How to get inside the fishery basement?

[Seltin]

Requires thievery 3 which I dont have. Any other way to go down?

[zacharyb]

Go back to the Lady Vengeance, go the the lowest floor, and go to the magic mirror, you can completely respec from there. Once you open the hatch you can go back and respec again if you don't want to have the thievery skill.

[Seltin]

ok - is it worth going in there?

[dergefata]

In general, I'd suggest you just keep your eyes open for +Thievery items and keep them in your pack. When it's time to go do your pickpocketing run, or unlock things, just swap out your gear briefly. No sense wasting character points on Thievery, imo.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by Seltin:

ok - is it worth going in there?

Good amount of XP plus some information for a quest.

[Boink]

You can pickpocket the boss for the key - close the doors (or kill the patrolling guards) and talk to him, it's an easy pickpocket.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by Boink:

You can pickpocket the boss for the key - close the doors (or kill the patrolling guards) and talk to him, it's an easy pickpocket.

It requires 3 to pickpocket him, which is the same as lockpicking the hatch i'm pretty sure.

[Boink]

Originally posted by zacharyb:

It requires 3 to pickpocket him, which is the same as lockpicking the hatch i'm pretty sure.

Well, if you're really lacking that massive 3 in thievery, you can always kill him. The point was that a key exists in game.

[Scottland Yards]

I'm kind of late to this game but enjoying it never-the-less.

Anyways in regards to getting the key without killing anyone. What worked for me was having the Dwarf "The Beast" in my party and after doing a quest or two for Lohar, who is in the Undertavern, he gave me a quest (which I cannot remember the name of) to get something from the Fishworks Cellar, which is what the game calls the area under the decrepit hatch.

I had approached the fishworks boss expecting to either pick his pocket or kill him for the key and then my dwarf told him something about Lohar needing an item and the boss gave him the key and told him not to get caught.

[Papal Understudy]

Or just use Fane's mask of the shapeshifter and approach the boss when you're transformed into a dwarf, he will hand you the key. I'm unsure which (if any) quests you need to make this happen though.

[danbjp]

For reference
Gloves theivery 2 - pickpocket June in Driftwood.
Chest theivery 1 - buy from Papa Thrush
Any belt
Steal thievery 1 feet from one of the skill vendors in north arx near the rune trader.

with these items and using the talent all skilled up you get your theivery to 10 which is the max

36k gold with each pickpocket.

[Uromysitisis]

I'm not inte thievery. Wait til he sits by his desk. I shut the back door. Then slammed him dead in one swift stroke. No one noticed.

[eXX52]

Originally posted by Spam:

Or just use Fane's mask of the shapeshifter and approach the boss when you're transformed into a dwarf, he will hand you the key. I'm unsure which (if any) quests you need to make this happen though.

This :)