13. Nashkel Mine Sector

• Talk to Emerson, who is just south of the mine entrance, and he'll inform you of problems in the lower level of the mine and give you permission to enter the mine. In the northwest corner of this sector, in a large tree trunk (coordinates x=165, y=179, hit the L key to find your location) you'll find a wand of frost.
  

  Nashkel Mines area map. There's a treasure cache in the NW corner in the tree stump.

• Prism is making a sculpture in the side of the cliff on the west portion of this sector, a little south of the middle. If you kill him and take the emeralds he carries to Oublek in Nashkel, you'll be rewarded with 300 gold and 200 xp If you stay and defend him, you'll get the jewels in any event, as Prism will pass away after completing his masterpiece, but you'll have to kill Greywolf (66 hp, level seven fighter), who comes a-bounty hunting. It's definitely worth your while to take out Greywolf (try using a hold person spell or entangle to take him out quickly). You'll get 1,400 xp for killing Greywolf, plus the long sword +2: Varscona.
  

• Within the mine, Miner Dink will ask you to return a dagger to Kylee, who is a miner located in the western portion of the second level of the Nashkel mine.
  

• There are a couple of kobolds on the first level of the mine, and many more on the second and third levels. Most of them have bows, so get close to take them out quickly or use missile weapons of your own. There's a little cache of treasure (gold and a fire agate gem) in a couple of crates a room in the northeast corner of the third level.
  

• There are several traps on the third level of the mine. Get Imoen (or any other thief characters you have with you) to walk with find traps turned on. If a trap is spotted, try to disarm it using thief skills (spells can also be used). There's a particularly nasty magic missile trap in the southeast corner just before the entrance to the fourth level - ignore it at your own risk. You'll also find Joseph's ring on the third floor of the mine, near the entrance. Return it to the commoner in the locked building in the southeast corner of Nashkel for a reward.
  

• In the southeast corner of the third level there are a couple huge spiders and a pack of kobolds led by a kobold commando, who fires some nasty arrows (arrows of fire). Take him out quickly with arrows of your own or spells, or charge a fighter or two to take him out in hand-to-hand combat, which will minimize the effectiveness of the kobold commando's arrows.
  

• On the fourth level of the mine there are a couple of gray oozes. Take them out with missile weapons as quickly as possible. A cave exit near the oozes will lead to the mountain sector directly east of the Nashkel carnival. On the fifth level of the mine, Mulahey (36 hp, level five), a cleric, waits in a room near the entrance. He'll reveal a little more about who's behind the sabotage of the mine, but don't be merciful, as he'll just end up summoning reinforcements. Mulahey's treasure includes two potions of healing, a potion of absorption, short sword +1, Xan's moonblade, and mage scrolls of armor, infravision, charm person, sleep, identify, and web. Take Mulahey's scrolls to end chapter two. Mulahey is wearing boots of grounding and a ring of holiness.
  

• Xan is a depressed prisoner of Mulahey, and he'll join you're your party. He owns a moonblade, a unique sword that is bonded to him.