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The stairs have very small risers and the whole thing resembles a ramp more than traditional stairs. Perfect for stubby legs, or the wheels of ore carts and whatever is extracted from the depths below. “Shiny things!”, insists Digin…”So many shiny things!”. The way ahead is probably untrapped, so Fingers ventures ahead, trusting in his silent tread and enhanced vision to carr...

Heading east leads to an intersection, some bars and a vast array of polished kobold skulls. The group takes this as a positive sign and treads that path, dealing with the obligatory traps they have grown to expect. They enter into a cavern, dominated by a fortress that surrounds a vast stair that rises into the ceiling. Hey look! An army of kobolds is approaching. Ho hum.

A Knock is produced, and Fingers eases the door open. He glances left and right and once again, the gnome’s robe-enhanced vision allows him to survey without being surveyed in turn. The door opens onto an avenue of tall buildings in an even larger cavern. The area where the door opens is unlit, but to the right there are many small light sources and the noise of a baz...

The party decamps and prepares to spend another day tooling around the mountain. When Fingers opens the door, a fire trap is triggered. Though the damage is minimal, it does show the kobolds are not entirely cowed. Exit by an alter...

The fleeing scout vanishes into the city beyond, and the group is somewhat loath to pursue, given their recent arrival and being uncertain of the ins and outs of the place – which seems quite vast. Here the ceiling is hundreds of feet above the aven...