“Is everything alright? I heard a scream”

Sharon, standing on Serphia's shoulder, a position which elevated him above everyone else in the group short of Serphia herself; gazed down at Liam with his arms folded.

"No. The situation is quite under control I would say... " He muttered with a quiet voice, as his eyes drifted over to Rithrynn, who currently looked quite proud of her recent accomplishment.
" ... however, we are going to need to talk about your idea of subduing civilians once this mission is over."

Sharon said, shrugging his shoulders when he became the center of Serphia's eyes as the Captain obviously did not have anywhere near the same problem with Rithrynn turning the gnome into a sport event.

"Just details that could get us into trouble later."

A pointy leather hat emerged above the floor of the scaffolding beneath their feet as Alissah grabbed onto the edge of the wooden platform to pull herself onto it. The woman was carrying a long rope that was tied around her waist, and ran down all the way to the bottom of the reef below. But as she had put one knee onto the platform and reached out to grab the guard railing, a distant 'plonk' could be sounded from the mist below as the rope around her suddenly tightened and almost pulled her off the platform.

"Dammit, dwarf!" Alissah hissed as she held on for dear life, almost about to produce a knife to cut the rope before the rope slackened; allowing the human to climb up onto the scaffolding with the rest of the team.
As she stood up on the platform, she quickly removed the rope around her waist to wrap it around the nearest wooden support beam. Finishing her knotting, she would pull in the rope three times, before stepping back as it tightened.

A distant whirring and creaking noise could be heard from below the platform as up and out of the mist; Smokey emerged. The dwarf was dangling back and forth on the rope, which was attached to the small wooden device that he had attached to his belt, and was currently rotating the levers on each side of the contraption to pull him up the rope with minimal effort. The dwarf in question had a rather relaxed pose as he ascended the side of the reef, literally lying vertical in the air with his big backpack hanging loosely below him as he rose through the air.

One particular feature of the dwarf that was different from when they had last seen him on the ground however, was the fact that most of his upper body was now painted white! Including sections of his pants and backpack as well. The dwarf, despite his leisurely position, did not seem particular happy.

Almost reaching the platform, the dwarf suddenly paused as a stick of dynamite fell out from his backpack and into the mist below!

"Drat!" He cursed, before looking back towards the platform.
"Eh, I got plenty where that 'un came from."

Continuing to cycle the levers of his contraption to pull himself up to the scaffolding, the dwarf would place one leg onto the edge of the platform before stepping up onto it with his other. As he finally stood with a somewhat solid ground beneath his feet, he would gaze out across the rest of the group; his face and beard all painted white with fresh paint!

"Who tha hell threw that bucket'o bloody paint?!"

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The elevator shaft that Bella, Liaena and Hester had entered would turn out to be a long, dark and tenebrous tunnel that stretched far up through the very spine of the reef in an almost two hundred feet free drop! It was pitch black outside the elevator's oil lighted environment, and the air was noticeably heavier. Cables hung from the top of the darkened shaft, attached to the elevator wagon below them. Various tubes and pipelines were built into the stone walls of the shaft, occasionally spewing out hot steam that filled large parts of the elevator shaft as the heavy gears on each side of the elevator below them began to suddenly rotate. 

Whoever operated the elevator had obviously not gotten the news about the incident at the bottom, as the elevator below Bella and Liaena began to climb up through the elevator shaft and the heavy machinery around them broke into life.

Further up ahead, there were three heavy bronze doors in the shaft where the elevator would dock at one of them. There were little indications as to where each door lead, short of some small, grime covered inscriptions on the exterior of the doors labeled the lowest 'storage', the second 'administration', and third 'barracks'.