Nothing, you've... only been gone a few minutes. Maybe... half an hour, at most?<br/><br/>The machine seems to be much.. calmer, and is no longer making the deafening noise that it was. Maybe this was all arranged, to get someone down there who could fix it? Regardless, they soon arrive at the hole into the basement, his rope right where he left it, allowing them to climb out, and return to the surface.