<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314115.msg15282538#msg15282538">Quote from: Blinkin on 19-02-2020, 04:47:14</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Natasha looked down the well as the stone fell. "Well, one worry down." Shethought for a few seconds and examined the pully, if there is one, used to pull up water. "No water to speak of..." Then with a shrug, she pulls out 50 feet of rope andlooked for something to tie the end off on. "I guess one of us has to go down there; it might as well be me."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>There doesn't seem to have been a pulley, and the bucket is missing. A double wrap around the outside base of the well-stones seems quite firm and leaves Natasha around 30' of free end, more than enough to dangle down to the bottom of the well.<br/><br/>She lowers herself down cautiously.<br/><br/>The bottom 10' widens. Between the black vines there is pale moss, the water once must have reached up 12' or so from the bottom. The chamber is roughly circular. There is a narrow crack in the stone along the north side of the wall. It would be a very tight fit for a human, and probably impossible in heavy armour or wearing a pack. To the south side there is a five foot circular hole -- it's probably a seven foot circle, but the black vines emerge from the depths of the hole, covering the surface of the hole in a layer almost 1' wide.<br/><br/>As her feet touch the bottom the ground seems spongy under-foot. There's water there, ready to seep back into the well, but something has diverted it. The black vine is an obvious culprit.<br/><br/>The body was a human male. He looks to be covered in blotchy mold, and small finger-sized mushrooms sprout up from his exposed, shriveled, decomposing skin where moldy cloth or ring mail (studded leather) doesn't cover it.<br/><br/>Without a light source Natasha is left standing in a pool of dim light. The edges of the chamber are dark, she can't see down the two passages at all.<br/><br/><br/><br/>