Despite the miss, the creature bellowed and fell - at the same time, Sydon and Nordri managed to deal with the eel, putting an end to the threat of monsters... though the rotting guts filling the now waist-high water was certainly unpleasant.<br/><br/>It would be another minute before Sak'bas managed to lift the portcullis enough that she, and the rest of the party, were able to fit under it, allowing them into the stairwell leading up - which had flooded rather significantly. Dripping wet, the party emerges into a hallway, ended by a large bronze double door. Inside, entering from the south, they find what looks like a shrine. To the north, this room is paved in patterned tiles of different colored slate and subdivided by a pair of pillars carved in the likeness of leering fiends. Beyond them, friezes on the walls depict processions of animal-headed creatures marching along a black river’s banks toward dual shrines in opposite corners of the chamber. These each depict a shadowy individual standing in a sinister longboat. Between them stands a bronze double door, its face decorated with a mosaic of a winding river crafted from obsidian tiles.