Online:A Clan Divided

Quick Walkthrough
# Talk to Umgaak.
# Speak to Chief Urzikh and Overseer Thulsgreg outside the mine's entrance.
# Speak to Mazog inside the longhouse's storeroom.
# (Without persuasion) Search Mazog's traps and bring game to the camp.
# Find the mine's key and bring it to Chief Urzikh.
# Rescue the survivors of the mine's collapse.
# Find the ingredients for the Chief's stonemelt solution.
# Mix the stonemelt solution and applying to the rocks blocking the passage.
# Search for survivors past the cave-in.
# Find and speak to Mugha, the mine's foreman.
# Search for Narzba and Blograth.
# Take the altered recipe and leave the mine.
# Return to the stronghold and decide Mazog's fate.

Detailed Walkthrough
A stronghold in crisis
Right outside the entrance to the orc stronghold of Mor Khazgur you will find Umgaak, who advices you on turning back the way you came, as there's trouble at the stronghold and the entire clan is on edge. He explains that the mine has collapsed, and that the clan's Chief, Urzikh, and the mine's Overseer, Thulsgreg, are clashing and it's raising the tension.

When you inquire about the mine, Umgaak tells you that some miners are still trapped, but the Chief has not decided on a plan on what to do about it. Furthermore, the collapse's cause is under debate — some think the blame is on the Chief and her new mining methods, while others think the Overseer responsible. Umgaak then encourages you to help solve the clan's problem, as the mine is their main source of sustenance.

Head to the mine's entrance to find the Chief and the Overseeing arguing about monsters inside the mine. Speak to the Chief and she will tell you that the Overseer's wife hid the key to the mines in order to trap strange creatures that emerged from the depths after the mine's collapse. However, some miners are still trapped inside, and the Chief is set on rescuing them.
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Now it's the Overseer's turn to tell his side. He will say that it's too dangerous to expose the stronghold to the creatures and that the Chief is just too stubborn to admit it. Plus, he believes the miners trapped inside to be dead already, and that Chief Urzikh's alchemy won't do anything to help the situation.

When asked about the alchemy, Overseer Thulsgreg will explain that the Chief has potions that dissolve stone, which he claims is faster but dangerous and that it's probably to blame for the explosion. He then directs you to see his wife, Mazog, which is imprisoned beneath the longhouse, and hear what she has to say.

Go to the storeroom beneath the longhouse to find Mazog inside a cage. She will tell you she believes the Chief's alchemy is to blame for the collapse, and that opening the door to the mine will only lead to senseless death inside the stronghold. If you can convince her you can protect the stronghold, she will tell you that the key is hidden on top of the watchtower. Otherwise, if you tell her that the Chief will go through her husband without the key, she will ask of you a favor: collect the game from the traps she set outside the stronghold and bring it to the miner's camp.

After you fetch the key from the top of the watchtower, return to the Chief. You ask her what she believes is the collapse's reason, to which she responds that it was not her alchemy — which is perfectly safe — but that it was definitely neither Thulsgreg nor Mazog, as "sabotage is not in their nature". The chief will then unlock the mine and the two of you enter in order to find the survivors.
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The collapsed mine
Descending into the caverns in search of the survivors, you will come across several Falmer and their various Chaurus, which have overrun the mine. The survivors you find will tell you their sometimes conflicting thoughts on the crisis: that the Chief pressured them into finding more ore when the mine was running dry, all while using her alchemic solution; that the disaster is responsibility of both the Chief and the Overseer; or that people who were siding with Tholsgreg modified the Chief's recipe to increase the ore output.

One of the survivors will tell you of the location of the cave-in. Go there to find Chief Urzikh and Overseer Thulsgreg arguing. The Overseer's workers are picking at the cave-in, but the Chief wants to melt the stone with her alchemy. She will task you with searching for the mixture's ingredients which have been scattered across the mine by the Falmer, and creating a sample in order to open the cave-in and allow the trapped survivors to escape.

First, fetch the ingredient list and recipe from nearby and gather the three necessary components. Next you should follow the Chief's recipe in order to mix the solution: add Snow Bear Bile, Shalk Resin, and Ashpit Powder, in that order. Once you apply the mixture to the rock, the passage will be open and you can continue to look for survivors.

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Deeper still
Go deeper into the mine in order to find a large fissure with strange, glowing ore visible. Chief Urzikh will catch up to you and instructs you to find the mine's foreman, Mugha, who will probably know what exactly happened to the mine. You will find Mugha injured, sitting on one of the superior walkways. He will say that he was working with two others, Narzba and Blograth, when the mine suddenly collapsed. Your new mission is to look for these two and see if they survived.

Continue on the walkways and you will find the two miners' corpses, along with new mining instructions. It seems Mazog instructed the miners to quadruple the Chief's original solution, just as the rumor you heard before. As you inspect these instructions, Overseer Thulsgreg makes his way to the deeper end of the mine and you confront him with the evidence that Mazog altered the recipe in order to meet the Chief's quota while cutting time spent in the mine.

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The Blood Price
Fight your way to the secondary exit the Overseer points you to, and use the solution to melt the rocks blocking the door. Once outside, speak to Thulsgreg who is in the middle of the stronghold courtyard with the Chief, Mazog, and others. As punishment for causing the cave-in, Mazog faces the Blood Price: her tusks are to be extracted. Thulsgreg urges you to speak to the Chief and try to convince her to not make Mazog go through the punishment, as she acted rashly but without malicious intent.

Chief Urzikh is not eager to make justice with the Blood Price. She recognizes that she pushed too hard for results, causing Mazog to inadvertedly cause a catastrophe. Now you can tell the Chief what you think she should do: take Mazog's tusks, or spare her.

If you choose to spare Mazog, the Chief will be thankful, for you helped her show that she does not only offer a new approach to mining, but also in a lifestyle of mercy.

If you choose to punish Mazog, the Chief will declare that she will extract the Blood Price herself. Ironically, she will finally heed Thulsgreg's advice, acknowledging that a return to tradition is in the interests of the clan. Thulsgreg himself will be distraught at the prospect of his wife losing her precious tusks, but he plans to persevere to prove to the clan how tough his family really is.

 
 

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