The two shorter women -- though admittedly not much shorter than her own diminutive stature -- gathered their belongings and slipped into fresher clothing. Yvah, contradictively too impatient to rest her chin on her staff for the next ten minutes in wait, got to task with gathering the unclaimed items within the room. A couple handfuls of assorted gems were plucked from the miniature hoard and openly placed into a belt-pouch. Sensing eyes on her as she did this, she looked about her allies' faces questioningly. "What? Someone has to carry them topside." She pooled the rest in the bag, letting a little yew wand fall in last, and clipped it to her belt beneath one of the folds of flowing cloth she wore.

One of the newest offered the other a magic bath, which gaze Yvah a quizzical look. She could do that? By now the feeling of crusted blood under her nails was something she was begrudgingly used to, but the sight was still blatant to her as she gathered the valuables. "Hey, um..." she trailed off a little as she broached the subject, "Could you help with this?" Yvah raised her open hands to show how the fur was matted with past exsanguination. She didn't seem very proud of it as she looked at them, and quickly deflected the feeling by putting on a little smile and offering two thumbs up in a distractingly casual gesture. 

Eventually the stout woman had fully donned her armor and they all scuttled their way out through the tunnel. Still no fishmen. The lack of response was becoming increasingly uncanny for her. Araerys left to scout, and so Yvah went as well, splitting off to the right to take a look at the southern hall. It was dark here, dark enough for them all to have missed that the hall veered off to the side instead of what seemed to be an abrupt dead end. At least darkness wasn't much of an issue for her. 

Other than the hallway itself, there was another grate leading downward. Like its twin in the other room, it was simply too small for her to venture through herself, though this didn't stop her from crouching to get a curious glance into its depths. It seemed to lead to water. Perhaps not the friendliest place to send their new vertically challenged friend. Yvah waved off the notion and stood, turning to face the hall. It was indeed quite dark, since even her feline eyes couldn't see the end to it. The only thing in sight was... something shiny. Her curiosity compelled her to reach for it. While she overcame the urge itself, she still decided to move onward and did so with caution. 

In a quiet crouch, she steps forward. But she felt herself being pulled forward into the next step. She immediately pulled back in reflex against the unknown force and nearly stumbled off her feet in doing so. She could see now a faint, liquid shimmer spanning the hall's perimeter. "Oh, shitshitshitshitshit!" she yelled as she understood the danger she found herself in. 

>Disadvantaged Dex save at [s]24[/s] 22 to pull away from a gelatinous cube.