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Didn't tell you you have to sit on the stool to get it

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The ****ing stool leg. I never would have thought of doing that, or even hovering my mouse over a stool. Also I wouldn't have discovered the secret bottom level myself either, among other things.

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A recent patch has made the Chest of Mundane useless as a bag of holding. No longer reduces the weight of items placed in it.

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Top floor there is a stool laying down. Move it upright to sit on it and gain 21 strength. Stand up and you loose it. Break it and you get a club that grants the wearer 19 strength.

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You can bypass the lovk on the chest of the mundane by having a sussur bloom on your person

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Chest of the Mundane itself weighs 20kg, but transforms anything placed into it into temporary tableware. So you can transport quantities of heavy armor with the weight of plates and cups.

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Bernard and his fellows can be incapacitated by Sussur Bloom, just hold one and stand next to them.

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When you're on the stairs on the first floor you can have a character use misty step to teleport to the basement and loot that way without all of the back and forth

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There is a hidden lever on the top floor next to the bookcase on the south wall, perception check. Not sure what it opens tho, already cleared the tower.

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Anyone else get permanently stuck in turn-based mode?

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useless location

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You can get into the basement by jumping from the top of the second flight of stairs, into the corner, above where the false wall is. You have to position just right before it will let you make the jump. No need to waste a spell slot in order to get in before the boss.

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Button on bedroom floor causes Myrna's rune marked dog collar to vibrate. Pushing button while wearing dog collar causes "Raw Steak" (10 Camp Supplies) to drop. Only works once?

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BIG RIP on using the Chest of the Mundane as a makeshift bag of holding. Per the recently released patch notes: "Fixed a bug where adding items to the Chest of the Mundane changed the weight of an item." They'd better be letting us buy a BOH from merchants then later on, or I'm modding TF out of this game to either give myself one, or vastly increasing my carrying weight to avoid this issue

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I seem to have encountered a bug where things put into the chest of the mundane prior to act three are STUCK as mundane things once removed from the chest in act 3.

This is a problem since I think I screwed my self out of the cursed monk quest.

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If you stick the Sussar Petal into the Chest of the Mundane, and then take it out. You get the Sussar Bloom flower, without the arcane nullification effect. This is likely a bug, or an oversight, but for those that want to make your camp perty topside. The Sussar Bloom flower retains this visual effect even when above ground and you drop it on the ground, again, without the magical aura radiating off of it. It CANNOT be used to power the Arcane Tower however. In order for the item to power the Arcane Tower, it MUST have the magical null effect to be a valid choice. Just thought it was nifty when I t'wer messing around with the chest to see if it did anything unique or different. (Yes, you can take it with you. I highly recommend this.)

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Encountered a bug where once the power is restored to the tower, if a save is reloaded or you travel from and back to the tower, the lighting effects of the arcane torches disappears along with the blue glow on the pipes (back to darkness).
They can be seen lit in the save thumbnail but once loaded everything's off.
The elevator still works tho.
Found no fix yet.

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The Arcane Turrets can be destroyed with upcast Melfs Acid Arrow(lvl 3 or higher). Not sure why lvl 2 doesn't work.

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The Chest of the Mundane is low key one of the best items in the entire tower.
Consider that it forces down the weight of all objects within to near nothing.
Fill it with all the volatile containers to be able to place them on a whim.

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Just put a fog cloud/darkness on the turrets and you can walk up to and smash them.

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I used mage hand through the steps leading to the elevator from the power generator room to use the lever and open the door to the basement from the inside.

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caution when using the mundane chest because it can crash your game and corrupt your file:
the issue occurs when you place a large number of items in the mundane chest (130 or so), open them and the chest "stacks" certain items that can't be stacked and makes them corrupt. for me, it was 10 stacks of "Skull" which was actually 1 "skull" and 9 "bones" stacked into 10 stack of skulls. Selling this to a vendor will permanently ruin that save file. However, if you place it on the ground near a sussor bloom then take all items it does not seem to created corrupted stacked items alternatively, just remember to not put skulls and bones in the chest or remember to not sell skulls to vendors.

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you can use lightening damage to shut down the turrets.

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alternatively to using the ring to find the button and teleporting down; in the south west corner of the top floor you can find a lever with a successful perception roll. the lever opens up the wall to the basement

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The Chest of the Mundane has some strange, buggy effects, and more so when you put a Sussur Bloom inside it:

- (any, bar the bloom) items put inside it _can_ have their weight reduced to the amount of the mundane item, but the calculation of your carried item's weight can become de-syned. If you're not seeing the reduced weight(s), try removing everything and adding one item at a time (environmental liquid barrels are a great use, and good test, since they're so heavy).

