I've mapped about half of Algary. (Mostly the East half)

It has a lot of warps to other locations in the game, including one to Perilous Peak! (FO had to tell me the official name; the game calls it P-PEEK) I briefly explored the island that has the peak, and found a dragon town meeting. Yeah, they killed me instantly.

I haven't defeated any other parties that gave me 1000 exp. I think the other one must have had a minotaur. I had fought another minotaur battle in Algary tonight, but it had 4 in the party; they gave me a game over.

Oh, yeah, one other thing I wanted to mention:

I mused before about the possibility of *not* killing enemies in the front row, to prevent back row enemies from attacking. There have been several situations where I used that strategy to my advantage. I can work even better than I had thought, because I came up with that idea before my wizard was at spell level 3. With fire magic (a level 3 spell), he can attack every enemy in the back row, dealing up to 20 damage. I've also fought a few enemy parties that seemed custom tailored for that strategy: Three very weak enemies in front, and very powerful enemies in back.

One thing that would be the kibosh on that plan would be if a front row enemy would run away.

"Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
-Orwell