Крепость Де'Арнис, BGII
Крепость Де'Арнис
Содержание
На карте
- Частокол
- Секретный вход
- Ворот подъемного моста
Код локации: AR 1300
Вводная
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Возможные соратники
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Прохождение
Освободить крепость Де'Арнис
Если вы уже пришли сюда, вам ничего не остается делать, кроме как попытаться освободить крепость. Неважно, является ли ваш персонаж воином или варваром (они потом получают крепость в свое распоряжение в качестве стронгхолда). Чтобы попасть сюда, вы должны были поговорить с Налией. Если она к вам не присоединилась, или присоединилась, но потом ушла, то вы найдете ее за частоколом (x 770 y 3225).
Налия говорит, наконец, с кем вам придется сражаться - это тролли и юань-ти (хотя названия последних она и не знает). А это значит, что вам понадобится оружие, наносящее повреждение кислотой и огнем. Поговорите с капитаном Аратом, и когда вы будете с ним прощаться, он даст вам немного огненных стрел (см. раздел Квесты, чтобы узнать, как получать от него стрелы бесконечно). После этого можете входить в крепость.
Идите от огороженного частоколом участка на северо-восток, пока не найдете секретный вход (x 1300 y 2750). Дверь скрыта, поэтому, чтобы найти ее, можете использовать воровское умение Обнаружить ловушки. Заходите внутрь.
Секретный вход
(AR 1302)
В первой комнате ничего нет. Налия просто напоминает вам о целях пребывания здесь: надо найти Дейлсона и опустить подъемный мост. Отоприте единственную здесь дверь.
В следующей комнате есть два контейнера с сокровищами (без ловушек и замков).
- Заклинание - Выстрел Аганназара (очень полезен при окончательном добивании троллей)
- Зелья
- Ядра
- Легкий арбалет скорости
- Тяжелый арбалет
- Стрелы +2
- Болты +2
Открывайте следующую дверь - за ней будет еще одна потайная дверь (x 600 y 1400) - и это проход в собственно крепость. До этого мы находились в секретном коридоре.
На карте
- Вход
- Дейлсон
- Секретная кузница
- Вход на верхний этаж
- Туалет с бриллиантом
- Выходы во двор крепости
Дейлсон
В следующей комнате тролль при вас убивает слугу. У вас нет ни единого шанса спасти беднягу. Убейте тролля, при этом не забудьте после того, как он упадет, применить на него кислоту или огонь. Посмотрите, что на столе (x 850 y 1265):
- Защита от обычного оружия
- Ядра +2
На северо-западной стене вы найдете потайную дверь (x 700 y 1230), откройте ее - и обнаружите Дейлсона. Он вам расскажет обо всем подробно: с кем вам придется драться, кого спасать, о реликвии в крепости (Цеп веков), и куда вам в конце концов надо направиться (в "подвал"). Если с вами идет Налия, то беседовать будет, в основном, она.
Секретная кузница и Цеп веков
В той же комнате, где находится Дейлсон, стоят два контейнера. В них, по большей части, всякое простое оружие, но, вероятно, вы захотите взять отсюда магические стрелы (и, возможно, магический длинный лук, посох или копье).
На северо-восточной стене есть еще одна потайная дверь (x 410 y 933). И еще одна - в конце коридора. А за ней - секретная кузница Цепа веков. Цеп разобран на три части. Возьмите за правило: как только вы обнаружите очередную голову, идите в кузницу и присоединяйте ее к оружию. Цеп нормально себя чувствует как с одной, так и с двумя или с тремя головами. Здесь же стоит сундук с кое-какими сокровищами. (x 560 y 400)
Поищите потайную дверь на северо-восточной стене (x 630 y 380), за ней есть еще одна. На статуе льва (x 950 y 175) вы найдете
- Голову от цепа (холод, 1-я из 3-х)
- Кольцо контроля земли (AC +1, Вызвать элементаль земли, Контролировать элементаль земли)
- 810 золота
Достижения
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Дополнительные квесты
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Прочее
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- LOOTING THE MAIN FLOOR
Go back to Daleson's Room and open the (normal) door. Directly in front of your party is the main Eating Hall, but it isn't important.
