Baldur's Gate - Part 3

               Solution v1.0 by Alex van Kaam

@~Continued from Issue 60

Chapter 1

Stone Circle Area

Imoen will join you, take good care of her since she is a Thief,
and you will need one later in the game.

Head north on this map (Stone Ring area), through the woods till
you reach the stone circle, this is the place where Gorion died,
examine all the bodies and get all the items, what you can't use
you can always sell later.  Read Gorion's scroll and learn about
Jaheira and Khalid, two friends that wait for you in The Friendly
Arms Inn.

Head back south to the road, and then follow it to the east, you
will encounter Klossel, just talk to him, he will give you some
advice and then walk off. Continue the road to the east and you
will meet 2 more people, Montaron (Halfling Fighter/Thief, Neutral
Evil) and Xzar (Human Necromancer, Chaotic Evil).  Talk to Xzar
(choices 1, 3) and they will join you.  They are not the best
members to add to your party, but for now they will do.

Continue following the road and you will meet Binkos, he has no
time to talk since there has been another Caravan raided to the
north/east of Beregost.

Now all you need to do in this area is explore it all. There are a
few Bears (difficult at this stage), Wolves and some Diseased
Gibberlings. Try to kill them all so you gain some experience.
You will probably also encounter Chase, stop him from jumping and
you will gain +1 Reputation. You should also exit this area on all
sides (north, south, east and west), this way all these new areas
will appear on your global map.  Just walk to the edge and leave
the area, then press ESC to go back to the area and continue your
explorations.  Once you have explored the whole Stone Circle area
leave it via the east.

Forest South of Friendly Arms Inn

You now enter the forest south of The Friendly Arms Inn, as soon
as you enter it an Old Man will approach you, talk to him again it
does not really matter what you choose as all answers will lead to
the same result.  In this area it's the same as above, explore/map
it fully, leave it via all sides so you get all the adjacent sides
on your global map.  In this area you can encounter some Bandits
(take care of their bow skills, and make sure you take their
scalps), Diseased Gibberlings, Xvarts, Wolves and an Ogre to the
north/east. He is very hard to kill but it can be done, even on
level 1.  Once you killed him get his belongings and do not sell
them (or use the Girdle, which is cursed).

While exploring you will probably meet Andout, a messenger on his
way to Beregost to tell the governor Kelldath that his town might
become a garrison if the Amnish attack.  You will also meat Jase,
a small kid that does not trust you and he tells you about a
caravan attack that had just happened.  You will also encounter
Aoln who will warn you about beasts in the area, especially Ogres.
And you will find the ambushed caravan Jase told you about.

Once you have completed this area head north to The Friendly Arms
Inn.

Friendly Arms Inn

Best thing here is to enter the arms right away, then go to the
big building in the centre. Here a man called Tarnesh will
approach you asking if you are (fill in your name).  It again does
not matter what you say, he will try to kill you, so kill him
first.  Once he is dead get his belongings and read the Bounty
Scroll.

Enter the Inn, Jopi will talk to you and tell you that the roads
are full of bandits. Once he is gone approach and talk to either
Jaheira (Half-Elf Fighter/Druid, True Neutral) or Khalid (Half-Elf
Fighter, Neutral Good). They will join you, but like Xzar and
Montaron they want to go to Nashkel.

Next talk to Bentley MirrorShade and sell/buy what you need,
remember not to sell the stuff you got from the Ogre. You can talk
to Nessie to learn more about the Inn.

If you go up the stairs twice you will meet Landrin, he was on
his way to Baldur's Gate for some poison against a spider
infestation in his house in Beregost (his house is west of the
Jovial Jugglers Inn). If you bring him the bodies, his boots and
an old bottle of wine from the house he will pay you for it.

If you then go down the stairs and talk to Unshey he will reward
you for the girdle you got from the Ogre. On this same floor you
can get some trousers from a man, give them back and he then will
give you some Exp.

