The first peaceful day

[Anastasia]

You notice the there's the occasional etching in the ceiling of this tunnel. Looks like some sort of letters?

[Nephrite]

Moore will try to read them!

[Anastasia]

They look like letters in Celestia. Each one is a letter about 50ft apart, going from A to Z.

[Nephrite]

Huh. That's odd... well, maybe it's to mark where you are in the cavern?

He keeps going past them!

[Anastasia]

You swim on. You notice the marks repeat, looping from Z to A and then resuming. On you swim, down and down -a few tiny passages as tributaries to this flow, not large enough to go explore. Ahead, distorted by the water, is some sort of opening. You also can hear the sounds of metal moving, squealing.

[Nephrite]

Huh, so this must be the part that leads to where the dwarves are.

So did he miss the 'Filters?' He decides to check out further ahead!

[Anastasia]

This feeds into a lake. Swimming to the surface, you see this cavern glows. The roof is almost entirely molten gold, only a thin layer of old, cracking, crumbling quartz  holding it at bay. Droplets regularly rain down into the water, but that's not all. A complicated set of pulleys, ropes and metal platforms endlessly wobble in a loop. Platforms scythe across the surface of the water, little dimples in the metal perfect for gold to sink into. The platforms then rise up and to a gap in the wall, where they tilt up sharply, sending half cooled bits of gold into it, beyond your field of vision. They then loop back to repeat it, endlessly.

The ropes are ancient and frayed, yet somehow move the platforms and the like with steady ease.

[Nephrite]

"...I think I'm definitely in the wrong place." Moore says to himself.

Were there any side paths or anything he missed on the way down here?

[Anastasia]

No, though in the interests of clarity you haven't looked beneath the waters here much yet.

[Nephrite]

Moore wonders how much gold they collect here, before he looks down into the lake to see if there are any paths out besides the ones the gold go up.

[Anastasia]

The bottom of the lake is laden with droplets and nuggets of pure gold, a wealth of them below. There's also a handful of passages here on a glance, as well as your superior vision and perception letting you note one about 99% hidden by gold, only a tiny corner of it not sealed over by it.

[Nephrite]

He's not stealing the wealth, since it's surely been here for a while...

He's going to cast Moore's Quick Gather and... well, you know, gather all the nuggets and everything. Especially to remove the gold hiding the one path!

[Anastasia]

Where are you gathering it to?

[Nephrite]

His portable hole. I guess there will be some water that gets in it too...

[Anastasia]

The nuggets are gathered - quite a lot of them and into your portable hole. Water begins to pour down, a new passage revealed.