Bargha - (Avernum: Escape from the Pit)

	Bargha	The Abyss
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Cellars	Bargha	Attic

General Hints

This fort guards the northen end of the Abyss against the giants. Here you can complete X's quest to find the library, learn about the Scimitar and get some missions. The people here have enough problems with the giants to worry about a few "voles". Although they have also been banished to the Abyss, the people here are much more friendly than the inhabitants of Spire.

Shops, People and Quests

Person	Function	Items, Quests and Notes	Rating
Bela	Gatekeeper	He will open the gate if you ask him. You cannot open the gate yourself to get out.
Molly	Child	This little girl is frightend – of the giants and of you.
Calder	Innkeeper	He will tell you how to find the Scimtar.
Cynthia	Sage	Runs the library, such as it is. She tells you a bit about Pyrog and that she used to identify items, but adventurers are much better trained these days, thus making this service redundant.
Marlowe	Shopkeeper (Rations)	Abusive and exorbitant.	exorbitant
Johnston	Shopkeeper (Fletcher)	Sells good bows and will tell you about the Scimiter (as if you did not already know!)	expensive
Prynne	Healer	Just a healer and will sell you various healing potions and scrolls.	utterly rediculous
Cababero	Priest	A rather rebellious priest who does his best to help the people in Bargha; hints that there might be a way out to the east.
Maher	Mayor	His office is on the first floor. If you visit him there he will tell you that he has a lot of trouble with the giants to the east and will ask you to kill as many of them as you can, but does not reward you. So I do not count this as a quest. There is however a quest from Kyass involving this mayor, but this is described on another page.
Ethridge	Trainer	As well as offering training, Ethridge gives you a qest to kill some shades to the west.	exorbitant, Quest
Cleese	Scimitar	Guards the entrance to the Scimitar hideout. He tells you to to destroy the Empire's communication orb in the Gremlin Cave.	Quest
Rogow	Scimitar	She gives you the quest to find the exit to the surface.	Quest
Vennel	Prisoner	Tells you a bit about the Empire Communication Orb, which is rather useless because you cannot get here until you have already destroyed it!

Notes

It is always a good idea to talk to everybody. The following notes give hints on hidden rooms, traps and puzzles. Some of the corpses lying outside the walls to the east have a few saleable items. Most of the corpses in the morturay in the SE of the town will make you ill. The one in the NW has a pouch with 90 coins and you do not get poisoned.

There are two storage areas in the cellars. The main one is directly accessible from a staircase in the NE of the shopping complex in the north of the town. Here is noboby who can watch, so you can take everything worth having. The second storage area can only be reached by the secret passages leading to the Scimitar hideout. If you want to loot it you should do so before opening the door to Cleese.

The Scimitar

Several people (Royce in Blosk for instance) have already told you about the Scimitar and that you should talk to Calder. He tells you about a secret passage to their hideout and gives you the password for it. When you get downstairs you will meet Cleese who gives you the quest to destroy the orb that Empire soldiers in Avernum are using to communicate with the surface. The orb is located in the Gremlin Cave in the soutwest corner of the Scree Pits east of Fort Spire.

When you get back after destroying the orb Cleese will reward you with 1 reputation but no experience and let you join the Scimitar. If you accept he will give you the password "Icarus" and tell you to talk to Rogow.

She gives you a lot of information about the exit to the Surface. It is located near the Tower of Sulfras, to whom you should talk. She also tells you that you need a four part password, about which Erika can tell you.

Ethridge's Ghosts

The spirits that are haunting Ethridge are on the north wall of the cave to the west of the town. There are 4 Vengeful Shades, 4 Banshees and a Slith Avatar. When you report back to the trainer after eliminating these ghosts she will reward you with a Lightstep Band and around 40xp.

Treasure and Hidden Passages

Throughout the Scimitar hideout are lots of items lying around which you can take and sell. Since money is so short in this game, this is very welcome.

To the south of the hideout there are some prison cells. In the SE corner of the cell block is a passage which leads to a bridge across an underground river. On the other bank you get warned that there are "Unsecured Guards" which turn out to be two Crocolisks, two Cryodrakes and two Guard Basilisks. Having disposed of them you can proceed to the east and find a secret door which leads to the door of a storeroom. To the south and round the corner you will find two chests guarded by four Guardian Hellhounds. One of these chests contains lots of coins and some other nice things like Fine Razordiscs and the other is filled with grisly trophies: the skull of each Empire officer the Scimitar have killed!

Pylon

In the NW corner of the central block of buildings is a locked door (TU 5) leading to a staircase to the pylon.

Secret Doors

There are lots of secret buttons in this town, some of them redundant and one even useless.

Exit/Entry in the East

Cababero has hinted that there is a way out to the east. If you try to open the gates with the wheel you will upset the guards. There is however a series of hidden doors which allow you to leave and enter the town in the east

On the north wall in the NE corner of the town is a button which opens a passage that would be too narrow for a giant.
Towards the east end of this passage, again on the north wall, is a further button which opens a way out of the passage.
On entering the town from the east you can find a button on the north wall.
Near the upper end of the passage is a further button on the north wall which opens a passage into the town.

Reaching the Scimitar

There are two routes to the Scimitar hideout but only one for the return.

In the bedroom in the east of the inn is a button in the north wall which opens a passage in the north that leads west.
At the end of this passage is a further button which opens a path to the staircase down to th cellar.
On the northern town wall just west of the inn is a button which opens to the staicase to the cellar.
In the west wall just south of the staircase is a button which can be used to open a path into the town when you come uo from the Scimitar hideout. There is no way to get back from this side to the passage to the bedroom.

Buttons in the Cellar

There are some further buttons in the cellars.

In the NW corner of the main storeroon (the one that can be entered via the staircase in the NE of the shopping complex in the north of the town) is a button on the west wall. This button is pretty useless because the path it opens leads to a gate which closes automatically every time you leave the cellars and can only be opened from the other side.
If you approach this gate from the other side you can turn a wheel to open the gate only to find yourself in a dead end. There is however a button in the north wall which opens a path to the main storage cellar.
When you have completed the misson for Cleese you can press a button in the west wall of his rather cramped office. This opens the way to the Scimitar Hideout.
When you have eliminated the "Unsecured Guards" across the underground river to the SE of the hideout you can search the arm which leads east and find a button in the north wall.

Job Board

There is no Job Board in this town.

Last update: 31. Mar. 18, Mike Middleton
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