Floor 1 "Wheel": 1-1

[Dracos]

OOC: 12 [1d20=13].  Rolled with a java roller.

[Anastasia]

Acting swiftly, Shadow is able to grab Varian and keep him afloat. However, there's no land immediately visible. It's dark here, with lots of water all over.

[Dracos]

Shadow starts swimming toward the north.  One direction as good as another.

[Merc]

Varian coughs some water out. "Ugh...thanks. At least we know our other friend didn't die from that, unless he's as bad a swimmer as me."

[Anastasia]

Getting a moment to look around now, Shadow and Varian can see that it's a flooded hall. The waters are dark and there isn't much light at all. It goes in two directions as a hall tends to do. You can't see very deeply into the water at all. The walls are pitted, rusted iron. There's a forgotten, floating chunk of wood in the shadow of one of the walls.

[Merc]

Varian points to the piece of wood. "Help me over there? Hopefully with the plank you won't have to hold me up all the time as we find a way out."

[Dracos]

Shadow nodded, saving his breath as he pulled them over to the chunk of wood.

[Merc]

"Thanks," the small caster states as he grabs onto the plank. "Wish I knew where we are in relation to our original location so we'd know to go left or right."

[Anastasia]

The wood supports Varian's weight well enough. It should be just fine to rest on safely.

[Merc]

After a second's musing, Varian begins to kick towards the left, using the plank as a floatation assitant. "Left is as good as any direction, I guess."

[Anastasia]

Varian swims along! He reaches a dead end here. However, his keen low light vision lets him see something far below the waters - looks like a door or a passage.

[Merc]

"Shadow, looks like there's a path under the water over here. Since you can swim much better than myself, do you want to dive and check it out, or just try the other way?" Varian calls out to his companion.

[Dracos]

OOC: Hah... ready for critfail... 
IC:

"One moment..."  Shadow tied a rope around his waist, handing the other end to Varian.  "If I give a tug, or look like I'm being pulled under, help pull me out."

And with that he breathed in deeply and dove for the passage.

[Anastasia]

You can hold your breath for rounds equal to your con score times 2. 24 rounds for you.

It takes Shadow a bit to swim downward, reaching the door. Three rounds, plenty of air left to go. It looks to lead deeper in, no sign of air ahead.

21/24

[Dracos]

Shadow  sees about tugging it open, pulling back as he does so to take a look at what's inside.