Overview

Open Sesame: Witcher Seasonings is a main quest in Hearts of Stone and one of three preparations for the heist in Open Sesame!. The Stranger’s plan calls for the cook who feeds the auction house guards to spike their stew, putting a good number of them out of action on the night.

What happens

First Geralt brews a cleansing mixture from dwarven spirit, rotfiend blood and wolfsbane. The herbalist Otto Bamber sells the ingredients if you are missing any.

Then he goes to the Borsody Auction House in Oxenfurt to find out who the cook is. With Witcher Senses active, he eavesdrops on the guards, keeping close enough to hear but far enough not to be noticed. The guards at the front and at the back give nothing away. A third pair on the road behind the building must be tailed, and their chatter finally reveals where the cook can be found.

The cook, Maarten, works by day at the dock near the Western Gate. Geralt can bribe him or use Axii, and either way he agrees to season the stew.