Castle Keep

Castle Keep
Castle Keep, also known as Home Castle, is the first quest in Castle Crashers, and features only Barbarians as enemies with swords and arrows. It is also set in the Kings Castle, so there are plenty of Grey Knights (Guards) to help you.

Story
This quest stars with a cutscene of Bards playing music and your knight parying, while Guards sit around, feast, drink and some also party. Then suddenly, a dead Guard tumbles down the steps.

The guards then run off to battle, but are not seen until much later. When exiting The Castle, a cutscene plays of The Evil Wizard stealing a gigantic crystal from The King. He then flies away on it, and The King sends your knight to battle The Barbarians.

Once down the steps from his throne, there is a village in flames being plundered by Barbarians with defenceless villagers fleeing from Barbarians. Once killing these three Barbarians, there are numerous amounts of them throughout the Village. At the end of the Village a cutscene shows of a "beefy" Barbarian carrying away the Green Princess and the Red Princess, while three other normal Barbarians carry away the Blue and Orange Princesses. It is thought the beefy one was the Old Barbarian Boss, but there is no proof.

However, you never get the chance to fight the beefy Barbarian. When going up the steps, the gate opens and Barbarians flood out, while some climb the ladders to get to you.

Once these are defeated, you enter what is a ruined, smashed, plundered and raided shop with a Guard inside, getting beat by some Barbarians. If you pull them off of him (knock them away from fighting him) he will help you defeat them. If you look behind the counter, you can see the hair of a shaking shop keeper cowering in fear.

If you defeat them, the shop functions like any shop and you may buy a sword or some Health Potions. When exiting the shop, the mission is over. You have two points to spend on your stats and it unlocks Barbarian War.