That darned planar sphere (well, I'm afraid I have to ask for spoilers)

[Indemaijinj]

Well, at a late point in the game (chapter 5) I decided to check out that planar sphere, so I brought along Valygar and bravely entered the planar sphere believing that it would be a lark (I had just before killed two dragons with little difficulty).

Yet it was more problematic than I thought and now I am royally stuck.

I entered the sphere and went into the golem room. Whacked the clay golem and looted the containers for a golem arm, a key and various goodies.

Then I utilised the key on the door tht was marked as an activatable object rather than a door. I also went into the room with the mephit and the window in the floor.

Then I went down the newly opened path and talked to the solamnic knights (who I reckoned would have a bad influence on Anomen.

Then I went into the halfling grotto where I fought a battle with some potentially hard spellcasters made ridiculously easy through the use of a death fog. I looted the corpses and found some pieces of coal amongst the weapons.

Then I entered the golem lab and ransacked that place too, inserting the golem arm into the unfinished golem. Then I entered the north room and whacked some halfling spellslingers there too. I had three pieces of coal which I entered into three magical furnaces that each spewed forth a hostile fire elemental.

Then I entered a room (through a trapped walkway) that contained some giant gears and nothing else. The gears were not activatable.

Then went back to the golem lab and took the other door leading to a short (trapped) passage and a Door I couldn't lockpick.

Then I went back to the room with the solamnic knights opening the north door and wiping the floor with a bunch of sahuagin. The room looked interesting, both watery and organic. I reckoned a fireball thrown into the room might have an effect, but no, no discernable effect.

Then I went back to the entrance to see if we had travelled anywhere, but no. Nothing.

Now I am running around the complex unsuccessfully trying to search for secret doors or things that might do something, wondering what might unlock the magically locked door. Royally stuck!

[debiler]

I don't tell you too much when I say that you have to find a golem head.

[Indemaijinj]

Yeah I know that, but where in the nine hells is it then??

I have searched the whole building high and low for anything that might further my quest just a little.

[Mack_Attack]

Have you talked to Valygar's mad uncle or what ever relitive he is. Sounds like to me you are missing a few rooms yet. But you are on the right track. Let me look up a few things for you then I can send spoilers your way. Oh was there a golem that helped you take out some beholders yet.

[Dundee Slaytern]

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Remember the room with all those Golems? Right to the room of the Fire Elementals? Search a container on the machine in the center of the room.

[Tom-Slayer]

Some one else had a problem with that trap isnt it instant death? any way he tried all the spells of deflection and protection even mirror image but nothing worked not even summons so i say that if u dont want any of ur ppl to die cus u cant exit untill the Qs finished that u send ur familiar over it if u have one.

[Merlin Al'Thor]

Dude its not that hard i was only lv 10 and i beat that no probs. Though its rewards are crappy.

[Jon Irenicus]

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The big golem head is in a room with lots of golems(two normal ones and a Iron golem). It is located beside the room where u summon hostile fire elmentals.

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by Tom-Slayer: Some one else had a problem with that trap isnt it instant death? any way he tried all the spells of deflection and protection even mirror image but nothing worked not even summons so i say that if u dont want any of ur ppl to die cus u cant exit untill the Qs finished that u send ur familiar over it if u have one.

Mirror Image works fine for that trap. I repeatedly asked for the save game to see what was wrong with his game, but I got ignored, so I can only speculate what happened.