Flooded sanctuary? That should be long after Crystwind. After coming through PART of the mines, from Hovart's place to Crystwind, did you go south next, turn right into a cave, come out in a forest, and find the sanctuary on your left? If so you'd taken a short cut into areas meant to be way above your level.
I didn't take any shortcuts as we followed the normal progression of the game, the reason I mentioned the Flooded Sanctuary was because its almost unheard of for the Pony Tail gang to have a gravestone marker replacing their portrait, unconsciousness, there's plenty of that, but no death game over messages in a long long time. We carried on to what I know of as the cliffs of Fire, we got as far as the Merchant shopkeeper but just after that I called it a day as the game was like plaiting fog, I like a challenge but an archer and a mage just couldn't compete against half a dozen Droog archers.
This next game we're better prepared, ummm, maybe, 2 melee, 2 archers, and a mage, if they can't cope I'll have to re-start the game and bring a combat mage in to play.
I didn't take any shortcuts as we followed the normal progression of the game, the reason I mentioned the Flooded Sanctuary was because its almost unheard of for the Pony Tail gang to have a gravestone marker replacing their portrait, unconsciousness, there's plenty of that, but no death game over messages in a long long time. We carried on to what I know of as the cliffs of Fire, we got as far as the Merchant shopkeeper but just after that I called it a day as the game was like plaiting fog, I like a challenge but an archer and a mage just couldn't compete against half a dozen Droog archers.
This next game we're better prepared, ummm, maybe, 2 melee, 2 archers, and a mage, if they can't cope I'll have to re-start the game and bring a combat mage in to play.