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Smilge: /* The Crypt */

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‎The Crypt

Smilge: /* Getting the Lanthorn */

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‎Getting the Lanthorn

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 Even with limited knowledge of the game you can contribute: If something doesn't make sense, please fix it or bring it up on [[Talk:Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn|the talk page]].
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-==General techniques==
 Along with the specific techniques found on the individual pages, there are some [[Infinity Engine]] glitches that will of use throughout the game. Familiarize yourself with the information found on that page, as cutscene breaking, different area dialogue, inventory stack underflow, wall jumping and talk locking can all be used during a run.

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 Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn is the next chapter in the Baldur's Gate series. The game is made by Bioware and uses the [[Infinity Engine]]. This page is a work in progress.
 Even with limited knowledge of the game you can contribute: If something doesn't make sense, please highlight it or something so I can come on and fix it. I'm half-awake when I make most of these changes, so most of them are free-hand. If you think you know what I mean, please fix the sentence. If your interpretation is wrong I'll just come fix it, no big deal.

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 Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn is the next chapter in the Baldur's Gate series. The game is made by Bioware and uses the [[Infinity Engine]]. This page is a work in progress.
 =Irenicus's Dungeon=

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	There is a door that will only unlock if all the vampires on the floor are killed. Wall jumping is a viable alternative to killing the vampires.		There is a door that will only unlock if all the vampires on the floor are killed. Wall jumping is a viable alternative to killing the vampires.

−	On the second floor Drizzt will be waiting if you recruited him. Unless the vampires on the above floor are killed, he won't move. He can be charmed with a Ring of Air Control. Bohdi will be waiting in the big room, and will try to initiate dialog. At the end of this dialog, several vampires and grim warders will appear to protect her. This can be avoided by talk locking her or by being protected from undead. When Bohdi reaches 1 hit ~~point~~, she will force dialog (meaning her guards will come). After this, if she is still at one hit point (she's got a pretty decent health regeneration, so she won't always stay at 1 health), she will start another dialog and become vulnerable. After she dies, she becomes a bat and flies to her coffin. A stake in the coffin will give you the lanthorn.	+	On the second floor Drizzt will be waiting if you recruited him. Unless the vampires on the above floor are killed, he won't move. He can be charmed with a Ring of Air Control. Bohdi will be waiting in the big room, and will try to initiate dialog. At the end of this dialog, several vampires and grim warders will appear to protect her. This can be avoided by talk locking her or by being protected from undead. When Bohdi reaches less than 10 hit points, she will force dialog (meaning her guards will come). After this, if she is still at one hit point (she's got a pretty decent health regeneration, so she won't always stay at less than 10 health), she will start another dialog and become vulnerable. After she dies, she becomes a bat and flies to her coffin. A stake in the coffin will give you the lanthorn.
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		+	===Suldenessalar===
		+	With the lanthorn in hand, the party can talk to Elhan and be teleported to Suldenessalar. The beginning cutscene can be skipped with variant 2 of the cutscene skip(insert link here). After this, you need five items to get to the tree of life.
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		+	=====The sword=====
		+	The sword is in the party-required building in the middle of the map. The cutscene inside cane be skipped with (cutscene skipping link) and the sword can be pick-pocketed.
		+	=====The Goblet=====
		+	The goblet is in the dragon area. The transition to this area is in the top left of Suldenassallar. You can either kill the dragon (he's susceptible to death magic, and not much else) or agree to give up all your items and gold in exchange for the goblet (charisma 16+ for this choice). He will not take quest items, and you can drop any item you'll need before talking to the dragon to avoid losing them. The gold you lose is unneeded for the rest of the game.
		+	=====The Amulet=====
		+	The amulet is in the building to the bottom middle part of the map. On the top floor is a rune that you'll need to get dialog choices for the amulet. The amulet is held on an altar on the lower floor, and you must correctly sequence some dialog to get the amulet.
		+	=====The Horn=====
		+	The harp is in the building just above where you enter, labeled "House of the Horn" on the map. There are three hostile clay golems inside that cast haste on themselves and slow on enemies. They will chase a player outside of the building, but cannot see through invisibility or hide in shadows.
		+	=====The Harp=====
		+	The harp is in the building in the top left part of the map. There's nothing notable about the room it's held in.
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		+	You only need the Sword, Amulet, and Goblet to summon the Avatar which unlocks the door. You need the Harp and the Horn before entering the temple(?) in the top right part of the map to get to the tree of life. These items can be picked up in any order, and party members can be split up to collect these items simultaneously.
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		+	====Avatar Cutscene====
		+	The door to the temple(?) is unlocked as soon as the Avatar cutscene starts, so you can skip almost all of the cutscene.

