Спеллхолд, BGII
Содержание
Вводная
Как вы уже наверное знаете есть два способа попасть в Спеллхолд (Spellhold). Первый связан с Охранным камнем Перта (Perth) из Бринло. В этом случае вы должны дойти до входных дверей сами (возможно, встретив на пути некоторое сопротивление).
Второй путь связан с Королем Пиратов. В этом случае вы окажетесь в одной из камер в качестве одного из заключенных. Вы можете пообщаться с остальными заключенными пару раз и даже разжиться драгоценностями и некоторыми свитками. Похоже, что все заключенные действительно не в своем уме и Волшебники в Рясах не так уж неправы.
Впрочем, общение с сумасшедшими надолго не затянется, так как в скором времени вас навестит Айреникус (Irenicus) собственной персоной, чтобы провести "more experiments".
SPOILER: Если в вашей партии находится Яшимо, он предаст вас и перейдет на сторону ваших врагов. Оказывается он с самого начала работал на Айреникуса (в конце концов всем надо платить по счетам). Нельзя сказать, Яшимо выбивался из сил, пытаясь вам помешать в ваших приключениях, но все таки. Как бы там ни было, это обстоятельство не зависит от того находится ли в вашей партии Яшимо или вы его оставили "за углом" - результат тот же.
Примечание: Если Яшимо в вашей партии, то разденьте его, не зависимо от ваших действий он уйдёт из партии, при чём со всеми вещами, так же возможен баг с пропаданием вещей из инвентаря, обязательно сделайте сейв внутри СпеллХолда.
(Почти) Последний Сон
Прохождение
В отличии от других сновидений, которые вы могли видеть в главаз 2 и 3, данный сон - нечто новенькое. Во-первых, теперь вы можете управлять своими действиями. Во-вторых, вас ждет встреча в вашим отцом, что сложно назвать счастливым событием.
Наш сон переносит нас в старый добрый Кэндлкип (из первого Baldur's Gate), который выглядит... странно. Нас встречает Имоен, которая вместо внятного объяснение, нагонит тумана. Перед входом в библиотеку мы найдем Демона, которого невозможно обойти. Взамен за право прохода он потребует от нас принести что-то в жертву.
(примечание: Если вы не из тех, кто жертвует чем-то своим, см. Альтернативный Путь)
Ваш разум -1 INT Ваше здоровье -1 CON Вашу ловкость -1 DEX Вашу мудрость -1 WIS
Выбирайте то, что не жалко. Например, воины могут пожертвовать Мудростью или Интеллектом. Маги - Конституцией (я бы предпочел все же что-то менее важное, вроде Харизмы). После того, как Демон получит свою плату, он исчезнет и вы сможете пройти внутрь Библиотеки, где вас встретит Имоен с предложением привести "Зверя" к ней.
Выходим и ищем Баала. Немного болтаем с ним и, когда Баал решит вас зарубить, возвращаемся в замок. Имоен сообщает, что мол вот сейчас она сделает Баала уязвимым и вы можете его убить. Ну, что же делать. Засучив рукава беремся за мечик(посох/кинжальчик/магию) и пытаемся убить "уязвимого" Баала, после чего сон закончится. Если вы погибните - то вашей смертью.
Альтернативный вариант: (from K.C.)
Если у демона не будет времени, чтобы забрать характеристику, то вы не потеряете ее. Деритесь с Баалом снаружи, пока он не получит статус "присмерти". Идите вместе с ним к двери и говорите с демоном. Выбирите любой параметр для пожертвования. Быстро начните ложный диалог с демоном (он будет занят и не ответит), и используйте эту задержку чтобы забежать внутрь. Если сделаете все быстро то не потеряете характеристику. Теперь, говорите с Имоен, сон быстро завершится, а вы не потеряете ничего.
SPOILER: Имоен в этом сне - фактически ваша душа, принявшая физическую форму, чтобы помочь вам. Вот почему сон с "Имоен" заканчивается криком, ваша душа была только что высосана из вас.