Drop south and east. There is a chest here (x 1430 y 1370): (TRAPPED)
Dagger +2 450 gold
The room at (x 1325 y 520) has some very minor treasures in it. The only worthwhile treasure is found on the bed near the bathroom, which has a couple of spells (Protection from Normal Weapons and Breach). However, if you go from there and open up the door to the bathroom, you can find a Star Sapphire in the toilet (x 1765 y 500).
The next room southwards (x 1835 y 885) has some minor treasures to be found on a fish (x 1790 y 675) and it has a stove. If only you had something to cook. Hmmm... seems that Daleson mentioned feeding some great beasts. Now, what did he feed them...
- MAKING DOGMEAT STEW
Yeah, that's right. Go out the door (x 1950 y 1140) to the exterior of the Keep. Kill the Otyugh (5000 exp). Then track down and kill the four family dogs and take their "dog meat". Pleasant. Go back inside and operate the stove to create a thick, meaty stew. (The main character must have all 4 meats on him in order to make the stew) For this you get 11,500 experience.
- OPENING THE DRAWBRIDGE
Go back outside. Then find the stairs (x 2175 y 1640) and go up that until you are on the Keep's walls. Ignore the door for the moment. There will be an ice troll on the wall. Kill it and keep going. You will find the switch to open the Drawbridge at (x 2833 y 1840). Click it once to open. For this you get 29,750 experience.
Go back to the main level (keep on ignoring that side door). There you will see Humans battling it out with Giant Trolls and Greater Yuan-ti. Join the battle if you like (good experience). Then go back into the main door to the keep. The battle continues inside, but once these trolls are beaten, the guards leave.
- LOOTING THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE KEEP (AR 1303)
Open the door at (x 2000 y 1050) to get to the stairs. Another servant gets whacked in here. Go up the stairs.
Nalia provides some more information on what needs to be done here. She recommends finding her auntie's bedroom and finding the secret passage that leads to the cellar. (Why would the cellar be connected only to the second floor anyway?) In this room are 2 containers with treasure, although the only good thing is the Spell Turning spell.
Open the southeastern door (x 2100 y 1000) and enter that passage. The side room here has some minor treasure. Open the southwest door (x 2075 y 1425) to enter the Library. In here you will find one mini-troll, a big troll that becomes two smaller ones when killed, and a Yuan-ti mage. Take out the mage first. The stairs here lead up to the roof (which is where that door we ignored goes as well, there's nothing up there worth looking at). Search the 3 bookcases here:
Keep Key Spells - Conjure Lesser Earth Elemental (Mage) Minor Spell Turning (Mage) Bolts +1
Since the western door cannot be opened, that leaves only the southern door (x 1730 y 1650). The first room along this passage has 1 container with minor treasures (Detect Illusions, 20 Arrows, etc.). Go along down to the second door to find the Lady of the Keep. She isn't too impressed with you. Eventually she'll go away. Remember this room, as we'll be coming back here in a moment (we have more looting to do first).
Continue to the end of the passage and open the door (x 375 y 1035). Continue through this room into the next passage. Kill the Ice Troll. This passage eventually goes all the way back to the library. Ignore the northern door for the moment, and open the southern door (x 1550 y 630). Search the Fireplace: (TRAPPED)
Wand of Frost
There is a Secret Door on the southeast wall (x 1480 y 830). Follow this passage all the way to what looks like a dead end. It isn't. Open this secret door and enter a small room. There are 2 chests in here with mostly minor treasures (although the spell Spell Thrust is nice). Detrap the next door and go in.
Within this room is a former guardsman by the name of Glaicas. There is a non-violent way to end this, (see below) but only if you have Nalia in your party.
Glaicas - 9500 exp Flail Head (Acid, 2 of 3) Full Plate Mail Potions Gold
Non-violent Solution: (from Sergio Le Roux)
In the de'Arnise Hold, in the secret room where Glaicas is located, you have to charm him to "normalcy". But there's a bug with the game: a couple of seconds after you charm him, he turns blue for about 1 second, then turns green again. So, basically, your own charm spell is interfering with the script that would lead to him talking to you.
