Balthazar takes out a small sunrod and taps it against the wall to light it. He hears the hiss and smells the burning chemicals that signal that it indeed lit, but the darkness does not receed. Ke'ch'rhal sinks down, his ears popping a bit, his vision still dark. He finds no protruding rocks on the sides, though his feet kick something as he finally touches bottom. Scinathar pushes himself along, and abruptly comes out of the darkness into an area lit by a glowglobe. There are four men at the edge of the darkness. Two of them are mostly wrapped up in what appears to be a pair of octopi. The other two are frantically reloading their heavy crossbows, startled at Scinathar's appearance. All the men have an iron cuff and chain around each ankle, leading to a melon-sized ball of rock. They all look a bit pinched and thin, certainly dirty, and decidedly scared.
Scinathar cannot actually see the water pit at this point, as it is engulfed in the darkness. There's a small room here, four pallets of rags, a couple of buckets, a passageway blocked by a boulder, and a small lever on the left-hand wall.
As Scinathar watches, the two men wrapped in octcopi go tumbling into the water as the octopi drag them down. Those in the tunnel hear, "No, noooo-!" followed by a pair of splashes. "No, you betrayer, die, die!" In the tunnel, Soevi waits, listening to the people around her, trying to tell if she's needed. The two men scream their epithets at Scinathar, frightened and angry as they launch their bolts at it. One slams home in the mojh's gut, blood welling up around it, as the other shatters against the wall.
Leondegrance and Ra-Pharod inch forward. Leon feels the edge of the waterpit, puts his back against the left-hand side, then eases into the water. Ra-Pharod follows. Leon sinks into the water, his back against the smooth wall, while the giant is able to remain on the surface. Vayj remains on Soevi's shoulder as both wait for a clear target.
OOC -
Balthazar - 25
Ke'ch'rhal - 22
Scinathar - 20
Soevi - 18
Enemies - 17
Leondegrance - 14
Vayj - 11
Ra-Pharod - 6
Balthazar lights it up. Ke'ch'rhal flounders. Scinthar breaks out of the darkness. The octopi pull a couple people in. One guy crits Scinathar for 12 points of damage, the other one misses. Leon and Ra-Pharod go into the water, Leon sinks, Ra-Pharod floats. Vayj sits.