Peculiar Stone

Peculiar Stone

Region	Drift Network (south wing, Assay Row)
Level range	Any level
Entrance	Portal in the Drift Network hall, Assay Row alcove (west wall), bay 1
Landblock	0x5648

Peculiar Stone is the first alcove portal on Assay Row's west wall, dropping into the Warehouse Annex Mine. The grain of the rock is wrong for the mine it sits in - something else settled into these veins first, and Assay Row exists to read what that something left behind.

Overview

Assay Row's first bay is the on-ramp: the alcove carries no level gate, and the mine beyond it stays deliberately light. The workings run two levels, an upper network at the surface and a lower wing reached through one connecting chamber, both scattered with veins of Drift crystal running through it in every colour.

Inhabitants

The vein is worked over by Diamond Spall, three tinted color variants of the same creature all sharing that one display name - a white, a purple, and a blue banding of the same prismatic mineral. All three fight identically.

Harvest

Every Diamond Spall killed leaves behind a Raw Drift Crystal - a guaranteed drop, not a chance roll. Grainwright Alys Fenn, stationed at the alcove, wants ten of them to read the banding and teach the Prismatic Drift Stone. Handing over fewer than ten sends you back to gather more; nothing is lost by falling short. Once she has read ten, the crystals are spent and the teaching is done for good on that character.

Access

The Peculiar Stone portal sits in Assay Row's bay 1 alcove, directly in front of Grainwright Alys Fenn. Inside the mine, a return portal named Surface waits on each of the two levels. Alys Fenn keeps the bench at this bay and is the one who reads the crystals once you have enough.

See also

• Diamond Spall - the vein's only inhabitant, in three colors.
• Grainwright Alys Fenn - the craftsperson who runs this bay's bench.
• Prismatic Drift Stone - what ten Raw Drift Crystals teach.
• Drift Network - the hall this alcove opens off.