If you want to save him (and earn 22,550 xp), you have to time it right so that when you charm him (he turns green) one of your attacks will hit him (this must happen BEFORE he turns blue). He will turn red again... pause the game and make sure you stop all your characters! He will continue being hostile, but then the script will kick in. He'll talk to you and give you the last part of the flail.
There is absolutely nothing in the next room, so go back out.
- THE GOLEMS
Go back to the Lady's room and search for traps until the secret door (x 833 y 1033) shows up. This leads to a very small room with nothing in it. There are two secret doors from this place, one to the west and one to the north. Open the west one and go in.
This is what I like to call the "Golem Chapel." Depending on what level you are on you face different Golems. If you are a high level then you are facing the tough Adamantite Golem. I, however, faced an Iron Golem. At the end of this chamber are three Statues that can be searched for some pretty good magical items. However, when you take those items, you WILL be attacked by some of the golems. So, naturally, the best strategy is to kill the golems BEFORE taking the treasure. If you don't have any +2 or better weaponry, you might want to go take the treasure first so that you have weapons that can harm them.
One odd way to kill the golems in this room is to drop Cloudkills on them and shut the door. Wait. Repeat as needed. Remember, if you're frustrated you could always use my patented "fake talk" strategy. Move your fighters into position (only the ones with +2 weaponry, or weapons that have extra damage). Adamantite Golems require +3 weapons or better to damage (Lilarcor, the Hammer in this very room, Melf's Minute Meteors, etc). Then PAUSE and "talk" to all the golems. Then press F2 and have your fighters attack one golem. Unpause. Wait 5 seconds, pause again and repeat. Doing this you can avoid getting attacked at all.
Note: Remember Clay Golems need to be hit with Blunt Weaponry. The Flail of the Ages works well. Stone Golems need piercing weaponry. And the only weapon I had that affected an Iron Golem was Lilarcor, the Sentient Sword.
Trick: It's also possible to get the treasure without fighting the golems at all. I just had Aerie cast "Sanctuary" on herself before filching the weapons (all the other characters were in another room). As stealing the items isn't counted as a hostile action, the spell prevents the golems from acknowledging her existence. I think they're still activated, though, leaving the option to fight them available if you so wish (they just won't chase after Aerie). Swift 'n' sweet. (from SpookyScarecrow)
Also, you can take the Flail part without the golems attacking you. You can even look in each of the statues to see what is there, as long as you don't take anything you won't be attacked.
Once the golems are gone you can search the three statues at your leisure:
Flail Head (Fire, 3 of 3) Axe +3: Frostreaver (extra Ice damage) Elven Court Long Bow +3 War Hammer +1, +4 vs. Giants
Then you can open the other secret door and descend to the Cellar, I would, however, finish the Flail of the Ages first.
- FINISHING THE FLAIL OF THE AGES
Go back to the Secret Forge and use it with all 3 heads to create the completed Flail of the Ages. Oh, and you get 22,350 experience as well.
Note: If you wait to finish the Flail until AFTER you take control of the Stronghold (if you are a Fighter type character) then you get NO Exp for finishing the Flail.
- THE CELLAR (AR 1301)
Back upstairs, open the other secret door and descend into the Cellar.
There are three containers in here, most of which have merely minor treasures in them (magic arrows are fun). The TRAPPED chest at (x 875 y 265) has a:
Shield Amulet
Open the door and go into the next Troll-ridden room. There's a new type of troll here, called the Spectral Troll. Search two of the Iron Maidens at the top of the room to get an Identify Scroll.
The next room is crawling with Umber Hulks. To prevent your entire party from being Confused and Slaughtered, send only one person in and have that person protected from Confusion (Mind Blank, Chaotic Commands, or have the Sentient Sword equipped, the Barbarian Rage command also works). Then draw the Umber Hulks into the previous room where they can be cut down. There are 4 containers in here, with mostly minor treasures, but some things stick out:
Orc Leather +3 (-1 CHA) Bullets +2 and Bullets +1
Now I bet you're wondering what we're doing with that Dog Food. I know you are. Enter the southwestern passage (the one that is already open) and open the second cell door (x 850 y 1280). There is a tunnel here that searches like a container. It has some dog bones. Put the Dog Food here to get 18,750 experience.
