i backtracked, since i wasn't far into the maze, as far as i could go, and remembered that, after dropping through the pit in the arena, there was no way back up. please tell me that i will be able to go back to that level and Fergus chamber some other way, because I left the Coal there. Frankly, after being stuck in the mucky dungeon, and soulforged, i think, to be in character, it would be a wonderful thing to make fireworks and destroy the forge.
So can one return to Fergus lair after having dropped through the hole in the arena with no rope to return up?
(do the ropes even have a use aside from scripted ones like the one found on the imp body? i noticed you couldn't throw a rope back up to the arena pit from the room with the haystack, even though the scripting of the story requires that you do this when escaping from the prison area. heh)