Also, my personal favorite as a 12 year old-- blackburrow. This zone was bumpin' back in the day. Constant trains, big fuck-off pit you can fall in and lose your corpse, including a trap floor in an inviting little hut you want to med in. Then you get eaten by the piranhas at the bottom and realize you should have learned to swim. Surprise grizzly bear attack while you think you're safe up top medding in the wheelbarrow staring at ur book. But also a chill snake camp where you could stop and rest and chat with whoever was there, maybe get some buffs if they're a druid (often were). Sometimes it was even a group you could join to kill snakes and gnoll guards.
The gnolls drop fangs that were great xp, but be careful-- do this too much and you'll learn the hard way that Qeynos has a faction of corrupt guards, when you try to leave town and Lieutenant Dagarok disintegrates you with harm touch. Especially if you also spam Guard Wenbie with muffins to max your merchants of qeynos faction.
This sequence of events was my cue to leave Qeynos and try my luck in Freeport. I made it as far as Kithicor. All because of blackburrow gnolls.
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