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Gorgonseye on 22/8/2006 at 19:48

Ok, so I have broken into the shrine of Mehrunes Dagon, now, I've killed everyone in the altar area, freed the argonian Jeelius, and I started to follow him seeing how it seems he knew how to get out.....then there are hordes of Mythic Dawn agents and acolytes, I got through a few, untill I became overwhelmed by the masses, is there some alternative way out other then the large gate? Or some sneaky way around them or something? Because frankly, I'm not getting anywhere playing follow the leader with the argonian...

Rylan on 22/8/2006 at 19:54

I dont remember the path exatcly, but IIRC there is a tunnel that you can travel that only has a few guys at a time to fight.. I went slow, probably took me a good 45 mins to an hour to get out, but you are not overwhelmed. that was a few months ago, so im not positive on its location.. ill look for it.

EDIT: Here's a great (http://elderscrolls.blogspot.com/2006/03/main-quest-walkthrough.html#shrine) walkthrough out of the shrine. Careful, dont read ahead this does contain lots of spoilers.

Gorgonseye on 22/8/2006 at 20:12

Ah, brilliant! I thank ye for this information.:D

Rylan on 22/8/2006 at 21:08

glad i could help!

RyushiBlade on 24/8/2006 at 01:32

There's a good chance you'll be able to just leg it out. There's only one rule for cowardness: Never look back! It slows you down ;)

Rylan on 24/8/2006 at 03:11

just did that mission myself on my second character.. took me 2x longer, i kille everyone fast, but i couldnt find the guy that had my stuff.. my tactic:

Drop my armor and weapons, let him take the rest, pickpocket the gold off him (which i failed).

listen to all the blah, then killed the slave. tok his 7 gold.

ran up by the tunnel that leads out, and picked off one guy at the bottom at a time.

grab the book, then make my way out

i sepnt about an hour trying to find the stupid dudewith my stuff, turns out he had died at teh bottom of the cliff in the shrine room.. i just didnt run into that corner.

god it was good to massacre all of those cultists :)

Gorgonseye on 24/8/2006 at 15:25

The main hassle was the fact I wanted to keep the argonian alive, its been this thing that almost always happens, if I am given an escort or ally to help me during a mission/quest/whateveryouwanttocallit I have this thing where I feel i need to keep them alive, so, everytime they die, I restart, it took me about an hour total I think,{just killing all the mythic dawn in the room was a hassle because I couldn't free the slave without endangering him} but the fact I managed to run through all the way with him made me feel I accomplished something.

Rylan on 24/8/2006 at 16:49

OH! that reminds me of a wierd bug i found.

on my second round of that cave trying to find the guy with my gear, i tried to see if i had looted the argonian, the statue had crushed hima nd all.. anyways, he talked to me! said he wanted to get out.. but he couldnt move :P

PeeperStorm on 25/8/2006 at 01:33

You do know that you can grab the statue pieces and drag them off of him, right?

I've found that the easiest way to keep the argonian alive is to leave him tied up (assuming that the statue doesn't kill him) until I've killed all of the cultists in the cave.

Gorgonseye on 25/8/2006 at 02:09

Yea, just what I did, I decided NOT to be peaceful in getting to the shrine, because my wood elf is an assasin I was easily able to sneak in, then kill everyone in secret which made the start relativley easy, only getting out was the hard part.