Elder Scrolls : Redguard - Part 1
               The Ultimate Pirate Adventure!

                  Walkthrough from the net

New to the sword?

Once you arrive into the harbor of Stros M'Kai you get your first
taste of steel as your ship is attacked by two ruffians of the
Restless League Pirates Guild.  Better be quick or you'll be dead!
Swordfighting is essential to this game, so you better learn those
keys fast.  Using the Ctrl key and the arrow keys will direct your
sword thrust, while holding down the Alt key will defend your
enemies attack.  Once you get the basics it's time to get
advanced.  The Control key will give you the basic Single Slash,
hitting the Ctrl key twice will give you the Double Slash, hitting
the Ctrl key three times .... well gives you the Triple Slash,
although this gives the most damage it also you leaves you open
for an attack.  Want a power attack, just hit the forward arrow
key and the single thrust Ctrl key, it will keep those pesky
guards and pirates at bay.  The Lunge Attack will keep Cyris a
safe distance away from his attacker, use the forward arrow key
and the Double Slash combination to achieve this end.
Sidestepping attacks, backstepping incoming lunges, and jumping
are all excellent swordfighting techniques.  Although jumping
makes Cyris look like a fool, it is actually a very effective tool
to use.  Try it and see!

You're new in town?

Once you are in Stros M'Kai, talk to everyone along the docks,
starting with your Captain Bremen.  He can give valuable
information on the town, the location of the Dragon Tail Inn,
what's been going on during the Empire's War, and the Restless
League.  Although Cyris cares little for politics, ye best be
careful where NPCs put their loyalties.  Now leave the ship and go
and talk to everyone you might meet.  Trivic is a good source of
information, he's walking along the docks waiting to get his boat
repaired.  It seems it was broken into a couple of nights before.
You'll also meet a very friendly girl walking along the docks, her
name escapes me now, so many women so little time.  She has
valuable information on your missing sister and the local barkeep.
She even knows Tobias, your contact in town.  By the warehouse,
you'll meet a man offering you a job.  It is a quest to retrieve
and deliver an amulet to the Governor of Stros M'Kai, accept the
job but don't go on the quest just yet ... there's still plenty to
do.

Go to the town square, here you will notice many of the major
buildings in town.  Most notably the Dragon Tail Inn, the Mages
Guild, the Temple, the Bookstore, the Cartographer's shop, the
Silversmith shop, and the General Goods Store.  But first, go to
the Dragon Tail Inn and talk to Tobias, your contact in town.
He's the one that informed you of your sister's disappearance.
You also meet Drekkius the barkeep, a lizard from the Black Marsh.
Talk to both of them.  Pick a fight with the local boys in the
tavern, their Forebears and pissed about the empire.  This way you
can practice up on those swordfighting techniques.  Don't worry,
the local lads won't kill you, only ruff you up a bit.  After this
go and talk to everyone about everything.  Even try entering a few
of the buildings, although most be locked, and talk with the
people there.  Most notably the local drunk in town, Crendel.
Brother Niddle in the temple.  Mara, the local flower girl.
Felicia, at the Mages Guild.  Lakene, the Mr.  fix-it guy in town.
Makio, at the Cartographer's Shop. And Gerric at the General Goods
Store.  You get the idea ...

Once you have enough information it's time to go exploring along
the island.  You'll learn a lot about the different locations and
know what's where!  Don't stray too far off course or you just may
run into some pirates or some very angry guards!  Along the Ogres
Tooth Mountains, you'll find an abandoned house.  Inside are
goodies, keep them all, especially an empty flask.  If you go back
to Gerric's shop and buy aloe, you can mix it with pure water to
create a healing potion.  You can get water from the local well in
town, by the Dragon Tail Inn.

Make sure you talk to the parrot in Gerric's shop, he has valuable
information about your sister and her hidden stash of gold.  But
you have to rhyme to him to get him to talk.  Gold is everywhere
on the island, just laying around on the ground, go and pick some
up when you run out.  Explore everything and talk to everybody,
this is the key to Redguard and to solving all of the puzzles and
mysteries.  Buy all the books at the bookstore!

Izara's hidden gold!

While talking to the parrot at Gerric's shop, you will learn about
Izara's hidden gold.  Make sure you buy a shovel, you'll need it.
To find the gold, exit Stros M'Kai and walk north until you reach
a bridge.

Don't cross the bridge, but head west along the edge of the
stream, and you will come upon a statue of Hunding, a great hero
of Hammerfell.  It seems someone has knocked his head off, if you
stand the way the head faces and walk 20 paces (in walk mode) and
start digging.  There you should find 300 gold pieces, enough to
buy all the things you want but didn't have enough money for
before.

N'gasta Island.....Part One

Buy plenty of healing potions from the Mages Guild and practice up
on your swordfighting before attempting this mission.  Once you
feel comfortable enough, it's time to go adventuring!  If you want
to go to N'gasta's Island, go across the bridge and head west
until you reach a series of wooden bridges.  But be careful, these
bridges are old and rotten and will fall apart as you try to walk
across them.  The key here is to run and jump, and to save often.
One you reach the other side, you will find a Skeleton Boatman,
tip him with your gold and he will take you to the island.  Once
there follow the path to a stone pavilion, there you will find
several healing potions to help you on your journey.  But beware,
skeletons pop up out of the ground to kill you!  Don't try and
kill the zombies, because you can't.  They fall down sure enough,
but they won't stay down.  At the Main Gate turn right, and walk
along the edge of the wall until you find a skull lever, pull it
and it will open a secret door.  Go inside and get the gold,
potions, and most importantly the crowbar.  Use the crowbar on the
main gates to pry it open.  Once inside, turn left and continue
until you see a green building with a giant eyeball on top of it.
Climb up the stair and turn the wheel, which will turn the
eyeball.  You may notice the big green statue in the background
move, run to it and jump on its back.  Once there, climb up on its
head and walk across to the main gates of N'gata's Tower.  He's
waiting there to talk to you!  After this, return to Stros M'Kai,
your adventure has just begun.  But do not return the amulet to
the Governor just yet, or as I like to call him, Fat Boy.  If you
do, the guards will chase you around for the rest of the game
making your other quest quite frustrating and annoying to
complete.

Hunding's Artifact

Well by now you may have notice the huge statue of Hunding in the
bay.  Must be a great hero or something.  To learn more about him,
ask around.  Still don't know enough, go and buy the book on
Redguard Heroes at Jeffer's bookshop to learn even more.  It seems
Hunding defeated the goblins under Stros M'Kai with a powerful
artifact.  Seems it's been missing for years.  I wonder where it
is?  Go to the warehouse, where the guy offered you a job about an
amulet, and turn to the right.  There should be a small building,
and behind it should be a small crate.  Climb onto the box and up
onto the roof.  Once there, jump across to the balcony on the
other building.  Climb up on its roof, and walk across the
clothing line to the next building.  Tightrope your way across,
just like in the circus.  Psycho Circus, and welcome to the show!
Sorry, got a little carried away with that one. Once you're on the
next building, jump to the main gates of Stros M'kai.  Walk as far
as you can until you walk no further.  Jump off the wall, and hang
by your fingertips.  Make your way along the edge, until you can
climb back up.  Walk to the statue, and inside you will find the
most treasured artifact of Hunding.  To get down, you can either
go back to the way you came, or just jump into the water!  Aaaah
... a refreshing swim!

The Goblin Caves

After talking to Brother Niddle and Mara the flower girl, you will
learn of the disappearance of a monk from the local temple.  It
seems he had dealings with your sister.  You will find out that a
lot of people have disappeared lately.  Go to the town's gardens,
Mara can tell you the way, and look closely at that waterfall.
Pretty isn't it?  Notice something, there seems to be a small
ledge under the waterfall.  You know what to do?  Run around to
the other side of the bridge and jump in the water, swim to the
edge of the falls and jump down.  Once you're on the ledge, climb
down the rope, and there you go!  Kill the goblin waiting there
for you, and cross the bridge.  To your right you will see a small
locked gate, don't try and enter because it's locked.  To your
left, you will see two huge doors that are also locked.  Must be
something big behind there?  But I'm not telling, not yet anyway.
Once you have climbed up to the huge doors, jump across the ledge
on the other side.  There you will find several potions and gold.
Now take a look down!  A long way isn't it!  Mushrooms anyone?
Jump off the ledge and bounce, bounce, and bounce your way across
the mushrooms to safety.  A key to bouncing is once you hit the
mushroom, use your arrow keys to turn in the air to hit the next
mushroom.  Save before you jump, is always good advice from an
aged old sage.

