Undermountain

Yonna · Post by **Yonna** » Fri May 20, 2005 1:59 am

I know that the discussion of opening the surface back up to drow has been closed, and the final word being a great big No, but I was wondering if it would be out of the question of having the rest of the undermountain possibly opened to the drow. Perhaps some kind of coding could keep the drow from exiting level 1 onto the surface? I know this way, it would make it easier to roleplay with at least a few more surfacers, and would be fun trying to make it that far in the first place. I thought I would just post this here and see what kind of response I got. Of course, the final decision lies with the immstaff. Thank you for your consideration.

Dilan · Post by **Dilan** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:37 pm

The sounds like a good idea, is it the undermountain and if the place use to be used by dwarfs, it has to connect to the underdark somehow. I'd love to run into a Drow while I'm down there, I'd point and yell Drow before running.. but thats a whole nother story

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:57 pm

Actually, in current FR, the drow have colonised up to the 3rd level of Undermountain.

Obviously, FK is different to FR, but I just though I should mention it.

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Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:42 pm

For the record,

1 - the quests in Undermountain have been created with an upward-to-downward direction in mind, and it would be a nightmare (not only code-wise but also ICly) to make it possible for characters to go from the lower levels up to the upper levels. Not only would it take some heavy code modification, but it would also require modification to the area itself (those who have completed the quests to go all the way down know that the lower levels are not connected by a simple staircase that can be made two-way).

2 - Right before I started building Undermountain, I sent out a call to all drow players to help me build a large underdark area that could connect Menzo to Undermountain and allow them to move around. I got only one answer, and it came from an old player who did not even have a drow but just wanted to help. The conclusion of this is that I am not prepared to make any building efforts for drow. To be frank, it is only because Sharni insisted and made it clear she wanted it that way before the area could be put in game, that drow have access to the three lower levels of Undermountain. That is actually the only reason why I made a quick fix to allow drow to go through the area (without being able to do any of the quests there).