A Woman Scorned

A Woman Scorned
Description
Quest Giver	Old Whore
Location	Inn in the Glade
Type	Activities
← Quest	Awakening

A Woman Scorned is an activity in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Henry is asked to assist an aging prostitute to recover some items that were taken from her.

Synopsis

A woman who's seen better days is plying the oldest trade in the world outside the Inn in the Glade. She wants me to go thieving for her.

Objectives

• Steal 20 Groschen from the non-paying customer's purse. (0/1)
  • Bring the Groschen to the whore
• Steal the woollen shawl from the village woman (0/1)
  • Bring back the woollen shawl
• Steal the farmer's ornamental dagger (0/1)
  • Return the dagger to the old whore
• Steal the trunk key from the farmer's wife (0/1)
  • Bring the trunk key to the old whore

Walkthrough

Travel to the the Inn in the Glade and speak to the Old Whore, who asks Henry for help stealing money back from a customer that didn't pay. The customer is an older man with a mustache, who lives at a nearby farmhouse and spends his days drinking at the Inn. It is difficult to rob him during the day, so pickpocket him as he leaves for home in the evening, or is heading back in the inn in the morning, or even wait til he's at home and rob him while he sleeps. You will need to take the purse with coin.

The Old Whore's customer

Once Henry returns the money, she will give him 10 and ask him to steal back her woolen shawl from a local village woman in Neuhof, that she claims she traded for food. She entices Henry by telling him the woman had a valuable book (Grasses and herbs) stashed away in a trunk. Ride to the quest marker and pickpocket the woman, taking the shawl and returning it to the Old Whore.

Finally, the whore asks for an ornamental dagger that she gave her old husband, before he found a younger woman and threw the whore out. Travel to Neuhof and pickpocket the dagger from the farmer. Once Henry returns it to her, she asks for one last thing - go back to the farmhouse and steal the farmer's wife's trunk key, where the old whore's dowry is kept.

The house of the old whore's ex-husband and scene of the murder. If you look closely next to the bed you will notice two round objects, presumably the old man's testicles.....

Once you have the key, go back to the Inn. The whore will promise to return the next day and repay you. Alas, she never does, so after 2pm the following day, ask Andrew where she is.

He will reveal that her husband and his new wife were brutally killed in their own homes, and the whore has not been seen since. Henry is horrified, knowing he has just played a role in the murder of two innocent people.

Notes

• Henry cannot kill the Old Whore and still pass the quest, and even following her just results in her walking east, presumably straight off the map where Henry is forbidden to follow. If Henry kills her at any point, even when it becomes obvious what she's going to do, the mission will fail, and the quest items will be stuck in his inventory.
  • This piece of information might be obsolete. In 1.9.6 it is possible to kill the old whore after bringing her all the items, because the moment you bring her the key the quest is considered completed. And after that she can be followed and killed someplace quiet where there are no witnesses (however, after her corpse disappears, it triggers the quest to retrieve her "lost" quest items, the game still thinks they're important). A day and a half later, Andrew can still be asked about her whereabouts and he will tell a horrid story about a brutal murder that happened in Neuhof. However, if you visit the farm again, there are no signs of crime and the couple is alive and well. So the game only partially acknowledges such outcome.
  • Alternatively, Henry may choose to "save" the couple from their gruesome deaths by killing them personally right after completing the quest. In that case, Andrew has nothing to say on the matter and the corpses simply disappear from the farm, no blood and gore appears. Note that both the man and the woman should be killed, only killing the husband leads to the standard outcome.
• The house will still behave like someone still lives there after completing the quest, prompting the Private Area icon when Henry enters. However, all beds now allow Henry to sleep and save, and all the stashes are now interacted with Open instead of Rob, effectively turning the former farmer's house into Henry's free safehouse in Neuhof. Henry may save the game and stash his loots there, although the loots he stashes don't share with his universal chest in his appointed or rented places.