Лабиринт
Вводная
Вы появитесь в центре зала в составе своей партии. Что, как и зачем - это нам поведает давняя знакомая Бодхи. Вместо того, чтобы убить вас, как ей и было приказано, она решает немного поиграть с вами, благородно давая возможность спастись и попутно делая самую большую ошибку в своей не-жизни.
Здесь вы снова можете присоединить к партии Имоен (логично было бы ее присоединить, учитывая тот факт, что она ваша сестра). Однако этого можно и не делать. Имоен лучше вашего сможет выбраться из лабиринта и вы вполне можете присоединить ее позднее.
Лабиринт сам по себе не очень большой, скучный, но содержит большое количество разнообразных вещей.
Начало
Ну что же. Мы оказались глубоко в... мрачном лабиринте и нам надо отсюда выбираться. Перво наперво - не бойтесь отдыхать. Конечно, Бодхи говорила, что даст нам небольшую фору, а затем вернется, чтобы закончить начатое, но ведь она вампир. Мы же не будем верить всяким вампирам, верно?
Юго-Запад
В юго-западном коридоре вы обнаружите немного монстров и статую в виде большой головы, которая попросит вас найти Руку Строителя. Вполне ожидаемо.
Северо-Восток
Прямо по курсу будет дверь за которой вас ждет Гляняный Голем (Clay Golem). Если вы забыли, его можно убить при помощи оружия с дробящим повреждением. После убийства мы можем поживится некоторыми сокровищами (осторожно, ловушки):
Вместительная Сумка (Bag of Holding) (может хранить предметы) Опал (Opal Stone) (внимание - это ключ, так что сохраните его) Воровской Камень (Rogue Stone) Заклинание Призматический Луч (Prismatic Spray) Стрелы в ассортименте
Если вы пойдете налево от комнаты, то вас ждем весьма неприятная ловушка. Лучше не стоит туда ходить.
Under constraction
If you go left from this room, it goes up to a corridor with a big nasty trap that squishes anyone who enters it. So avoid that.
Go back to the start, then go up the northwest passage (x 1300 y 1210) and open the door to the right (x 1350 y 960). Kill whatever is in here (Gibberlings). Search the 2 containers in here:
Ruby Stone (keep it) Spear +3 Magical Arrows (etc.)
- RIDDLES
Head west to the next room (x 760 y 1075) and go in. Welcome to the riddle room! In the center is a chest full of bizarre riddly objects. These objects are then placed in the arms of the statue that they solve the riddle for. Starting from just left of the door and going around, the riddles are:
Riddle: Answering Object: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- At night I come without being fetched, at Star Medallion day I am gone without being stolen.
No beginning. No end. I am a symbol of the Golden Circlet world's cycles.
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, Worn Out Boots all day we are bitterly pressed; Yet this I will say - we are full all the day, and empty when we go to rest.
Here, in this place, you swallow me. Yet, were I Jar of Water more, I could swallow you.
I have seen the mountains rise. I have seen the Sundial fall of Netheril. You shall die but still shall I march on.
To those within the dungeon I am joy. To those Sun Medallion fully beneath my gaze, I can be Hell.
I will save your life but yet can you die by me. I Sword Medallion will settle disputes yet not with words.
Name me and so shall you break me. Gagged Man
Always do I tell the truth, yet cannot speak. Look Mirror to me and see what really is.
I have two heads but one body. The more I stand Hourglass still, the faster I run.
Try to defeat me but try in vain. When I win I Grinning Skull end your pain.
Complete all the riddles to get 20,000 experience. Then search the center chest again to find:
Sapphire Stone (keep it) Dusty Rose Ioun Stone
Open the next door (x 875 y 915), and then open the next door to the right (x 1033 y 700). This is the second riddle room. Go up and click each of the faces twice to be teleported into the center. There you will be asked a riddle. Get it right and you are rewarded, get it wrong and you are punished. There are 12 faces and 12 corresponding riddles:
Riddle: Answer: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lighter than what I am made of, more of me is Ice hidden than is seen, I am the bane of the mariner, a tooth within the sea. Speak my name.
A spirited jig it dances bright, banishing all Fire but darkest night. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
The man who invented it, doesn't want it for himself. A Coffin The man who bought it, doesn't need it for himself. The man who needs it, doesn't know it when he needs it.
