Category talk:Ruined Lairs
I'm going to start dumping things here, sorry for the formatting hell:
The scattered bits of paper are mostly burned and unreadable, crumbling to ash when touched. On one scrap that seems a bit more solid, there are some odd lines: | :| |: | :|__ __|: | :...| |...: | | | | \|/ | | The rest of the scrap is burned black and not readable.
This is visible when someone "looks paper" at the guardroom 7nws4wsdw from Aelmon.
Other notes:
In the popular part of lairs,east from the war planning room is a general who has a small obsidian key. Going down past the cook's room puts you in a maze I haven't figured out yet, besides dumping you back w2n from the War Planning Room.
You can go south from the lich in the Aelmon part to get a box that has "wire rimmed spectacles" which give 'detect hidden/detect invis.' I'm not seeing anything else there, or having to do with the lich (unless it's a ticket quest thing).
I found a ticket, I think in the King Lion part from the lich(I could be wrong on this, haven't checked):
You look at a broken axe head in your inventory... A broken axe head lies here. This item seems to be ticket. It weighs approximately 2 lbs. This item cannot be worn..
Also, in that part, sdn, qu trick, 2esw2dn from king lion there is a locked door that needs an intricate black key (needless to say, nothing on locate).
The undead being standing in the room was once the mighty mage Zincular, a noble in the great city of Midgaard. Well, to be precise, that is what he would call himself. Others in that city would scratch their heads and then recall that he was in fact the third, or was it the fourth son of a noble, and as such was hardly worth remembering. His resentment of this attitude was what fueled his desire to overthrow the rulers of the city and establish he and the other mages of his hidden circle as the rightful rulers. He does not know exactly what went wrong, but the mighty dark magic they were trying to harness obviously backfired and caused the complete devastation of his once fine hidden lair. He was here to spy on the city from the inside, and eventually clear the way for the invasion force from the east. He was also trying to assist with the discovery and elimination of any groups that might prevent the takeover from outside the city.
Above is the description from the lich in the part of ruined lairs near aelmon.
Anastasia was the brightest of the plotters, and certainly the most proficient caster. She was the one that realized the fool Taraz had not properly executed the early spells in the long sequence when things started to go wrong, and she managed to nudge the wild magic just a touch, enough to shift bits of it from pure destruction to a transformative effect, which prevented the total destruction of the plotters and their minions. She was generally very spartan in her ways, disdaining excess decoration and glittery clothing. At times though she did enjoy dressing up as someone else, a bit of a concealed acting talent. She kept these performances very private, and only Serug had access to them. Most of her time was spent in her labs, crafting new and horrible forms of undead warriors.
Above is the description from the lich who wanders in the Ruined Lairs part near King Lion. This is the mob that carries the previously mentioned ticket.
More things I found:
2d from the cleric near king lion (sdn, qu trick, 2esw) in the room "A Ruined Library", look books produces"
Little can be seen of the covers and pages, most are torn and burned beyond recognition."
there is a weapon with the same stats as the chained sickle, on the ghosts in the labratory... from the cleric, 2d2s3es (or close to that)
In the very far se corner of this part there is a quaffable pool, or something, that puts you in a water room with no exits, and a big mob. Quaffing again takes you to another part of ruined lairs, "An Experiment Room," I had to flee after that and tele'd out.