[sponkly]

After finishing a Wiz 8 area I like to look at Walkthroughs and see if there is anything I missed ... actually I found something missing from the Walkthroughs .. at least the ones I looked at .. namely now to get into the "turned" crate in the circle of crates in the "first room" of the upper monastery (coming from lower monastery). You can see the crate lid, and there is a plank for getting out ... so there MUST be a way in right? ... here is how to get there: (SPOILER)
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After "banging the gong" in the upper Monastery, go into the console room (with the big windows that are now broken) drop down into the center of the boxes and you can "reach the unreachable box" and there is a nice item (at least for low-lev parties) in there.