Avernum 4 Annotated Maps

Fort Monastery

	Edge of the World
Remote Islands				Monastery Bridge
Goblin Lands

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You start in a helpful demo that mainly just discusses the general features of the game. It's pretty straight-forward.

You start out in a room in the basement. Proceed east, pick up the items, and continue on. Kill the goblin, then head south for a few potions, followed by north and talk with the cook. Go up the stairs, and talk with Matos. He gives you a new quest. Go west and claim the few items that are set aside for you. Go back and talk with him again. Now he wants you to explore the basement. Head to the SW of the fort and enter the basement. Clear out the goblins. If you have enough tool use, you can go ahead and take the items in the "authorized soldiers only" chest - you'll find a shielding ring among the loot. Once you've searched the area thoroughly, head back north and talk with the captain again. He is pleased with you and gives you the next quest, to kill the goblin leader. You can either go through the basement route, or through the surface route. Once you've killed the goblin chief, Matos will open up the "authorized soldiers only" area, allowing you to get the items within. He then has you go to Fort Draco.

Other quest givers include Oliver (a traveling salesman who wants you to clear the route to Ft. Draco for a fiery wand), Dawdy (a smith who will buy your iron bars for a good 20c each), Philips ring (at the inn- Philip wants you to retrieve a ring. The ring is held by a miner in Grindstone. Doing so gets you a letter of introduction to his family), Appelo (a saleswoman who wants you to find three caravans for 100c each), and two quests for Lark- (Inspect her scrolls, and translate them).

Oliver is the main purveyor of interesting goods in town. You may be tempted to buy some of his things, but I wouldn't do so just yet. He will follow you during your adventurers and ends up getting some very nice inventory, but that hasn't happened yet. Philip and Appelo both have some good items that may be tempting, but you will shortly find items as good or better than what they sell, so skip buying from them just yet.

Touch the pillar in the NW part of town. Place any items you want to keep next to this pillar as well (bags of meal, wine, herbs, etc.). You'll see what these things do after the demo.

There is also a job board in town. The job board will give you a few more quests to do for some cash or items.

One job is to deliver a letter to a Grindstone resident (50 c), another is to kill a bunch of mottled bats for Lark (2 emeralds as a reward), yet another is to clear an infestation of undead (100 c). Once these are all done, you get a final quest to deliver a letter to Fort Draco (reward: healing potion & speed potion).

Both Strout and Lark will train you with spells. Lark has prices that are approximately the norm. Adding levels to spells doesn't actually have as much of a benefit as it did in the previous Avernum games. In general, adding levels increases their duration time, damage done, and strength. These benefits are nice, but you can save your coins for something else, if you desire.

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