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The Witcher 3

Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away Walkthrough

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Witcher 3 Quest Where Children Toil Toys Waste Away

This is a guide to the quest titled Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Read on to learn locations, rewards, best choices, best outcomes, as well as useful tips and strategies for completing this quest.

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Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number 5
Region Toussaint
Quest Location Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery, Beauclair Port
Previous Quest La Cage au Fou
Next Quest Wine is Sacred

Rewards

Gold Reward None
Exp Reward 1000
Item Reward None


Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Go to the Bootblack during the day. (8AM to 8PM)
2 Deal with the thugs harassing the Bootblack, then speak to the Bootblack.
3 Follow Regis through the city and enter the toy shop.
4 Investigate the objects in the toy shop.
5 Exhaust all dialogue options with Regis.

Choices

Objective 2: Negotiating with the Bootblack

Witcher 3 Choice Bootblack

When speaking with the Bootblack, he will ask you for 500 crowns for him to give you additional info on Dettlaff. You can either negotiate with him, or use Axii on him so you will not have to pay the additional crowns.

If you picked the option to negotiate with him, you are given the chance to reduce the amount of crowns that he is asking for.

However, if you still pay him the full 500 crowns, this action will be counted as proving Geralt's Generosity for the Secondary Quest: There Can Be Only One.

Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away Tips and Strategies

Questing Tips

Investigating the Toy Shop

There are two key objects to examine in order to progress the quest. Each time you loot one of the key objects, a conversation with Regis starts. You can choose to answer Regis in any way you wish.

These are the two key objects to examine:

  • The letter in a box behind where Regis is standing.
  • The pieces of paper placed in a corner of the room.

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Hearts of Stone Blood and Wine

Blood and Wine Main Quests

No. Quest Title
1 Envoys, Wineboys
2 The Beast of Toussaint
3 Blood Run
4 La Cage au Fou
5 Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away
6 Wine is Sacred
7 The Man from Cintra
8 Capture the Castle
9 The Night of Long Fangs
10 Beyond Hill and Dale...
11 Blood Simple
12 What Lies Unseen
13 Tesham Mutna
14 Pomp and Strange Circumstance
15 Burlap is the New Stripe
16 Be It Ever So Humble...

Blood and Wine Secondary Quests

Fists of Fury: Toussaint Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom The Words of the Prophets are Written on Sarcophagi
Till Death Do You Part Using Your Loaf Vintner's Contract: Chuchote Cave
Vintner's Contract: Duchaton Crest Of Sheers and a Witcher I Sing Big Feet to Fill: The Third Group
Big Feet to Fill Gwent Quest: Never Fear, Skellige’s Here! (N/A) No Place Like Home (Blood and Wine) (N/A)
Big Feet to Fill: The Second Group (N/A) Big Feet to Fill: The First Group (N/A) Amidst the Mill's Grist (N/A)
A Knight’s Tales Raging Wolf Knight for Hire
Extreme Cosplay Big Feet to Fill: The Fourth Group The Perks of Being a Jailbird
Big Feet to Fill: The Fifth Group The Warble of a Smitten Knight (35) Turn and Face the Strange (35)
Paperchase (36) Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Granite! (36) Wine Wars: Vermentino (37)
Wine Wars: Coronata (37) Father Knows Worst (37) Wine Wars: Belgaard (37 and 39)
Vintner's Contract: Rivecalme Storehouse (37) Gwent Quest: To Everything - Turn, Turn, Tournament! (38) Vintner's Contract: Dun Tynne Hillside (40)
Wine Wars: Consorting (40) Master Master Master Master! (40) Wine Wars: The Deus in the Machina (42)
The Hunger Game (42) Vintner's Contract: Cleaning Those Hard-to-Reach Places (43) There Can Be Only One (43)
A Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man (43) Duck, Duck, Goosed! (47)

Blood and Wine Treasure Hunts

The Last Exploits of Selina's Gang (37) Coin Doesn't Stink (37) Don't Take Candy from a Stranger (37)
The Inconstant Gardener (37) The Black Widow (37) Around the World in... Eight Days (40)
Waiting for Goe and Doh (40) Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Wolven Gear (40) Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Ursine Gear (40)
Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Manticore Gear (40) Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Griffin Gear (40) Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Feline Gear (40)
Applied Escapology (40) Spoontaneous Profits! (42) But Other Than That, How Did You Enjoy the Play? (43)
What Was This About Again? (43) The Curse of Carnarvon (46) The Suffering of Young Francois (47)
The Toussaint Prison Experiment (47) Filibert Always Pays His Debts (48)

Blood and Wine Contracts

Big Game Hunter (37) Contract: Bovine Blues (38) Equine Phantoms (44)
Feet as Cold as Ice (45) Contract: The Tufo Monster (48)

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