Sahuagin City

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How do you get to sahugin city? i was told after u beat irenicus in spellhold you follow the captain an u r jumped by pirates. the only door out is sealed. do i have to get into spellhold by killing the mage an robbin his stone?

 

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Saemon Havarian tells you to meet him at the docks (or whatever) after you have finished with Spellhold/Asylum.
You can find him in the lower right part of Brynnlaw.

Do his quest and he'll take you sailing once more, this one takes you to the Sahuagin City.

 

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AFAIK: After defeating Irenicus in Spellhold you can meet the pirate and he teleports you outside of spellhold. You have to solve a quest for him and have to meet him at a ship in the harbor later.

There´s a little fight till you sail away. Your ship gets captured by Githyiankis and you seem t drown but wake up in Shahuagin city.

 

but u dont HAVE to do that u no, there is a portal in spellhold that takes u straight to the underdark

 

but what fun is that! The boat ride rox my sox

 

Well shadowthief, again you´re right. Of course you can use the portal, but using it and not choosing the ship has several, as I think grave, disadvantages (as follows):

(a) you will not meet a shahuagin priestess that offers fantastic prices for ridiculously simple magical items
(b) you´d miss the funniest beholder in the whole game
(c) you´d miss the cloak of reflection iirc
(d) you´d miss the wave´s blade, but this is only interesting when you like halberds
(e) you won´t get the silversword´s blade afaik, giving you less opportunity to kill stinkin´ evil Githyiankis.
(f) you´ll miss a lot of nice XP and the only opportunity to kill an ettin in BG-2 (when not playing a pally)

Finally you end up at the same spot in the underdark, whatever way you choose. So is there any reason to use this stinkin´portal ?

 

I can think of 2 reasons.

1) If you're stupid
2) If you're trying to finish the game quickly

 

But after irenicus how do u get outta spellhold? the only door i know says it is sealed an i cant open it.

 

walk to the stairs to the north,
you'll encounter Haverian

 

After talking to Havarian, refuse his offer to beam you out or say that you´ll meet him later (I forgot) and search the rooms. In the one that is accessible from the entrance room you´d find some stuff, including the key needed to open the sealed door to tzhe portal.

 

if you use the portal..do you get to go to the sahuagin city? and do you get the blade for the vorpal sword?

 

nope

 

Damn I'am Glad i didnt take the Portal. Thats screws you over!

 

yeah me too. who are the githyanki? where do they come from? where are they going? why are they here? do they have a city or something in tob?

 

Well, some info about the Githyanki:

*Githyanki*

INTELLIGENCE: Exceptional to genius (15-18)
ALIGNMENT: Any evil

Githyanki are an ancient race descended from humans. They dwell upon the Astral plane but will often leave that plane to make war on other races. They are engaged in a lengthy war with the githzerai.

Githyanki are strongly humanoid in appearance. They are approximately of human height but tend to be much more gaunt and long of limb. They have rough, yellow skin and gleaming black eyes that instantly betray their inhumanness. Like many demihuman races, their ears have sharp points and are serrated at the back. Dress for the githyanki is always an elaborate affair. Their baroque armor and weapons of war are decorated with feathers, beads, and precious metals and gems.

Githyanki speak their own tongue, and no others.

Githyanki knights are evil champions who take up the causes of the githyankis' mysterious lich-queen. Githyanki knights are very powerful and highly revered in their society. Githyanki knights have all of the powers and abilities of a human paladin except these are turned toward evil (e.g. detect good instead of detect evil, command undead instead of turning undead, etc.).

Knights of 7th level and above will always carry a silver sword -- a two-handed sword +3 that, if used astrally, has a 5% chance per hit of cutting an opponent's silver cord, but mind barred individuals are immune. A supreme leader of a lair will carry a special silver sword that is +5 with all the abilities of a vorpal weapon that also affects mind barred individuals.

Githyanki will never willingly allow a silver sword to fall into the hands of a nongithyanki. If a special silver sword should fall into someone's hands, very powerful raiding parties will be formed to recover the sword. Failure to recover one of these highly prized weapons surely means instant death to all the githyanki involved at the hands of their merciless lich-queen.

All githyanki have the natural ability to plane shift at will. They will rarely travel anywhere besides back and forth from the Astral plane to the Prime Material plane.

More than humans, githyanki are hunters and predators. They will typically engage in raiding and plundering seemingly for the joy they derive from it. It is likely that the long centuries of enslavement of their race has caused the githyanki to bully those weaker than themselves.

(an abridged version from the monster manual)

 

well...just to tell you(im not trying to be rude or anything) but i didnt skip the saghuan(?) city and i did meet the funniest beholder living

 

aren't the Githyanki the baddies after the "hidden" mind flayer?

 

"the baddies after the "hidden" mind flayer" ??? ... oh well, you meet some Githyankis (the same folk you´ve met inside before) after finishing the mindflayer dungeon in the underdark - if I understood your question correctly ...

[This message has been edited by Ragusa (edited June 24, 2001).]

 

Those Githyanki are after you because of sword part, not that they are after MindFlayers.

 

sprouty means the ones you have to kill in order for the hidden to heal the little girl - jan quest