This small rocky beach, wet with dark water lapping in small waves against it. The water is from an underground lake. The roof of the lake cavern is only 3 feet above the surface of the water, stretching away in to darkness. Concealed among the wet rocks are 3 Gray Oozes (AC 8 HD 3+3 MM pg. 49)
Here, it appears as if the tunnel has completely caved in. This not the case, by making the check for secret doors, the PCs will be able to determine which four stones to move to let the pile fall out of their way, maybe the Trogs did it?
The section of wall in this area has collapsed, or been collapsed. Revealing a fair sized cavern, unfortunately for the PCs there are also 20 Troglodytes (AC 5 HD 2 MM pg. 97) The Trogs are hauling spoils from their latest raid, but to where? All together the Trogs had 1000cp, 6000ep, 3000sp, 9 pcs of Jewelry, and 23 gems.
The debris in this room looks as if it has been picked over already.
This room is also empty save for garbug detritus. (It smells bad in here too.
Closer to the collapsed section of wall, there is not much here.
This room is moist, but mostly empty. There are discarded carapace pieces lying about.
The door to this room appears to have sealed with mud. While difficult, it is not impossible to open. This room is moist and has strong sour, rotting smell. The smell is caused by Green Slime (AC 9 HD 2) clinging to the far wall. In the corner of the room are 3 corroded copper lanterns of strange make worth 1000 cp each.
At the other end of this large room in a well hole, the remains of the wall enclosing it are scattered about the area. The water level is right at the floor level. This enables the two Black Garbugs to pop out and investigate the torches the PC's are carrying. And just because I couldn't think of any other formn of treasure... One of the Grabugs is carrying a sack with 350gp. There are 4 doors, 2 one either side of the room.
Entering this area you will notice a large area of the left wall is caved into the room with a dark and forbidding cavern beyond. There are also two doors on either side of the room.
Passing thru the secret door the Duergar dwarves were next to takes into a large square room 50' x 50' and across the room from the door are three large mounds of dirt. Crawling on top of and around the mounds are 46 Giant Ants (AC 3 HD 2 MM pg. 7) there is a hallway off to the left as you walk into the room.
Here it is. This is the end my friend. The end of the mine. I really can't think of anything other than really bad puns. There is a pile of debris here.
This is a huge pile of offal. Pretty icky, I prefer not to describe it. Visions like that offend my delicate sensibilities. Hiding in the pile-o-foulness are my second favorite monster irritant. 9 Rot Grubs ( I told you it was icky) (AC 9 1 hp MM pg. 83)
Here lies a pool of filthy disgusting water the killer frogs use. If the dice indicate they are not in the lair, they will be here. (AC 8 HD 1+4 MM pg.41)
Just to the right of the bottom of the ramp is muddy hole that is lair to 2 Killer Frogs (AC 8 HD 1+4 MM pg.41) There is only a 30% change that the frogs will be in the hole. If the dice indicate they are not they will be in the pond.
Welcome to the bottom of the mine pit. Dark, damp and muddy. Nothing to see here...
Somewhere around the 200' depth area, there is another area carved into the side wall of the pit. Gathered in this alcove are 12 Duergar (AC 4 HD 1+2 MMII pg.61) The leader is HD 3+2 and carries a Battleaxe +1 and there is a Cleric at HD 2+2 carrying a scroll with 3 spells and a scroll with 1 spell. The Duergar had just come thru a secret door (as indicated on the map) This will take us into the Shallow Dark.
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This is another opportunity for PCs to misstep and die. Remember falling rules in 1e...
I included the empty sections of the ramp down, not wear them out with random encounters, but to give them an opportunity to get pushed off the edge. One must prune occasionally to promote healthy growth.
Somewhere around the 100' mark is a pile of tailings and general mine debris. Roll for it...
This is the beginning of the ramp that leads down to the bottom of the gem pipe. It's 200' up to the the foundry and 300' to the bottom of the pipe. I would encourage you to roll on the Random table at least twice.
This is where the precious metal mines end, and the gem pipe begins. Poking thru the remains of looks like a fairly formidable rock crusher are 10 Mongrelmen AC 5 HD 2 MMII pg. 92) The Mongrelmen were excited because they had just stumbled on the remains of a Bard. A fairly prestigious one from the looks of it. His bones are contained in a suit of Platemail +1, he has a Flail +1 and an Instrument of the Bards (DMG pg. 147)
Here the carved rail tracks form a round-a-bout around a very large pile of broken and rotting timbers.
This area is the mine elevator, long since collapsed and now just like a 10' spiked pit trap. If ya wanna make interesting you can put a nest of baby phase spiders. But I'm sadistic like that.
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This area is home to the things eating the fire beetles, 3 Huge Hunting Spiders (AC 6 HD 2+2 MM pg. 90) They don't take kindly to interlopers..
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Roaming around this area of the tunnel are 9 Giant Fire Beetles (AC 4 HD 1+2 MM pg. 9) Scattered close to the edges of the tunnel are empty fire beetle shells, almost as if something were eating them...
The vein of whatever the 7 Clans were mining in this tunnel ran out. They did some test digging but too no avail. Here you will find a carved stone cart stop and 5 Huge Pedipalps (AC 4 HD 2+2 MMII pg.
100) clinging to the walls. In one corner of the room are 2 Alabaster Moon lanterns worth 500gp each. They give off a soft glow that allows those with Ultravision to see out to a range of 100'.
This small room off of tunnel 2 is empty with recent signs something was here.
