Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Bugged or Incomplete Area in Szarr Palace (Tourmaline Depths)?

After you gain access to the ball room, there are two "tower" rooms, one at each corner. If you go into the open one you'll find a button, send one character inside to press it, this closes that room but opens the dining room.

At the back of the dining room is a chest, move this to reveal a hatch. This will take you down into a weird creepy green-hued area with marble floors and cages of bodies.

There is what appears to be an angled stone slab behind a partially raised portculis, and a grating running from it to another door, beneath which lies a heavy chain. Hidden alonside are pairs of marble plates. Putting boxes on the first four opens a door, though you don't seem to need to (it wasn't locked for me) and there are another two inside that appear to do nothing.

NOTE: If you do put weight on the four initial plates, you will need to remove some to reopen the exit door, as this does lock and can't be picked.

Inside the closed area is a bottomless green pit over which are suspended more cages. There are also three levers, one intact that seems to do nothing, and two broken that appear to be mislabelled as "marble plate" and can't be reassembled (they're just treated as junk items). It appears to be an upper area to the crypt you descend into via the elevator near the office.

It feels like the intention is that solving the puzzle would cause something (maybe coffin sized) to be dragged onto the stone slab and the portculis opened. But what, and who might it contain? It's so frustrating not to know!