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Disable Anskram Keep's defenses.
  • 1 of 9: This is the first of the two quests that Sigmund the Stressed gives you to do before he'll join the alliance.
  • 2 of 9: Travel back to Sturmford and go back to the keep.
  • 3 of 9: Don't enter the keep, but instead climb up to the top level of its outer fortifications again.
  • 4 of 9: Now walk around the central area with the two big doors and look for two small trap doors on the floor.
  • 5 of 9: Use one (or both) to open it, and then climb down inside.
  • 6 of 9: Hit the lever near the windows to raise the portcullis.
  • 7 of 9: Then break the two chains to lower the drawbridge.
  • 8 of 9: Don't attack the big wound-up chain sections, but instead look up and shoot the chains where they're stretched tight across the ceiling.
  • 9 of 9: Once the drawbridge is down and the portcullis is raised, report back to Sigmund to finish this quest.