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{{Infobox dungeon
| name = Rusting Door
| image = Rusting_Door_floorplan.png
| region = [[Drift Network]] (south wing)
| level = 38-42
| entrance = Portal in the Drift Network hall, south-wing alcove
| landblock = 0x017D
}}
'''Rusting Door''' is the second rung of the south wing's ladder off the [[Drift Network]] hall, built for characters of roughly level 38 to 42. Its own anchor-iron corrodes at a rate the founders cannot explain, and whatever leaks through grows that same iron back inside its hide.

== Overview ==
The door opens onto a single, legible descent: you drop in near the surface and fight your way down through one clear route to a dead end at the bottom, with a second Surface exit waiting there. Along the way, four wheel-valves are seized into the wall at four different depths of the descent - Meridian ironwork, driven to hold the line, now rusted shut.

[[File:Rusting_Door_floorplan.png|thumb|center|500px|Burun Hold's descent, coloured by depth: light at the entry near the bottom right, dark at the far end.]]

Forcing a valve wakes whatever is nesting nearest it, so each wheel is a fight fought where you stand rather than one you choose.

== Inhabitants ==
The crew that laid this stretch of the anchor-iron line never stopped working it, and they still hold the descent:

* [[Rust-Drowned Linesman]] - the common melee, thick along every depth band.
* [[Mooring-Hauler]] - heavier and slower, one to a nesting site.
* [[Line-Overseer]] - the caster who still keeps the tally, one to a nesting site.

== The four valves ==
The descent's dynamic is forcing all four Rust-Seized Valves open, in any order:

{| class="wikitable nowrap-values"
! Valve !! Depth band !! What happens
|-
| A || shallowest || Turning it wakes the nearest nest; the iron screams before it gives.
|-
| B || mid || Same fight, deeper in.
|-
| C || mid-late || Same fight, deeper still.
|-
| D || deepest || The last wheel. Once it turns, the line goes quiet.
|}

Each valve can only be forced again after the same day-long window the rest of the door runs on. Turning one that is already open just confirms it - nothing more comes of it until the cycle resets.

== Access ==
The entrance is a portal in a south-wing alcove of the [[Drift Network]] hall. Step through and it drops you near the top of the descent; two portals named '''Surface''' - one near the entry, one at the deep end - bring you back to the hall.

[[Line-Greaser Tobbin Mott]] stands beside the arch and keeps the ledger on the four valves. Force all four and report back to him for the reward - see his page for the exact cadence and payout.

== See also ==
* [[Rust-Drowned Linesman]], [[Mooring-Hauler]] and [[Line-Overseer]] - the crew holding the line.
* [[Line-Greaser Tobbin Mott]] - the Meridian line-greaser who keeps the ledger.
* [[Drift Network]] - the hall this door opens off.
* [[Dispatcher Corwen Hale]] - the wing's greeter.
* [[Meridian reward pieces]] - the set this door's ledger contributes to.

[[Category:Dungeons]]
[[Category:Drift Network]]

Rusting Door - Revision history

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