Overview
Extreme Cosplay is a Blood and Wine secondary quest found on the road east of Francollarts in Caroberta Woods. A merchant named Gaston is trying to help a dying man by the roadside near the Doren Alma estate. The quest is easy to miss: it vanishes if Geralt leaves without starting it, and it fails if he agrees to investigate and then wanders off.
The massacre
Geralt and Gaston follow the man’s trail to the estate. After blasting the door open with Aard, they find overturned tables, broken dishes and bodies everywhere. A scent trail leads upstairs to a locked door, behind which the estate’s owner, Durand Faucher-Plamondon de Savarin, is hiding.
Durand explains that he and his friends from the Society of Friends of the History of Toussaint were reenacting an old ceremony when something came to life and slaughtered them. To draw it out again, the scene has to be played once more, with Geralt in the role of the elven ruler.
The reenactment
Time jumps to midnight, and saving and meditation are disabled until the end. Geralt lights the six torches in the courtyard, places elven wine and bread on the ceremonial bowls, and takes up the elven sword and shield. Prepare potions and decoctions before kneeling, because the fight starts the moment Durand speaks King Ludovic’s lines.
The living statues
Six statues spring to life around Geralt: four fight with pikes, and two are mages who hurl fire from a distance. They hit very hard, so damage resistance, Hanged Man’s Venom and the Northern Wind bomb all help. Dimeritium bombs, oddly, do nothing against the mages.
Afterward, Durand works out what happened. The statues he bought weeks earlier were golems made for the palace of Divethaf, the last elven ruler of Toussaint. They were meant to kill his conqueror, King Ludovic, during the yearly homage, but Divethaf died before the trap could be sprung. Durand’s reenactment finally woke them.