The screeching and hooting of the creatures abates, leaving only the quiet jangling of armor and the popping of Ys-Korros' torch. The additional light reveals a passage littered with feces and cleaned bones, crumbling stone, and a couple rats that scurry off in the distance.
As the group passes the doorway on the right, they take a quick look in and find that it is merely a small, square room devoid of any interesting content and has no other doors leading out. A short distance down the main passage is an open doorway on the left side. This opens into what may have once been a communal dining hall as there is a cold fireplace suitably sized to handle a large spit set in one wall. It is also empty of furnishings or anything else of interest.
A short howl again echoes through the complex - from further down the main passage. The group continues to explore deeper and finds that the main hallway ends abruptly at a vertical, cylindrical shaft about twenty feet in diameter. It appears that there was once a spiral staircase leading up (right) and down (left), though most of it has crumbled away. Fragments of steps and landings can still be seen running along the walls, though it would take a considerable feat of balance to climb them.
Looking up the shaft, the group can see at least one and possibly two landings directly overhead. They can also see the ceiling some forty feet up. Downward, they see no other landings, nor can they see how far the shaft descends. Another short outburst of hooting and "laughing" seems to come from somewhere up above the group's current location and is clearly echoing through this shaft.