<span style="font-weight: bold">Aiyaka</span><br/><br/>“Now<span style="font-style: italic">that</span>gives me something to live for,” Vesele snarls, veritably hurling herself up the ladder, with a little assistance and groping from Aiyaka. Freed of the need to assist Vesele, Aiyaka’s even able to make a little upward progress herself…<br/><br/>As you climb, the acid dripping from above lessens, as more of the moss passes below you - and it becomes clearer that a lot of the falling fluid is a fine red wine, dribbling through the planking of the hatch above.<br/><br/>[Vesele no longer needs assistance to reach the top of the ladder].<br/><br/>“It’s stuck fast,” Katina shouts, as she and Marija pound uselessly against the thing.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Cyra</span><br/><br/>Simona whimpers and quietens, her only motion the soft massaging of your tum, hoping to quell the acidic anger she’s roused in you. In the quiet, the sound of fists pounding against wood echoes dimly from below, guiding you - should you chose to follow it - down out of the passage and into the winecellar…<br/><br/>Proceeding into winecellar (if you do so)<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">The banging is coming from a hatch in the floor. Atop the hatch, a wine-barrel has been toppled from a nearby stack. Somewhat damaged in the fall, it is now leaking a substantial quantity of wine, which seems to be pooling around and draining down through the hatch…</div></div></div>