Slavers of the Shrieking Mines

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The Shrieking Mines are named for the winds that howl through its narrow tunnels, sounding like the cries of some tormented soul.

Slavers of the Shrieking Mines
Level:	10
Duration:	Very long
Base XP:	2,220 3,900 4,100 4,299
Takes place in:	The Shrieking Mines
NPC contact:	Opu the Elder
Quest acquired in:	Restless Isles
Patron:	The Free Agents
Base favor:	6
Slavers of the Shrieking Mines map

Overview

This quest is given by visiting Opu the Elder on his island in the Restless Isles. For those who have been bestowed this quest at least once before, you can take a shortcut by speaking to the Wildman guide to be found in the first passage.

If you have not run this quest before, you will have to fight your way to the quest giver.

Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!

Objectives

• Slay the Ogre Magi to free their slaves
• Slay the mine's Overlords
• Kill Lord Imshysh
• Kill Lord Villixill
• Kill Lord Ythrixid
• (Failure) Kill no more than 10 miners
• (Optional) Defeat the Beholders
• (Optional) Kill the Turncoats (40)
• (Optional) Retrieve the artifact form the cache

Known Traps

Sonic, slash

Tips and Misc

Useful buffs:

• Acid for ogre mages
• Electricity for ogre mages
• Fire for ogre mages
• Sonic for traps

Before you start killing stuff, remind your party members that killing 10 Wildman Miners results in quest failure. Watch your opponents - some means of crowd control comes in handy here and area of effect spells such as Wall of Fire are bad. Kill the wildmen in BLUE, who are called Wildman Turncoat. Do not kill the wildmen in WHITE, who are called Wildman Miner.

Concentrate on killing the ogre/s controlling a group of Wildman Miners. Once the ogres are dead, the wildman miners will turn to "friends" and you will no longer be able to kill them.

Follow the dungeon. Going downwards is easiest - unless, of course, you fall off. There are sonic traps that are operated by a wildman miner banging a gong. If you have a caster in your group, you can cast Flesh to Stone on them and they'll stop banging the gong; however, they usually eventually save even if you cast Enervate or Energy Drain. You might find it easier to kill them, if you can be sure you won't kill too many other miners - there are around five sonic traps.

There is a beholder near the one and only shrine. Despite what the quest objective says, there are no other beholders.

• Bonus XP:
  • Aggression bonus: 94
  • Mischief bonus: 90
  • Vandal bonus: 118
  • Ransack bonus: 144

When you get to the central caverns, there are ogres all over the place, who really like their ranged weapons. Unless you want conquest, don't spend too much time killing these guys, because they respawn.

Loot

• Chests: **1 locked with 3 ogres
  • 1 in Lord Villixill's room
  • 1 in Lord Ythrixid's room

• NPC rewards: Random items

Unique Loot

• Resonant Guard Suit - +4 Studded leather: Sonic Guard, Lesser Sonic ResistanceLesser Sonic Resistance: This property absorbs the first 5 points of Sonic damage per attack that the wearer would normally take., Move Silently -5
• Ring of Resonance - Ring: Protection +3, Sonic Guard (locked chest)
• Ring of the Ancestors - Ring: Raise Dead
  

  Raise Dead
  Caster lvl: 9
  Charges: (1/day)

  
  (1/day), Required Alignment: Good (No UMD DC) (Lord Ythrixid)
• Shrieking Star - +2 Morningstar: Glass, Roaring, Soundburst
  

  Soundburst
  Caster lvl: 3
  Charges: (1/day)

  
  (1/day) (Locked chest)

Monsters

Wildman Miner, Wildman Turncoat, Ogre, Ogre Magi, Mindflayer, Beholder