Thissala: END DIGGINS

(Continued from my previous posts.) I’ve finally finished filling in the map of the desert, and found absolutely no items whatsoever. It’s all just rooms and more rooms. If there are any puzzles, they’re of the “hidden” variety. This presents an opportunity to do something I’ve done only marginally on this blog: analyze the prose. Via eBay. Before I get that, let’s lay out the rest of the geography. I mentioned a rusty key after a rock slide; heading farther northwest leads to a view by a cabin (the one with unimplemented rooms)… Canyon edge overlooking cabin You are on a northwest-southeast track which runs along the rim of a canyon. A small ruined cabin lies on the canyon floor far below to the west, and beyond it you can just see the entrance to a mine. The canyon walls are too steep to get down there. …and is followed by a series of paths leading finally at the far north to a tower (which I gave the description of last time). I hadn’t mapped every nook and cranny here but I can…