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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 4826205" data-attributes="member: 19688">The stairs reach another floor, with a large open area that reveals the floor below and above. The stairs continue on up, but on this floor, there is a small storeroom immediately before you, open to reveal cleaning equipment and the likes. The main room, off to the right, also has the door open, and you can easily peer inside.The floor of this room has a thick carpet of sawdust, penetrated by two large log splitters and saws set up over openings in the floor. Another pair of openings is fitted with winches and ropes to raise and lower uncut lumber from below.The waterwheels below are functioning, and these log splitters and saws thunder away at stacks of lumber. (The cacophony imparts a –4 penalty on Listen checks to all creatures in this room.)The log splitters are powered by the waterwheel machinery; each splitter consists of a chute in the floor with blades that split logs as they are fed in.There are another four men in this room, just as ludicrously dressed as below. Although the equipment is still running, they appear to be finishing up with the very final batch, and you can hear snippets of relaxed conversation between then - the banter of men who know a long day of work is coming to an end.OOC: Should I assume you skip this floor and hurry on upstairs?</blockquote>