Lifting the manhole is fairly easy, as there are holes in it strategically placed to make it easy to lift without a special tool. (Apparently the Cellarers' and Plumbers' Guild didn't want their workers to have to carry more tools with them to perform a repair job. The downside is that anyone can get into the sewers with no special equipment.) When the manhole is lifted, the most easily noticeable smells are mold and mildew, not feces, since the sewers also serve as the storm drain system of Waterdeep, and poo is actually put into the sewer in smaller quantities than rain water, laundry water, or in some areas, waste water from tanneries. The dark, damp atmosphere, however, does make for the perfect breeding ground for molds and mildews.<br/><br/>As lights are lit, the shape and design of the sewers become apparent. This particular pipe is a more or less rectangular tube, twenty feet wide with eight foot high ceilings. It's got a five foot wide walkway on either side with a ten foot square-cross-sectioned 'ditch' in the middle, a lowered area running the length of the tube where a stream of waste water is currently running. They are designed so that a team of sewer workers could walk single-file down each of the sides without getting soaked and filthy during normal sewer operation, and that in an especially heavy storm when the sewers are flooded with rain water, the upper portion of the sewers would provide space for the extra water to flow through. As it is, there is room for two single-file lines of adventurers to walk with a ten foot gap in between the two lines.<br/><br/>Down in the sewers, the group notices that they appear to be in fairly standard condition, similar to the sewers they traveled through in the poorer parts of the city. This time, though, they notice that the temperature in the sewers is noticeably colder than it was in the Docks Ward sewers. It's normal for the sewers to be cooler than the air on the surface during the warm summer months, but this sewer air is colder than expected, dipping down perhaps to near 50F (10C).<br/><br/>There are no visible footprints or bootprints in the grime in these sewers.<br/><br/>{Anybody want to give me a Spot check?}