Go into the next room and kill some more goblins, and climb
upwards to a crossing bridge, but be careful, vines shoot up out
of the ground to eat you!  Ouch!  That's gotta hurt.  Walk across
the ledge and you will notice a scar in the wall, jump onto and
hang your way across, watch out for those vines, once you fall
into a room where the dead monk is.  Here you will find his
journal, and learn all you need to about him and your sister.  You
will also learn about the Archmage's Ring.  Go to the locked door
in the same room as the dead monk, and say the words .... Ubula!
The goblin will open the door, kill him!  In the next room will be
a teleporter, jump on it and sees where it takes you.  One room
will be by the main entrance.  Remember the little locked cage
door, well this is it, unlock it!  You may also notice a huge
crack in the wall.  How do I get that open?  Use the force, Luke!
No, use the Hunding Artifact!  Once you're done, jump back on the
teleporter and you may find yourself in a locked cage, don't worry
soon the teleporter will kick in and you find yourself in the
first room.

Jump down the ledge, and kill three goblins there, make sure you
get those potions!  You will come to a ledge that looks down onto
a room, a strange building of some kind is there.  You will find a
barrel by the shore of this green-junky river.  Man, the pollution
must be bad in Stros M'Kai!  I wonder if there is a dwarven
nuclear powerplant near by?  Well, don't worry about it, light the
barrel with your torch and run, you should see a nice explosion.
Now jump way across the floating pieces in the water to this
beached ship on the ledge on the other side.  I wonder how this
got here?  Must have floated in somewhere!  If you look up, you
will notice a big hole in the ceiling.  Look familiar?  Yes it is
the same big hole you found in the ground out by the bridge.  Now
why is that there?  Just light the barrels with your torch and run
like hell! The bridge should explode, opening another doorway in
another room.  Go to it and enter the doorway.  Eventually you
will come to room filled with mushrooms, go down there and kill a
big green monster.  You can't really kill him, but you can put him
to sleep.  Go to the ledge, and look down.  More mushroom anyone?
You know what you have to do?  Bounce, bounce, and bounce your way
to a ledge all the way to your left.  Once there, hang your way
around until you get to a tunnel, and jump in it!  Walk to the
next room, kill more green monsters, and you should find a
Skeleton Elevator.

Take a ride down, and kill two more goblins.  Jump onto the cages
hanging over the river and jump on the squid-like thing swimming
by.  It should take you to a wooden house submerged in the green
junk.  You may also find in the game a huge wheel under a ledge,
climb down to it and turn it, and a dam or a door should open.
Exploring is the key here, since I don't remember exactly where it
is at!  Save a lot, and watch out for those vines, and slippery
ledges, it's long way down!  Afterwards you will come to a huge
dam, and a river of green junk.  Go down and kill the goblins, and
green monsters.  make your way along the side, until you reach a
room with a wheel.  Turn the wheel, and the dam will close.  Now
jump down into the empty riverbed, and walk along its path until
you find a dead goblin.  He'll have an important skeleton key on
him.  Climb back up, and reopen the dam with the wheel.  Now how
do I get across, or back the way I came.

You may notice that the ledge you walked down on, you can't climb
back up.  I wonder why?  Reopen the dam, and climb up onto its
doors, and jump across them.  This will get you to the other side.
Kill the green monster under the mushrooms and the goblin by the
door.  Open the door with the skeleton key and enter the next
room.  Jump across the stones in the water, and climb up on the
ledge on the far side. Kill the goblin, and walk across the
skeleton bridge.  Inside you should find a huge room supported by
pillars.  Inside is the King of Goblins.  Big isn't he?  You can
try and kill him, but you can't!  Not on your own anyway, you need
help.  And some big help, get him to swing his axe at the pillar
and the ceiling will come tumbling down on him.  But you better
get out of the way!

Also in this room is the dead Archmage Volo, get the ring off his
body and make your way back across the skeleton bridge.  It is
possible to get the ring without killing the King of Goblins, but
who would want to?  Once you jump back across the river, you will
see a teleporter in a locked cage to the far right wall.  Go to it
and turn the wheel, the door should open and hop on it!  Teleport
your way back to the main entrance, and leave the tunnels the way
you came in ....  up the rope and jump down out of the waterfalls!

Back in town again!

Go and talk to Brother Niddle, he wants to know what you have
learned about the missing monk and the Archmage's ring.  Go and
talk to Felicia at the Mages Guild.  And Drekkius at the Dragon
Tail.  Buy more potions and refill your empty flask.  Speaking of
a flask ....

@~To be concluded next issue







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