Rescue the Druid Halsin: Difference between revisions

** [[Drow]], or characters disguised as one via the [[Disguise Self]] spell, also have special dialogue options that helps you bypass diplomacy checks.

* Avoiding the check-points through [[stealth]] or finding an alternative path (i.e. approaching the camp from the North-West).

** Note, approaching from the North-Western path requires the player to figure out methods to deal with some sleeping guards (who can be woken if jumping character land near them). A [[Silence]] spell can effectively cover this.

* The entrance is guarded by [[Warrior Trinzas]], who can be persuaded through diplomacy, [[Tadpole Power|Tadpole Powers]], or Drow special dialogue like the previous check-points.  

* This makes force-damage items/spells/abilities that can clear the 10 damage threshold - like [[Smokepowder Bomb|Smokepowder Bombs]] or [[Eldritch Blast]] - ideal for breaking this wall.

* As there are sleeping guards situation close to the wall, using the [[Silence]] spell on the explosion or the guards to cover the noise is recommended, if you wish to avoid a confrontation.  

Once inside, the player must approach the ornate door at the Eastern Side of Shattered Sanctum (X:342, Y:32) to enter the [[Worg Pens]], where Halsin is held. As long as the alarm was not raised, no one will stop you, assuming you are either a True Soul or a welcomed visitor.

Alternatively, the player can also get taken to the Worg Pens by getting themselves captured - either by offending the goblins (i.e. getting caught pick-pocketing), or through the potential events of the [[Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help]] quest (drinking Gut's potion of sleep while not being resistant to it). In this case, the player is taken to the prison at the Worg Pens, and has the option to break out and find Halsin that way.   

Regardless, once in the Worg Pen, approaching the cages triggers a cutscene where the Goblins harass Halsin, who is disguised in his bear wildshape. Using the [[Speak with Animals]] spell allows the player to understand Halsin in his animal form. The player has various dialogue options to react to the scenario at hand. Regardless of what happens, in order to free Halsin, the goblins guarding the area must be fought, which includes:

* [[Butcher Vrak]]

* [[Beastmaster Zurk]]

At the start of the fight, the Goblin youths that were harassing Halsin try to make a break and call for assistance. If they are successful, they draw in the guards outside the doors - [[Sharp-eye Neem]], [[Sharp-eye Eef]], and [[Sharp-eye Nass]].

[[Priestess Gut]] (X:297, Y:-18) is in front of the giant throne immediately north of the front entrance. She offers to brand the party with the [[Brand of the Absolute]], which can be accepted or rejected. Regardless of whether the brand is taken or not, Gut recognizes the party as fellow True Souls. She attempts to probe into the party's minds with her illithid powers. Allow her to do this, and she notices something is amiss. Explain that it's the result of the tadpoles and ask if she can help, commencing [[Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help]]. Gut says that the party should join her in her private chambers.

Follow her to her chambers, where she says she has a cure for the tadpole. She says that a special cleansing potion must be taken first. However, an [[Arcana]] check reveals this is a sleeping potion. If she's called out on this, or if the party member in question is resistant to sleeping potions (ie an elf or half-elf), she becomes hostile and also triggers several nearby goblins to become hostile. However, if the potion is taken, she chains up the party member and says she intends for them to become her pet squid. It's possible to either break free with an [[Acrobatics]] or [[Strength]] check, but a special scene plays if nothing is done at all. Wait, and [[Korrilla Hearthflame|Korrilla]] appears from a portal to assassinate both Gut and her Ogre guard. Then she disappears after a brief conversation, warning the party to be more careful.

The drow {{CharLink|Minthara}} (X:333, Y:42) is in the northeastern corner of the Shattered Sanctum. There is a [[Scrying Eye]] that must be dealt with before defeating her, otherwise the camp is alerted. Minthara can easily be taken out after speaking with her, as she runs across the bridge to gather the troops. While she is running on the bridge, attack the bridge's posts and she falls into the chasm below. Otherwise, once the scrying eye is dealt with, only Minthara and her minions in the room become hostile, so the other two leaders can still be dealt with stealthily.

[[Dror Ragzlin]] is unique in that he is the only member of the trio that cannot be killed with stealth. If the party kills Ragzlin, no matter where they are, the entire camp becomes hostile. For this reason, it's best to wrap up all business in the goblin camp and acquire the waypoint in the Selune Outpost below the Shattered Sanctum before killing him.

Dror Ragzlin is in the throne room to the north, casting [[Speak with Dead]] on an illithid corpse (X:296, Y:40). A cutscene automatically plays as the party enters the room, with Ragzlin asking if they'd like to speak to a squid.

A very simple way to kill Ragzlin is to shove him before her returns to his throne after the illithid conversation. However, this makes the whole room become hostile and escaping is more difficult. There is a stealthier way to kill Ragzlin by separating out one party member while the others wait in the Worg pens. Sneak up to the wooden beams above the throne and hit him with something that kills him instantly, such as a [[Void Bulb]]. Then, quickly fast travel outside of the camp and switch to the party members that are still in the Worg pens.

Return to the Worg Pens and report to Halsin on the leaders' defeat. He is grateful and willing to answer many questions about his knowledge of the tadpoles as well as the strange movements of Absolutists at Moonrise Towers. He tells the party to return to the Druid Grove and he will meet them there. Return to the Sacred Pool area, where Halsin confronts Kagha about her actions. He will either demote her status to an initiate or cast her out entirely, depending on how/if [[Investigate Kagha]] was completed.