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Friends, I bring you news of the Xenoran Mines which are
spread over four, grimy levels within the volcano itself.
I entered east of the main Lanerell-Xenora passage - one
of three entrances know to me. I kept a low profile as I
explored the mines from bottom to top finding them to be
populated by demonic gnomes ranging from powerful slave
owners to adventurers and renegades. It is a community
driven by greed and self-interest - on returning to it
determined to purge the region of evil - I found the
gnomes indifferent to each other's fate and, in the case
of the wretched slaves, ungrateful for their freedom,
which proved short.
I left the caves with a backpack near full of ore and a
diamond I'd pried from a wall near the entrance using a
discarded pick. My exit was via a chimney lying north
of the shaft leading to the second level, that took me
directly to the smithy where my loot fetched 1800 gold,
the diamond excepted.
I returned via Xenora some days later to find a fresh
influx of gnomes already hard at work but these I spared,
exiting shortly therafter through a crack in the cave
walls to the SW of the second-lowest level eventually
reaching sunlight NW of Lanerell.
Entrances/Exits:
- East of main Lanerell-Xenora route. Lowest level.
- Chminey from second-lowest level to Xenora [one-way]
- Xenoran Entrance, past ruffian, by small, beggar child.
- via crack in wall [to bat caves] SW corner of 2nd level
Inhabitants [all demonic]:
Slave 3-4K \
Miner 4K } Most likely to drop nuggets
Adenturer 5K / [sometime 2]
--More-- (68%) [hit <enter> or <space> to continue or <q> to quit]
Soldier 6-7K \
Renegade 8-9K } More dextrous.
Master 16K / Renegade is least friendly.
They have no weapons or armour, no spells or special
moves, are stationary and don't swarm. The mine repopulates
fairly quickly - a wipe is worth about 330K. The money isn't
good ~ 1800 gold, plus the diamond.
I may have imagined it but it seems the gnomes are more
cheerful the further east one goes.
Newt the blue cleric
[An old post of mine re-posted]
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