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Background
You’ll receive this quest from Vaska (#1) when you ask her about the mage’s tower (#2).
Walkthrough
Vaska will tell you some of the history of the tower -- how a wicked woman brought down the mage, and how a Sentry golem (#3) still guards the entrance. She’ll then give you a
Tower Tarot Card, which she’ll claim will help you defeat the Sentry. If you look at the card, then you’ll see the tower being struck by lightning.
When you tell Kalkstein (in the
Temple Quarter) about the card, he’ll get all excited, and he’ll tell you that you’ll need two things to wake up the Sentry: a
Lightning Rod and a thunderstorm. At the end of the conversation, he’ll also give you the scroll
Golem’s Pith, which will allow you to create a potion out of the Sentry’s heart.
Lightning Rod
For the
Lightning Rod, you’ll need to contact a blacksmith. The dwarven blacksmith and the Order armorer (both located in the
Temple Quarter) should be able to do the job, so choose whichever one likes you better. The
Lightning Rod will only cost you 50 orens, but it will take time for the blacksmith to produce, and so you’ll have to leave and then re-enter the map area with the blacksmith to pick it up. To get the dialogue option for the
Lightning Rod, you’ll have to ask the blacksmith to show you his wares.
Thunderstorm
To create a thunderstorm, you’ll have to talk to the Elder Druid in the Druids’ Grove (#4). He’ll charge you 500 orens for the service. When you pay him, he’ll give you a hint for how to kill the Sentry golem. He’ll mention the “stone posts” (aka pylons) next to golem, and he’ll tell you that if you activate them, then they’ll attract lightning.
Note: We’ve heard that you can also use a regular thunderstorm when waking up the golem, but we’ve never been patient enough to wait for one.
The Sentry
If it’s currently storming in the
Swamp Forest, then when you click on the Sentry golem (the big golem next to the pylons) and give it the
Lightning Rod, it will wake up and attack you. The Sentry golem is tough, but it’s slow and it doesn’t hit especially hard, and so if you want to you can quaff a
Swallow potion and then just wear it down with minor attacks from your steel sword. This strategy will take long enough that you’ll probably have to quaff multiple
Swallow potions to get through it.
The better way to deal with the Sentry golem is to use the pylons. If you activate all three pylons, then they’ll call down lighting, and if the golem is anywhere nearby, it will get hit. So far as we’ve seen, it isn’t possible to hit yourself. You’ll have to re-activate the pylons each time you want to call lightning, but it will only take three hits to kill the golem.
When the golem dies, you’ll receive about 3000 experience points, and you’ll find the
Golem’s Obsidian Heart and the
Neh’tza Sephirah on its corpse.
1 - Vaska / Brickmakers’ Village
2 - Mage’s Tower
3 - Sentry Golem
4 - Elder Druid / Druids’ Grove
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