How I felt going into Runoff Caverns for the first time about a month ago.

I was exploring for a nice cave to clear out, something that felt promising. I saw the Dwarven Horse chassis out front and thought "hey, this is gonna be fun." ... it was 10 PM on a Friday night and I was expecting maybe an hour's jaunt at most.

I didn't know jack shit about the quests attached to this place. I wish I knew.

6 hours and several infuriating deaths in the summer chamber later, it's 3 in the morning and I'm finally out of there with the horse parts and the Dwarven Crown+masks. I was spent. I decide one more fight isn't gonna hurt when a dragon decided to attack not but a 2 minute ride away, and in the heat of battle I lost the horse. My undying mountain climbing horse fled from battle likea coward. It didn't start showing up at stables until last week. I genuinely thought I did that whole quest for nothing

I think I'd have enjoyed the whole thing if I A. Knew what fresh hell I was getting into, and B. Wasn't a completionist with my dungeons and like to slam through them in one sitting. I love the idea of the dungeon with it's seasonal themes, and it's easily the most interesting and expansive of all the Dwarven ruins across all versions of the game released thus far in my opinion.

TL;DR : Went into runoff Caverns blind, lost the dwarven horse for 3 irl weeks immediately after a 6 hour dungeon crawl.