So after doing every other known quest from Valeia to Ishad N'ha I arrive at the Serpent Temple, plough through all of those bad dudes and clean the place out. But I get stuck opening the big snake statue to get at the naga. Tried everything!
The prisoner in the torture chamber just keeps telling me to @#*% off.
Hmmmmm. Reluctantly I check this board and eventually find the answer, incense, nectar, wand and book - in that order. But I feel cheated 'cos I think 'How on earth could any one possibly figure that out?'
It never occurred to me that you could use that red hot poker on the prisoner but I stumbled across a message on the board saying it would work. I tried that later, during my second game, hehe, quite enjoyed it. (Worrying, do I have latent S&M tendencies here?)
Then I look again at the map. Just next to Valeia is something called 'Ruins of Bersault'. Well, been there, done that. It's where Bilbump gave me the rat pie, innit?
I look again. There's another ruined building nearer the crypt, that's where I met Bilbump! So with a feeling of dread I head back to the 'Ruins', sure enough the thief guys there tell me all about H'thark and give me the lockpicks for him. I return to the temple and give them to him and he spills the beans about the statue. Boy do i feel dumb.
It's that map - I just know there was only one ruin on it when I first looked, I'm telling there was one, only one, there was, there really was (rage, snarl, froth at mouth, chew at carpet).
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