Spiders/Formello - (Avernum Escape from the Pit)

Lands of the Arachnids, Formello and Everything in Between

The whole of this area is worth exploring fairly early on. There are no wandering monsters in the Formello area, near Motrax or in the mining area. In the Spider Lands to the west of Fort Draco you must expect to bump into Araneae.

A group of Araneae and Cave Widows are milling around some dead bodies. After eliminating the Arachnids you find 250 coins and a Crystaline Wand.

If you attack these 5 Araneae you find they were guarding a dead nephilim. You can strip the corpse and find a Girdle of Nimbleness and 130 coins.

Beside the remote lake there is a hut where you can learn the recipe for Greymould Salve (B on the Worldmap).

Eight Frozen Worms are lurking near a corpse. When you have disposed of them you find 214 coins and a Warmth Ring.

You can only find the Stone Key after Motrax has told you where it is (C on the Worldmap).

If you decide to leave your boat at this point you will find 93 coins and some Iron Greaves and be attacked by a group of Giant Lizards.

When you break through the hidden entance you will be greeted by a pack of about 10 giant lizards. After dispatching them you can explore the three caves. Each one yields an emerald .

There is a fishing vilage populated by giants. They do not seem willing to talk to you and I have noticed no ill effects on killing them. Like lots of giants in this game they usually drop some emeralds. After the battle you find 40 coins and 3 fishes.

Here are some friendly clerics who will teach you Return Life (F on the Worldmap).

There is a Wisdom Crystal simply lying on the ground and noboby takes offence if you take it.

A secluded village in a cave with a lot of morose Sliths moping around and complaining about the loss of their Answering Stone. You need a relatively high level party and lots of energy potions to get it back for them.

The mines in the north have the best ore in Avernum. If you decide to look around this area you will find that you are not very welcome. There is not anything to pick up anyway.

Here is the natural hot spring that Gary the Innkeeper in Silvar asked you to find.

A pool hidden in a swampy area to the south of the SE arm of the river. Drinking from it covers you with a Cloak of Arcane.

To the north of the SE arm of the river is another pool. This time you get a Cloak of Curses.

Here you come across a group of soldiers who are fighting Araneae and Spiders. If you help them out you get 1 point reputation.

The GIFTS will give you a quest to free a spider who has been taken prisoner by the Araneae in a nearby cave.

An ogre has been sighted in the tunnels northwest of Formello. These large, brutal humanoids cannot be allowed to gain a foothold in our lands. (U on the Worldmap). He is accompanied by some ogres and drops an emerald.

Although the whole village turns out (overseer, 2 diviners and lots of slingers and giants) to help the defence, it is worth attacking because apart from the normal loot (which in this case is somewhat better than usual) you find 400 coins and a Dragonhair Bow (a very powerful weapon, value 4000).

A giant has been sighted in the tunnels west of Formello. It lives in an encampment surrounded by rubble (at V on the Worldmap). These enormous humanoids, even larger than ogres, cannot be allowed to lurk near our trade routes, stealing our food and menacing our womenfolk

There is a corpse here with a wand (Oozing Wand). If you take it you get attacked by 7 Spiders and 2 Araneae.

Two adventures have been trying for ages to get into this cave, without success. Will you have more luck?

There is only one patch of potion ingredients (Healing Herbs) in the NW of this area.

Last update: 31. Mar. 18, Mike Middleton
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