Hare Hunt

Hare Hunt is a Quest in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The Talmberg Huntsman Nicholas Angel asked me to help him with searching for poachers, who’ve lately been wreaking havoc in the Talmberg woods.

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Hare Hunt Objectives

• Find out what happened to Thomas at the baths.

  • Start: Folk in the tavern told me Thomas of the baths really was bragging there that he would put on a venison feast for the local girls. I should ask him in person..

  • Completed: All the clues began leading to Tomas, a hired hand at the bathhouse. Thomas is no angel for sure, but it doesn’t seem he’s the one behind the local poaching conspiracy. He did indeed lay on a feast for the girls, but the game he served he got from Radan the collier.

• Find out the Talmberg poachers.

  • Start: I’ve been charged by the Master Huntsman to try to find out about poachers lately on the rampage in the forests hereabouts.

• Meet up with Hanekin Hare.

  • Start: I told Margaret to hang that garland out on the ledge as a signal to Hanekin Hare. He would find me there to meet him though, instead of his beloved Margaret.

• Ask around the village.

  • Start: The locals are none too forthcoming to the Huntsman and so he has asked me to nose around the village and see if they know anything.

• Check out the Tavern on the Clearing.

  • Start: The Master Huntsman also has his suspicions about the Tavern on the Clearing, where they’ve been serving venison rather often lately. I should go and look into it.

• Check out the hearsay about Thomas in the tavern.

  • Start: I heard that Thomas of the baths was bragging in the Tavern that he would put on a venison feast for the local girls. I should got to the tavern and check out the story.

  • Completed: I heard around the village that Tom o' the Baths was blabbering in the tavern about going poaching. The innkeeper confirmed the rumour, although he puts it down to empty drunken bragging. Anyway, there's a fellow by the name of Jake Piper who's mixed up in it somehow too.

• The Player has found bones at a clearing. (qlog)

• Talk to Jake Piper.

  • Start: Jake Piper is mixed up in this whole affair with his friend Tom o' the Baths. It would be worthwhile talking to Jake about whether his friend kept his drunken promise or not.

  • Completed: Thomas' friend Jake Piper was mixed up in the whole affair, and he finally owned up to being at the feast. He and Bath-house Thomas. He even accompanied him on the poaching outing the day before, but got cold feet and left Thomas to finish it himself.

• Trophy in the shed. (qlog)

  • Completed: When I found hunting trophies in Thomas’ shed, there was no longer any doubt that he was either a poacher himself or was mixed up with them.

• Question Radan the charcoal-burner.

  • Start: Thomas got his game from a poacher he ran into in the woods. It’s Radan, one of the charcoal burners from nearby.

  • Completed: I did find a fellow called Radan among the charcoal kilns in the woods. Only Thomas never told me this Radan was apparently the village idiot! It took some doing, but I finally got it out of him where the poachers met. And would you believe it, it was only a stone's throw from the Master Huntsman's lodge!

• Find out if Margaret knows something about Hanekin Hare.

  • Start: I need to speak with Margaret. Maybe she knows more about the mysterious Hanekin Hare.

  • Completed: It began to be clear that there was more than poaching going on around Talmberg. According to Margaret's testimony, Hare himself had accosted her and wanted to speak with her, so the local stories were not so far fetched as I at first thought. Jack Hare really was back. He had suggested that Margaret should run off with him, which Margaret had refused. Hare didn’t leave it at that though, and told her if ever she changed her mind all she had to do was to hang a garland of forget-me-nots on the house and Hare would await her at the agreed place.

• Report back to Nicholas the Huntsman.

  • Start: I know where the poachers meet. I should report it to the Master Huntsman.

  • Completed: I reported to the Master Huntsman where the poachers are hiding out. When he heard how close it was to his own lodge, he was more amused than surprised at their insolence. He tasked me with going to the castle to ask Captain Robard for a few men to escort me to arrest the poachers.

• Go to Hetman Robard.

  • Start: The Hetman will let me have some men to go and catch the poachers.

