Direct answer
Objectives follow journal display order. Some depend on your choices; follow the active objective in the game.
Result
While wallowing in the Bits, Novigrad's worst and most notorious slum, the witcher took a contract on a monster committing horrendous murders under the cover of darkness. At the time, he never suspected that a story starting in the gutter would end in a luxurious manor.
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