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Apologies if this has been mentioned or discussed, but what are those scary grass monkeys:speech: that follow you around the game in Chapter 1? The Witcher had me wondering "WTF?" with a lot of its content, but the one question I'd like answered is that. Thanks guys!
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Do you mean little kids? They follow you around in every chapter because you're a spectacle, but they don't do anything.

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swcarter wrote:Do you mean little kids? They follow you around in every chapter because you're a spectacle, but they don't do anything.

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LOL! No, they're these little critters with tails and a really scary monkey like face. They run circles around you if they catch up to you. They're pretty small, but they make some weirdo noise. I swear I'm not crazy :D
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phelot43 wrote:LOL! No, they're these little critters with tails and a really scary monkey like face. They run circles around you if they catch up to you. They're pretty small, but they make some weirdo noise. I swear I'm not crazy :D
I think they appeared after the patch; I haven't noticed them before. Really weird critters, I agree. Saw quite a few of them by the river, little red devils.
Maybe the Beast twisted cats into monkeys? :) Has anybody seen cats in the Outskirts? Plenty of mice but no cats.
Or maybe they were a product of wickedness too? Then the local wickedness was indeed special. :D
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That's weird. I've never seen these creatures, and I started playing again after the last patch. Does anybody have a screenshot?

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swcarter wrote:That's weird. I've never seen these creatures, and I started playing again after the last patch. Does anybody have a screenshot?

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I believe that they are imps. I know that I saw a reference to that effect somewhere, but I can't recall where. They definitely existed pre-patch as I saw them in 1.1 too, they are non-interactive, so if you changed your visual settings post patch (especially ground cover) they would have started showing up.
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Odd. Mine was patched to version 1.2 and I haven't seen them either. :confused:
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I've seen them all over the Outskirts as well.

In a few areas of the game they are around in a predetermined ratio, but are completely non-interactive.. just there for "atmosphere".

Go to Options > Advanced and set the "Small Animals" slider up or down from Few to Many
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Lady Dragonfly wrote:I think they appeared after the patch; I haven't noticed them before. Really weird critters, I agree. Saw quite a few of them by the river, little red devils.
Maybe the Beast twisted cats into monkeys? :) Has anybody seen cats in the Outskirts? Plenty of mice but no cats.
Or maybe they were a product of wickedness too? Then the local wickedness was indeed special. :D
I saw cat sometimes. Dogs, cats, mice, monkeys(imps), monsters, humans, non-humans... I saw them all :p
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Yep, seen these all over the place and I was patched from the start. Assumed someone that read the books would make sense of them.
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