  • Completed: Captain Robard had no objections and immediately mustered a small company of Talmberg soldiers, who I led right into the heart of the poachers' lair.

• Catch up with Hanekin Hare.

  • Start: Hanekin Hare has made his cowardly escape. I have to catch him!

  • Completed: While being apprehended Jack Hare took to his heels like a coward. I chased him halfway across the forest. And it turned out that his name is not so apt, because I caught him without a problem.

• Arrest Hanekin Hare.

  • Start: I have to arrest Henekin Hare and bring him to justice.

  • Failed: Hanekin Hare wouldn't give himself up without a fight, unsurprisingly, considering the punishment he faced. My attempt to arrest him ended in a skirmish and Hare was killed.

  • Completed: Hanekin Hare wouldn't give up without a fight, unsurprisingly, considering the punishment he faced. However, I managed to subdue him in the ensuing combat and took him to Talmberg Castle. Master Huntsman Nicholas was well pleased that the poachers' activities were over and offered me a generous reward for capturing Hanekin Hare. Hopefully the poachers' fate will be a warning to others and the Talmberg game won't be gracing the banquet tables of anyone but its rightful owner - Sir Divish.

• Bring Hanekin Hare’s ancestral ring to the Huntsman.

  • Start: Nicholas won't believe that Hare is dead until I bring him Hanekin's signature ring. Let's hope I can still find him in those woods.

  • Completed: I took Hanekin Hare's signature ring to the castle as proof of his death. Master Huntsman Nicholas was well pleased that the poachers' activities were over and offered me a generous reward for capturing Hanekin Hare. Hopefully the poachers' fate will be a warning to others and the Talmberg game won't be gracing the banquet tables of anyone but its rightful owner - Sir Divish.

• Hear out Olena’s gossip.

  • Start: The local gossip, Olena, knows about anything that moves, they say. It might be worth giving her a visit.

• Find out what interesting things Brada knows.

  • Start: The currier, Brada, has some tales to tell about the poachers. I could go and have a word with him.

• Speak to the landlord’s wife, Marta.

  • Start: The tavern is the heart of every village. No wonder the locals have advised me to speak to the landlord’s wife Marta. She overhears all sorts of things while pouring.

• Find out what Blacksmith’s Betty saw in the woods.

  • Start: Blacksmiths’ Betty claims to have witnessed some goings-on in the woods, I should ask her what she means by that.

  • Completed: My investigation led me to Blacksmiths’ Betty, who witnessed some strange goings-on. Just a few days ago, she saw, in the woods above the castle, on the clearing, some dancing and singing around a fire. A scent of roast meat wafted from the clearing and there was plenty of merriment.

• The player knows about the piper (qlog)

  • Completed: Betty added an interesting snippet to her tale. Also wafting from the clearing was the sound of a piper playing. She didn’t recognise anyone, but there’s no harm in asking around after a piper.

• Explore the clearing where it all went on.

  • Start: The clearing where the merry-making was going on is in the woods north of Talmberg. If I take the route past the lumberjacks’ camp, I might come across it. It might be worth going to see if the revellers have left any tracks.

  • Completed: Seacrhing around the clearing where the feast was held has borne fruit. I found a covered up hole in the ground with what were clearly the bones of a deer. Sure enough, it was the poachers feasting, or at least somone in league with them.

• Look at Hanekin Hare’s hand.

• Nicholas is dead.

  • Completed: Master Huntsman Nicholas is dead. Of course, that doesn't mean the hunt for the poachers is over!

• Murders in Talmberg.

  • Failed: Terrible things have been happening in the hamlet of Talmberg of late. There haven't been as many corpses there since the last outbreak of plague. It's a shame, and not just because they could have been useful to my investigation, which ended as a fiasco.

• I found game in the cellar of the inn.

  • Completed: I found quite a stock of game in the cellar of the Inn in the Glade. There was no doubt about how it got there - I just had to persuade the innkeeper to tell me what the source was.

• Autosave at start

Hare Hunt Walkthrough

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