Deadmines Tour, Part Two of Three

 We’re back again and ready to continue on into the deep entrance into the Deadmines. Upon moving on through the deep entrance, we initially found more of the same:  miners, rats and henchmen.   The difference was that the miners were more rugged and more ready to jump in and defend their territory.  There were also more patrolling non-workers.   The Defias must be offering very good pay to have so many wizards at their disposal for walking damp mine tunnels. 

We continued deeper and deeper through the miners and rats and slag until we came upon a large ogre in our path.   I guess it makes sense to have an ogre in the mines as they seem to favor subterranian dwellings and cave complexes.   I would have preferred to leave the ogre,  Rhahk’Zor he said his name was,  alone with his two buddies but he seemed to take exception to my presence and he attacked with some drivel about how he’d get paid for our heads.   Not a friendly sort at all.   His friends were about the same.   Although they likely decided we weren’t friendly when Rhahk’Zor fell. 

After Rhahk’Zor was dealt with, the doors behind him swung open revealing yet more miners.   Before we could continue through, we were surprised by a patrol coming from behind us.   It seems they were coming to investigate the disturbance at the door.   We found that at every further set of doors we came upon and managed to open, another patrol would appear to investigate.   This seems a bit of the “closing the gate after the horse” to me. 

Through the doors there was another branching of tunnels with the main tunnel continuing on to the right and a short shunt off to the left.   Down the left tunnel, we came across a gentleman who seemed to be more astute than the other miners.   His name is Johnson and he was very intent in his work.   In fact, he was rather grumpy to be interrupted. 

We went back and took the right branch down to another door.   Upon opening it we found what seemed to be a Mast Room.   There were a bunch of goblins in there hacking away at long poles.   Patrolling along the boardwalk and handling the heaviest cutting was Sneed in his Shredder.   Nasty bit of machinery that. 

Once the shredder and Sneed were out of the way, the next set of doors opened to more miners and more downward sloping tunnels.   Eventually we came to the doors to what turned out to be the Goblin Foundry.   This is where all the ore was disappearing to! 

The spiral walkway around the outside of the foundry wall led down to the bottom where cannon balls were being cast at an alarming rate.   Gilnid, the Smelter in the Foundry, took exception to us being there and came to have words with me.   It turns out that when you fight one goblin, you end up fighting them all!   In no time at all I had a pile of goblins flailing at me with torches and sending mini-shredders after me.   It was quite a fight to win our way through to the doors out the back of the Foundry. 

Once to the doors, we made our way through more sloping tunnels with what seemed like an endless supply of Wizards and Henchmen determined to slow our progress and stop us if they could.   At one point, in an alcove to the left of the main shaft, I found a cask of Defias giunpowder.   I thought they really didn’t need any more weapons to cause trouble with so I had my tourist friend, Varimoog, scoop that up and load it into his bag.

This turned out to be a good thing.   When we got to the next set of doors, they were locked solid; and us with no Rogue to pick the lock and help us sneak in.   So Varimoog loaded the cannon and used the powder we had scavenged to fire the cannon to blow open the doors. Unfortunately, since we had to be so noisy, there was an immediate alarm raised.   Again, I was lamenting the lack of a Rogue.   No firing of the cannon would have meant there would have been no immediate attack when the doors were blown open. 

Once the doors were open and the opposition cleared, we had a wonderful view of, of all things, a warship!   But not just any warship.   The hull was being fitted with metal plating and the decks were bristling with cannons.   We knew we had to get onto that ship and find out the plans for it.   I’ll tell you all about that the next time.   One more installment and we will have explored the entirety of this “Barn”.  

–Zyrena

Tags: Deadmines, Gilnid, Miner Johnson, Rhahk'Zor, Sneed, WoW