"OK," she says, moving carefully down the staircase in the lead. The group arrives on the ground floor without incident.
Flickering green torchlight on the far side of this tall room silhouettes a massive barrier of some kind which appears to divide the room. The smell of trash and refuse is beginning to grow stronger. A faint smell of rotting flesh also taints the air.
The room is 25 foot wide from north to south, with a staircase leading back up to the west, in the southwest corner. The barricade is 20 feet to the east of the group, and stretches from the north wall to the south.