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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 2572521" data-attributes="member: 8738">It is a matter of moments for Jerek and Jair to set up the harness around Terrek, while Kuma waits to lower him down the pit.  Lehko is already climbing down, and Jerek starts climbing again after him, once Terrek is safely harnessed.  Heirmund decides to stay up top in case he needs to translate while Kuma, assisted by Jair, lowers Terrek down into the pit after Jerek.Ydyr meanwhile, as the person now leading the climb downward, has come across a minor problem: the end of the pit.  It was an 80-foot-deep climb, with little difficulty involved other than the occasional need to rest briefly, but now he's at the bottom--and the pit apparently opens into the ceiling of the room below.  There is no wall to climb down to reach the floor.There is more of that sickly violet light in the room below.  The air here is damp, chilly, and redolent with the odors of loam and decay.  A layer of earth, mixed with rotting vegetation and the remains of cave animals, covers what floor Ydyr can see beneath the pit.  He can also hear the sounds of...shovelling?...from somewhere in the chamber below.Ydyr reckons the ceiling here is no more than 10 feet high at most.  If he carefully lowered himself so that he was hanging from the lowest vines, his feet dangling into the room, he figures he could let go and drop the remaining feet with minimal risk of injury, if any.Lehko is approaching from above him, and while it is possible--if very awkward--for two people to position themselves side by side in this narrow pit, there would not be room for any more.  Ydyr must decide what to do...</blockquote>

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