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Basilisk Gate Barracks
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“I have a city to protect, refugees to manage, and an army on my door - I do not have time to chat.„
Overview[edit | edit source]
Basilisk Gate Barracks are situated just north of the 
Basilisk Gate - the point of first entrance to the Lower City, and the point of changing regions between the Lower City and Wyrm's Rock Fortress after that.
The barracks are tucked into the city wall corner, but the wide open ground across it can also be designated as their part, as it is used as a place of executions, featuring a large gallows in the middle.
The Basilisk Gate Barracks consists of of the Flaming Fist office with adjacent dormitory and kitchen, the open training ground, and the Heapside Prison located in its basement. A small unnamed bath-house nearby could be considered a part of the complex as well.
The barracks are built higher than the average street level, probably to make room for the prison, and thus are reached by climbing up the stone stairs. Also, a wooden stairs outside the barracks wall ends with a side door which opens onto the training grounds.
On the wall near the barracks' entrance is the Basilisk Gate Waypoint at X: 134 Y: -38.
Barracks layout[edit | edit source]
Training grounds[edit | edit source]
This is an open space divided from the rest of the city by a stone wall with wooden ramparts atop it. The space around the training area itself is used as a storage. To the east is the entrance to the barracks' office. The place is guarded by several Flaming Fists and a 
Steel Watcher. Also, any citizens who come to state their concerns wait their turn to do it here.
Near the entrance, 
Fist Murphy is standing on one leg, being punished in such a way for a felony by the barracks' commander 
Blaze Portyr. 
Fist Clover, who is patrolling the ramparts, checks on him when passes by, expressing mild compassion. A 
key, if pickpocketed from her, opens the wooden chest standing in the far end of the ramparts. It keeps several random Uncommon arrows and a bow.
In the training area 
Fist Koltz and 
Fist Crosse are training hard under the watchful eyes of 
Gauntlet Thunder. Both receive the 
Exhausted condition from time to time.
Fist Eostre wanders around, charged with counting the supplies and reorganizing them. Several petitioners are waiting to be heard out by the Fist officers. 
Fist Miller guards the office door and does not stop the party from entering the office. He can be pickpocketed for the Heapside Armoury Key.
Interacting with most NPCs here and choosing certain dialogue options can bring small amounts of approval from various companions.
The bath-house with its entrance at X: 123 Y: 4 is a part of 
Find Dribbles the Clown quest: it is one of the murderous effigies left by Orin the Red in the city. The door is locked; it requires 
DC 10 Sleight of Hand check [1] Inside the decapitated body of 
Gohumberry Tresp can be found.
Barracks office[edit | edit source]
The barracks inside consist of several rooms: an office, a small dormitory, and a kitchen where 
Cook Kameros is toiling.
Upon first visiting the office the party see Blaze Portyr, accompanied by 
Manip Seyama. A woman named 
Lora tries to get through to the commander to get help with finding her missing daughter. Blaze Portyr, however, behaves herself strangely, speaking off the mark, and a passive DC 15 Arcana check allows the observer to detect her being enchanted. Offering Lora help starts the quest Save Vanra.
The door to dormitories is red-outlined, but inside there is nothing significant to explore or loot. Blaze Portyr can be pickpocketed for the Office Storage Key.
The door in the northern wall leads down to the Heapside Prison.
Heapside Prison[edit | edit source]
The Heapside Prison is a small (compared to the one in Wyrm's Rock) lockup in the Basilisk Gate Barracks Basement. A 
letter addressed to Seyama suggests that it is used mainly for a brief imprisonment of alleged criminals before execution. However, should a party member get caught committing a crime by the Flaming Fist within the Lower City and agree to be arrested, the character in question is transported to a cell within Heapside Prison.[2]
The prison consists of a cells area with a guardroom, and a small office with adjacent armoury. It is guarded by three Flaming Fists and a Steel Watcher, all of which move around the prison in a certain sequence.
The guardroom here has a manhole and a pit latrine. Both, if used, transport the party member to the Lower City Sewers and back.[3]
The prison cell where an arrested character is placed provides several options for a break-out. It has a breakable wall section and a hole (requires DC 5 Perception check to notice), both leading into the guardroom. Also, a breakable barricade behind some crates allow them to move to the neighbouring cell, where 
Fist Smithwynn stands guard. The key he keeps in his pocket opens both cells' doors.
Inside the prison cell 
Skittle the rat trader runs around. If spoken via 
Speak with Animals, he acts as a trader. Among other goods, he sells 
Counting House Safe nº2 Key. Skittle speaks in rat-themed puns, and the interacting character can keep the conversation in the same style, earning approval from some companions. If the party come to explore the prison from the barracks, Skittle still can be spoken with through the cell grate.
