Of Sheers and a Witcher I Sing

Of Sheers and a Witcher I Sing is a secondary quest in the . To get it, find and talk with Le Papillon south of the Nilfgaardian Embassy signpost.
 the secondary quest The Warble of a Smitten Knight must be completed (see notes for caveats) before this becomes available.
== Walkthrough ==
South of the Nilfgaardian Embassy you will find Adrien de Rouleau a.k.a. Le Papillon. He wishes to create a ballad about Geralt and has a task for him from which he will get his inspiration. Jean-Louis Ludovic, a local barber, has gone missing and Geralt would be the one to find him. Now you can haggle the price, but either way the pay will be much lower than most contracts.
Once you've settled on a price, you'll need to break the door down with Aard. Downstairs, you can examine empty jars of pomade, and find an advertising leaflet. Go upstairs, where you can find the documents letter from Edgard Lavalliere and hair balsam formula. Examining Jean-Louis's ledger will lead Geralt to conclude that Jean-Louis went out of town to find ingredients for his pomade. Geralt will also find Jean-Louis's map, which Le Papillon will know where it leads, so follow him.
At the first location, you will be attacked by an archespore; kill it then move to the next. At the next location you will find a basket, which Le Papillon will recognize as Jean-Louis's, as well as footprints. Follow the footprints to a cave entrance. Inside the cave, you will find a knight called Beau Duvall and his squires beating up Jean-Louis. Beau blames Jean-Louis for giving him a disastrous haircut which caused him so much shame that he pulled out of the tourney.
You will have 2 ways to respond to Beau's complaints. If you pick the first option, in which Geralt comments that beating up a hairdresser is not very chivalrous, Beau will challenge Geralt to a duel. After you beat him, his squires will drag a wounded Beau away. If you pick the second option where Geralt comments that hair grows back, Beau and his squires will fight Geralt, and Geralt will have to kill them all. Whichever option you chose, Le Papillon will stand back and perform his ballad. As it turns out he doesn't have the money to pay Geralt, but Jean-Louis will pay Geralt 150 for the rescue. The quest then ends.
After the quest finishes, Jean-Louis is unlocked as a hairdresser at his salon, and he has the unique "Queen's Pageboy" haircut.
== Journal entry ==
:Beauclair is a city steeped in tradition, awash with wine and echoing with song. Though an unfortunate banishment had deprived its artistic sense of a certain bard's stimulating presence several years prior, at this time the town was still home to many talented composers, including a certain Adrien de Rouleau, whose career I had launched by giving him the nom de plume "Le Papillon." It was this rising literary star who one day asked Geralt for help finding a missing person: his hairdresser and close friend. Though this did not seem at first a job for a witcher, Geralt, for whom old habits die hard, decided to yet again help a poet in need.
:Le Papillon's suspicions were well-founded: the hairdresser had indeed run into some serious trouble. An unsatisfied client, a knight named Beau Duvall, had taken him captive. Humiliated by a haircut which he felt did no justice to his inner beauty, Duvall wanted the hairdresser to pay a high price for his sloppy scissor work.
:If Geralt says it doesn't seem chivalrous:
::Luckily Geralt arrived in the nick of time and challenged Duvall to a duel, which, I am pleased to reveal, the witcher won. In this way the knight was taught a lesson and the witcher earned the undying gratitude of hairdresser and poet alike.
:If Geralt says hair can grow back:
::Luckily Geralt arrived in the nick of time and despatched Duvall and his band to the next world. Thus the kidnappers were taught a lesson and the witcher earned the undying gratitude of hairdresser and poet alike.
== Objectives ==
* Force open the doors to the hairdresser's salon using the Aard Sign.
* Use your Witcher Senses to look for clues about what happened to Jean-Louis.
* Follow Le Papillon.
* Kill the monster.
* Search the meadow using your Witcher Senses.
* Follow the footprints.
* Search the cave.
* Save the hairdresser.
If Geralt says it doesn't seem chivalrous:
* Defeat Beau Duvall.
If Geralt says hair grows back:
* Kill the knight and his men.
== Notes ==
* Even though The Warble of a Smitten Knight is a prerequsite for this quest, that is only because Le Papilon is busy being the announcer during the tournament. He will move in front of Jean-Louis' house as soon as the tournament is over, which is before The Warble of a Smitten Knight completes. This quest unlocks even if the prerequisite fails by starting Capture the Castle, but you will then have to wait until after either Tesham Mutna or Burlap is the New Stripe, depending on how events unfold.
* Later Le Papillon can be found in front of Cianfanelli Bank at The Gran'place singing the ballad he wrote during this quest.
== Trivia ==
*The name of the Quest is a reference to the beginning of the Latin epic poem The Aeneid, which is often translated into English as "Of arms and a man I sing".
Category:Blood and Wine quests
de:Von Hexern und Barbieren
fr:Chants des ciseaux et du sorceleur
pl:W służbie muzy