Fiery plays the Witcher 3 part 97: A party with vampires.

Last time (that was ages ago, sorry for that...) we helped a knight who no longer wanted to marry so he kept chasing monsters. But he was also afraid of dying so he was not doing at fighting monsters either...After that we met the Duchess and told her that someone is blackmailing a higher vampire to kill people. Then we and the Duchess found out that one of her subjects sold some very expensive wine that belonged to Dutchess family without her knowledge or permission. Then we and guard captain tried to capture the person who was buying super exclusive wine. We only got one of his lackeys. After that we found out that the buyer know as the Cintrian was seen in a Mandragora club- a gathering of artists.

In this part we and the the Duchess went to Mandragora club there we were looking for the Cintrian to find him we first had to find a womean who knew him- Cecilia Bellante. This artists party was also a good reason to were our fancy robe again. It even impressed the Duchess. We did not do all the activities in the party. But we did get a drink and then threw some random paint on the wall(if only making art was this easy in real life...).Spectators were left speechless at the sight of our...masterpiece. They decided that our work is not just random paint on the wall. They believed that it symbolizes eternal battle of good and evil...as well as defiance. We just nodded, pleased that others saw something in our piece. Yup...defiance was definitely our intended meaning of that work...

After making that Defiance piece we met a new colleague. A fellow artist who was painting a nude portait of the woman who seemed to be the one we were looking for. But soon we found out that this nude model was not the person we hoped to find. At least she was able to give us a clue where we can find the real Cecilia Bellante(and hopefully the Cintrian as well). After talking with the model we found body of Cecilia Bellante...who was just killed.

We found out that Cecilia Bellante was killed by the Cintrian who was trying to steal a jewelry that belonged to the Dutchess family- the Heart of Toussaint. The Cintrian also died while trying to steal this jewl. After that we talked with the Dutchess again. She had an weird suspicion. The stealing on her family wine and attempt to steal the jewl seemed like something her sister Syanna would do... A seemingly cursed sister(because she was born during solar eclipse.) And was banished from the duchy by her parents. We also learned that Syanna may be held in a certain castle...either willingly or not. So the Dutchess asked us to save her sister.

While we were talking with the Duchess, owner of the place(a woman named Orianna) came again wanted to introduced two new guests who just arrived. One of those guests was our best bro higher vampire Regis. And the other none other than Dettlaff van der Eretein- another higher vampire who in the past saved Regis life and now was blackmailed by someone to kill people of Toussaint. The Duchess claimed to be a good reader of persons character. So I found it funny that she had no idea that she was just sitting and drinking wine with a few higher vampires, one of who was the Beast she hired us to kill. Either way we had a polite conversation with Regis and Dettlaff. We also tried to convince Dettlaff that we don't just kill every monster we meet and that we want want to help him find the blackmailers. After that we managed to talk with Regis, and briefed him on the current situation. He agreed to watch over Dettlaff and make sure that he will not kill again while we will go to storm that castle to free Dettlaff's lover and the Duchess sister. The Duchess then told us that her guard captain and his men will help us storming the castle.