The Road Leading to Takhtin                            -      N      - 
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The newly laid path beneath your feet has made the gentle climb up to
Takhtin slightly perilous; muddy, well-trodden ground threatens to trip up
the unwary traveller and send them tumbling back down the slope.  The ground
quickly levels out, however, and you notice tracks in the mud running from a
large side path off to the east towards the townes center.  Similarly, a
gravel track bends off west towards a new brick building, in which direction
bands of weary miners tread.  
     The corpse of a fat squirrel monkey is lying here.
     The corpse of an exhausted minotaur miner is lying here.