The life I lead is mere hours or less, I serve all my A Candle time by being consumed. I am quickest when thin, slowest when fat, and wind is the bane of the gift that I bring.
The more that there is, the less that you see. Squint Darkness all you wish when surrounded by me.
They come to witness the night without being called, Stars a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to sight each day without the hand of a thief.
They follow and lead, but only as you pass. Dress Shadows yourself in darkest black, and they are darker still. Always they flee the light, though without the sun there would be none.
I have holes throughout, from back to front and top A Sponge to bottom to core. More nothing than something within, and yet I still hold water.
I am free for the taking through all of your life, Breath though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
Alive as you but without breath, as cold in my life as Fish in my death; never a thirst though I always drink, dressed in a mail but never a clink.
Of all your possessions, I am the hardest to guard. If A Secret you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me.
I can have no color, though there may be darkness A Hole within. I have no weight and hold nothing, and if placed in a container it becomes all the lighter.
When all 12 riddles are answered, then everyone gets 5000 experience points and you receive:
Ring of Regeneration (regenerate 1 HP every 6 seconds)
- THE PORTAL
Go back to the previous passage, and open the other door (x 750 y 800). Fight the monsters in here (Rakshasa and Mephits). Past them is a big portal. Remember those gems that we gathered that I told you not to put in your gem bag? (Opal Stone, Sapphire Stone and Ruby Stone) They are the key to this portal. Click the portal once and a Greater Wolfwere appears, twice and a Demon appears, three times and a Djinni appears and gives you:
Doomplate +3 (Plate Mail AC 0)
We are done here, so go back to the start, then take the southeast passage to the next level (x 2100 y 1800).
- LEVEL TWO (AR 1513)
We start in a room. That is ordinary enough. Just ahead, the room narrows quite suspiciously. When someone goes through that narrow, a gate shuts and lots of Umber Hulks appear in this room and the next. Which means that your party will probably be split in two for this battle. To avoid this fate, I sent out a Wizard Eye to scout out the area, it triggered the gate and left my entire party on one side. You can also have a thief pick the lock on the gate to open it. One "Death Spell" will clear this room out.
Prepare yourself for a big battle with a Lich. Wander down the passage to the first door (x 2100 y 1800) and go in it. Here you will find the aforementioned Lich and his undead buddies (Greater Mummies and Skeletal Warriors). With Protective Spells active, you shouldn't lose any people (or if you do, you shouldn't lose too many). Keep the Liches defenses down by Breaching, Piercing Magic, etc. Also make sure you have good undead fighting weapons equipped (Daystar, Mace of Disruption, etc.) Liches are worth 22,000 experience. After the battle you can search the pots here for some minor treasures (Cleric's Staff +3, etc.).
Enter the room right here, and search it for treasure. (spells and gold mostly, as well as some arrows)
Head further down the passage, it turns to the west. Follow it to the door (x 1050 y 2070). Open it to find Dace, a vampire. This ends in a battle. Kill him and he retreats to his coffin. Then you stake him to get his Hand (the object we need to escape this place). If you don't have stakes, then when you go by the library again, he reappears inside and tells you that your job is half finished. You can find a Stake later on in this level when you get to the Kobold Shamans. (the SECOND group of kobolds that appears... the one with the staff has the Stake)
- KOBOLDS
Back to the main passage, then continue north to the next room. (x 3000 y 1100) I found a Wandering Horror here to fight. There are also 3 containers in here with spells (Simulacrum, etc.) and other minor treasures. Open the next door.
In the middle of this room (x 2340 y 515) you will find a book on a pedestal. Click it twice to turn the page. Each time you do this it summons forth a "bloodthirsty" monster:
Kobold Captain Sword Spider Umber Hulk Mind Flayer Beholder
Treasures: Ring of Free Action Spells - Simulacrum Summon Fiend
Search the wall (x 2030 y 520) for a secret door, open it and go through. This is the Kobold/Imp room. Past this is the Crystal Room, which also has the Kobold Witch Doctor. More Kobolds will appear around the Crystal, and summon forth its "defenders" (more kobolds... and one xvart looking guy). When they are dead, you get a Piece of the Crystal. You may need to click the crystal to get the second group to appear.
