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<div style="float: right; text-align: center; margin: 4px;">{{#widget:Lower City Map|transform=translate(-1771.8164494815805,-2688.775399644337) scale(3.482202253184501)|unique_name=map-counting|caption=The Counting House and its docks on the map.}}</div> | |||
[[File:Tim-coddens-tim-coddens-thecountinghouse-01.webp|thumb|400px|right]] | |||
'''The Counting House''' is a banking and storage facility [[location|located]] in the [[Lower City]] of [[Baldur's Gate]] in [[Act Three]]. It is found along the southern coast of the Lower City, between [[Flymm Cargo]] and [[Old Garlow's Place]], and encompasses the counting house, it's underground storage facilities, and the docks to the south-west. | |||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
=== Obtaining a Bank Pass === | === Obtaining a Bank Pass === | ||
To enter further into the bank, you must show a [[Bank Pass]] to [[Cashguard Captain Faril]]. You can purchase a Bank Pass from [[Head Clerk Meadhoney]] for a large sum of gold, or if you succeed in a {{SAI|Detect Thoughts}} or a passive [[Insight]] check you get the option to persuade him into giving you a "temporary" pass which is, in fact, just a normal pass, or just steal one from the Head Clerk's office upstairs, on a cabinet at {{Coords|-102|-180}}. After proceeding through [[Aid the Underduke]], you can also make a [[Persuasion]], [[Intimidation]], or [[Deception]] check to convince Meadhoney to give you a pass. | To enter further into the bank, you must show a [[Bank Pass]] to [[Cashguard Captain Faril]]. You can purchase a Bank Pass from [[Head Clerk Meadhoney]] for a large sum of gold, or if you succeed in a {{SAI|Detect Thoughts}} or a passive [[Insight]] check you get the option to persuade him into giving you a "temporary" pass which is, in fact, just a normal pass, or just steal one from the Head Clerk's office upstairs, on a cabinet at {{Coords|-102|-180}}. After proceeding through [[Aid the Underduke]], you can also make a [[Persuasion]], [[Intimidation]], or [[Deception]] check to convince Meadhoney to give you a pass. | ||
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=== The Counting House - High Security Vaults === | === The Counting House - High Security Vaults === | ||
At the deepest part of the Counting House, beyond a vault door requiring a {{Ability check|Sleight of Hand|99}}, are the High Security Vaults. This "impossible" lock can be bypassed in numerous ways: | At the deepest part of the Counting House, beyond a vault door requiring a {{Ability check|Sleight of Hand|99}}, are the High Security Vaults. This "impossible" lock can be bypassed in numerous ways: | ||
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=== Related quests === | === Related quests === | ||
* [[Aid the Underduke]] | * [[Aid the Underduke]] | ||
* [[The High Harper]] | * [[The High Harper]] | ||
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=== Safes === | === Safes === | ||
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* [[Skoan]] | * [[Skoan]] | ||
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== Gallery == | |||
<gallery heights="200"> | |||
Tim-coddens-tim-coddens-thecountinghouse-06.webp|Interior of The Counting House. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||