QUEST SOLUTION: | FIND OTHER HALF OF "BECOME A LICH" INSTRUCTIONS
Promotion: This quest is not required to advance in the game, but is required for promotion to Lich.
Summary: Skulkil gives the party half of a set of instructions on how to become a Lich, and tells them they will have to find the other half. He says the other half of the instructions are in the Chasm of the Dead in Drangheim.
This is not a "quest" per se, as Skulkil does not instruct the party to return for the promotion; nor does this "quest" appear in the party's quest list.
How to do:
Part 1: Find the other half of the instructions:
Go through the Chasm of the Dead until you get to the "outdoors" part of the Chasm. Stop in the doorway (before the apparitions come), while you still have a green light. Cast Feather Fall and jump off the edge of the Chasm.
When you get to the bottom, walk uphill until you get to the first set of doors (you shouldn't get attacked on the way). Go inside. A little way in you will get attacked by four skeleton warrior types (they will regenerate once). Kill them and continue on (watch for traps in the floor and ceiling) until you are attacked by another group of skeleton warrior types (four more who will regenerate once). Kill them, then look at your map.
Your destination is the large chamber that has four other chambers branching out from it (you only need to reach the large chamber). Go down and stop just outside the door to it. Set everyone's Quickspell to Turn Undead.
SAVE YOUR GAME
Open the door. Some high-level Zombies will attack you, although at first there will only be one or two (they come out of the sarcophagi which are lined up against the walls). You just need to run straight up the stairs in front of you and grab the scroll laying on top of the pyramid, then run back down and out of the chamber. If you have more than one spell-caster, you should be able to keep the Zombies at bay long enough by casting Turn Undead repeatedly until you leave.
When you get outside the door, turn around and close it (making sure no Zombies are outside it or in the way of closing it). The Zombies will not follow you through the closed door. Then walk up the stairs to the corridor until you get a green light and you will be able to Town Portal out of the Chasm.
Part 2: The Lich Lab (I'm doing this from memory; my apologies for any mistakes).
Unfortunately, having the instructions alone will not enable you to become a lich. If you read them, you will find that you now need to find where the "Lich Lab" is located. You will find it in Yorwick (you can get to Yorwick from Thronheim - the tunnel entrance is on the other side of the lake that has the vampires around it). Once in Yorwick, find the Lich lab built into the side of a hill in the northwest quadrant of that region.
The instructions tell you to first brew up the potion of defedation. You do this (I think) on the ground level (could be second level), in a kitchen/storage room with a bunsen burner in it. Whichever floor it's on, it's definitely in the front half of the building. Use the bunsen burner to heat the potion (you may need to gather the ingredients from a storage room on the ground level). Once you have the potion made, put it into your inventory and SAVE YOUR GAME.
The lich transformer is the contraption in the center of the glass-walled room. To access it, go through a library which can be reached from the east section of rooms.
A lot of Skeleton Lord types and Liches are wandering around the Lich Lab, and the glass-walled room is no exception. In addition, it has Eyes permanently mounted in each corner of the lower level, just beneath the catwalk.
Once you get into the room, walk along the catwalk to the lich transformer and press the switch to activate the machine.
Return to the stairs that are by the door you came in. Run down those stairs (assuming there are still enemies lurking - if you've killed them all, then take your time), and get into the lich transformer. There are four compartments, but only one of them is not broken - it's the one closest to the stairway.
Close the door to the lich transformer behind you and have your wannabe lich drink the potion of defedation (If this conflicts with the lich instructions in the scroll, then use the scroll directions, not mine). The transformation should be complete.
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