"Yeah yeah, just have the coins ready, we'll return his head intact" Ashley leers at Alice.
In a flash, likely teleportation, he's gone.

As Mormesk disappears, Alice glances at Ashley and shakes her head in protest
Nuh, Nuh!
I mean he can have a look at the intact head but I NEED those ears, don't you understand? Am I supposed to cut off Daran's instead? Is that what you want? I need 2 ears of every potentially hostile species on this planet! And I suppose there aren't too many drow elves out there! The ghouls were bad enough. I still need an ear of one.

With the help of her newfound boost in wisdom, Ashley sorts through countless ores to find enough to satisfy the requirement, luckily she finds some particularly fine specimens for her collection containing Cooperite and Argentite.

Ooh nice! Lemme have a piece! It doesn't have to be high quality like the ones for Harbin. I need platinum metals just as much as ears! There should also be quite a lot of palladium in the cooperite! Excellent!

"I don't know how I know, but I know, this is platinum and silver. He better give me something for the platinum becasue he didn't specifically ask for that. I just need gold and mythril now. He did say anything else of interest."

     
Where there's platinum, there's usually also gold. And a lot of other interesting stuff like Rhodium, Iridium and Osmium! If we fed large amounts of this ore to me and my ship, this would greatly speed up our regeneration!
Alice briefly wonders if that drow elf whose head and ears are in high demand is also experimenting on shards of her ship down here in the mine.



I don't know about Mithril though. We found the dust so it should be here somewhere. But don't ask me how and where it forms, I'm not a dwarf.

Alice snaps out of her musings
The bags and the tent!
We went down here without half of our equipment!