Crippled Kate’s

Crippled Kate’s is the Passiflora’s poor relation: a shabby brothel in the south of Novigrad, on the edge of Glory Lane and close to the docks of Harborside. The building is worn and cramped, with a smoky ground floor, a staircase up to the girls’ rooms and a back door onto a narrow alley that turns out to be more important than it looks. About ten women work here under an unnamed madame, and money is always tight. Nobody comes to Kate’s for the décor.

The madame plays Gwent with a Northern Realms deck and sells a few goods, and familiar faces here include Bertha, Mercia, Suzy and Sweet Nettie.

In The Witcher 3

Kate’s is at the centre of two Novigrad mysteries. In Contract: Deadly Delights, Geralt investigates a string of murdered guardsmen. Two-legged hoofprints lead to the brothel’s back door, and the trail ends with a succubus named Salma living nearby, whom he can kill or send out of the city. In Carnal Sins, a note found on a victim points to Sweet Nettie as the killer’s next target, and Geralt has to reach her room in time.

Once Deadly Delights is done, Out on Your Arse! begins: a crying woman outside says a band of drunken Skelligers has taken over the house to celebrate a raid. Geralt can fistfight their leader, take on all three, use Axii or, if he has finished The Lord of Undvik, simply mention the ice giant he killed, which sends them running. The reward is small, but the gratitude is sincere.

The alley behind Kate’s also turns up in Novigrad, Closed City and Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind.

Quests at Crippled Kate’s

• Contract: Deadly Delights
• Out On Your Arse!
• Carnal Sins
• Novigrad, Closed City
• Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind
• The Great Escape
• Final Preparations

Good to know

Out on Your Arse! fails after about a week of game time, and losing the fistfight counts as death, so save first.