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 Ribald at the adventure mart will now have an option to view a separate cache of items and scrolls. This includes several level 8 and level 9 that could be invaluable to completing the game. He is all the way in Waukeen's Promenade, so any new equipment would need to make up for the time lost by the detour. The trigger for Ribald's extended inventory seems to be if the chapter is 6. Should a way to skip chapters be found, Ribalds better items can be accessed even earlier.
 ===The Graveyard===
 Upon entering the Graveyard, Bohdi will initiate dialog and summon four vampires. Bohdi can be talk locked to delay this. Also, if the player rests before Bohdi has a chance to initiate dialog, it will become daytime and the vampires will instantly die from the sunlight.

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	==Overdark==		==Overdark==
	Once on the surface, an elf will talk to you can put you through a bit of a cutscene. That is, if you let him. You can talk lock the specific elf who will initiate dialog and run away. This has an added benefit of allowing you to talk to Elhan before the Elf General. If you talk lock the general and initiate dialog with Elhan, he will try to have the Elf sages tell if you are speaking the truth. Since you never talked to General Sovalidaas, the Elf Sages never spawned. Thus, the dialog will break very early, and Elhan will act as if you participated through the whole thing. You won't get the abundance of stakes and holy water this way, but really, who needs 'em?		Once on the surface, an elf will talk to you can put you through a bit of a cutscene. That is, if you let him. You can talk lock the specific elf who will initiate dialog and run away. This has an added benefit of allowing you to talk to Elhan before the Elf General. If you talk lock the general and initiate dialog with Elhan, he will try to have the Elf sages tell if you are speaking the truth. Since you never talked to General Sovalidaas, the Elf Sages never spawned. Thus, the dialog will break very early, and Elhan will act as if you participated through the whole thing. You won't get the abundance of stakes and holy water this way, but really, who needs 'em?
		+	=Suldanessellar=
		+	Your primary goal is to face off with Irenicus, who is attacking the elf city of Suldanessellar. The only known way to enter the city is with the Lanthorn, which is held by Bohdi in the Graveyard District.
		+	==Getting the Lanthorn==
		+	Bohdi holds the lanthorn in her coffin on the second floor of he lair in the Graveyard District. A stake is required to retrieve it.
		+	===Making Friends===
		+	Drizzt Do'Urden and his company will waylay you as you head back to Amn. Careful dialog choices can recruit him to help in the battle against Bohdi. Drizzt is more than capable of single-handedly wiping out Bohdi and her guards. A powerful ally indeed.
		+	===Stocking Up===
		+	Ribald at the adventure mart will now have an option to view a separate cache of items and scrolls. This includes several level 8 and level 9 that could be invaluable to completing the game. He is all the way in Waukeen's Promenade, so any new equipment would need to make up for the time lost by the detour. The trigger for Ribald's extended inventory seems to be if the chapter is 6. Should a way to skip chapters be found, Ribalds better items can be accessed even earlier.
		+	===The Graveyard===
		+	Upon entering the Graveyard, Bohdi will initiate dialog and summon four vampires. Bohdi can be talk locked to delay this. Also, if the player rests before Bohdi has a chance to initiate dialog, it will become daytime and the vampires will instantly die from the sunlight.

