The viridescent bodies of the aliens are unresponsive, still as the grave, but as their maws hang open, where their tongues should be, there are alien appendages, not unlike Kali's tentacles, save for being tipped with mouths and teeth. The trauma that their host bodies have already endured, however, seemed to be too much for the parasites as they cease to breathe, falling still as well, the bodies they once used as incubators now serving as their coffins.<br/><br/>Despite the absence of any weapons that can be taken from them, they do wear armor that can be stripped off. Unfortunately, the bodies seem to lack the materials with which to create a makeshift torch, but more fortuitously, the adventurers are able to find more rod-like keys like those they found on the floor below.<br/><br/>Andretta nods, happy to accompany Ming-Fu once she's been addressed, fairly sure of her guess of what the bard is asking her when she hears her name, even before Eidolana provides a translation.<br/><br/>The doors to the south and north of the T intersection do not appear to be "locked", at least – whether the pads by the door are touched by a hand or by one of the "keys" they found on the last floor or this floor, the barriers at the thresholds slide aside, revealing their contents to the explorers.<br/><br/>To the south, Khan and Eidolana survey a rectangular room containing two work tables, each covered with tools and equipment that appear to be of an alchemical or medical nature, including an enormous frame-mounted lens to magnify images, several small, glass dishes, a number of stoppered glass vials, and, amidst the clutter, what appears to be a journal.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, to the north, Ming-Fu, Zelthos, and Andretta discover an octagonal shaped room presenting a bare stone floor, walls, and ceiling with no discernible function. Two door panels reside in the eastern wall. The wall between the doors is stone from the floor to a height approximately waist high. The rest of the wall is glass, too thick to be easily smashed open.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/9LRKLjW.png)</div>Before they can more carefully examine what's on the other side of the glass, however, the solid ground beneath Ming-Fu and Andretta's feet flickers, then vanishes entirely as they step into the center of the northern room! where once was fifteen feet by fifteen feet of floor is nothing but air, and as they seemingly tumble in slow motion into the pit below, Andretta desperately scrambles to catch the edge of the floor with one hand while stretching out the other to Ming-Fu, giving her a chance to avoid falling into the yawning darkness below. Illuminated by the tip of her lance, she can see, though the drop isn't far, an immense chamber with a two-tiered floor. The lower floor is built in the center and drops ten feet down. Metal ladders lead to the higher tier bolted into the north and south walls. The raised floor encircles the center area with two door panels on the east and west sides. The ceiling rises to ten feet above the higher floor.<br/><br/>More alarmingly, however, both women see two creatures resembling nothing so much as centipedes the size of jackals skittering along the walls. Their carapace is black and green, and their mandibles snap as the falling humanoids draw the attention of their compound eyes, radiating a spectrum of rainbow-colored light like backlit prisms.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Everyone, roll initiative. <br/><br/>Eidolana, Kali, Zelthos, please move your tokens according to where your characters would have been at the time this triggered. Zelthos, Kali, if you characters would have been adjacent to Ming-Fu, roll Reflex saves.<br/><br/>Ming-Fu, roll a Reflex save if you wish to catch Andretta's hand or the hand of any other adjacent character that succeeds a Reflex save.</div></div>