stuck - need help in catacombs and lower keep

Silent Sorrow · Post by **Silent Sorrow** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 11:39 pm

Three areas have got me stuck.

1. In the catacombs 2nd cellar, northwest area, I need a "new iron key" to open a door. Haven't got it, can't find it and have killed everything.

2. Nearby to the east is another room. This one needs a "fragile iron key." Haven't got it, can't find it and have killed everything.

3. In the lower keep there's a room with four chests behind what appears to be a secret door. I try to pick the lock with a rogue and get the message that it's "too complex for even the most skilled rogue to pick." The door can't be broken down. However, there is no message given that I need a particular key. How do I get into this room?

thanks

patchel · Post by **patchel** » Fri Dec 21, 2001 6:57 am

1. the new iron key is carried by a cult mage and his servant a bit north of the door that requires it.

2. the fragile iron key you cannot get until after you finish all of the catacombs and recue the baelnorn.

3. the door will open when you return victoria's skull to her sarcophagus.

Silent Sorrow · Post by **Silent Sorrow** » Fri Dec 21, 2001 10:48 am

1. But that's the thing--I've killed everything in the level. Lots of mages. None happened to have that particular key. Should I just keep running around there until a random encounter is spawned and I fight another mage?

2. I have already rescued the baelnorn (that's when he transports you to another room and goves you some treasure, right?). There is one thing I'm wondering about which is that there are elven catacombs as well, right? I got down to them in a different saved game but can't seem to get back there in the current one. You get to it by using the hinged device on that apparatus near that dwarven ghost guy on the surface level, right? I can't remember where to get the hinged device. Or maybe I already got it and used it and there's some sort of bug preventing me from going back down there. Damned if I can remember with all the endless backtracking I've had to do.

3. What's this about Victoria's skull? I have evensong's skull. Where do I get this Victoria's skull and where do I take it?

thanks

patchel · Post by **patchel** » Sat Dec 22, 2001 7:20 am

1. you could try resting in that room and somtimes the battle will restart. also, sometimes nottle has keys that are missing.

2. if you have rescued the baelnorn, go to stillwater and visit beriand and faeril in their tree. they have been kidnapped and there is a portal there which will take you to them. they are in the second level of the catacombs, in an area you could not get to before. now you can find the fragile iron key.

you get the hinged device from harldain, the dwarf ghost. it opens that statue behind the house of gems so you can get a new gem of the weave. the elven catacombs require the wizard's torc which is gotten from preybellish in the main halls and completed by harldain. then you take it to ualair's circle in the speculum grounds, west of the hall of wizards and a portal will open to the catacombs.

3. in the room just NE of the room you can't get into are some undead. kill them and you should find an ancient skull. put it in the sarcophagus.