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How do I open the secret passage?
  • 1 of 9: Have you found a room with a note on the wall referring to caverns beneath the castle?
  • 2 of 9: It's the far NE room of the castle.
  • 3 of 9: Now how might you open that passage?
  • 4 of 9: Try going around and using things.
  • 5 of 9: The gimmick is one of the shields on the wall.
  • 6 of 9: It's the one in the NE corner, near the stat barrel.
  • 7 of 9: Use it to turn it and open a secret door in the SW wall.
  • 8 of 9: You can now enter the caverns through this door.
  • 9 of 9: Note that the act of opening the secret door turns all the half-orc guards in the castle hostile, so hurry down into the cave tunnel if you don't want to have to deal with them now.