Yellowretch

Greyhawk Location

Yellowretch
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General information
Type:	Mine (abandonned)

Yellowretch as an old gnomish mine. A handful of rubies as large as a plover's egg were found by gnomes centuries ago, and the miners recklessly dug deeper and deeper in search of more prized items. They found no more of them, but they burrowed into a large cavern with peculiar stone walls which had the appearance of shrivelled and yellowed paper. From that cavern, a seemingly endless cloud of yellow, stinking gas rose inexorably upward through the mine and forced the gnomes to abandon it. Periodically, whenever the weather is calm and there are no prevailing winds, this gas creeps out of the old mineworks and rolls down over the hills, affecting an area of up 200 square miles. The gas is nauseating, so that any creature breathing it must protect themselves from being poisoned. Undead are not affected by this, and the ghouls and ghasts of the hills often use the opaque yellow cloud (visibility is one-quarter normal range) as cover for ambush and trailing their quarry.

Yellowretch would be simply a good place to avoid, were it not for the fact that the gnomes definitely detected magic emanating strongly from the cavern. They wouldnot enter it again now, feeling ashamed that perhaps their forefathers brought the curse down which seems to lie on the hills. Thus, any magical secrets and treasures which Yellowretch held are probably still within the mines.

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