The House of Broken Chains

The House of Broken Chains is the 1st quest in the Menace of the Underdark: City of Portals story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward..
The first three quests can be completed in any order to unlock The Portal Opens.
The House of Broken Chains • The House of Rusted Blades • The House of Death Undone • The Portal Opens

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The House of Broken Chains
Heroic level:	None
Epic level:	22
Duration:	long
Heroic XP:	N/A
Epic XP:	♣8,823Solo/Casual ♦15,186Normal ♥15,667Hard ♠16,148Elite
Takes place in:	House Avithoul
Bestowed by:	Mirini Elemys
NPC contact:	Mirini Elemys
Quest acquired in:	Eveningstar
Patron:	Purple Dragon Knights
Base favor:	8
Free to Play:	No
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Sneak into House Avithoul and start a slave revolt. Climb inside a slave-cart in Sschindylryn in the Underdark. The War Wizard's illusion spell will disguise you as a slave once you are inside. The Underdark can be accessed through Eveningstar Cavern. Sschindylryn can be entered far south of the entry portal and high above the cavern floor.

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Objectives

Open the Slave Pens (5)
Enter the Slave Quarters
Defeat the Slavemasters (4)
Slay Slavebreaker Solul
(Optional) Free some slaves from their collars (5) — Bonus (10%): Epic( ♣882 ♦1,519 ♥1,567 ♠1,615 )
(Optional) Free more slaves from their collars (10) — Bonus (10%): Epic( ♣882 ♦1,519 ♥1,567 ♠1,615 )
(Optional) Free every last slave (16) — Bonus (10%): Epic( ♣882 ♦1,519 ♥1,567 ♠1,615 )
(Optional) Break House Avithoul's Relics (3) — Bonus (10%): Epic( ♣882 ♦1,519 ♥1,567 ♠1,615 )
(Optional) Defeat Solul without killing his slaves — Bonus (10%): Epic( ♣882 ♦1,519 ♥1,567 ♠1,615 )

Known Traps

Trap DCs

Two of the three relic rooms are significantly trapped. The last one is guarded by an orange-named draegloth that, on slaying him, also yields a chest. One of the corridors leading to a slave pen has a single spell ward.

Tips and Misc

The slave pen doors can be picked to avoid spawning guards that appear if the doors are destroyed. One of these north doors has a very high DC, especially on Epic Elite. On Epic Normal and Epic Hard, the Open Lock DC is 90. That same DC slave pen door was picked on Epic Elite with a 91.

If you break the door down (via melee or spell blast), guards will respond. You do not get credit for "opening (that) slave pen" until all those guards are killed.

Unlocking collars is a straight Strength check, or various skill^† + d20 roll.

† Concentration, Disable Device, Repair, Open Lock, UMD, and "unskilled" (flat low percentage chance). (Slave Collar DC)

Of these, Strength and UMD have the lowest target numbers.
You can also use a Bell of Opening for an automatic success.

There are several rooms where one or two (sometimes named) slavemasters keep control over their charges. A stealthy approach to find these slavers and quickly assassinate them in some cases will prevent accidentally killing the controlled slaves, who will fight you until all slavers in the area are killed.
In the southwest slaver rooms, there are powerful mobs of spiders that directly prohibit a stealth assassination. Carefully destroy both spiders and slavers here if you haven't met your freed slave optional. A party member in stealth (with Invisibility to lower any Spot checks of the nearby slaves) can pull most or all spiders to the outside hallway without attracting the slaves' attentions.

A switch in a recess of the spider lair of this room opens the door to more spiders for Conquest seekers. A key found in this area can be used to reach one of the relic optional rooms with a chest. Careful: The number of spiders can be overwhelming.

(Optional) 3 Relics:

The first optional relic room can be accessed from a ladder off the main slave pen yard (which you enter at the start of the quest). It's down a nondescript alley toward the northeast corner.
The second can be accessed through a Secret door in the north-central slaver room.
The third relic room can be accessed through a hidden corridor just off the hall to the end fight. You'll probably need a good Rogue or access to Dispel Magic to handle this corridor; pay attention to the Dungeon Master dialogue.

If the eastern and central relics are destroyed, the Matron Mother Magroph Avithoul will appear in front of the third in the western area. Her chest may contain Seal of House Avithoul.

End fight:

Once all slavers are killed, the sealed door (adjacent to the western shrine) opens, with NPC slaves greeting and encouraging you for the final fight.
The end-fight (in the northwest room) consists of a red-named slaver that compels mobs of slaves to attack you. A cunning party will figure out how to kite, charm or immobilize the slaves and a handful of their Drow guards while others in the party isolate the slaver to kill him without killing any of the slaves to achieve the final optional challenge. If careful, you can also pull the Assassins and Solul without pulling any of the slaves by using ranged weapons. However, this optional won't be assigned until you enter the final room; if you kill Solul without ever entering, the optional will be incompletable.

Bonus XP

Devious bonus: 32 or fewer monsters killed +7% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Aggression bonus: 144 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Onslaught bonus: 170-172 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Tamper bonus: 5 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Neutralization bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 9 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Perception bonus: 2 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Mischief bonus: 32 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Vandal bonus: 41 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Ransack bonus: 51 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus. No experience numbers available.

Notes: The numbers for the traps bonus will change if you trigger the extra spell wards in the last hidden corridor.

