I'm cutting back a little on how much time I spend playing TES:Online, and have started playing TES:Arena again.
One thing I've done is update my modified map of the Imperial Dungeons to show (1) where manacles hang down from the ceiling, (2) where roots hang down from the ceiling, (3) where roots hang down over the water, and (4) where the two piles of trash (barrel and sacks) are located. In the case of the roots over the water this is mainly for effect, but for the others it's meant to be practical, since you can't drop anything from your inventory in those spots. You can see the updated version at the second link above.
I also made careful notes of how many experience points I got whenever I killed something, and any loot found on the corpse. I didn't deliberately sleep out in the open to trigger the spawning of random enemies, so the only enemies I ran into in the Imperial Dungeons were Goblins and Rats. Based on my notes it looks like the experience points and loot are as follows:
Goblin
XP = 60+5*d8 (i.e., 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, or 100)
Gold = 3*d11-3 (i.e., 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, or 30)
Loot (if any) = Staff, Dagger, Buckler
Rat
XP = 35+5*d6 (i.e., 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, or 65)
Gold = 0
Loot = nothing usable
This more or less agrees with what the UESPWiki says, except the formulas (or formulae if you prefer) which I've given are more specific, since as far as I've seen so far the XP for Goblins and Rats is always a multiple of 5.
The UESPWiki says that Goblins can drop 2-20 gold pieces, but from what I saw it was always a multiple of 3 between 0 and 30, so I've given the formula as 3*d11-3 (although there's no such thing as an 11-sided die). Another way to say it is "either 0 gold pieces or 3*d10 gold pieces," which might be better since a 10-sided die is a thing and common to RPGs. I didn't actually see all possible multiples of 3 between 0 and 30 come up, but the ones that I did see fit the formula; they were 3, 15, 21, 24, 27, and 30.
I'm not suggesting that Goblins only ever drop a Dagger, Staff, or Buckler, but those were the only items I saw this time around.
One other thing I can add is about the "Bugs" on the "Escape From Prison" page, where it says that "Ria Silmane's second vision to you does not trigger outside the dungeon as she says. It seems to occur after 12 hours or so have passed. If you spend enough time resting in the dungeons, you may get the first dream involving the Staff of Chaos."
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Escape_From_Prison
Also, on the page for Fang Lair it says that "The first time you go to sleep after escaping the Imperial Prison, you will be contacted in your dreams again by Ria Silmane."
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Fang_Lair
In my experience, Ria Silmane's second vision occurs the first time you rest after having gained Experience Level 2. In fact, Ria herself seems to imply this at the beginning of the second vision: "I see you have strengthened your arm, and your mind."
If you simply made a beeline for the exit and tried to avoid the Goblins and Rats as much as possible, then it's possible you might not attain Level 2 and trigger the second vision until after you've escaped the Imperial Dungeons.
But if you explored every nook and cranny of the Imperial Dungeons and bravely vanquished all enemies, then you're more or less guaranteed to attain Level 2-- and very likely Level 4 or higher-- before reaching the exit. So as long as you rest at least once in the Imperial Dungeons after attaining Level 2 or higher, you should trigger the second vision before you've escaped.
It's interesting that when you first wake up in your cell, you've already acquired 700 XP. I don't know if this was always true from the first release of TES:Arena or if it was added in a later update, but to me it feels like Bethesda decided to give players those initial 700 XP in order to help them attain Level 2 more quickly, presumably to help them improve their stats a bit as soon as possible so they have a better chance of surviving. Without those free 700 XP, it seems very likely that you wouldn't attain Level 2 while still inside the Imperial Dungeons-- unless perhaps you spent a lot of time sleeping in the open to deliberately trigger the spawning of random enemies, which is tricky because the random enemies tend to be much tougher opponents such as Nightblades, Rogues, Mages, Skeletons, etc. So perhaps in the game's original version Ria's second vision wasn't expected to occur until after the player had escaped the Imperial Dungeons, but the free 700 XP were added later-- or maybe before the game's first release, as a result of game testing?
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So I'll try to give a short(?)-'n'-sweet version.
