Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Contract Swamp Thing Gameplay Walkthrough
Anyone knows how to read, read this, and read it carefully, so that it's known far and wide, or at least throughout the whole village.
Out in the bog, by where we dig peat, there's a beast that feeds on men and spurts out deadly mists all around itself. If you're good with a sword and looking for the coin, know that I'll pay and pay well for that beast's head. And to everyone else, stay out of that accursed bog if you value your lives. Don't say I didn't warn you.
-Leslav
Walkthrough:
This quest can be picked up either by talking to the peat digger, finding the mysterious fog, or by finding the notice on Downwarren's notice board. Note: The contract will appear on the notice board only after obtaining the The Eye of Nehaleni.
Approach Leslav and talk to him to learn about the monster. You can then choose to haggle or not over your pay and, once agreed, head out to where the marker is. If you found the fog first, the marker will simply point you to this area, no interaction with Leslav needed. Regardless, a search area with then pop up to the east.
At the search area, several drowners appear. Once they're dead, you'll see a body near some rocks, and Geralt will comment on there being an illusion there. Examine the body, then use the Eye of Nehaleni on the "rocks" to reveal the missing tracks. You can follow them, but they're spread out a bit and they lead to where the marker is pointing anyways: a small hut to the west. You could also just skip finding the body entirely and go to the hut in the next part to continue the quest.
If you found the body and tracks, you just need to examine one of the things (the body or the blood smear) at the hut to learn of the unique foglet, Ignis Fatuus and earning 25 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level. If you skipped over the previous step, then you need to examine both. Once you've looted the area, head towards the new search area. Around the southeast part of the yellow area on your map Geralt will comment that he needs to use Nehaleni's Eye. There are two entrances you can use this on, but this assumes you used the eastern entrance. The western entrance has a horse's corpse nearby and the other is the cave entrance marker nearby. If you don't have the eye, you'll need to go to this cave marker to get inside.
Using your Witcher Senses, you should see what appears to be a large boulder in this area with the icon above it that indicates it's in illusion. Interact with it to reveal a cave and head inside. A foglet will soon appear in this first area, so take him out. Necrophage oil works against him and after you killed it, look in an alcove on the left to find a few lootable containers, one of which contains the Ursine superior silver sword diagram. Now, head deeper into the cave system to find the special foglet, Ignis Fatuus. Note: if you used the western entrance, when you venture in far enough it'll automatically go to the cutscene to fight Ignis Fatuus, skipping the first foglet fight. If you used the one unhidden entrance though, you'll have to deal with a foglet before getting to Ignis Fatuus.
His hits take a lot of damage, so play it safe by dodging and using Quen. The monster cannot leave the fog, so run off to regenerate health with a Swallow potion if you need to. Like other foglets, he disappears into the fog a lot and will also summon minor foglets to distract you, though they have no power level and can be one hit easily. You can also use Yrden here, which will make any that spawn in the circles instantly disappear.
Once he's dead, loot the corpse for the foglet trophy and Carabella, then head to the original contract giver, even if you didn't talk to him first. If you found the fog and didn't talk to him first, or didn't haggle, he'll automatically give you 136 and the quest will complete, netting you 240 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level.
If you did talk to him prior and haggled, he'll explain he doesn't have all the gold that you haggled for and you can either demand he pay up all he has now or wait a week for him to pay you double. If you demand he pay now, he'll give you all he has, but it's only a portion of what was agreed on, along with 240 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level. If you agree to wait a week for double the amount, return in 7 days' time and, true to his promise, he'll pay you double the original pay along with 240 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level.
Note: If you haggled with him for a higher price, he will not have it all when you come to collect. He does promise to pay it all with interest in one week’s time. Let him pay you then instead of now, so you get double the reward. Just meditate for seven in-game days to claim your reward. The quest marker won't appear on the map until a week has past.
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