Thunder feels it long before anyone else, but upon passing through the gates, the crew is assaulted by the sheer heat of the air. Nothing immediately dangerous since there's none of the crew that are elderly, invalid, or children, but still enough heat to note and possibly worry about.<br/><br/>Only Thunder can notice it, but there's a smell of waterlogged corpses coming from inside the manse. It's faint, but there's a good number of them. There's also the smells of some strange oils and acids mixed in.<br/><br/>And luck is with them, as there's only the heat and the lack of wind getting inside to worry about. The captain gives orders to try and tie the ship to something, just so that the movement of water doesn't pull the ship out, or worse, ram it into the gates a few times.