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I found the Contract Board in Flotsam easily enough — it's right next to the Inn.
But now that I've reached Vergen, I've been looking for a new contract board, and haven't yet had much luck. Does Vergen have a contract board? I have a feeling it's hiding right in front of my eyes…
You can use the Cat potion to easily see the blood trail in the forest. There are at least three trails to follow, all starting near the gate between Lobinden and Flotsam. By keeping (mostly) to your right, you will end at human corpses. But if you try to keep to your left, Geralt will mumble something about "he is getting weaker, can't be far now." That trail also ends in someone else's body. But from there turn around and keep to your left again. Cedric is not far from there.
There seem to be multiple different puzzles, and which one is finally used in a room seems to be random.
There are three rooms in total where you must extinguish the signs in the correct order. They are all underground, look for stairs leading down in the three locations marked on this map:
The descriptions of the signs are in the Books of Magical Signs Volumes 1-4, they are as following:
art = harp
war = clenched fist
thunder = striking lightning bolt
death = scythe
sky = line within parallelogram, pursed mouth
butterfly = line crossed twice
weather = arrow sliced in half
reason = bear dancing on dew
time = open hourglass or chalice
life = blossoming flower
animal = snake creeping along riverbead
fate = cross within circle
I've only had 4 different runes in my game, I identified them as the following
Animal
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Time
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Sky
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Art
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The clues in each room are numbered, there appear to be at least 6 different ones.
First encrypted rune combination:
A doe's shadow
The moon quietly moans
It is autumm already
Solution: animal sky art time
Second encrypted rune combination:
Three field mice
Dance in a circle at dusk
Stars are like grain
Solution: animal art time sky
Third encrypted rune combination:
Glittering fish
Dying on a fresco
Struck by lightning
Solution: animal time art sky
Fourth encrypted rune combination:
Behold the comet
It is like a wolf in times of scarceness
An evil lullaby.
Solution: sky animal time art
Fifth encrypted rune combination:
Divertimento!
Coulds are like bees
When bells ring
Solution: art sky animal time
Sixth encrypted rune combination:
On the dark sky
The beauty of a falcon's flight
Faster and faster
Solution: sky art animal time
Best Answer
The board is by the inn, to the right of the door, closer to the stairwell down to the Inn itself, rather than the door leading downwards to the Inn proper.