Queues of weary peasants line the ferry landing. Most have their meagre possessions packed on barrows or in tattered back packs. They are fleeing the area after a long and harrowing conflict with a group of cyclops that have been raiding the human settlements in these wild lands.

As you talk to the people you hear various stories, one of the most frequently repeated is that the cyclops have continuously raided the homesteads killing the men and capturing the women live for some unknown reason.

They tell you that the cyclops are believed to be camped in an old dwarf mining settlement somewhere in One-Eye canyon. None know where the settlement was, but ruins can be seen from the top of Burgmeiers Bluff; but the bluff and its pine forest are evil places that the peasants have long shunned. The old man of the mountain, a strange rock formation on the bluff, is a particularly evil spot.

Somewhere over the bluff, there is an old mountain track that is believed to have been made by the dwarfs.

One-Eye canyon had its name long before the cyclops came. Legends indicate that One-Eye was a magic-user who dwelt somewhere in the canyon.

The last person to venture into the pine forests and the bluff was Prago, the local hero who was seeking the cyclops camp. He left some months ago and never returned.

Long ago, Crazy Shem (a simpleton) had a lump of platinum ore, believed to be from the mines, but Shem died and never revealed where he had found it.

From the ferry, the mouth of the canyon can seen, but it is a narrow and rocky waterfall. The pine forest climbs gently up Burgmeiers Bluff, almost to the foot of a rocky crag that rears above the trees.

The pine forest is dark; the floor is a thick bed of old needles which dampens the sound of all movement. Even so the forest is unnaturally quiet

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Queues of weary peasants line the ferry landing. Most have their meagre possessions packed on barrows or in tattered back packs. They are fleeing the area after a long and harrowing conflict with a group of cyclops that have been raiding the human settlements in these wild lands.

As you talk to the people you hear various stories, one of the most frequently repeated is that the cyclops have continuously raided the homesteads killing the men and capturing the women live for some unknown reason.

They tell you that the cyclops are believed to be camped in an old dwarf mining settlement somewhere in One-Eye canyon. None now know where the settlement was, but ruins can be seen from the top of Burgmeiers Bluff; but the bluff and its pine forest are evil places that the peasants have long shunned. The old man of the mountain, a strange rock formation on the bluff, is reputed to be a particularly evil spot.

The dwarves, they say mined platinum ore long ago in canyon, Crazy Shem, a local simpleton had a lump of platinum ore, believed to be from the mines, but Shem died and never revealed where he had found it.

They also say that somewhere over the bluff, there is an old mountain track, believed to have been made by the dwarfs, that leads to One-Eye canyon. The canyon had its name long before the cyclops came. Legends say that One-Eye was a magic-user who dwelt somewhere in the canyon.

The last person to venture into the pine forests and the bluff was Prago, a local hero who was seeking the cyclops camp. He left some months ago and never returned.



From the ferry, the mouth of the canyon can seen, but it is a narrow and rocky waterfall. The pine forest climbs gently up Burgmeiers Bluff, almost to the foot of a rocky crag that rears above the trees.

The pine forest is dark; the floor is a thick bed of old needles which dampens the sound of all movement. Even so the forest is unnaturally quiet