Dungeon Master Forum

How many runes did you get? You need 6... Um, Ya, Ee, Ir, Gor, and Dain. The Ir tile is easy to miss because you have to go back to the lightning room near the entrance to the pits.
This will not open The Hive (that only happens later), but it will open the black doors to the north and south leading to the perimeter. From there the dungeon opens up, and you have to choose which way to go. Once through which ever door you choose, it'll seem like you're going on forever and probably think you're being teleported. You're not... It's just that the corridors are very long. Just keep going!

Remember the part with the corridors that had pits opening under you if you waited? It had scorpions guarding the switches, and a dragon's lair beneath if you fell through.
Well the Ee tile is in the part immediately before that. It's through the some silent teleports and a couple of shooter corridors.

You may have already opened this, but if you drop through the room with lots of pits you'll find a switch that opens to another part (under the cowardly oitu bit), which in turn has a switch that opens into the dragon's lair. If you take the teleport up from the dragon's lair, and turn around.... you're only 8 steps away from the silent teleports in the Ee rune section.
This being said... It's also pretty quick taking the direct route, as it's mainly straight corridors.

I have already gone back to the opening pit corridor and dropped through. I then went into the blue haze where I met the dragon previously. This took me into a room with square pillars where the layout keeps changing but for the life of me can't find that rune. Is there anyway to stop the room moving and more importantly am I in the right place?

If you're in the corridor just before the pits that drop you into the dragons lair, then you are in the right place. At the place with the square pillars... The room is not moving. You are being teleported to different parts. There is a zigzag route through it where you skip a pillar each time. Keep your compass in hand. Each teleport moves you to a different point, but also turns you 180 degrees... so you'll see on your compass if you've hit a teleport.
When you come to a coin on the floor, head west until you reach a wall and then two steps north onto a pad. The pad launches poison blobs at you from down the corridor, but also turns off all the teleports so you can get back without a problem. The rune is beyond the shooter corridors.
There are switches that turn off the shooters, but you already know the mirror spell so could just use that to get through. It's up to you.

To potentially save time, i should point out that by now you should have five runes (assuming i'm correct about where you are) with another one a bit further on. I'm mentioning this because at the end of this section, you'll need the six runes or you can't progress and will have to backtrack to get them.

I know that there is a pressure plate in the top left hand corner and am just wondering if I actually need to step on this plate (god forbid) or is it just necessary merely to throw an object on to it. If it is the former could I ask if the person play testing the dungeon actually did it and is there some sort of trick in reaching it

Yes, there is a trick to it... There's no possible way to get there directly. If you look on your magic map around the perimeter of this room, you'll see another safe spot. Go to this first... then the pad. You have to step on it.

yes you do have to step on it.

didnt notice the other safe place and didn't see your message until after I had done it.

I know the little wizards are dropping coins that I need when killed as I have shot gas through the gate and seen them do it

that you have to put coins in all the slots to get rid of the haze

There are four coins before you get to that area (not including the ones you had to use in the first part). Insert them into any four of the eight slots and the gates will open. The wizards carry the other four, which eventually removes the haze.

green haze with lightning bolts, I am able to cast the spell mirror and stop the bolts, the screen keeps getting brighter and the mouse almost stops moving, I thought it was a part of the game. It almost went completely white. Tried to cast a spell and it crashed I really thought it was a part of your effects. Any hints on how to get past this area, was that spell suppose to be used at that spot?