3 secret areas, a crux and an escape (spoilers)

[Ssschah]

3 things I am drooling over that I have not resolved. (Unless this forum has excellent trolls)

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1. Get 3 crux: The Crux of Fire in which you start with, The Crux of Terra which you find underground in Mirkland, and get The Crux of Wisdom from ________ (maybe SpottedShroom could fill in this blank?) and use the portal above Rockhammer with the three crux's (secret area)

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2. Orchestrate a jailbreak and get the prisoner from Atrox Deep out. (secret area somewhere along these lines?)

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3. One more secret area I have not found.

[SpottedShroom]

3 things I am drooling over that I have not resolved. (Unless this forum has excellent trolls)

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1. Get 3 crux: The Crux of Fire in which you start with, The Crux of Terra which you find underground in Mirkland, and get The Crux of Wisdom from ________ (maybe SpottedShroom could fill in this blank?) and use the portal above Rockhammer with the three crux's (secret area)

Sorry, I was yanking your chain on that one. To be fair, Randomizer started it. There's art for four cruxes in the game files, but only two actually exist in the game. So no photoshopping required - I just edited my character's inventory. Interestingly, there are two names for the fourth crux in the game files - wisdom and ether. And none of the art in the game files matches the clear gem that was the Crux of Ages in Book I.

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2. Orchestrate a jailbreak and get the prisoner from Atrox Deep out. (secret area somewhere along these lines?)

You can't get him out, except to the great beyond. You can get yourself out, though.

[Ssschah]

Well played, Spottedshroom, well played...

[Vroqren]

Dang it - you had to end it so soon? And here I am, still making up stuff in the other topic about how you can rush into his lair and steal it before getting Terra...

[Ssschah]

You guys got me just like Thynar got me with your book II posts about "destroying the mithril gate with the plasma wand" LOL.

[Vroqren]

It's okay - we were all in that position once. I believe I fell for four or five of Prismatic Maelstrom's ones, even after being told he was a trickster.

[SpottedShroom]

Dang it - you had to end it so soon? And here I am, still making up stuff in the other topic about how you can rush into his lair and steal it before getting Terra...

Sorry, I'm not a very good troll. I thought the "where do I get the third crux?" thing was a dead give-away, too. I should have said "Are you sure you only need 3 cruxes? I have them all but the teleporter still won't work!"

[Vroqren]

Wait, but Spotted Shroom, how did you get the Crux of Ages too? I got the other three...

[Randomizer]

I was curious how long that was going to last. But I've been taken in by some of the Book 2 ones.

[Ssschah]

There is still 3 secret area's to be found, however. I have a strong feeling 2 of which several of us have in common. I checked the list you put up and I've found all of those except for one.

[Randomizer]

The unconfirmed one is from a mention in a text dump. But I missed the short cut in the Omentor Temple.

I found a powder keg by CB's place with cartography at 14, so there may be somethings visible with higher cartography.

[helivoy]

Can someone point me to the list of secret areas you're discussing? Many thanks!

Also, I count 26 total quests. Does that sound right? Here's the list:

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Quest list

1. A Crux in Hand
2. Into the Wilds
3. A Hammer for Seamus (wrecked ship, mine lv 2)
4. Exterminator, at Your Service
5. Goblins Afoot
6. Collecting on a Debt
7. A Meeting with Lilith
8. The Blackened Bone Tavern
9. A Deal with Logi
10. A String of Pearls
11. A King’s Head
12. Cleaning up the Riff Raff
13. The Recovery of Miss Bimbles
14. The Sealed Letter 1
15. The Sealed Letter 2
16. The Teeth that Bite
17. The Meaning of the Note 1
18. The Meaning of the Note 2
19. A Meeting with Karamiklan
20. The Missing Magpie 1
21. The Missing Magpie 2
22. A-hunting We Will Go
23. A Tough Nut to Crack
24. Seeking Karamiklan’s Wisdom
25. The Curious Case of Edgar
26. The Curse of Bittersting

[Ssschah]

Can someone point me to the list of secret areas you're discussing? Many thanks!