Loot

Chests: 2
- 1 for killing the Draegloth
- 1 end chest
Collectables: 5
- Cabinet in the kitchen
- Adventurer's Pack in the labor rooms
- Bones in the silkery
- Cabinet near the north east relic
- Bones near end fight, south east corner
NPC rewards:

Named Chest Drop

Last Edited	Item	Type	Enhancements	ML	Bind	Quests
Update 48.4.3 1 year, 8 months, and 8 days BugTime	Icerazor ^(edit)	Sickle	Spellcasting Implement +18Spellcasting Implement +18: Passive: +18 Implement bonus to Universal Spell Power. +6 Enhancement Bonus+6 Enhancement Bonus: +6 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Glaciation +102Glaciation +102: Passive: +102 Equipment bonus to Cold Spell Power. Ice Lore VIce Lore V: Passive: Your Cold spells gain a 15% Equipment bonus to their chance to critical hit. SlicingSlicing: This weapon is incredibly sharp and will do an additional 1 to 4 damage to targets that are vulnerable to bleeding. Icy BurstIcy Burst: This weapon is sheathed in icy cold, and deals 1 to 6 cold damage each hit. Critical hits deal an additional 1 to 10 cold damage for weapons with a x2 critical multiplier, 2 to 20 for a x3 multiplier and 3 to 30 for a x4 multiplier. Freezing Ice Freezing Ice: On items: While you are wearing this item, your melee, ranged, and unarmed attacks gain the Freezing Ice ability. (When the weapon is used, an icy power occasionally comes to the surface, attempting to freeze an enemy solid and encase them in ice.) - (duration: 9 seconds) On weapons: This Weapon stores the pitiless immovable power of the ice deep within. When this weapon is used, this power occasionally comes to the surface, attempting to freeze an enemy solid and encase them in ice.	21	Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip or Bound to Character on AcquireBound to Character on Acquire: This item is Bound to Character on Acquire	The House of Broken Chains, End Chest ; Slavemaster Banister Avithoul's chest in The Underdark ; Menace of the Underdark: City of Portals, Quest chain end reward
Update 48.4.3 1 year, 8 months, and 7 days BugTime	Slaver's Hand Crossbow ^(edit)	Repeating Light Crossbow	+6 Enhancement Bonus+6 Enhancement Bonus: +6 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Nightshade VenomNightshade Venom: Any creature struck by this weapon must succeed on a Difficulty Check 22 Fortitude save or fall unconscious. The target may attempt a new save to end the effect every several seconds; otherwise the sleep lasts for 20 seconds. Poison BurstPoison Burst: This weapon is dripping with poison, and deals 1 to 6 poison damage each hit. Critical hits deal an additional 1 to 10 poison damage for weapons with a x2 critical multiplier, 2 to 20 for a x3 multiplier and 3 to 30 for a x4 multiplier. BleedBleed: This weapon is cruelly sharp and will do an additional 1 to 8 damage to targets that are vulnerable to bleeding. Constitution Poison, VirulentConstitution Poison, Virulent: The deadly poison coating this weapon deals one point of constitution damage every time it strikes an enemy, and an additional 1 to 6 points of constitution damage when it scores a critical hit. Some creatures may be immune or resistant to ability damage. Insightful Sneak Attack Bonus +3Insightful Sneak Attack Bonus +3: Provides a +3 Insight modifier to your attack bonus and a +5 Insight bonus to damage for any attack that would qualify as a Sneak Attack, even if the wielder is not a Rogue.	21	Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip¹ or Bound to Character on AcquireBound to Character on Acquire: This item is Bound to Character on Acquire²	The House of Broken Chains, ¹End chest ; ¹Slavemaster Banister Avithoul rare chest in the The Underdark ; ²Menace of the Underdark: City of Portals, Quest chain end reward
Update 48.4.3 1 year, 8 months, and 6 days BugTime	Seal of House Avithoul ^(edit)	Ring	One of the following: Dexterity +7 Dexterity +7: This item makes the wearer more nimble and dexterous, granting a +7 enhancement bonus to Dexterity. Insightful Dexterity +2Insightful Dexterity +2: This item makes the wearer more nimble and dexterous, granting a +2 insight bonus to Dexterity. Wisdom +7 Wisdom +7: This item makes the wearer more in tune with her surroundings, granting a +7 enhancement bonus to Wisdom. Insightful Wisdom +2Insightful Wisdom +2: This item makes the wearer more in tune with her surroundings, granting a +2 insight bonus to Wisdom. Sneak Attack Bonus +5Sneak Attack Bonus +5: Provides a +5 to attack bonus and a +8 to damage for any attack that would qualify as a Sneak Attack, even if the wielder is not a Rogue. Insightful Sneak Attack Bonus +3Insightful Sneak Attack Bonus +3: Provides a +3 Insight modifier to your attack bonus and a +5 Insight bonus to damage for any attack that would qualify as a Sneak Attack, even if the wielder is not a Rogue. Improved Deception Improved Deception: This item makes your weapons hard to focus upon and thus provides a +5 enhancement bonus to Bluff checks. In addition, while using this item your weapons have a chance to envelop the target in darkness, making them vulnerable to sneak attacks for a short time.	21	Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip	The House of Broken Chains, Matron chest

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Monsters

Name ^{( picture • New Monster )}	CR	Type	Race
Avithoul Blademaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Collared Slave ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal ●♠23Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Collared Villager ^{( view • edit )}	●♦15Epic Normal ●♥17Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Humanoid	Human
Deathjump Spider ^{( view • edit )}	♦16Normal ♥19Hard ♠23Elite ●♦21Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠25Epic Elite	Vermin	Spider
Dolnozz ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Ess'k ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Grataun ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Guard Captain Amalzen ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Guard ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Magroph Avithoul ^{( view • edit )}	♦25Normal ♥30Hard	Evil Outsider	Demon
Ophur ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Overseer Solul ^{( view • edit )}	●♦25Epic Normal ●♥30Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Priestess of Lolth ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Slavemaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf
Underdark Assassin ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♠42Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf