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Q: Get Research Books
Q: Find Denise's Amulet
Start by searching outside the walls of the Portal Fortress. In the Southeast
corner there's a Cursed Large Shield. You'd be best off just leaving it
there. In the Northeast corner are some rats and a Stone Dagger. The
Northwest corner has a secret passage. It's on the dark section of
wall, just push against all the sections until you find it. The secret
passage leads down to the Southwest. Whatever you do, DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON. Pushing the button results in instant death and the end of the game. There isn't anything in the chests there, either.
Now enter the Portal Fortress through the Northern Gate. If you to the
west you'll enter a small area with four rooms. The first room to the
north is empty. The first room to the south lets you rest.
The second room on the south has Carol in it. Carol sells you the First
Aid skill up to Level 5. I personally find this to be a pretty useless
skill, since I've never played without a Priest in my party, and
Healing Potions work better anyway, but if you want to get it, this is
the place. Carol will also heal your characters and uncurse cursed
items. Uncursing items lets you unequip any cursed items you might have
accidentally equipped, and it also lets you sell cursed items in your
inventory.
The second room to the North has Denise in it. She'll give you a quest
to get her amulet that she forgot in her room in the Tower of the Magi.
Go back into the courtyard and enter the building to the Northeast.
Assuming you've entered from near the North Gate, the first room the
north is the library. Check out the bookshelves, and one of them will
have a scroll on it. Try to read the scroll; you won't be able to read
it yet, but you need to have tried before you can learn how. The next
room to the north has Walner in it. Walner is a sage and can identify
your items for a small fee. Ask him about the library now. First
mention the scroll you couldn't read, and he'll tell you how to read
it. Also ask him about needing more books and he'll give you a quest to
bring him any Research Tomes you across. You get a small amount of
money and a small amount of experience for each book you bring him. Now
go back to the library and read the scroll again to get Light Level 3.
Now go to the southwest corner of the building and you'll see a small
platform and a lever. Go talk to Kelner in the southeast room and if
your reputation is high enough he'll let you use it to augment one of
your items. Talk to him again after you've used the platform and he'll
reset it for you once.
Across the courtyard from this building is the storage area for the
Portal Fortress. There's some decent items in some of the side rooms,
but unfortunately you can't steal any of them, since the rooms are all
guarded.
The last room leading off the main courtyard is the barracks for the
Portal Fortress. There's a couple soldiers in here, and nothing much
else. Now go into the Portal Chamber. Standing by the stairs up to the
Portal is Seles. Once you've completed the first of the surface quests
she'll let you use the portal to return to the Tower of Magi for some
magic training.
The room leading off of the Portal Chamber to the southeast is a
crystal shaping chamber. There's two storage rooms leading off here.
The first one requires Unlock Doors Lv. 3 to get through, and once
inside you need either Dispel Barrier Lv. 2 or a Piercing Crystal.
There's an Unshackling Crystal and the Healing Spellshard guarded by
two Guardians in there. Guardians are invisible, so it's best to go in
fighting. They start in the corner beside the bench. One in the nook
beside the bench itself, and one right beside the first. The second
storage area only needs Unlock Doors Lv. 1, but you still need Dispel
Barrier Lv. 2 or a Piercing Crystal. There's a Recall Crystal in here,
guarded by one Guardian.
The only thing left to see in the Portal Fortress is the water reservoir in the far southeast corner.
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