Kill the Wartok if Arokh failed to take him out before, and pick up 55 gold. Smash the three barrels to obtain 257 - 260 gold. Head over to the lift and ride it down below. Have her get off and run over to the corridor entrance. Take her down the right side and have her hug the wall to avoid the fireballs spewed by the orifice at the end. Turn right and enter the next room. Smash the two barrels on the right for a Health Elixir and an Emerald (130 gold). Move her over to the second lift and have her ride it down to the next level. Stick close to the lift and have a look around. First order of business is to take out the Fire Wartok across the way to the northwest. Equip her bow or a spell (e.g. Lightning) and move into range. Fire a single arrow or spell blast and roll to the side, stand and fire another arrow or spell blast, then roll back. Repeat this maneuver until he's history. It'll take about a dozen arrows from the Composite Wooden Bow, but he'll eventually expire. Re-equip her sword. Looks like the only way out of here is to the north. Have her head into the short corridor and move her toward the end until you can see the track in the cross corridor.
Move carefully toward the entrance and look to the right. Hmm... circular blades on a pole in a track! This doesn't look good! Without this walk through, you can expect her to die at least twice before navigating this corridor successfully. Save your game status. Position her near the left side of the entrance and have her run diagonally across the track away from the rotating blades, which are now headed after her. Run down the track on the far side and duck into the alcove and immediately hit the "X" button to crouch and avoid the horizontally protruding blades. Once they've retracted she can stand as they will stay that way until the rotating blade repasses the alcove from the starting point. Wait for the rotating blade to come back past the alcove, then exit the alcove and continue down the corridor away from the rotating blade. Exit the corridor and move away from the end and take out the three Wartoks in the area. The first one leaves a Life Potion and a sack of from 23 - 30 gold pieces behind, while the other two will drop sacks containing a total of from 69 - 76 gold. Head over to where she dropped the Fire Wartok and grab 81 - 136 gold. Save your game's progress.
Now it's time to head west into the next corridor. Have her head down the stairs to the south, where she'll encounter two Wartoks, who'll leave a total of 50 -73 gold behind. Have her take the Composite Battle Bow, and break the two barrels in the southwest corner for a Full Mana Potion and an Emerald (130 gold). Head back up the stairs and continue upstairs to the north. If she goes upstairs to the north, she'll enter a small room with a Grull waiting to attack. Destroy it for 98 - 139 gold. Head diagonally into a short corridor with a floor full of holes. Carefully navigate it and head up the stairs to the west into the jail cell room, with five cells around three sides of the perimeter. Deal with the Wartok guard for 43 - 64 gold, and an Invulnerability potion. There's a push button in front of each cell and a couple of prisoners in the first cell on either side. Pick a cell with a prisoner and push the button next to the door and then run directly away from the door. The prisoner will exit and be crushed by the falling ceiling section in front of the door. Do the same with the other one. Collect 51 - 78 gold from one and 65 - 82 gold from the other. Kind of odd for prisoners to be carrying gold! Oh well! The remaining three cells are empty.
Exit the cell room and head west down the stairs. Avoid the holes in the floor and continue down the stairs at the west end of the hallway. There's a single Axe Wartok in the room beyond, which is festooned with bodies hanging from the ceiling. She can take him out with her bow or head in and do some damage with her melee weapon. When he's history, grab the two sacks of 42 - 62 gold. Head over to the northwest corner and open the four chests for stuff worth approximately 568 gold. Next carefully move over to the southeast corner and smash the barrels for 230 - 260 gold and a Health Elixir. Head east back up the stairs and jump over the hole in the floor, then turn south and walk diagonally back through the small chamber with the dead Grull on the floor. Continue south down the stairs and turn west and walk down three more sets of stairs. You'll see a Goliath Grull through the doorway. Equip her bow or a spell and let him have it from the safety of the corridor. Once it's fallen, head out through the doorway and don't worry about the gate crashing down behind her other than to be sure it doesn't descend upon her. Save your game status, then head under the overhead wooden bridge and then south, under the arch. Take out the Axe Wartok waiting nearby and pick up the 55 gold it drops. Turn around and look up and target the Wartok above. Destroy it then continue down the ramp. Turn to the south at the bottom and walk along the shore and swim when neccessary past the island to the end of the water. There's a body over there next to 450 gold pieces, a Rusty Scimitar, and a Rusty Axe. She probably has no room for the equipment and they aren't worth much anyway. Time to head back. If she has room for another bow, she can swim around to the other side of the large rock, which is hollow. Then dive down through a hole underneath and come up inside it to find an small island with a Rune Bow near a skeleton. Head back up the hill and then continue toward the next area. Head left up the hill toward the wooden bridge overhead and loot the enemy corpse for a Life Potion and 39 - 79 gold. Turn left and cross the bridge, then right and head toward the doorway. Looks a bit foreboding doesn't it, better save your game progress before going on.
Equip her bow or a spell such as Lightning and head into the arena. Oh well it's another Goliath Grull. Have run over behind one of the large braziers and put it between the Grull and her. Have her stand near the wall and lock on to it and snipe away. After a suitable number of hits, it'll fall. Hopefully it will have fallen near the brazier. Now out comes Snotmaw itself and says "Now you have to deal with me!" to which she replies "I really hate Wartoks". Stay behind the brazier and lock on to Snotmaw. Snipe at him as well and keep the brazier and the fallen Goliath Grull if possible between him and her. She should be able to take Snotmaw down without her even being scratched. He takes longer to fell, but once down, will hopefully provide another nice shield around the brazier for the three shield Wartoks, who've come down to try to do what Snotmaw couldn't. Again she should be able to zap all of them without being touched. Meander through the stack of corpses and grab the 156 gold and Snotmaw's Cleaver, they leave behind. Head past the brazier and into the open doorway. There're a couple of barrels over by the lift, which should yield 243 - 250 gold when smashed. Time to save your progress! Take out the Fire Wartok over by the swings for 31 gold, then take the lift up and have her stay on it and deal with three more Axe Wartoks with a spell or her bow for 75 - 100 gold. Then head over to the crates and take the Hollowman axe followed by a short jaunt over to the northeast wall and grab 512 gold, one or two Full Mana potions, plus a Life Potion. Return to the lift and ride it back down. Head east toward the slowly swaying swings. Once she's made it across to the far ledge, there's no returning to the majority of Snotmaw's lair, so take care of any unfinished business now (although there shouldn't be any). The first jump is easy. Save your game after landing on the first swing. The next one can be extremely difficult. I had to restart a lot the first time I tried. However a day later, I got onto the second swing on the first try. Definitely save once safely upon the second swing. The jump onto the third swing is not as difficult as the last one. Have her equip her bow or a spell once there and take out the two Wartoks on the ledge, targeting the Fire Wartok on the far left first. Jump onto the ledge from the center of the third swing and find 103 gold on the remains of the two Wartoks. Continue along the ledge to the north and enter the cave. Head for the lift and ride it up. Take out the Fire Wartok and Shield Wartok here and be careful not to fall down the shaft while doing so, then search their remains for 97 - 100 gold. Smash the two barrels for a Full Mana Potion and a 100 - 130 gold. Head south to exit. Arokh almost immediately appears and says "Ah, there you are." To which Rynn replies "Barely. You should have seen the giant I just had to fight." Arokh somewhat drily notes "Yes, I'm sure it was... horrible." Rynn protests "No, really, it was HUGE!" To which Arokh somewhat condescendingly says "Of course it was." Head north back to Surdana when ready.
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