Lower cells quest

[spidersilk]

I'm on the lower cells quest (looking for Shadow Tarkus), and I've made it all the way down to the bottom (the keepers' crypts) without encountering him yet. But on the second-to-bottom level, the Burial Cells, there's a gate whose opening wheel is on the far side.

 

I didn't worry about this when I first passed it, because I assumed there'd be two stairways up on the next level down, or something like that. But there wasn't. I tried looking all around for hidden levers, and went back up to the level above the one with the gate just to see if maybe that one had a second down stairway that I'd missed, but I didn't find one.

 

Anybody know how I can get that gate open? Or is it one of those come-back-for-it-later things?

[Randomizer]

I don't think you can open that gate. There isn't any later unless you come back to kill any stray monsters you missed on the first trip that aren't quest related.

[Ceiling Durkheim]

Yeah, if you make it to the Keepers' Crypt and talk to the 'beard, you can go back to Hand Callan and report the quest finished. As far as I know you can't open that gate. As people have pointed out with his other games, Jeff enjoys putting in a few genuinely inaccessible areas to tease those who want to do everything.

[spidersilk]

Ah, OK. I was worried that Shadow Tarkus was back there and I'd just missed some means of entry or something. Thanks!