Leave the Inn and enter the Temple of Wisdom. Talk to Gellena
MirrorShade if you want cures or items identified.  Explore the
rest of the compound and you will meet Joia who had her Flamedance
ring stolen by a couple of Hobgoblins just north of the Inn, she
will reward you if you bring it back.

Leave the Inn (the castle) and explore the surrounding areas.
Again make sure you exit (and ESC) on all sides so you get
everything on your global map.  You'll encounter some Hobgoblins,
one of which has the Flamedance ring.

Once you explored the area and returned the ring, leave the map
via the south.  Use the Global map to head straight to Beregost.

Beregost (1)

Once you enter Beregost Golin Vend will approach you and you can
ask him some general questions about the town.  Again explore the
map and all the houses.  The town is quite big so I will start top
left block of houses, then centre, then top right, the bottom
left, centre and bottom right as last.  Also make sure you exit
and return so all side areas are on your global map.

On the first block of houses (top left) I did not find anything
interesting, just commoners.

Head over to the east and you will come to the estate of Gerard
Travenhurst.  You can steal some books from his bookcases but
there was not much more I could find there.  East of his house is
a farmhouse you can enter, again not much there.

Now head over to the houses west of the obelisk in the town centre
(the second row of houses counted from the top). Examine all the
houses and you will find the Feldepost Inn. Here you will meet
Marl, he is drunk, you can either kill him or talk him down,
talking him down will give you the most experience.  Also in this
block of houses you will find Kagain (Dwarf Fighter, Lawful Evil)
he offers you the job of finding the son of Entar Silvershield
(you already met this kid just north of Beregost!).  I took the
job and dumped Xzar, of course Montaron will follow.  I then got
all the gold and items I could from Kagain's store.

At the second block of these houses you will meet several people,
you will meet Garrick, he offers you 300Gp. if you guard a singer
called Silke Rosena.  Accept his offer and you will follow him to
this lady just outside the Red Sheaf Inn (also on the same block
of houses).

Talk to Silke and soon the "bandits" will approach, but if you
read the conversation carefully you will see that they are not the
ones who want to harm her, she just wants to use you to kill them
so she gets an item from them for free. So instead of attacking
the so-called bandits you should kill her.  Talk to the bandits,
get the stuff from Silke and if you want you can put Garrick
(Human Bard, Chaotic Neutral) in your party, I did as I had a slot
left anyway.

Now continue your examination of the houses and you will find the
Burning Wizard, not much of a pub but here you will encounter
Zhurlong, he will steal 25 Gp. from you but if you return his
Boots stolen by 2 Hobgoblins he will reward you.

Leave the pub and continue on this block of houses till you reach
the Red Sheaf Inn.  When you enter here Karlat will approach you
and try to kill you.  I found him very hard to kill and the best
approach was to let Jaheira cast Entangle on him, and then just to
kill him using bows.  Get his stuff from his body and enter the
Inn.  Go upstairs and talk to the man there to learn about the
ruins.

Once outside continue your sweep of the houses and then head over
to the house block east of the Inn. In this block you will find
the Thunder Hammer Smithy, but because of the iron problem it is
quite deserted.  You will also meet Mirianne who is worried about
her husband not sending a message he has arrived in Amn.  You
promise her to keep an eye out of him or a message.  The only
block left is the big one to the south, here you will find
Firebead Elvenhair and old friend of Gorion, and he would love a
book called the Faithful Coin. If you checked out the Feldepost
Inn then you know you can get it there for 2 coins, so go to the
Inn and get the book, give it to Firebead and he will give you
some Exp. and a book.

You will also find a house with some barrels in front of it. This
is the house of Landrin, he wanted you to kill the spiders, get
his boots and his wine. I used the Bard song to stop the poison,
it worked although don't know why.

Get all the stuff from the house and then head east to the Jovial
Juggler.  Here you will meet Bjornin, he will reward you if you
kill some of the Half-Ogres to the south - south/west.  You will
also meet Gurke who lost his cloak in the Cloakwood.

Use the world map to head back to the Friendly Arms Inn and give
Landrin his items. He will reward you, also let the staff you got
from Silke be identified. Now use the map to go south of the
Friendly Arms Inn and enter the area where you spot the boy Kagain
was looking for. He will tell you he is already sick of looking so
go back to the world map and head to the High Hedge area west of
Beregost.  I found that heading south was still too hard for my
characters.

High Hedge (1)

Explore this area fully, again making sure you use all 4 exits so
they appear on the global map. You will encounter some Skeletons,
Ghouls, Gnolls, Gnoll Veteran, Huge Spiders, Wild Dogs, Brown
Bears and some Black Bears.  You will also meet Permidion Stark, a
thief who is planning to kill the wizard who lives in the big
stone building here.  You can either try to do this yourself, or
you can let him live and use the wizard for a later quest ... I
choose to let him live and not even enter the building since it's
of no use now.  Just north of the stone building I met Kivan (Elf
Ranger, Chaotic Good), I let him join my party since I could use a
good ranger and I was not too fond of Kagain.  Leave this area to
the south.

Forest South of High Hedge (1)

Head east until you meet a Wolf and a chicken, kill the wolf to
save the chicken called Melicamp.  He turns out to be a wizard
whose spell failed, offer to help him, since you can't do it
yourself ask if someone else can.  The wizard Thalantyr in a tower
west of Beregost can, so take him there.  (Head back north to the
High Hedge) There is no real use in exploring the rest of the area
as you are too weak for it yet.

High Hedge (2)

Bring Melicamp to the wizard in High Hedge, talk to him twice, the
second time use (4, 1, 2, 1), you will need a skull.  Since you
have slain some skeletons around here go get a skull and return
with it to Thalantyr.

Now please save the game, the result of the spell changes,
sometimes Melicamp will die sometimes he will be helped back to
his human form.  Once he is back to his human form talk to
Thalantyr to get your Exp.

I then went back to Beregost and sold/bought what I had/needed. I
then left Beregost via the south exit.

South of Beregost

Again explore the area, make sure you try all exits so your global
map will show all areas.  You will encounter some Hobgoblins
Elite, Gibberlings, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, Ghouls, and 2 Ogrillions.
The 2 Ogrillions will carry a scroll, it is the scroll from
Mirianne's husband.  Head back to Beregost to give her the scroll
and gain some more Exp.  A band of Hobgoblins have Zhurlong's
boots.

You will also encounter Bub Snikt, I just talked to him, you will
also encounter a mercenary of the Flaming Fist, talk to him (1,3)
to avoid a fight.

Go back to Beregost and sell your items, give the boots to
Zhurlong and the scroll to Mirianne to gain some experience.

I then quickly went to the Friendly Arms Inn to get the ring
identified I got from Mirianne and to get some equipment (arrows)

Next I headed - using the global map - to the mountain area north
of Nashkel.

North of Nashkel

As normal, explore it, make sure you get every exit on your global
map. Monsters you might encounter are: Hobgoblins, Kobolds,
Bandits, Hobgoblins Elite.  One of the people you meet will be
Lord Foreshadow, just talk to him and he will go.  Also you will
meet Portal Bendarwinden again just talk to him.

This is quite an uneventful place, so leave it via the west exit.

Forest North/West of Nashkel

As you enter this area a fight will start between Drizzt and
several Gnolls, the battle is in the centre of the map, help him
out, then talk to him (1,1) and get all the gold and stuff from
the dead Gnolls.  Other Monsters in this area are Skeletons, Half
Ogres, Gnoll Veterans, Flinds, Black Bears, Ogrillions and also
you will meet Teyngan, Zekar and Jemby, bandits, the only way is
either give all your money or kill them, I choose for the last.
Not an easy battle at this level but it can be done.  Torlo - near
the hut - is just a strange guy, talk to him if you want.

Once you have completed this area you should be filled with items,
so head over to Beregost and trade them all in, also talk to
Bjornin in the Jovial Juggler to tell him you killed the half
ogres and get your reward.

You now have completed all open quests, there are still some
unexplored areas but they can be done at a later time, now head to
Nashkel.

Chapter 2

Nashkel (1)

Go over the bridge and enter the Inn, Neira will attack you, kill
her, another bounty hunter!

Leave the Inn and explore the rest of the town, you will soon
encounter Berrun Ghastkill, mayor of Nashkel, talk to him using 1,
1 and your next mission will be to enter the mines and check out
the iron crisis.

Next in the list of people you meet is Oublek, be honest to him
(2) and your reputation will go up by 1.

After that you will meet Minsc (Human Ranger, Neutral Good), he is
a bit weird but I added him to the group instead of my Bard
Garrick, he also has a quest, rescue his friend in a Gnoll
stronghold far to the west.

On a bridge you will also meet Edwin (Human Conjurer, Lawful
Evil), if you add him you will also get a quest, again to do with
the Gnoll stronghold to the west, you have to kill a witch called
Dynaheir.  I added him to the group, and dropped Minsc, I then got
this quest, next I added Minsc to the group and dropped Edwin.
(read what they say, they are both after the same woman, one to
kill her, the other to rescue her. I choose for Minsc.) You will
also meet Noober. What a pain! I used Entangle on him.

One of the commoners will tell you that she hired a sculptor
called Prism, but he left without a trace and she is going to the
guards.

Map the town and make sure you get all exits on your global map.
Finally leave the town via the south exit to go to the Nashkel
Mines.

Nashkel Mines

The entrance to the mines themselves is to the north/west of the
map, but first explore this area, making sure you got all exits on
your global map.  You will encounter Cave Bears, Kobolds, Winter
Wolves, Wolves, Ghouls.

One of the people you will meet is Prism, near the south/west of
the map, talk to him using 2, 1 and Greywolf will appear, you
swore to protect Prism so use option 2 and kill him.  Also you
should encounter Galtok, who is screaming about Kobolds following
him, he'll run off.

Get all the items from both the bodies and explore the rest of the
map. Before you enter the mines though head back to Nashkel and
give the emeralds from Prism to Oublek and let the sword you got
from Greywolf be identified.

Head down into the mine area, talk to the Amnish guard, then talk
to Emerson, a few steps to the south and talk to the guard again.
Now enter the mine

Nashkel Mines: Level 1

Enemies you will find here are Kobolds, they have plenty of arrows
so you do not have to worry about an arrow shortage in your party.
Talk to everybody, including Miner Dink for the quest of the
dagger. Once you have explored it all use the entrance to level 2
in the south/east to go to level 2.

Nashkel Mines: Level 2

Enemies you will find here are again Kobolds.  Find Miner Kylee in
the western area and return his dagger, he will tell you it has
been Kobolds who have been killing the miners.

The exit to level 3 is in the south/east.  The Kobolds you kill
before this exit should carry a vial of green liquid, it seems
they have been contaminating the ore.

Nashkel Mines: Level 3

Again you will find many Kobolds here, Ghouls, Huge Spiders and a
Kobold Commando.

When you enter this level you should also find Joseph's Greenstone
ring.  It is part of a quest so save it.  The idea behind this
level is you cross the lava using the bridge in the centre, the
bridge is trapped so make sure your thief scans for traps.

The exit to level 4 can be found in the south/east, and it has 3
traps in front of it. So stay on the look out.

Nashkel Mines: Level 4 (1)

Enemies on this level are Kobolds, Kobold Commandos, Ghouls, and
some Gray Ooze.  Cross the small stone bridge over the water and
enter the cave there.

Mulahey's Den

Enemies here are Kobolds, Skeletons and Mulahey himself.  Kill
everybody, not as hard as it looks, then search the bodies until
you find Mulahey's body, get all his items and then head over to
his chest, once you get the letter out of the chest you have
completed chapter 2

@~Next issue - Chapter 3
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