I'll bet that magic stone is right next to {@LinkCreature:11#5003#Orless}, the captain of the Red Lashes.<BR><BR>But he ain't giving it up without a fight. You look like you got a lot of fight in you, <PCNAME>.<BR><BR>Head down the northern stairs, and you'll reach the cabin Orless calls home. Beat some answers out of him! Well, the words on the map are in code. And math wasn't exactly my best subject in reform school.<BR><BR>Take this to Ilaria on the Jagged Coast. She has a head for figures, and a figure for...<BR><BR>Never mind. Long story. {@LinkCreature:11#5003#Orless} is the key. Don't you want to have the key? Fate smile upon you, <PCNAME>. Any news from the grotto?<BR><BR>What? A dementalith? And bombs? Titans preserve us!<BR><BR>Let me look at the map you have. They're pirates. How good could their code be?<NEXTPAGEBUTTON>"Here you go."</NEXTPAGEBUTTON> Let's see...first, inner, outer, last...got it!<BR><BR>Hmmm. You aren't going to like this, <PCNAME>.<BR><BR>This map is an emergency land route out of the grotto. The pirates took the dementalith overland...to the north.<BR><BR>Worse...it's labeled as the "stone of insanity."