Help requested: Cannot figure out Auril's temple

[Magness]

I need help.

I've managed to take my party thru the first phase of this adventure and am in the Western Pass phase.

I've blown thru the Auril rangers and have entered the Auril temple area. There's a bunch of locked doors and I cannot figure out how to open them. I've killed everything (doom guards, auril preisteses, remorhazzes, and a crystal golem) I've come across, talked to anyone that would talk.

I'm stuck. I have some saved games so I can step back and try again, but I'm wondering if there's something really obvious that I've missed.

Poor Oswald needs your help.

FYI: My party consists of:

1 female Aasimar Paladin of Helm
1 male dwarven fighter
1 female human (good) Cleric of ?? (don't remember)
1 female Rogue
1 male Wizard
1 male Bard

[john]

Have you talked to the picture at the stairs? and talked to the guy in the bedroom?Make sure you read your journal!!

[Magness]

Originally posted by john: Have you talked to the picture at the stairs? and talked to the guy in the bedroom?Make sure you read your journal!!

Sorry. I have no idea what you're talking about here. I've seen no stairs nor a bedroom.

I'm in the icy area that starts with a 2 little cutscenes. The first is with 2 Auril allies (big tough guys, don't remember what. Bigger than orcs, smaller than bugbears) talking about all the trouble my party is causing. The second is some theif that breaks out of an Auril jail cell, talks to me about something or other, then runs off just as the Auril troops arrive.

BTW, I've played BG1 & 2, and IWD1 all the way thru plenty of times. I know most of the tricks. Perhaps I killed something I shouldn't have (or at least too soon).

[Greadius]

There is an Aurilite necklace somewhere that will allow you to open the doors... unfortunately I can't remember precisely where it is in that part.

Have you gone across the top section of the map yet? I faintly recall it being somewhere up there.

[Magness]

Thanks, Greadius. I'll look for that necklace. For all I know, it might be hiding in my gem bag.

[Baldassare]

The auril necklace does the trick but be careful because every door you opened you are shot with some sort of ice dagger and every pot you look in triggers a trap.

[Lord of Alcohol]

The necklace is to the right of the frozen Neverwinter guys. Use alt to highlight it [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Magness]

Figured it out.
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The Necklaces is frozen into one of the ice blocks that encase some Neverwinter solders. There's 3 piles of rocks with levers on top of the altar. Pulling the levels will drop the rocks down. One of those rock piles will break open the ice block with the necklace. And, presto, one necklace of Auril, ready to open doors and the adventure may continue.

[Warhammer]

Originally posted by Magness: Figured it out.

That's nothing compared to the real puzzles in the real Auril temple [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Baldassare]

Boy isn't that the truth. That's the temple I am in right now. Have been in it for 2 days now. Those Ice Golem Champions are a *#&*@!! Any solid way of whipping them?? I have just been getting sneaks in every so often.