Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk

Witcher contract Side quests · 147 of 159 → Novigrad suggested level 26 On the world map

“Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk” is a witcher contract in Novigrad in The Witcher 3 (recommended level 26). The contract leads to “Katakans”. The weaknesses of “Gael” are Moon Dust, Devil's Puffball and Vampire oil. It rewards experience and crowns. The first objective: Talk to the Redanian officer.

From the journal

Oxenfurt the academy may be my alma mater, but Oxenfurt the town - that is where I received my true education. The experiences I had in its inns and alleyways often left me a trembling wreck, overwhelmed by the majesty of the world opening up before me. Sadly, during the Third Nilfgaardian War the town became a shadow of its former self, and the few who remained in its inns and alleyways risked not enlightenment but death at the hands of a mysterious murderer. Geralt, bless his heart, decided to investigate the matter, suspecting that the responsible party might be a monster...

Geralt had dealt with a great variety of beasts over the course of his career as a witcher, but an alcoholic vampire...? That was a first (well, except for maybe that one - but that was long ago). This katakan (as witchers call this manner of beast) had taken a liking to the blood of drunk men. Once Geralt figured this out, he knew exactly how to lure it out of hiding.

Read on (2 paragraphs) – reveals how the quest unfolds

Geralt fought the katakan, but sadly the beast fled the first chance it got. Vampires never do make for easy foes. Geralt decided to use his Witcher Senses to hunt the monster down.

At last, success was his! Geralt tracked down and killed the katakan. The Redanian soldiers who had hired him kept their word and paid him appropriately for a job well done.

Handed to you along the way 1

Key to Oxenfurt morgue

Choices with consequences (3) (spoilers)

The game remembers these answers and comes back to them later.

„Victims - tell me about them.“
„Any witnesses?“
„Don't have time.“

Objectives

Talk to the Redanian officer.
Talk to the witness.
Talk to the medic.
Examine the site where the monster was seen using your Witcher Senses. Map
Look over the victims' bodies using your Witcher Senses. Map
Talk to the innkeep and get drunk in order to bait the katakan.
Walk around near the tavern in order to provoke the katakan. Map
Kill the katakan.
Track down the katakan using your Witcher Senses. Map
Get inside the katakan's hideout. Map
Take a trophy.
Collect your reward from the Redanian officer.

Hunted creature

Katakans

Enemies

Gael

Weaknesses

Gael

Rewards

The quest pays out in several stages; depending on your path and the outcome you will not get all of them.

300 XP + 273 crowns
25 XP

Notice on the board

Contract: Monster in Oxenfurt

By orders of our most magnanimous ruler, King Radovid V, any itinerant monster slayer reading this notice is obliged to abandon any currently-unresolved contracts immediately and devote himself to tracking and slaying this monster. The beast in question has befouled the cradle of human intellect, the city within whose territory lies the oldest of academies of learning, namely: Oxenfurt. The swordsman who puts an end to its criminal doings will be rewarded with the King's full generosity.

-Commander of the Oxenfurt City Regiment