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Shortcut hole! It's blocked. In the next room...



A switch that resets itself every time you pull it. The solution is you have to use the water tile in line with the switch on the other side...

Stoic realises what this is (saying he's seen it before) and explains these switches have to be pulled at the same time for basically security reasons.


Then we go into a timing minigame where we have to use the switch in time with Shrouds wind spell. It's a little tricky since he does a spell charge animation and then there's a delay while the spell invisibly makes its way to the switch, and the valid window is probably like .5 of a second. Luckily, Shroud just casts the spell over and over again and there's no dialogue or anything, so it doesn't take too long to get the timing down.

These guys aren't anything special. The Richters on the other hand are tanky and have a fair amount of HP, and when they get low on HP...


They split into these, which usually die from a little bit of damage.



In the next room is a cart. If you ride it right away, you break it in a rock pile not far south, and then you'll have to fight another two foremen yourself. If you head south first, there's a switch to pull, and if you do so, the cart will take out two foremen for you. You can't pass that intersection without having sent the cart on, either way.


The other guy has 42.

If we try to go into that cave there, we're just told that it contains a LOT of mine carts.







You can probably guess what kind of puzzle it is. A thankfully easy and short version too.



There's also some smaller piles with loot buried under them.



And before long, we've rammed it on all sides.


ellyvator










Argh


Here's where the number on all those necks comes into play.



So, you can only pull one switch on each column. There's four columns. We have three numbers and we don't know the fourth. It's pretty easy to figure out. The numbers we got were: 21 13 42

See if you can figure out this little puzzle and what the last number is.



And with that, the 'speed accelerator' is ready to send us flying over!





Stoic says this after he correctly guesses the last guys number.





We're in a familiar area but we can't follow after the kids right away because there's two obstacles in the way. The rest of Shroud's dialogue box indicates there might be a switch nearby to turn off these fire breathing dragon statues and there is, hidden inside a minecart. But the other obstacle is a locked door...

This fight isn't really made anymore difficult by the fact that there's three of them.



That 'building' there is a little smithy we'll be using shortly. I head upstairs which seems to be a huge furnace room with pipes.



The first step of the three step process to get by the locked door is to fix this switch. We move on to the other side of the smelter room downstairs.

Shroud blows man and crate away.




The third man rejoins us just in time for the easy fight.



Weee!


Another time switch sequence. Except the other switch is so far there's a bit of a delay, so the timings trickier than before.



Were they planning to sail off with this? What the hell.



Step 2 is to use the lever to...





Nice. But we have no idea why we did this. We leave this section of the mine entirely, back to the dragon statue room. There's two more pathways. One's blocked off and the other is where we need to go.

... One fight later...


Err. Two fights later. Anyway, these worker moles are weak basic attackers.



Fighting the moles in the hole lets us use this hole back to the start of the dungeon where the fairy was







So this is a sort of maze. The kind where the holes don't have any real logic to them but always take you to the same place, and the areas look different, thankfully.



These guys are also pretty basic. Easier than the random encounters, anyway.





Helpful. If you find it. Every time you go through a hole there seems to be an about 33% chance you'll fight moles too.











hahaha.

Under the text, you can see them approaching...


The Mole Boss starts jumping and thumping on the ground.

Pretty simple and easy flunky boss! He can only call two lots of reinforcements and then...



This enrages him, raising his attack. Still not good enough though!

With the key plans in hand, we leave to the south, finding a mine cart...





It smashes through the rubble blocking a path I mentioned earlier. I go back into the mole mine area.







So, this is a game of chicken. Falling off disqualifies you though, even if the mole thinks you're badass.


Takes a few tries, but I manage it. We get some nice recovery items as a reward.





About damn time.

Now we'll finally pass by those dragon statues...



Ominously silent room.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_PdSNna1yk





There's a small cave back here that has five holes that lead to each other. The holes ALWAYS have a mole encounter waiting. It's here solely for grinding purposes.