[Mr Fujisawa]

Hello,

So, I'm trying to do the hanging quest, I initially completed it by fist fighting everyone, but the elf and the thief die. I thought this was rather arbitrary, so reloaded a save and wandered around.

On the docks you can distract a guard blocking the top left entrance to the square. You use Aard on some crates. Which gives you access to the square.

However I'm stuck as to what to do from here. Your quest info states "Draw the guards away and beat up the executioner". If you walk within range of the scaffold the executioner opens the trap door on the elf. So perhaps she can't be saved. If I approach the front of the scaffold it goes into the 'beat up' method.

I've googled and looked at walkthroughs and it seems that everyone just uses the beat them up method. However now I've discovered this alternate strategy it will bug me unless I work it out!

[dragonbird]

I don't think there's any way of saving the first two. It's Zoltan and Dandelion that you're trying to save.

[Guy N'wah]

You cannot save either. If you get around the guard, as soon as you approach the scaffold, the executioner will hang the first victim. Whichever way you go, Loredo will hang the second.

All you avoid is the argument and beating up the guard. This isn't all that satisfying, because the peasant man and Margot have some good lines that you miss out on, and when Loredo shows up, the guard cringes and stammers like you beat him up anyway.

[Tropxe]

They die just to raise the tension of the scene, so you'll worry more about your friends rather than safely assuming everything will be okay because they have plot armour. It's pretty strange how long they leave the corpses just hanging there (i.e. forever). That marketplace must really stink, even by the standards of the generally grimy towns in the Witcher.

[digitalrurouni]

Yeah I always thought that it was weird the bodies were left there. Perhaps the game makers could have done something disgusting and shown over the course of your stay in Flotsam how the bodies were starting to decompose and being eaten by crows and such.

[Kleetus]

Leaving the bodies there would be for intimidation and to keep everyone in line.

So I don't think it's weird at all, especially considering Loredo is in charge.

[gorthuar]

digitalrurouni said:

Yeah I always thought that it was weird the bodies were left there. Perhaps the game makers could have done something disgusting and shown over the course of your stay in Flotsam how the bodies were starting to decompose and being eaten by crows and such. ›››

Every time I entered Flotsam Square a flock of crows would flee the bodies, so there :]