Darkness of Hallowvale

01Read before you run

Long, and almost entirely travel. The single biggest time sink is skipping a step and having to cross Meiyerditch again, so check your quest log at each stage.

1. 1

   Speak to Veliaf Hurtz in the basement of the Burgh de Rott pub and offer to scout a route into the Sanguinesti region.

   • Hammer
   • Knife
2. 2

   At the hut south-east by the docks, repair the boat with a plank and four nails, then the boat chute with another plank and four nails.

3. 3

   Push the boat down the chute and board it. You can bank the hammer at this point.

02Surviving Meiyerditch

1. 1

   Vyrewatch stop you at intervals and offer four choices. Paying the blood tithe costs 6 hitpoints and is the default if you do nothing.

   The vyrewatch cannot be damaged by anything you have at this stage. Choosing to fight only lets you run — it does not let you win.

2. 2

   Distracting them scales with Thieving and costs 6 hitpoints on a failure. Logging out and in during the conversation avoids the encounter entirely.

03The sickle route

1. 1

   The way across the city is marked by sickle symbols on walls and doors. Carry a knife or sickle throughout.

2. 2

   Sector one starts at the house south-west of Old Man Ral whose door faces north and carries a sickle symbol. Climb the ladder, jump south to the floorboards, then east.

3. 3

   Graphics enhancers such as 117 HD can make the sickle marks harder to see. Turn them off if you lose the trail.

04Vanstrom's ambush

1. 1

   Report to Veliaf, then investigate the noises at Paterdomus for Drezel. The searchable bush past the temple stairs knocks you out.

2. 2

   Back at Castle Drakan's south-eastern side, drawing on the sickle symbol brings Vanstrom Klause.

   You cannot damage him at all and you can die here. He uses melee only — turn on Protect from Melee the moment the cutscene ends. After five attacks he knocks you out.

3. 3

   When you wake, finish the final drawing before doing anything else, then speak to Sarius Guile.