the small and large clay bowls along with the food platter from around 🌸the room, then p🀅lace them as such:
- Place the small bowl in front of the cat.
- Place the large bowl in front of the dog.
- Place the food platter in the caretaker's hands.
Iris' Greatest Fear
Continue straight through the house to the parlor where Geralt will find letters from Olgierd to Iris laying on the table. Reading the letter will trigger a cutscene where several projections of Olgierd surround Geralt. Luckily only one of these figments can stay animated ☂at any given time, so Geralt won't have to face all six at once.
However, once he dispatches one, that energy will flow straight into the next. These zombie Olgierd's fight much like the real Olgierd Von Everec, which you'll notice if Geralt had the pleasure of dueling ♔him in Evil's Soft First Touches at the opening of the Heart oওf Stone expansion.
The Violet Rose
Geralt will finally come face to face with the awakened Iris Von Everec upon defeating the last incarnation of Olgierd and come to the weighty decision of the quest. Geralt will have to decide whether to take the rose from Iris, which will severe her last tie to the living world, or to leave Iris with her last remembrance of the Olgierd she h💎ad loved.
It may seem cruel to take Iris's last gift from her husband, however taking the rose will ultimately end the spirit's suffering, and Geralt will have the rose Olgierd requested, but likely thought impossible to retrieve. However, if Geralt leaves Iris with the rose, she will continue on trapped between realms and awaiting Olgierd to return as he once was, or to join him beyo🧜ꦓnd the grave.
If Geralt chooses to leave the rose, he can still grant Olgierd's wish to see the rose he gave to his wife whe⛄n last he saw her. When Geralt returns to the waking world, the portrait will now show Iris standing in the foreground holding the rose. The cutscene will then depict Geralt cutting Iris and the rose from the painting to take to Olgierd.
