Reaping Time is a main quest in Act III of The Witcher that sends Geralt back into the Swamp Forest. Vaska, eldress of the brickmakers, explains that Roland Bleinheim and his Salamandra thugs have kidnapped her people and are forcing them to gather beggartick, a key ingredient in fisstech. She wants the captives freed and Bleinheim dealt with.
The prisoners are split into three groups, each with its own Salamandra guards: one near the collapsed tower in the north, one in the lumberjacks’ old glade and one in a herb-gathering cave, which also happens to hold a boy who went missing back in Act II. Free them all and Vaska welcomes Geralt into the community that worships the Lords of the Water, then sends him on to the hierophant in the Druids’ Grove.
