Walkthrough for the quest Hunting Shadows in the game Blacktail. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Main Story
Season: Spring
Prerequisites: To play this quest, you must first complete the quest Longing for Her.
Forced out of her village, accused of an unholy alliance with Baba the Witch, Yaga set out on a quest to find her sister and friends.
A mysterious voice led her to the Hut, the domain of a gracious Black Cat. Inside, events unimaginable transpired. Putting Yaga’s mask on an unknown idol spawned a trail of crumbs. Having followed it, she found a disturbing yet familiar doll.
As she touched it, a vision was bestowed upon her – a vision of an abominable monster taking someone’s life...
As the vision withered away and Yaga came back to her senses, the spirit reappeared. And, of course, Yaga followed it, hoping for even the humblest of answers.
Follow the spirit. It will lead you to a clearing where you will have to fight a battle with it.
The spirit retreated to a grove; it had nowhere left to run. Yaga knew she had to hunt it down.
Start by shooting down the Bobok to lure the ghost.
The spirit will stop for a moment at the place where Bobok has dropped. Repeat these actions a few times and then phase two will begin.
Don't stand in the large orange-red spots on the ground, as a tree branch will fall there after a few seconds. Move aside, wait until the branch falls to the ground and shoot at the purple glowing blobs that are on it. You must destroy all of them on both sides of the branch.
Then you must destroy the three blobs on the tree trunk...
...and finally the largest one underneath.
When you do this the fight will end and you will watch a flashback sequence on what happened in the village a year earlier.
Then a mini-game will begin in which you control a small goat. In a nutshell, you have to reach the end of the level. Try to collect as many Shelloks as possible on your way because they will go toward the morality aspect of your choosing. Keep ramming the skeletons, etc. because contact with them will cause you to lose one of the collected Shelloks.
When fighting a mini-boss, avoid its axe and then when the axe gets stuck in the ground ram it.
After completing this quest, you will be able to play the quest Exhale the Past / Inhale the Future.