Go back to the book room, open the door and go up the stairs.
- THE GIANT STATUE HEAD
Go now to the southwest passage again to the big giant statue head. Talk to it with both the Crystal from the Kobolds and the Hand from Dace to get it to open the passage. For this everyone gets 29,500 experience. The head opens its mouth, and you can now enter the door behind it. (x 470 y 1890)
Trick: You may be able to talk to it again and again to get more experience. Cornelius Chesterfield did it 6 times.
- FINAL LEVEL (AR 1514)
There are two doors to the right, we want to take the bottom one (x 630 y 820). Open the secret door to the right (x 820 y 1020). Inside is a switch, click twice to open the secret door to the left (x 560 y 1020). Within here are a group of trolls (including one 12,000 exp troll). Search the nearby pot to find:
2 Mithril Tokens (used later to gain an item) Spell - Breach Arrows +2
Back to the passage, and take it down to the next door (x 650 y 1500). There are Minotaurs (3000 exp) in here. Near the door we came in is a pot:
2 Mithril Tokens (so we have 4 total now) Spell - Sunfire Bolts +2 Gold
Open the door at the top of the room (x 1000 y 1450) and go in. Search the pool in the center of the room to find:
Minotaur's Horn (used much later) 2 Mithril Tokens (6 total) Mind Flayer Painting
There are 3 statues in this room, each of which has another "monster" painting. So click on each statue twice to get their painting. They WILL shoot spells at you, no matter what you do. Once you have the 4 paintings, head back to the beginning room. Then open the top door (x 900 y 650), go through the passage and open that door too.
- THE PAINTED DOORS
This leads to a room full of monsters (for me it was Yuan-ti) that must be dispatched before anything can be done. There are then four doors in here, each with a picture of a monster on it that corresponds with one of the paintings we got. From left to right:
Mind Flayer - 11,000 experience Flame of the North (2Hnd +2, 10% magic res., +4 vs Evil) Spirit Troll - 8000 experience Katana +2: Malakar (+2 AC vs. Slashing weapons) Umber Hulk - 10,000 experience Djinni - 10,000 experience Bloodstone Amulet
The Umber Hulk door leads to the next passage to go in. There were a number of Wolfwere's in this passage. Go up and search the pot (x 2280 y 185):
Gems Arrows (Bolts and Bullets) Spell - Phantom Blade
Then enter the room to the right. In this room you will find 3 Clay Golems guarding the one treasure chest there. Funky. When you take the items from the chest, the door slams shut and the Clay Golems attack. Make sure you have Blunt weapons. Then I would kill the Clay Golems first (Fake Talk works fine) and then unlock and take the treasures:
4 Mithril Tokens (10 total) Gesen Bow String (final part of the powerful Gesen Bow) Gem
Back into the passage, now take the southern door (x 2025 y 515). I found a Stone Golem in here. Search the table:
3 Mithril Tokens (13 total) Gold Lots and lots of throwing darts and axes
And also search the pot to the left:
2 Mithril Tokens (15 total) Gems Throwing Items Spell - Maze
Open the next door to the south to find the Vending Machine. This is the reason we are collecting Mithril Tokens. Depending on how many tokens are put in, you get a treasure:
5 Tokens - Boots of the North (50% cold resistance) 10 Tokens - Boots of Grounding (50% electrical resistance) 15 Tokens - Boots of Speed (Haste permanently on user) 20 Tokens - Jester's Chain +4 (AC 1)
Right now you should have 15 tokens. There are more than can be found throughout the level. I found the Jester's Chain to be quite useless, so I would get the Boots of Speed. Then later come back and spend whatever tokens you have on the Boots of the North. (If you plan to come back, you should probably mark it on your map)
- THE ORB ROOM
Go back to the beginning, then back down the bottom passage to the Minotaur room. (x 933 y 1667) Open the door on the southeast wall. This passage leads to another door, which opens up to the Orb Room. There are 4 orbs in here that will cast a spell on whoever is standing on the mosaic in the center of the room. From left to right the Orbs cast:
Slow (x 1400 y 1575) Heal (x 1500 y 1500) Haste (x 1750 y 1525) Lightning Bolt (x 1850 y 1600)
A great place to Heal people, but the Haste Orb is probably more useful.