- this is _excellent_ for throwing these items, since the 'fake' weight is applied - throw barrels as though they're as light as a spoon!

I'd assume this is probably a bug, so don't expect your chest-of-near-infitite-environmental-control-barrels to remain for long!

- The bloom triggers the weight recalculation too, but once it's in the chest, further removal / additions of 'mundane' items does not (since the 'magic' is negated)
You can circumvent this by just triggering the desync again - remove the bloom and put it back.
Once this is done, closing the chest and re-opening it syncs the weight calculation up again (since the magic is negated), and all the 'real' weights return :[

- Having the bloom in the chest reveals the real icons of the items in it, but this in itself has bad and good effects, particularly in regards to throwing the items within:
*Good*: you can see the real icons in the hotbar, so you know what you're throwing
(oddly, the tooltip will also tell you if adding this item would emcumber you character, as though you don't already have it)
*Bad*: the real weight of the item is applied in regards to throwing, regardless of the chest's/ character's weight sync/de-sync state

So if you want to pump the chest full of barrels for creating environmental havoc, don't put the bloom in, and try not to confuse your explosive-barrel-fork with your water-barrel-cup :]

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What is a sussur flower? I have been carefully jumping and avoiding the turrets, (sometimes have gotten hit) found an elevator that I cannot use.. really hard to navigate the turrets with whole party and got in second room by jumping etc.. but nothing in here is working.. (lift, lights)

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Found out that the damage from tavern brawler on throws bypasses the Turrets defenses so have fun throwing stuff at the so they break

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I saw the secret basement from the stairs up to the otherwise lowest level of the elevator and just pushed one of my party members down there, unlocking the treasure room before even meeting Bernard.

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If you fail the arcane check for the Chest of Mundane, you can carry a Sussur Blosson (found in the garden behind the tower) and walk up to the chest. The anti magic field will bypass the magic on the Mundane Chest allowing you to loot the Mystra's Grace boots (Feather Fall).

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Just noticed something odd, if i pick up a sussar bloom while already in gasseos form i dont lose concentration on the spell or the gasseos form or its ability to fly

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Theres a lever at the top of the tower close to a bookcase, anyone knows what it does?

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Be sure to pick up the Chest of the Mundane and actually put it in your inventory. It's basically a bag of holding, turning all your junk and sellable items into lightweight cups and plates until you take them out of the chest again.

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I don't know if it was intended, but I got into the blocked basement before going up the elevator. Standing at the top of the steps in the basement just outside the elevator looking down the steps you can see an open window. I used misty step to teleport through it and into the basement.

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I had a very strange glitch where it said I didn't have enough resources. If you get this try having your entire party at the machine for some reason that fixed it for me.

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There's supposedly a gith related item for another quest in here, haven't found it myself.

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Near the blacksmiths table to the left of Bernard there lies a stool. Its name is "... of Giant Strength". You cant sit on it. But if you select "throw" and target the ground the stool will break. What will be left will be a 1h mace called "Club of Hill Giant Strength". Its effect is "Splinters of Giant's Might" It increases Strength to 15. Very usefull passive effect.

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you can use magic hand to go to the basement. there's a small gap where it can fly down

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Do the Sussur blooms destroy magic items in containers if you're carrying it? I feel like there were some potions in a container, and then there weren't when I replayed the area with the bloom on me.

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On Patch 9 I talked my way to Bernard to give me the Guiding Light Ring and he never put it on the table.

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Just go up with 1 characher and then agro them and go down to the basement and you cannot be thrown off the tower. bring a sussar petal too.

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Arcane Cannons can also be disabled by dropping a Sussur Blossom next to them (the cannon has to be within the aura effect)

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"These empty sheets are all..." gave Scroll of Prayer of Healing not Potion of Flying, may have changed in patches

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Is the scroll from Bernard random? i got Scroll of Prayer Healing

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Bernard has several commands. These are all related to parts of poems you can find in books/parchments around the tower.

One command gives you a hug, another gives you a Potion of Flight, yet another gives you "Guiding Light" (a ring that can cast Light), and one command that causes him to attack you.

Equipping the "Guiding Light" ring and walking back to the elevator reveals a button leading to a secret basement level that has a diary belonging to the owner of the tower as well as a powerful "Staff of Arcane Blessing".

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I pushed Bernard right off the tower :)

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If you're struggling with Bernard fight, check out the sussur bloom in action: https://youtu.be/cqjReJDsO5E

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if you have not read the book before? the dialog choices are limited and he will attack you..i managed it once in a different playthrough

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there is a button by the window in the bedroom, what does that do? your character comments something about the ring you can get from the guardian revealing its magic.

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Guardian at the top of the tower drops a Antique Key. No Idea what it is for.

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