A- To Blacklake B- Kitchen C- Study

Here you'll find another item for Ophala, a gilded urn. Talk your way past the guard and enter. The Hodge Estate is full of traps, so move around in detect mode. Hodge himself is long gone, as the cook in the kitchen will tell you, but luckily he didn't take all of his loot with him. You'll find the gilded urn (and a note for Ophala) in a chest in the study, located in the northwestern corner of the house.

The Blacklake Zoo

		A- To Blacklake B- Montgomery Weatherson's Room C- To the Grove D- The Pens

Nyatar wants the animals freed and gave you a key to help with the task. Pay the entrance fee and enter. Once you leave the public area you'll face a fair number of guards. You'll find Montgomery "Sureshot" Weatherson in the northwestern room. He's a 7th-level ranger with bow skills (including the point-blank shot feat) that earned him his nickname. Kill Montgomery, loot his room, and then head into the grove through the door at the west end of the north hallway.

The malevolent zookeeper gets his just deserts.

Use the Transport via Plants scroll from Nyatar on the tree. Go back into the zoo and into the central rooms. Here, you'll find the master of the pens, a 4th-level ranger. Kill him and pull the lever to open the cages. Make sure the path is free of guards, then tell all of the animals to head out into the grove. Go into the grove and talk to the animals; they'll step through the portal to freedom. Return to Nyatar at the Great Tree to receive your reward.

Arcane Laboratory
A lab for the Cloaktower Membership quest can be found near the western wall of the city. Enter with Eltoora's key, and take the puff of fog from the alchemist's apparatus.

Tomb
Outside the house in the southeast is a young girl named Punkin, who will tell you that something strange is going on in the house. Enter and speak with Telma, who will reluctantly tell you about her recent troubles. Examine the bookshelf and say "Halueth," which will open the passageway to the tomb. In the passageway, open the chest and read the riddle: "A splinter delivered in flight." Put the ceremonial arrow from the peninsula excavation site in the chest, and enter the tomb.

Inside, you'll face four invisible Swords of Never (8th-level fighters). Loot the sarcophagus for Halueth's rusted armor, which you can return to Oleff or Gilles for your reward.

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