[sblock=sindri] Yes, he can hear the shouting.
Moving around the bottom area, Sindri finds more and more and more of the strange statues, each on a different vision of horror. Here one is a giant fish-like creature, there an amorphous blob of many different types of animal parts, one a great bear-like shape with too many limbs ending in ruby-tipped claws.
You get to one end, where you see the great pillar holding up the platform. It is massive in width, and square, and ancient, its edges rough-carved and pocked black stone. The entire surface is covered in small round bumps, from the bottom to as far up as you can see.
The stone statue nearest the platform is a naked woman with the head of a gnoll, and exquisite breasts, despite the carved saliva dripping down the front; if that is saliva and not gore. It seems to look up at the platform-pillar with a savage hunger bordering on lustful ecstasy.
The scene, all the statues, makes you uncomfortable, and in fact you feel your heart pounding in your chest (please make a Fort save).
As you move, you also get a distinct sense that the darkness isn't with tendrils, and is definitely crawling aorund your light.[/sblock]