Please Help-Act1Chptr9-(may contain spoiler)
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Please Help-Act1Chptr9-(may contain spoiler)
Well to make a long story short....I missed where Captain Dathry said the leuitenant was in order to get his key in order to get into the inner vault. I also saved the game after talking to him. Can somebody please help me
Chapter Nine: Windstone Fortress
Task: Take the Azunite Weapon to the Windstone Fortress
If you return to the light puzzle area, the Azunite ghost that you spoke to before will open a path to the Western Cliffs of Azunai, which is where you have to head to get to the Windstone Fortress. Walk down until you come to Isteru's Caverns. You can pass right through here to return to the Cliffs if you want, but if you look around, you should find a doorway leading to some ruins. After poking around a bit and cleaning out the place up to the Incantation Shrine, return to the area with the blue platform in the center of the room. You can go down to the Ancient Elven Reliquary if you wish, but you can't do much because the only inhabitant is a ghost, and you can't speak to them yet. In the room with the platform, though, if you find the two valves next to the small basins in the corners, you can unlock a secret area with a miniboss inside.
Barring that adventure, you can return to the Cavern and start making your way through it until you eventually reach the Eastern Cliffs of Azunai teleporter pillar. East from here leads to an Incantation Shrine, but the western path is the one you want to take after that, obviously enough, since it'll lead you ever closer to the Windstone Fortress, which you eventually will reach, only to learn that Valdis has managed to beat you there.
Task: Find the Person in Command
Enter the Eastern Windstone Fortress Gatehouse. Feel free to look around if you wish, but your goal lies along the slim corridor to the east of where you entered. If you check through all of the rooms here, you should find Private Banos, one of three soldiers who managed to get lost inside the fortress. If you want to pick up the Missing Squadron secondary quest, feel free to talk to him. Further down this corridor, in the room near the corner of the halls, is another Mimic, so feel free to kill it for some more massive loot. Since there are plenty of enemies here, it's best to run towards it (preferably with a Nature character's Invulnerability party activated), use all of your most powerful single-target powers, then run away and come back when your powers have recharged. After a few trips, it'll be dead and you'll have plenty of treasure.
You can find a secret area just past the Sanctuary Door by clicking on the statue near the wall. Beyond it, you'll find doors leading to the west and the north. Head north first to find a miniboss and a seeming dead-end with a statue of an dual-wielding warrior. After grabbing the chant near the statue, click the button on its base to find another secret area before returning to the western passage. Following it will lead you back to the exterior portion of the fortress; head north from here to reach Captain Dathry. If you brought Banos along, you can drop him off with Squadron Leader Taarth.
Task: Enter the Outer Vault
After speaking to the soldiers near here and learning your task from Captain Dathry, you can head immediately to the east if you wish to proceed. If you want to finish up the Missing Squadron quest, though, you'll have to return to the south; the Western Gatehouse and Private Caiden are to the southwest, while the Barracks and Private Nolan are to the west of the teleporter here. Even if you don't normally like doing secondary quests, you should probably consider finishing off this one, since your reward will be a Dusty Key. This opens up a treasure room door shortly, so be sure to acquire it.
Task: Find the Inner Vault Key
Task: Enter the Inner Vault
When you're ready to move on, head to the east from Taarth to enter the Outer Vault. It will open thanks to the key you got from Dathry, so head and in and start knockin' heads. Soon enough you'll come to a series of Sight/Blindness/Death/Life doors, each of which will have to be unlocked by retrieving hexahedrons from near the pedestals and placing them in the slots.
After the Life door, you'll come to Lieutenant Namyek, who has been overridden by the ghost plague. You'll have to kill him to get the Inner Vault Key, so blast him before moving on. The Inner Vault is just nearby, so head inside, grab all the treasure, and click on the blue flame device to activate your Azunite Artifact. Nearby, you'll also find the entrance to the White Vault, which can only be opened with the Dusty Key you got from Taarth earlier. Heading inside and placing four Death cubes in the pedestals (they can be found inside the Inner Vault) will lead you to an optional treasure room.
You'll need to deal with all of these insects if you want to bust through to the Temple.
Task: Enter the Temple of Xeria
After Dathry blasts open the passage leading to the Temple, follow him in and kill the many demons that appear. It's easiest to do so if you lure them back towards the passage and use one of your powers on the group, like Thundering Shot or Waves of Force. When they're dead, head through and into the Temple to complete this quest.
Task: Take the Azunite Weapon to the Windstone Fortress
If you return to the light puzzle area, the Azunite ghost that you spoke to before will open a path to the Western Cliffs of Azunai, which is where you have to head to get to the Windstone Fortress. Walk down until you come to Isteru's Caverns. You can pass right through here to return to the Cliffs if you want, but if you look around, you should find a doorway leading to some ruins. After poking around a bit and cleaning out the place up to the Incantation Shrine, return to the area with the blue platform in the center of the room. You can go down to the Ancient Elven Reliquary if you wish, but you can't do much because the only inhabitant is a ghost, and you can't speak to them yet. In the room with the platform, though, if you find the two valves next to the small basins in the corners, you can unlock a secret area with a miniboss inside.
