12.16.9 Gongen Mines

A short distance south of the fortified gates of the Kinsarmarian towne of Kaarkkrazul, an inconspicuous doorway has been chiseled into the sheer rock face. Obscuring mists swirl lazily through the air, concealing this entrance almost entirely from a distance. In the nearby towne, stories are whispered about these mines, for through that doorway, there is naught but silence and abandon it is said. A massive stairway leads down onto a balcony overlooking a sprawling expanse of empty mine shafts, ropes and pulleys hanging still like the veins of some vast, sleeping beast. Tools lay everywhere, as if set down for only a moment, but a thick layer of dust covers everything, and hangs thickly in the air. What more may lurk in these eerily silent depths?