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	=Underdark=		=Underdark=
		+	The Underdark is home many mysterious monsters, including the drow. Luckily, you hardly have to deal with any of them to progress.
		+	==Svirfneblinsayswhat?==
		+	The first step is to get the light gem. You can explore all you want, but you're not getting out of underdark without visiting the silver dragon, and the only way in is with the light gem. The leader, Goldander Blackenrock hold this light gem at the local Svirfne... halfling village. . It can be pickpocketed, retrieved off his corpse, or you could complete a quest for him and get it nicely (yeah right).
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		+	Note: If you're willing to lose a party member over it, all quest items are transfered to the PC when a party member is kicked out. So a party member can grab the gem while the PC waits by the dragon's lair. The party member with the gem could be kicked, and the PC could instantly enter the lair.
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		+	==Adalon the Observer==
		+	You have two speedrunning options when dealing with the Silver Dragon. You can talk to her, and she will turn you into a drow. This will allow you to bribe the drow guarding the exit to let you through. Or, you can attack her (or anything to make her hostile). This will open the door, but the drow guarding it will remain.
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		+	==Notable Nasties==
		+	Invisibility will protect you from most of the dangers in Underdark, but beware the Saughin (fish people). They can see through invisibility, they can stun from range, and they can slow from melee. If you're lucky, you will only need to deal with three of them. If you're unlucky...
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		+	Should you survive long enough to get to the drow party near the exit without a disguise, they will make you wish you had one. A hidden rogue is constantly detecting illusions, which will not only break invisibility, but also some spell protections like blur and mirror image. The mage will begin to cast True Sight as soon as you are near. As a final obstacle, the exit is physically blocked by two high hitpoint and magic resistant skeletons. You can try to live long enough for them to move out of the way, or you can cast summon familiar over them, and have your familiar exit. If your PC and other party members are nearby, the whole group will exit. I hope you weren't saving that constitution point though, cause your enemies will have no qualms with following you through the door. This whole disaster can be skipped by just talking to the dragon and getting a disguise, but is it faster?
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		+	==Overdark==
		+	Once on the surface, an elf will talk to you can put you through a bit of a cutscene. That is, if you let him. You can talk lock the specific elf who will initiate dialog and run away. This has an added benefit of allowing you to talk to Elhan before the Elf General. If you talk lock the general and initiate dialog with Elhan, he will try to have the Elf sages tell if you are speaking the truth. Since you never talked to General Sovalidaas, the Elf Sages never spawned. Thus, the dialog will break very early, and Elhan will act as if you participated through the whole thing. You won't get the abundance of stakes and holy water this way, but really, who needs 'em?

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 Upon entering, you are allowed to explore, before eventually being knocked out and taken prisoner, again, by Irenicus. That is, unless you're better at exploring than the designers intended.
-===To Underdark==
+===To Underdark===
 There are two locked doors that must be wall jumped to get to the underdark and skip a huge portion of the game. The first is shortly before you meet Irenicus again, to the west of the cells. This will bring you downstairs. In the southern part of this floor, there is a hidden door with a portal behind it. Jump this wall and walk towards the portal. Note that the portal is not actually what sends you to Underdark; there is a floor trigger before the portal. This means you don't need to worry about having every party member nearby.
 =Underdark=

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	=Brynnlaw=		=Brynnlaw=
		+	Welcome to Brynnlaw, home of pirates an prostitutes. A good speedrun will skip most of this area.
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		+	==Entry to Spellhold==
		+	There are several ways to get into spellhold. The fastest and easiest seems to be to talk your way in.
		+	===Desharik===
		+	Desharik is the leader of the pirates on the island. To meet him you need to either pay 300 gold to the door guard, or complete some extensive quest and get a name drop. Since you should have infinite gold, the choice is clear.
		+	Next, you need to talk to Desharik. A charisma of 15 or more is needed to convince him that you're crazy enough to need to be sent to spellhold. Failing that, having either Yoshimo (since he's working for the same guy as Desharik) or Minsc (since he's... crazy) will also allow a quick entry into Spellhold.
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		+	===The Wardstone===
		+	Alternately, a wardstone can be taken from a local Cowled Wizard, either by talk lock pickpocketing or off of his corpse. This is much slower, as you then need to walk all the way to Spellhold rather than being teleported in.
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		+	==Spellhold==
		+	Upon entering, you are allowed to explore, before eventually being knocked out and taken prisoner, again, by Irenicus. That is, unless you're better at exploring than the designers intended.
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		+	===To Underdark==
		+	There are two locked doors that must be wall jumped to get to the underdark and skip a huge portion of the game. The first is shortly before you meet Irenicus again, to the west of the cells. This will bring you downstairs. In the southern part of this floor, there is a hidden door with a portal behind it. Jump this wall and walk towards the portal. Note that the portal is not actually what sends you to Underdark; there is a floor trigger before the portal. This means you don't need to worry about having every party member nearby.
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		+	=Underdark=