Note: If you want to avoid the Umber Hulk battle all you have to do is have someone sneak past them (invisible or hiding in shadows) and place the Dog Stew in its place. The Umber Hulks will then run out of the room to feed. But you can place the Dog Food there whether you have already killed the Umber Hulks or not.
Through the northeastern door (x 2000 y 770) is the BOSS of this area, TorGal. TorGal seems to indicate that he was hired by someone to kill the Arnise family here. But who would do such a thing? Before you can find out you have to fight. You have to fight TorGal and his Giant Troll cronies. Many people like the spell "Cloudkill" here.
TorGal - 15,000 exp Minor Treasures
Then search the pedestal under the statue:
Spells - Feeblemind (Mage) 2126 Gold Gems & Necklaces
Leave the Keep and Nalia will give you your reward: 10,650 gold and 45,500 experience. Anything past this point is part of the Fighter's Stronghold Quests (and covered in the Strongholds section at the end of the walkthrough), and so if you are not a Fighter, you won't get it. In fact, if you aren't a fighter, Nalia can't stay here and the Keep will be seized by the Roenalls.
Quests: -------
QUEST: Nalia's Father's Funeral
This Quest can only happen AFTER you have cleared out the De'Arnise Hold AND Nalia is in your party. A week must pass after the reward for clearing the Keep is given. Then if you are in a city, a messenger will arrive and tell you to go to the Graveyard for her father's funeral. This is time based, you must go to the Graveyard or Nalia will go without you.
Once at the Graveyard you will be met by the messenger who shows you to the Funeral site. Go up the stairs. There you will meet Isaea Roenall, her former fiance. Talking with him reveals the sort of person that he is, and why Nalia was in no rush to marry him. He ends his tirade with a threat and leaves.
Nalia has an amusing little rant about him and you can go.
QUEST: The Return of the Fiance & the Abduction of Nalia
Barg - Docks (AR 0300, x 2380 y 2500) Roenall Estate - Government District (AR 1000, x 2810 y 140)
24 hours after the Funeral, Isaea tracks you and Nalia down and demands that she honor her commitments. He then places her under arrest using his authority as an Amnish official. She is taken into custody and he laughs at you. It is suggested (for me it was from Yoshimo) that I attempt to find some evidence of his wrong- doing and present it to his superiors.
Note: On my latest journey through the game, I managed to trigger this event before it was time (in the middle of the funeral, in fact), such that he didn't kidnap her at all, merely repeated what he had said during the funeral. Why? Bodhi grabbed me and made her offer before Nalia could make her rant about Isaea being a bastard. So, to get Nalia kidnapped, I did a quick cheat with a CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("isaea") to get this quest.
Then Khellor Ahmson comes up to you with a plan to get back at wicked Isaea. You are told to watch a man named Barg at the docks, to search Isaea's home in the Government district (which he will unlock) and to present any evidence you find to Corgeig Axehand, Isaea's superior.
Go to the Docks and find Barg (he's near the Sea's Bounty). Talk to him and get him to reveal information on Isaea. He mentions one Officer Dirth, who happens to be in the Sea's Bounty right now. Enter the tavern and talk to him. This will end in violence.
Dirth - 3200 exp Full Plate Mail Spells - Simulacrum (Mage) Slavery Documents
We have evidence, but not enough yet. Go to the government district and go to the very top of the map. The building there is the Roenall building. Open it and go inside. Inside the bedroom, search the drawers there to get Isaea's financial records. Leave the house.
Enter the Government Council Building and talk to Corgeig Axehand. Present him with all of your evidence (especially the financial records) and he will summon Isaea forth. Corgeig launches a major investigation towards Isaea, which frees up Nalia to rejoin you. Isaea promises that this isn't over yet. (yet that appears to be it for him)
OTHER: Infinite Flame Arrows
Captain Arat - De'Arnise Area (AR 1300, x 675 y 3320)
This can only be done BEFORE the keep is liberated. Talk to Captain Arat and when you say farewell he gives you some Flame Arrows. Now simply talk to him again (3,3) and you will get another set of Flame Arrows. You can repeat this as often as you wish to get as many arrows as you wish. I would replace all of your regular arrows with Flame Arrows here. Once the Keep is liberated Arat leaves forever.