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Icewind Dale II Hints

How do I get the password for the locked door near the entrance?

  • 1 of 15: You need to find someone who knows it.
  • 2 of 15: Pondmuk is such a "person."
  • 3 of 15: He's a lone, cowardly goblin who's hiding out in a little side cave near the center of this level of the warren.
  • 4 of 15: Make one or more characters invisible and have them sneak carefully south and west.
  • 5 of 15: You'll pass one goblin clan's cave, a group of orcs eating dogs, and come to a second goblin clan's area.
  • 6 of 15: Just NE of the second goblin clan is a small side cave with Pondmuk at the east end of it.
  • 7 of 15: Talk to him to see what he wants in exchange for the password.
  • 8 of 15: Make sure everyone in your stealth party is invisible again and find the door that's just west of Pondmuk's cave.
  • 9 of 15: Open it to release some woolly spiders, which will crawl south and attack the nearest orc clan.
  • 10 of 15: Ignore them and go through the door. You'll find the woolly spider queen in the NW corner.
  • 11 of 15: Attack and kill her and the other woolly spiders in the area, then pick up their bodies.
  • 12 of 15: Go back into stealth mode and sneak back to Pondmuk.
  • 13 of 15: Give him all of the spider bodies for extra XP. (Note that giving him the regular spiders first and then the queen gets you the most XP.)
  • 14 of 15: He'll tell you the password is "chimera," so you can go use that at the password door to get through.
  • 15 of 15: NOTE: You could sneak invisibly through an east door in the spider area and make your way to the exit to level 2 up in the NE corner without messing with the password door, but that would require everyone sneaking around the long way while invisible. Also, you get some bonus XP when you give the correct password to the door guard.