Also, I count 26 total quests. Does that sound right? Here's the list:

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Quest list

1. A Crux in Hand
2. Into the Wilds
3. A Hammer for Seamus (wrecked ship, mine lv 2)
4. Exterminator, at Your Service
5. Goblins Afoot
6. Collecting on a Debt
7. A Meeting with Lilith
8. The Blackened Bone Tavern
9. A Deal with Logi
10. A String of Pearls
11. A King’s Head
12. Cleaning up the Riff Raff
13. The Recovery of Miss Bimbles
14. The Sealed Letter 1
15. The Sealed Letter 2
16. The Teeth that Bite
17. The Meaning of the Note 1
18. The Meaning of the Note 2
19. A Meeting with Karamiklan
20. The Missing Magpie 1
21. The Missing Magpie 2
22. A-hunting We Will Go
23. A Tough Nut to Crack
24. Seeking Karamiklan’s Wisdom
25. The Curious Case of Edgar
26. The Curse of Bittersting

That seems correct. Also here's the list of secret areas Randomizer has compiled so far.

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28 of 30 secret areas:

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Weeping Mountain - (26,160) basic oak chest - The Fabulous Adventures of Captain Hale
Rockhammer - (74,99) - basic oak chest - random gp
Rockhammer - (22,144) secret area - Pentagram with levers at (21,143)[A one extra Attribute point at next level-up] and (22,143) [S one extra skill point at next level-up] - only get one
Southern Boglands - Wrecked Ship Level 2 - (47,97) door - lock [5 - good iron] - sack - 50 gp
Baasilt Dunes - (21,81) - basic oak chest - RANDOM
Deadman's Strand - (34,8) barrel - 100 gp
Elderoak Forest - (85,145) - lever opens portcullis at (87,114) in Greensmith Cemetery
Elderoak Forest - (88,111) - inside crypt
Elderoak Forest - (88,172) - (88,175) heavy steel-banded chest -random gp, potion of invisibility III
Moonrise - (97,193) -
-- (97,180) heavy steel-banded chest - Trap [4 - Bixby's Noxious Cloud] - lock [3 - moderate quality - RANDOM
-- (95,178) barrel - RANDOM
-- (94,178) barrel - RANDOM
-- (91,178) tightly sealed ceramic storage vessel - random gp
-- (90,181) giant clam - pearl
-- (83,187) strange chest - engraved plate - The contents of this chest belong to you - empty
Moonrise - (55,54) - cemetery
Moonrise - (98,4) secret area at north end of blocked trade route - (97,8) giant clam - large diamond
Moonrise Underground - The Pit in Atrox Deep - (21,56)
Lair of the Emayu Witch - (60,65) dense, exotic alloy chest - RANDOM
Mirkland - (66,189) heavy steel-banded chest - RANDOM
East Mirkland Delta - (24,72) barrel - RANDOM
East Mirkland Delta - (48,67) secret area - smooth rock
East Mirkland Delta - 16,149) - rusting anvil
Castle by the Sea - (23,89) - message
Oceana Lowlands - (11,145) - inside Wizardtorium and Magick Crafter's Hostel
Macross Point - (20,132) heavy steel-banded chest - random gp
Macross Point - (14,3) - skeleton
Valley of the Wanderer - 4,13) fragile ceramic vessel - extra skill point at next level-up
Omentor Temple - (31,134) heavy steel-banded chest - RANDOM
Omentor Temple - 25,116) and (24,114) illusionary wall to (21,112) secret area
Omentor Temple - ??? to Abyssmal Plain (unconfirmed)
Western Astral Range - 2,62) secret area - West Astral Hostel
Warlord's Pass - (93,23) - to (93,26) sealed barrel [50] - vintage whiskey (8)
Eastern Astral Range - (3,106) inside Master Warren's Crypt

[Randomizer]

Regarding Quests:

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A King's Head or Finding Another Way
with the second giving The Secret of the Akadai

[Jaymann]

Has anyone gotten into:

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Chest in the upper Seawarden guild?

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Chest by the Ulgolek tree roots in witch's lair?

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Mausoleum north of river near Ulgolek?

I remember in Book II there were teleports into similar areas, not so here.