Barring that adventure, you can return to the Cavern and start making your way through it until you eventually reach the Eastern Cliffs of Azunai teleporter pillar. East from here leads to an Incantation Shrine, but the western path is the one you want to take after that, obviously enough, since it'll lead you ever closer to the Windstone Fortress, which you eventually will reach, only to learn that Valdis has managed to beat you there.
Task: Find the Person in Command
Enter the Eastern Windstone Fortress Gatehouse. Feel free to look around if you wish, but your goal lies along the slim corridor to the east of where you entered. If you check through all of the rooms here, you should find Private Banos, one of three soldiers who managed to get lost inside the fortress. If you want to pick up the Missing Squadron secondary quest, feel free to talk to him. Further down this corridor, in the room near the corner of the halls, is another Mimic, so feel free to kill it for some more massive loot. Since there are plenty of enemies here, it's best to run towards it (preferably with a Nature character's Invulnerability party activated), use all of your most powerful single-target powers, then run away and come back when your powers have recharged. After a few trips, it'll be dead and you'll have plenty of treasure.
You can find a secret area just past the Sanctuary Door by clicking on the statue near the wall. Beyond it, you'll find doors leading to the west and the north. Head north first to find a miniboss and a seeming dead-end with a statue of an dual-wielding warrior. After grabbing the chant near the statue, click the button on its base to find another secret area before returning to the western passage. Following it will lead you back to the exterior portion of the fortress; head north from here to reach Captain Dathry. If you brought Banos along, you can drop him off with Squadron Leader Taarth.
Task: Enter the Outer Vault
After speaking to the soldiers near here and learning your task from Captain Dathry, you can head immediately to the east if you wish to proceed. If you want to finish up the Missing Squadron quest, though, you'll have to return to the south; the Western Gatehouse and Private Caiden are to the southwest, while the Barracks and Private Nolan are to the west of the teleporter here. Even if you don't normally like doing secondary quests, you should probably consider finishing off this one, since your reward will be a Dusty Key. This opens up a treasure room door shortly, so be sure to acquire it.
Task: Find the Inner Vault Key
Task: Enter the Inner Vault
When you're ready to move on, head to the east from Taarth to enter the Outer Vault. It will open thanks to the key you got from Dathry, so head and in and start knockin' heads. Soon enough you'll come to a series of Sight/Blindness/Death/Life doors, each of which will have to be unlocked by retrieving hexahedrons from near the pedestals and placing them in the slots.
After the Life door, you'll come to Lieutenant Namyek, who has been overridden by the ghost plague. You'll have to kill him to get the Inner Vault Key, so blast him before moving on. The Inner Vault is just nearby, so head inside, grab all the treasure, and click on the blue flame device to activate your Azunite Artifact. Nearby, you'll also find the entrance to the White Vault, which can only be opened with the Dusty Key you got from Taarth earlier. Heading inside and placing four Death cubes in the pedestals (they can be found inside the Inner Vault) will lead you to an optional treasure room.
You'll need to deal with all of these insects if you want to bust through to the Temple.
Task: Enter the Temple of Xeria
After Dathry blasts open the passage leading to the Temple, follow him in and kill the many demons that appear. It's easiest to do so if you lure them back towards the passage and use one of your powers on the group, like Thundering Shot or Waves of Force. When they're dead, head through and into the Temple to complete this quest.
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Hak'u Harry
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[QUOTE=mydestinee5]Well to make a long story short....I missed where Captain Dathry said the leuitenant was in order to get his key in order to get into the inner vault. I also saved the game after talking to him. Can somebody please help me [/QUOTE]
I did the same thing. You were there. Go back to the outer vault. When you get to the glowing yellow eye realize that you have been doing something wrong. There are elements around you that if you put your mouse over will display a message box and you can get a clue as to what to do. Anyway, go to the corner where the small yellow eye is, and left-click like the message box says, then go back to the fire caldrohn next to the big yellow eye and left-click it... and Oh, the door opens. The next two puzzels are for you to solve. I will say this, think in patterns. Good luck Hak'u style.
HH
[QUOTE=mydestinee5]Well to make a long story short....I missed where Captain Dathry said the leuitenant was in order to get his key in order to get into the inner vault. I also saved the game after talking to him. Can somebody please help me
[/QUOTE]I did the same thing. You were there. Go back to the outer vault. When you get to the glowing yellow eye realize that you have been doing something wrong. There are elements around you that if you put your mouse over will display a message box and you can get a clue as to what to do. Anyway, go to the corner where the small yellow eye is, and left-click like the message box says, then go back to the fire caldrohn next to the big yellow eye and left-click it... and Oh, the door opens. The next two puzzels are for you to solve. I will say this, think in patterns. Good luck Hak'u style.
HH