Spike tries to look unsuspicious by faking a smell that he begins to sniff, walking towards the corner of the room.

Algotin pulls his hood down, mostly to hide his look from another veiled hint at the violent Paladin's story, and tries to better support Kia who is now resting against him. He then notes the fifth man hasn't returned from the room. He tries to think about a way to subtly suggest this, then thinks of ways it could fail, grumbles, and sighs.

The orcs, after barking orders to each other, gather Killa's body and back away as Kia waves them off. They bow to Lucian, and then storm down the halls, screaming in orcish and snatches of common--FIND KILLER! KILLER KILLED KILLAAAA!!!!!

In seconds they turn down the corner, and their screams begin to disappear.

After she's given a moment, Kia pushes herself away from Algotin's grip, picks up his sword and hands it to him. When he takes it, she points briskly to the hovel/room Narolin has wandered into. "Assassin... escaped... there..." she croaks. There's pain in her eyes, but also anger. She wants her sister avenged.

Aregano nods in understanding at her desire for revenge...but he's also not entirely sure that her wound won't do her in shortly...or that someone won't come back to help her along once the group goes in search of the assassin, so he finds it imperative to ask...

"What does the assassin look like? And where are the rest of the snacks stored, in case we need more later?"

He punctuates his last question with a pork pie shoved in his face by his purple hand, which then dives down to grab another from the pile.

He briefly considers having the hand dip this one in a little of the blood on the floor...he's never tasted orc before...but assumes it would be in "bad taste" with Kia standing right there watching.

He hesitated. Maybe hope for him. the Paladin thought of the wizard. "I'm going ahead. Be sure to get what you can in the meantime. And if I see this assassin," He turned to Lucian as he was speaking. "then you will see me get to be a bloody brute," Algotin then nods to Kia as he adjusts his grip on his sword and readies himself for any unknown in the room.

He enters and starts looking for clues even up above the doorway.

Aregano's purple hand begins loading up his satchel with pork pies and other goodies as he waits for his new best friend Kia to find her voice and rasp out some answers to his questions. Though he's finding it awfully hard to not just try an orc-y pork-y pie...all that possibly tasty blood is just going to go to waste anyway...damn social norms...

Kia attempts to speak again, but instead coughs up blood. She swallows, looks at Aregano, then pulls a notepad from her pouch and sketches what looks like an orc with fins on its head... uncannily similar to the creatures that attacked you on your boat trip here.

She also draws a map to the storage house, which seems to be several floors down, on the ground level.

Algotin enters the chamber, and sees Narolin eyeing the water channel that feeds into the wall and serves as a source of water for the room's central sauna. The hole seems large enough for a medium humanoid to squeeze through, and from Kia's gestures it seems evident her assailant escaped through there.

Peering into the wall, Algotin sees a wide channel of water that seems to flow swiftly downward.

Algotin feels nearly hypnotised by the water, wanting to let the armor weighing him down clatter to the ground, and clean his body as much as his moral... Intent is clean. But for now a climb through the rushing waters seems the only cleansing he will be getting for now.

"Swim first... Kill next," He then cringes. Maybe Lucian's right.

Algotin moves into the stream head on and hopes his clumsy hands and feet don't fail him.

Aregano tries not to let his jealousy show when Kia blatantly gulps down orc blood (albeit her own), whilst Aregano is trying to be polite and not try some himself.

He looks at the paper she's drawn. Shushi. His mouth waters a bit in memory of the tasty foes.

Then he sees the map to the real "Treasure Room"...as far as he's concerned. His purple hand tucks the map in his satchel, and he steps lightly off to follow Algotin with a wave to Kia as he goes.

When he sees the hole in the wall, he scowls a bit, unsure if his bulk will fit in the gap...or plug it.

He sighs, checks that his satchel is securely sealed, and tightly strapped to him. He briefly considers stripping again, but decides not to. Then he plunges in after Algotin.

Spike sights heavily in relief as the guards leave the room. He follows Algotin and, once he sees the paladin entering the stream of water, he thinks for a moment before turning into a salmon and starts swimming upstream.

Aregano enters the stream, followed shortly thereafter by Spike, who has the unfortunate fate of turning into a salmon just as Aregano slips and falls and, well, let's just say Spike ends up wedged in Aregano's ample grotto. Aregano and Spike tumble through the cavern stream, collide into Algotin, and the trio vanishes into the dark, tumbling down a long passageway and into a waterfall.

Lucian and Narolin are left in the chamber. Kia wavers, and collapses to the floor.

Algotin, Spike, and Aregano tumble through the water channel, heading slowly downward. Glimpses of rooms flash by them as they speed through the waterway--flashes of light that show this channel feeds all the sauna rooms in the resort. They whip around a corner, and suddenly they see there's a precipice ahead of them, and the water plunging down it. With naught a single thing to hold on to, the trio falls, ferried by the water to an immense pool below. The angle of fall is such it's almost recreational--in fact, you might call it a "water slide" if you wanted to trademark it. The three of you float away from the falling water into a serene, empty pool at the bottom of the cave. Luminescent algae clings to the walls, giving the room a soft glow, and the smell of fish overwhelms your senses. You crawl to a short, rock wall, and clambor up it onto a narrow walkway. Ahead of you, you see more cave, but you hear what you think is the ocean. Behind you is darkness and quiet.

Lucian, Narolin, and Kia stare at the hole in the wall, wondering if they should go into the hole in the wall, or not, it's up to them.

Aregano's purple hand is moving over his considerable bulk in a methodical manner grabbing handfuls of his clothing and squeezing them out causing mini momentary downpours in a ring around him.

He turns to Spike. "Well, that was quite a ride. My apologies for the ... seat ... you occupied for the duration of it. But now that it's over, did you get a good enough scent of the assassin back at the top to be able to track which way it has gone down here? Kia indicated it was a shushi, if that helps at all."

"Well... Guess that explains why the assassin chose water for his escape," Algotin says, now putting the obvious pieces said, but he had not yet heard, together. "Sorry, not trying to interrupt, Spike. Just still trying to calm myself... And no way to do the ride again soon?" He says looking back up the way they came for some sort of reverse trip.

He doubts very much he has the ability to swim up, especially fully armed and armored.

You see the waterfall behind you, roaring down the cliffside, but do not discern any particular way up.

Spike stays floundering on the floor for a few seconds before turning into an otter and addressing Aregano. "Just forget that ever happened, ok?" Visibly upset, the druid starts trying to find any tracks of the assassin.