Locked door in basement in tutorial; how the heck do you open it?

[Computer Ninja]

I'm trying to use the thief to pick it and it tells me that it's not a conventional lock. None of my spellcasters can open the lock with any of their spells. Help.

[Crazed Possum]

if you have a high enough strength click your weapon or fist and attack the door. you have a chance to break bars or in this case a door....or maybe a chest that is locked

[Computer Ninja]

Silly me. I was able to find the key... I thought I had opened all the chests/barrels.

[wellsw33]

For those who may be having trouble finding the key the information is below. Warning, minor spoiler:
The key to the locked door is hidden inside a barrel in the northwest room.

[Remo]

Originally posted by wellsw33:

For those who may be having trouble finding the key the information is below. Warning, minor spoiler:
The key to the locked door is hidden inside a barrel in the northwest room.

I never would have finished this....

I killed everything in the basement. Then I went through the same headscratching problem with that one door. What threw me for a loop is the "You'll have to use everything you were taught to succeed" speech. I immediately tried to pick the lock about twenty times on this door (convinced that I must not be doing this right). Then the description about the door sent me on my second goose chase. The magic ward comment in description made me jump at a posible magic spell... So I attempted using every spell I thought might work. So after going through that hell, I figured there must be a key so I went back and tried to loot the bodies of all the creatures I killed.

The solution turned out to something I never did in the tutorial....

Thank you for your post!

[:Borogor:]

Originally posted by Remo:

Originally posted by wellsw33:

For those who may be having trouble finding the key the information is below. Warning, minor spoiler:
The key to the locked door is hidden inside a barrel in the northwest room.

I never would have finished this....

I killed everything in the basement. Then I went through the same headscratching problem with that one door. What threw me for a loop is the "You'll have to use everything you were taught to succeed" speech. I immediately tried to pick the lock about twenty times on this door (convinced that I must not be doing this right). Then the description about the door sent me on my second goose chase. The magic ward comment in description made me jump at a posible magic spell... So I attempted using every spell I thought might work. So after going through that hell, I figured there must be a key so I went back and tried to loot the bodies of all the creatures I killed.

The solution turned out to something I never did in the tutorial....

Thank you for your post!

A key in another room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIacthEYU68