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abg...@milton.u.washington.edu (Andrew Gross) writes:

>1)  Enter the temple.  Find secret teleporter to "resurrections-r-us".  Go
>up stairs.  Defeat cleric.  Stuck.  No keys to open doors.  Am I missing
>something?

You'll find one copper key downstairs, after getting a clue
from Imsel the Thief (you've found him, haven't you?).
That will get you thru one door, and nosing around in there
will produce one more, but the rest will have to wait until
later in the game!!

>A more general question.  My party has no thief.  Would a thief be able to
>pick most or all of these locks, thus greatly reducing the penalty that I pay

My recommendation is, don't waste your time on a thief in the
party; I started with one, but discovered that he NEVER succeeds
in opening any IMPORTANT doors... they put in some special rooms
on the Priests' level which can ONLY be opened by a thief, but
there's nothing exciting there, and he never managed to open 
anythingg else... I ended up starting over without wasting
the slot...

Also, another hint:  Don't waste slots on NPCs, or your mage will
never get high enough to have 12th level spells before end of game,
though I didn't use spells to defeat DRAN anyway... spells really
don't work all that well in tthis gaming system...

abg...@milton.u.washington.edu (Andrew Gross) writes:

>I'm really stuck, and would appreciate a gentle nudge in the right direction.

  Answers follow (well some do anyway!)
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>1)  Enter the temple.  Find secret teleporter to "resurrections-r-us".  Go
>up stairs.  Defeat cleric.  Stuck.  No keys to open doors.  Am I missing
>something?

  Yes,  Try going downstairs!




>2)  Go to 1st level of dungeon.  Find dead guy's remains, with partial map of
>first level showing location of secret doors.  Go through secret doors.  Go
>down stairs to second level of dungeon.  Immediately confronted by a door.  
>No key to open door.  Stuck.  Am I missing something?

  Err,  I can't remember too well, either you need a silver(?) key or throw a
  rock through it(if its a barred door).




>3).  Blow off second level.  Go to third level.  Find all sorts of secret
>doors.  Rescue dwarven cleric (not much help without holy symbol, though).
>Have explored every single square inch of every wall, to no avail-- cannot
>find any more secret doors.  So: need either a key which fits one of the two
>"skull shaped" keyholes, or the key that fits the glowing blue keyhole.  
>Stuck.  I'm thinking that the keys that I need were on the second level that
>I never explored?...

  When you enter the third level, turn right and go through the door there.
  In the next room, there is a hole in the wall, a skull lock and a fireball
  trap.  If you stand away from the trap and throw a rock either at the wall
  next to the hole or at the hole itself, a skull key will appear in the hole.
  I can't remember which of the two locks you should open first however.

  NOTE : After opening the lock where you found that first skull key, it is a
         VERY wise idea to save your game regularly (VERY regularly)!!




>A more general question.  My party has no thief.  Would a thief be able to
>pick most or all of these locks, thus greatly reducing the penalty that I pay
>for being too stupid to find keys?  If so, I can start over again with a new
>party.  I guess the best case scenario is that I wasn't supposed to be able
>to explore the priests' quarters upstairs, and that the keys to the third 
>level locks were on the second level, so that all I have really missed is the
>key that opens the door to the second level. <shrug> Frustrating.

  I had a half elven fighter/thief in my party, and to be quite honest I didn't
  really find him to be that much use.  The keys for most (all?) the doors are
  there, it's just a question of finding them!


>Thanks in advance,

>Andrew B. Gross
>abg...@hardy.u.washington.edu
> 

  No problemo!



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