Welcome to Gaia! ::

If you found yourself here, good work. This means you probably peered a little too closely into the shadow of the pedestal, only to find out that it was a thinly-illusioned hole. You probably fell in, and found yourself careening straight down a tube that runs through the center of the palace, too slippery to stop yourself, and landing at the bottom of a very smelly sewage pit far below Palace Dome.

Luckily for you, the Unity Field extends down here, so the fall didn't hurt you. Unluckily for you, the only way out seems to be back up.

It's dark here. If you manage to find a light, you'll see that you're knee-deep in ancient standing water. Bits of broken rubble and stone surround you, with especially large piles against two of the walls. The room is about twenty-by-twenty feet, so there's plenty of pacing room.

A portal has been uncovered against one wall.

A large explosion has rocked the area and rubble now fills the area. Luckily, though the walls have taken some serious damage, they still support the palace above. The entrances and exits are still intact.

• Take the portal to Forgotten Temple.
  
• Take a hole in the wall to Irrigation Sewers.
  
• Take a hole in the wall to Industrial Sewers.
  
• Take a hole in the wall to Residential Sewers.
  

opaj thought he heard something from up above, but the sound was so distorted it came out as nonsense.

"What?"

Angel had just landed on her a** in the bottom of the hole, mind you it was really sore. She barely had a chance to move when someone nearly landed on her.

She quickly moved out of the way, scowling. "Couldn't you wait for me to call up?! What the hell, man?" It wasn't hard for her to see the man. The one that was really pissing her off.

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Arturo lands with almost no splash at all, his legs locked and in a standing position. It doesn't even look like he fell, but like he was already there.

"It doesn't matter. She's close, and she holds the key to everything." He explores the room, examining the piles of rubble that hugs the walls. "Buried here somewhere....."

Right, the whole Unity Field thing would leave Angel unharmed.

Angel nearly tackled opaj to the ground. "I thought you were hurt! Don't ever do that again."

She'd step away when she'd remember she had nothing but skibbies on. She didn't want everyone staring at her, even if they did see her prior, so she'd use opaj as a shield for now and move behind him. "At least you're still clothed. What the hell is going on?"

The end of a makeshift rope would fly down the hole its made of tied together tapestries.

"It does stink. I thought it was him." Angel would mumble the last part quietly while looking at Arturo.

The rope hit opaj and she grinned. "I didn't do anything but jump in. Uh...how about you two go first?" She really didn't want anyone staring at her nearly naked bottom.

Her hand reached for the tapestries, glancing at Arturo. "He's been going on about his god queen. Hey, mister whatever your name is, you can go up first."

She didn't want to go looking for something the man claimed was there. "Seriously, we want to get out of here, not look for something."

"I'm not leaving you alone down here with him. You first," opaj said simply, positioning himself between Arturo and Angel.