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| Coffin Caves |
| Avernum 2 | Coffin Caves | Dark Waters |
Navigation: General Hints, Notes
List of all towns and shops in Avernum
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| Coffin Caves |
If you search around outside you will find some Spritual Herbs in the NE and some Healing Herbs in th SE corner.
On entering you can go north and fight your way round to the control panel in the east of the main hall or you can go south and talk to the crystal souls. There are no monsters in this part and although they do not give you any worthwhile information, it is nevertheless instructive to talk to them.
| Person | Function | Items, Quests and Notes | |
| Roda-Bok | Crystal-Soul | He tells you a bit about the Resting and mentions that Korhis-Bok will need a lot of healing. | |
| Lierdra-Bok | Crystal-Soul | His thoughts are very muddled. He can no longer sense the vahnatai who should be initiating the Awakening. He does not respond to your offer to start the Awakening and does not give you any useful hints on how to do it. | |
| Korhis-Bok | Crystal-Soul | He seems demented and just shouts nonsense at you. |
The door to the east of the crystal souls is blocked by rock fall which cannot be moved. So you must go to the north.
The room directly north of the entrance hall is inhabited by chitrach larvae, which are easy to kill. In the next room (northwest corner) are more larvae and a chitrach (tougher). Round the corner to the east are some null bugs. These are a bit tricky because they are impervious to magic and cast anti-magic fields. The best way of dealing with them is to keep your spell casters out of range of these fields and haste, bless and shield your warriors. Since null bugs do not have any ranged attacks, the spell casters can stay in sight of the bugs but far enough away from them so that they cannot attack. Just let your warriors pummel the bugs and keep healing, blessing and occasionally speeding them. Keep an eye on your spell points and if they get too low, go outside and rest.
Further east, to the north of the corridor is a locked room containing nothing but two ordinary crystals and some tools. To the east of this is a room with nothing but lots of large blue crystals. At the eastern end of the corridor is magical barrier which can be walked through. After killing the null bug in the room you find that the crystal boxes contain mostly nothing other than rusty unusable tools. One however holds a Chill Charm.
To the south of the corridor is the main hall. Here are lots of null bugs, chitrachs and chitrach larvae. Make sure you are at full strength and enter combat mode before entering the hall. Since you have not learned Beast Ceremony yet (unless you have been using the character editor), you will have to rely on individual spells: haste, bless and shield. They all help. Keep your spell casters out of the mêlée, using them to keep your warriors up to scratch. It is better to skirt round the hall rather than storming directly into the middle where you will probably be overwhelmed. By going around the edge you can take the monsters out piecemeal.
In the NW corner of the alcove in the west of the hall is a body with a scrap of vellum.
To the southeast of the main hall is a room with four chitrach larvae. In the west of this room is a locked door behind which are three Vahnavios. They are rather tough so prepare yourself before opening the door. After killing them you can find a further scrap of Vellum in the vahnatai cabinet. Now back to the main hall.
In the east wall of the main hall are two secret passages one to the north and the other to the south both leading up to the control platform. When you approach the controls you will be prompted to operate them. The scraps of vellum show the correct order. The symbols for wheel and button are however confusing. The correct order is button, lever, wheel, lever, button.
Now you have set the awakening process in motion and can continue your journey to the Vahnatai Lands where you will find your path a little easier for having done this service.
