The party decides to flee the room without attempting to interact with the trapped statue in any other way. Akira briefly wonders if she might have been able to disable it somehow...but, alas, such thoughts are left behind her.
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The Sunkenstew gets progressively more boggy as you move deeper into it, moving closer to the surface world. The soupy, mucky water gets knee high, slowing your progress somewhat-but Coney manages to maneuver you to higher ground, more often than not. Eventually she directs the party into a warren that more or less lies directly under the swamps of Doomy...
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Coney shoulders open a large crystal door (as she does so, it literally falls off it's hinge and smacks into the floor with a dusty clap)-Sarco, first into any danger, blinks at the sudden light of the world. It's not quite the surface, but...he realizes the place they are in has a sloping tunnel roof of translucent crystal. Looking upward, he sees rays of dusky sunlight passing through the water and the muck of the swamp like spears from Heaven-the light dispels the darkness you've all been laboring in, and that is certainly a relief-even if you are still underwater.
Aldeth finds it's oddly beautiful, with the newfound silence in her head-she didn't get much time to admire beautiful things before now-it's marred somewhat by the disconcerting cracks in the crystal, and the small rills of water pouring down like miniature waterfalls.
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There's little time to enjoy the scenery, however. Looking ahead, he sees a room divided into two halves, the center being an underground river, about 30ft across-seems like the sort of place to put a bridge, but he can't see one-only two raised platforms on either end of the chasm. There is water steadily pouring from eight pipes on opposite sides of the room, emptying into the river. On the other end is a door like what they came through, though it seems in better shape.
Akira herself takes a careful look-the river seems calm enough to swim across, and the slick walls easy enough to scale by hand...but something about it makes Kawtari feel uneasy, and she puts a hand on Akira's shoulder before she can swandive right in. Perhaps it's how deep it is. She can't see the bottom, even when motions for Tadhg to shine his light-it just descends into unending blackness.
Samara's attention is drawn to the South, where she examines a bank of strange Progenitor devices. They look like hexagonal crystal staircases, sort of-small towers stacked on, and aside one another with no apparent meaning. They span all the colors of the rainbow, with no signs of writing or symbols. She guesses they must be controls to span the chasm somehow...
Why couldn't the Progenitors just use a lever, she fumes.
Coney, astute as always, points out a metallic ladder and hatch on the other side of the chasm.
"I admit, this was easier than I thought it would be..." She muses, speaking quietly.
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