A wide, shallow depression in the floor, around and across which scuttle smaller Amalgams, hunting for shards, chasing off competitors and milling about. Beyond, you see the slope of what appears to be a high ridge or mesa of piled glass gravel. Several openings pierce the bank and appear to recede deeper into the mountain.
The Sinkhole
The shallow depression is a semi-stable formation covering a sinkhole. The smaller amalgams may walk across it with impunity, but the larger amalgams, such as those from 1-1, would trigger an avalanche of glass. The small amalgams know this and so tend to linger in the area, as they can run across the sinkhole and hopefully lead the larger Amalgams to their doom.
Each lesser Amalgam yields 1 shard if harvested correctly.
The glass bluff extends into 1-3. It is a warren carefully dug by the glass goblins as a camp. The entrances are arched; meticulously balanced shards of glass braced against one another to stay open. The interior of the tunnels are similarly shored up. These entrances are fragile, susceptible to physical shocks, causing a landslide if significantly disturbed.
There will be 1 or 2 goblins within the recesses of the entrances, watching out for large Amalgams and waiting for the smaller ones to let their guard down. The rest of the goblins are in 1-3, resting and preparing for the next raid. Then the goblin raiding party will attempt to capture as many of the small Amalgams as possible for harvesting. It's not an easy job.
Each goblin will yield 1 shard. This goblin raiding party has collected 1d6 shards.
Ascending the glass bluff will yield a long-distance view of 1-1, 1-8, 1-9, and the surface expanse of 1-3, though it increases the likelihood of drawing attention from the penumbrae...
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