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Deepest Dig
One final work face—the point where the Golden Hand stopped digging.
Beyond the Blightroot, the excavation narrows to a single reinforced work face. There are no branching tunnels here, no hidden stair, and no passage continuing into darkness.
The rails end at a battered drilling frame. The stone ahead has been cut into a shallow bowl around a narrow black seam. Old metal has been exposed inside the rock: not ore, but fitted bands and fragments of worked material far older than the excavation.
Every survey mark in the chamber points toward this spot.
E18-11 is a destination, not a doorway to another dungeon. The Golden Hand reached the point it wanted to investigate but had not opened a passable route beyond it before the crisis destroyed the operation.
Challenge: Understand the Deepest Dig
Critical Success: headings repeatedly converge here, and the worked material resembles a buried reinforcement or ward rather than a natural deposit. Success: this is clearly not a mine face; they were excavating toward a constructed feature.
Digging by hand exposes more fitted material but no opening. Following the line requires a new excavation project and belongs to the larger Pulgari / Golden Hand arc.