Geothermal Valley - House of the Afflicted Challenge Tomb (Part 2)

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After fighting off the wolves and prying open the door, as shown in part 1, head up the stairs on the right and follow the passageway into the ruins.

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There are several turns but no side passages, so you can't get lost. When you emerge from an arched tunnel of rough stone into a room with many clay vases and a few skulls, there's a stack of coins on the floor to the right. Take them and squeeze through the narrow gap in the wall ahead.

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Proceed through a dark, rocky tunnel into a flooded room with two flights of stairs with a huge metal cauldron in the corner between them. There's a survival cache (2/20) buried just to the right of the cauldron. Dig up the cache. Then head up the stairs on the right...

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...into a corridor containing several corpses and a relic (3/13), a Belt Buckle from the Athanatoi set.

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Continue to the next room, where you'll find the Infirmary Base Camp, a container of cloth, and a document (5/33), Last Parting from the House of the Afflicted series (Greek).

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Go through the open doorway into the puzzle area. The codex is in the little room high up on the far side of the courtyard.

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To get there, you'll need to position the suspended wooden platforms on the left side of the room so that you'll be able to jump across.

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First, collect a few goodies: Pick some mushrooms and dig up another survival cache (3/20) in the corner on the right near the wooden stairs.

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Hop into the shallow pool on the right (northwest) side of the room and swim through an underwater opening into the next room.

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Here you'll find an Explorer Satchel (2/5). Examine it to discover the locations of 3 survival caches. We already found two of these. The other survival cache (4/20) is buried just to the left of the satchel. Dig it up and then swim back to the main room.

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On the ground below the codex roomis a box containing a relic (4/13), a Necklace from the Icons of Kitezh set, a basket of herbs, and more mushrooms growing on the ground and in a dead tree. There are also several bird's nests containing feathers scattered around this area.

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