The wooden trunk at X: -1280 Y: 765 contains gold, a random gem, random scrolls and three 
Trap Disarm Toolkit sets - possibly confiscated from a prior prisoner. Another wooden trunk nearby holds two sets of 
Thieves' Tools. Both containers are red-outlined and guarded by 
Fist Arrinye.
The prison office door is also red-outlined, and any attempt to enter it without means of concealment is stopped by the guards. Inside are two heavy chests containing random arrows and scrolls from Uncommon to Very rare grade. The larger can be opened with DC 18 Sleight of Hand check, the smaller with DC 20 Sleight of Hand check. Otherwise, both can be opened with the Office Storage Key, pickpocketed from Liara Portyr. The smaller chest also contains an old, partly censored 
Crumbling File concerning the 
Emperor's activity in the city.
Fist Corlos can be pickpocketed for the Barracks Office Key, which opens the outer door to the prison armoury. A copy of this key lies in the cabinet at X: -1286 Y: 782, but the door leading into it from the office itself is unlocked. The armoury has another unlocked heavy chest behind the iron gate, which can be opened with the Heapside Armoury Key or with a DC 15 Sleight of Hand check. Inside are several health potions of various grades. The weapon stands here keep several uncommon +1 weapons.
Office desks contain documents concerning the criminal situation in the city, including 
Counsellor Florrick's death sentence signed by the tadpoled 
Duke Ravengard. However, even if the Free Counsellor Florrick quest is in progress, reading this document does not progress it.
Execution grounds[edit | edit source]
The focal point of this open space is a large gallows guarded by the executioner 
Fist 'Edge' Arensen. Talking to him reveals the biased authorities' view on the crime and punishment in the city, and may earn a small amount of approval from party members.
If the Free Counsellor Florrick quest has not been started yet, reading the 
Execution Notice pinned to the gallows' platform starts it. If the quest is already in progress, Arensen can let slip some information on her whereabouts. If Florrick is not saved during the quest, her body remains on the gallows for several Long Rests, guarded by extra Fists, 
Anderson and 
Williams.[4] Also, from time to time the bodies of other executed people appear hanging in the nooses. Several pillories near the waypoint, seemingly an alternative detention for culprits, are always empty.
Near the gallows 
Estra Stir, a reporter of Baldur's Mouth Gazette, can start the quest Stop the Presses. It is a time-sensitive quest which has the length of a single Long Rest. Its outcome directly influences the attitude of the various citizens towards the party throughout the Lower City, and also can affect the prices of certain traders around it.
There are also several minor NPC vignettes around Basilisk Gate Barracks.
- Near the gate
Fist Kuthbert declares the new order on all the citizens' livestock to be turned over into the authorities' hands. Several citizen are protesting against it, but Kuthbert, who guards the cages with already confiscated animals, pays them with trivialities. - Behind the gallows three dwarves -
Hasmet Hudd, 
Giftu Hudd and 
Dryfle Doon are discussing their plans after they have finally reached the Lower City. They celebrate being in security from the marching armies at last. 
News Hawker Luan is crying out the gazette slogans, attracting the customers.
Waypoints[edit | edit source]
This location contains the following 
Waypoint:
- Basilisk Gate at X: 134 Y: -38
Related locations[edit | edit source]
Related quests[edit | edit source]
Characters[edit | edit source]
Flaming Fist[edit | edit source]
Other[edit | edit source]
Bruha Oakhide
Cook Kameros
Lora Bergauz
Skittle - trader, inside the Heapside prison
Thatmatt Oakhide
Thrastle Muria
Near the building[edit | edit source]
Loot[edit | edit source]
Clown's Severed Pelvis
Potion of Greater Healing - x2 total
Potion of Superior Healing
Thieves' Tools - x2 total
Trap Disarm Toolkit - x6 total- Over 10 random arrows of various grade from Uncommon to Very rare
Secret Stash[edit | edit source]
Inside the cell wall at X: -1285 Y: 755, requires DC 0 Perception check to find.
Skittle sells[edit | edit source]
Related literature[edit | edit source]
Barracks and Execution grounds[edit | edit source]
Heapside Prison[edit | edit source]
Footnotes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Prior to Patch 8 the door was red-outlined as well, no longer.
- ↑ The player character can find themselves in the same cell if they experiment with drinking a mug of special hooch sold by
Hoots Hooligan in Sharess' Caress, within the Lower City borders.
- ↑ The latrine is red-outlined, while the manhole is not. Both lead to the same point in the sewers. If travelling back, the character always appear near the pit latrine.
- ↑ These characters appear only in case of Florrick being executed.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Shows up once all three Netherstones have been collected by the party.
- ↑ Skittle's stock may be one of few veritable sources of this item.[verify]