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               S = Two-Way Secret Door               
               n = One-Way Secret Door - north to south
                                           


                              FLOODBLEST MAP KEY


1.  A guard stops you and says, 'The road ahead leads to Nightsedge, a town
    beset by many troubles.  It is much more dangerous than here in Floodblest
    Do not go there without strong friends.
2.  A sign here says:  'Floodblest - North
                        Nightsedge - East'
3.  You've come across a lair of Hippogriffs.
4.  A sign here says:  'Floodblest - South
                        Nightsedge - North'
5.  This house looks recently vacated.  There is an overwhelming smell of 
    sickness and death in the air.
6.  You stand outside the modest house of the Mayor of Floodblest.
7.  NPC Mayor -- 'Please give Lord Nasher our gratitude for sending such
                  hearty adventurers.  We suspect there is a spell-user who
                  has brought this misery upon us, and who is hiding in the
                  natural tunnels beneath the Hollow Hills.  We think he may
                  be using the village well as an entrance to these tunnels
                  but no villager who climbs into the well ever returns.'
8.  The village well lies in the center of the square.  Once a favorite local
    gathering place, the now dry well appears deserted.  You stop a passerby
    and ask why it's been abandoned.  'It is a place of ill-luck,' he says
    'When the well went dry it was the beginning of all our troubles, and 
    no one wishes more troubles for themselves.  You'd best stay away, too.'
9.  The town well has apparently dried up.  You see notches cut into the wall
    like a ladder leading down.  Do you wish to descend?
    to (15,13)
10. NPC -- 'My son was playing near the town well.  I went to get him away
            from it and heard sounds like voices from inside!  The next day
            I became very ill, and nothing the priests do is helping'
11. Sinda's Trading Post
12. A small shrine to Chauntea, goddess of agriculture, lies to the east.
13. The placid Neverwinter River runs past the docks here.  Where once a
    thriving port shipped great quantities of food downriver to the coast,
    only a few small fishing boats remain.
14. NPC -- 'The monsters come out mostly at night, but its never safe to be
            alone.  I've heard voices underneath my home!'
15. NPC -- 'I'm glad you have come.  Perhaps youcan find the source of the 
            disease which is destrouing our livestock.'
16. The Rankled Boar Inn
17. The deep green of these once healthy fields has been replace by the dusty
    brown of death.  Waves of insects circle in search of more crops to 
    destroy and carcasses of dead cows and sheep dot the landscape.  In 
    fields so close to the life giving river, this is no natural disaster.
    Only magic of the darkest kind can take such bounty and replace it with
    such emptyness.
18. You have disturbed some of the marauding monsters in their daytime lair.
    Hippogriffs and Giant Lizards
19. A sign here says: 'Neverwinter Wharves - West
                       Floodblest - East'
20. A sign above this gate reads: 'to the Neverwinter Wharves'
21. A shallow puddle is all the water that remains here at the bottom of the
    well.  A tunnel leads west.  Notches in the wall allow you to climb back
    to the surface. Do you ascend?
    to (11,11)
22. You enter a long, winding passageway.  The ground here is still muddy from
    the spring which once must have filled the tunnels
23. The tunnel guardians have set an ambush here.  As you turn the corner,
    they attack!
    Owlbears
24. The tunnel slopes gently downward to the west.  You can hear an occasional
    drip of water from the slick walls of the passageway.
25. Stairway to (7,14)
26. Stairway to (0,15)
27. The slope of the tunnel increases, and the footing becomes more unsure.
28. Stairway to (8,13)
29. Stairway to (2,13)
30. Footing is treacherous here, as the slope increases even more.
31. Stairway to (2,14)
32. You can hear the noise of the creatures beyond the oaken door to the west.
    Stairway to (4,13)
33. You've entered what looks like a barracks.  Before they notice your
    presence,  you hear the guards discussing someone they call the 'Dark
    Mage'  Suddenly, the guards see you and attack.
    Gnolls
34. A long steel ladder leads upwards into darkness.  Do you climb up?
    to (10,13)
35. After the arduous climb up the slippery ladders you arrive in a small
    antechamber.  The air is cool and drafty here, as if there were a large
    cavern nearby.  There is an oaken door to the west.  You hear muffled
    noises from behind the door.  Do you climb back down the ladder?
    to (0,11)
36. Monsters are waiting to ambush you as you pass through the door.
    Owlbears and Giant Lizards
37. As you enter this cavern, you see many creatures waiting, facing you in a
    semi-circle.  Standing before them a tall thin mage, dressed all in black
    He laughs at the sight of your party, his cackling voice echoing eerily
    off the stone walls.  He gestures with one hand, and you feel  white-hot
    pain as a magic missile strikes you in the chest.  He signals again, and
    as his creatures rush to the attack, the Dark Mage disappears through a
    door to the northeast.
    Minotaur, Owlbears, and Gnolls
38. The Mage's office has been hastily emptied and little of interest remains.
    Patient searching among the papers that litter the floor, however, 
    rewards you with several pages from his journal.  Most of the entries
    note his success and pleasure at causing the blight on the local farms.
    He writes that soon he'll turn even Neverwinter's famous indoor gardens
    into heaps of ash.  One entry says:
        'Negotiations with teh Eastern slavers in Nightsedge continue to
         prove tedious...It may be simpler (and cheaper) to use undead
         servants instead and accept their limitations.
39. The Dark Mage has left some of his friends behind to slow you down.
    They attack!
    Owlbears
40. The caverns here look less well-travelled than the others.  There are 
    fresh footprints in the mud to the west.
41. There are echoes of footsteps and shouted orders all around you.  This 
    area of the caverns is full of activity.  The walls here are those of a
    cave, unchanged by human artisans.  You must be deep beneath the hills to
    be within such a tremendous system of natural caverns.
42. As you wander through the caverns, you are ambushed by some of the Dark
    Mage's creatures.
    Umber Hulk and Minotaurs
43. A wooden ladder lies concealed in this passage.  A steady stream of fresh
    air flows down from above.  Do you climb the ladder?
    to (7,6)