Head up the next passage.
- BODHI AND THE (VAMPIRE) SLAYER
Within the next room is a giant minotaur statue, some vampires, and, oh, Bodhi. She has decided to kill you once and for all, well before you were supposed to meet (at least that is what I got out of that conversation). A battle breaks out, but quickly, the main character changes into the Slayer. This rightly freaks Bodhi out and she flees taking her vampire cronies with her.
Which leaves you as the Slayer, and you aren't entirely in control of your power. Keep everyone else in the party away from the Slayer else they might get killed by it. Your party members will rightly comment on this when you revert to normal. The Slayer is the Avatar form (mortal form) of Bhaal and if you are turning into Bhaal...
The next time you rest after this, you turn in the Slayer again, and chase someone in your party around (possibly the person you are in a romance with). You may even end out killing them.
The next time you sleep after that, you MAY get the Slayer Dream, where you gain the ability to change into the Slayer. The cost of turning into the Slayer is a reputation loss of 2 points. Also you cannot stay the Slayer for too long else you will die. (It says "you feel yourself losing control" when it gets close)
- ESCAPE THE DUNGEON
Open the door to your left (x 1965 y 1150). There will probably be a Minotaur here to kill. Then search the pool near the door:
4 Mithril Tokens (19 total) Gold Spell - Chain Lightning
If you go further up this passage you will find a Gauth (small green Beholder like creature, worth 9000 exp) and more Minotaurs. No treasure. Back to the Statue room.
Now take the lower right passage. (x 2330 y 1425) This leads to a small room with yet more Minotaurs. When they are dead, search the pot to find:
Minotaur Horn (used on the statue) 2 Mithril Tokens (21 total) Spell - Limited Wish Gold Arrows
You now have all the Mithril Tokens in the game, so you can go back to the Vending Machine and get whatever you want from it.
Put the Horns on the Minotaur Statue (everyone gets 29,500 experience) to open the exit. Go out.
- THE CHALLENGES
Oh, but we aren't free yet! You will be in a small circular room with 6 enemies, goblins and hobgoblins for you to kill. Once they are dead, the Tester Apparition appears to administer the test to you. These tests have right and wrong answers, a right answer makes your life easier (sends you to an easier area) and a wrong answer makes your life a little harder. I will document only the easy path (although the hard path has nothing special in it):
Agree to take the test and you will be teleported to a small room with a Spore Colony. Kill it.
Answer the next question with 'Splinter,' and be teleported to a room with a table:
Cloak of Reflection (reflects electrical damage back to source)
Then talk to the Apparitions around the table and answer their riddles:
Rich have need of it, poor have it: Nothing Runs as it wills: A River Dwell with weak, rarely brave: Fear Shines laughter or tears: Memory
Note: If you messed up the 'table riddlers' last question (memory) you will be teleported to a room with a machine. The correct order of the machine is:
1. Mithril 2. Ruby 3. Emerald 4. Sandalwood 5. Jade 6. Onyx
This will get you a Bracers AC 5. (from Redd Barren)
This takes us to the Troll room. Kill the three trolls you find and take from one of them a Head. Go up and the Apparition will appear and mention that this room isn't part of the test. Tell him you'd like to stay. Then put the Head in the Troll Altar. This gets you the:
Bone Club +2, +3 vs. Undead
Talk to the Apparition to get out.
You will then be judged. If you took the Easy Path (the one I just described) then everyone in your party gets 51,250 experience points. If you took a harder path, then he teleports in a Mind Flayer for you to fight. (Everyone then gets 41,250 experience on the harder path)
There is one thing of Minor Treasure (x 970 y 380), but nothing important. Leave this area.
4.3 > > > > Escape from Spellhold
Exposition: -----------
Once you return to the Asylum, you will be met by Saemon (the captain who brought you to Brynnlaw, if you forgot). He offers you one sage bit of advice, get the deviant mages to help you defeat Irenicus.
