Avernum 4 Annotated Maps

The Scree Caves

	The Scree Caves
Fort Saffron				The Scree Caves
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Coming here from Fort Emerald
This is the location of the hideout Fort Saffron wants you to check out. Coming from this direction you will not be able to gain entry.

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Coming here from Fort Saffron
Cache: Mandrake Root, Graymold
Notable items: Leaden Band, Fine Cleaver, Piercing Gloves, Jade Halberd
Stats: Control Foes, Strong Daze

If you're coming here from Fort Saffron's jail, you'll find a fort filled with pylons. Unfortunately, these pylons are all invulnerable (or nearly so) at the moment. I'd recommend beefing up, and taunting Khester just inside the fort. Get him to chase you, then smack him till he dies. He drops the extremely powerful jade halberd on death. Head to the SE. I find easier to duck upstairs, sneak past the elite guards barracks, go down the eastern stairs, then go south.

Kill the darkside tinkerer (mica-flecked chain on death) and use the machine to deactivate the pylons' shields. Then go to town and kill them all. Note that I mean "Go to town" figuratively. Unless you're low on HP/SP, there's no real reason to go to town.

Kill everything that moves on the main level, then go upstairs and do the same. Things of note on the bottom level include a spell book of control foes/strong daze near the darkside wizard, and a room nearby the north pair of crystals that discusses who the infiltrator is (it's not that much of a surprise). Grab all the steel stuff on your way out to sell.

The cultist upstairs drops a leaden band and nearby is an odd bandit map for the castle. Also notable are some rooms with a fine cleaver and piercing gloves, and a few other goods.

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