Walkthrough: ------------
- GAIN ALLIES TO FIGHT IRENICUS
Avoid the big room in the middle of this area for the moment, if you go in there you WILL be destroyed by Irenicus (it's not even a fight! He just kills you!). There are some minor treasures in a northern room (x 1720 y 550). Open the door at (x 1400 y 400) and go up the stairs.
You will immediately meet up with Lonk the Sane. Convince him to free the inmates (one way or another). Then convince the Inmates that Irenicus should be killed and they will teleport you into his room downstairs. Quickly a fight between you and him breaks out. This battle is one of the larger battles in the game, as not only do you have Irenicus to face, but soon he summons forth a small army (of clones that look like your party) to help him. Plus you have allies in the Deviants (so, if it says "Wanev casts Death Spell on Mazzy", it means that he is casting that on your evil clone). Defeat Irenicus and everyone in your party gets 68,500 experience.
Irenicus flees, leaving you to face another group of "murderers". (thieves mostly)
Tip: At this point, you could close the door, preventing the thieves from entering. Then you could rest and prepare to face them. You could also trap the outside of the room first, so that they get killed before attacking you.
If Yoshimo betrayed you, then he enters the scene after this and will attack you. Kill him and take his heart. This heart will allow you to undo the Geas on Yoshimo and give him peace in death. To do that you have to take the heart to a temple of Ilmater (there's one on top of the Copper Coronet, and another in Waukeen's Promenade).
- ESCAPE FROM SPELLHOLD
Go back upstairs. Follow the passage up and left to find Saemon again. He says that he wants to help you and that he knows a way out. You have three options here: one, trust him and go with him; two, kill him; and three don't kill him and enter the portal downstairs. Do the first one, trust him and he will teleport you outside. He goes to town and tells you to follow. Don't, re-enter the Asylum.
Note: If you take the Portal you will skip the Sahuagin City (and its wonderful treasures). No matter which you choose, you will end out in the Underdark eventually.
Enter Irenicus' Office (x 1550 y 1000). There was a Stone Golem here. Search the dresser for:
Staff of Thunder and Lightning
Search the desk for:
The Complete Journal of Jon Irenicus (parts 1 and 2)
Go into the next room. Search the cabinet on the wall:
Horn of Silence
Then search the drawers south of the bed for:
Rogue Stone Jon's Key (if you took the portal in the basement, this would open the secret door, but don't do that)
Leave the Asylum and head back to Brynnlaw.
- ESCAPE FROM BRYNNLAW
Go to the Vulgar Monkey Tavern and talk to Saemon again. His ship was destroyed by the pirate lord (who probably had good reasons for doing that). What he needs is for you to steal the Pirate Horn for him so that you can steal one of the Pirate Lord's ships. Without the horn you will not make it out of the harbor. He offers you the Vorpal Blade in exchange for doing this. You will find the Horn on the lord's mistress Cayia at night.
Go to Cayia's house (x 615 y 1475) at night, enter. After listening to Cayia and her current lover's pillow talk, they call the guards and flee. Kill the pirates, then search her Table to find the Pirate Horn (and another Rogue Stone). Leave her house.
Head over to the Pirate Ship (x 1700 y 1900) where a group of pirates will attempt to enslave you as a rower. Disabuse them of that notion.
Continue east to find Saemon (x 2950 y 2500), and talk to him. This gets you aboard the ship, but soon the Pirate Lord tracks you down. There is a bit of a scene, and Desharik, the Pirate Lord, even kills his own mistress, Cayia. Saemon, ever courageous asks you to kill Desharik for him. Kill the pirates and Saemon rewards you with:
Silver Blade (part of the Vorpal Sword)
The ship casts off...
- THE GITHYANKI INCURSION
Soon the ship is overrun by Giths looking for their sacred Blade. Although Saemon tries to get a non-violent solution to this, it isn't meant to be and a battle soon breaks out. You have a very brief window to kill Saemon, if you want (18,000 experience). Soon this battle is forced to a conclusion when the Sahuagin capsize the ship sending everyone overboard...