Stena just tries to keep moving so she doesn't freeze or lose a finger or toe. Or get those unclean pants to close to her face.

Lia successfully palms it, and tucks into her underclothes. Jimjar sidles up. "I'll bet a silver you found something the guards didn't notice... ", he whispers with a wink.

The two deep gnome twins seem to have been keeping to themselves downstream from you and Jimjar, he seems to largely be ignoring them.

Lia, Stena, Lex (and Ront, Jimjar and the twins): You hear a roaring coming from across the cavern, in the direction that would correspond to the northwestern passage. Your guards come to attention quickly, they'd been kind of lounging about, amused by your futile and demeaning efforts.

One of them barks in Undercommon for you to grab everything and head for the lifts. Two quaggoth servants and a guard herd you back, while the other guards ready their crossbows and peer into the dark.

Lia freezes and stares at the sound of the roar. In that split second she wonders if she might know what made the noise, either from her Sage background, or from her travels and the tales and songs she’s heard…

Nature(?): 1 (+1 for survival, +2 for history)

((Fight or flight!… that noise just terrifies her…))

No clue, it echoes weird down here, so even if it was something you recognize, it might have been distorted.

Stena wonders if she has heard anything like it before as well.

Nature: 8

She moves as directed for now but tried to catch Lex's eye with a questioning look in hers.

As the roar echoes through the cavern, Lex instinctively reaches for a non-existent weapon on her back. Her fingers grasp at air for a second before she realizes it's gone.

She shuffles along dutifully, throwing a glance over her shoulder to see what the guards are up to, and tries to recall if she's heard a creature like that before.

Nature: 4

Catching Stena's questioning look, she gives a miniscule shrug.

Thom responds to Sarith "Today or tomorrow, yeah? Hmmmm.... alright. Hope we get more broth soon then, yeah?" and he kind of half smiles at Sarith as he cleans the last of the excrement. 

With Thom having the info he needs about the waterfall as well as some info from Sarith, he'd be done interacting here. 

Near the position of the lift, the drow you're with uses a bioluminescent fungi to flash signals to the quaggoth crew above, and in short order the basket of the lift begins descending.

In addition, drow warriors drop on silken lines, appearing in the darkness above you as the reach the ground and detach, leaving silk ropes dangling from up above. The lift arrives, with more drow on it, and your guard nudges your towards it, but doesn't have you board just yet. He seems irritated he got stuck with you, and that he wants to go deal with the issue.

Those of you working above notice some commotion as drow not actively guarding you mobilize and begin moving for the lift, while if you're in a position to, you may see others grab silken lines and grapple hooks, leaping into the webbing below, where the giant spiders seem to not bother them at all, before affixing their hooks, slitting the web and dropping out of sight. The giant spiders come along after and silk over the slits in the sheet of web.

Io seeing all of the confusion going around with the drows, picked a piece of silk and with an almost silent chant to create an ice knife, cuts one of the ends and starting hiding some of the silk under her clothes
"Gross but might be usefull!"

((What are you using to make the ice knife, and give me a Sleight of Hand check?))

Thom would just mumble to himself quite the complex they've got here and he hopes he's able to go back to the prisoner cells soon. The quaggoth excrement is getting to him.

Thom, your guards usher you and the others back to the slave pen and lock you in before heading off.

((forgot about the components... well it is a prison under earth, it's cold and mouldy it should have several small pools of water))

Sleight of Hand((in this case both hands :D )) check 13

((Your casting ice knife on you the rope? It doesn't just summon a knife... I'll say you can try to do that, making an Arcana check with you spellcasting modifier, but if you roll are under 15, it goes off as written.

Actually... It does say create and then fling it... Give me a moment....))

((Okay, from the wording of ice knife, you create the shard, then fling it, where it might hit a target, but then does explode and do cold damage. I'm willing to allow it to be modified to be able to be summoned the shard to be used as sort of an improvised knife, but the magic causing it to coalesce into a shard is going to fail and it's going to explode. So can have some more utility options, but at the cost/risk of taking damage (and it being a noticeable spell effect. So if you want to use it as a knife, you can, but then would need to make a DEX save or take damage, and I'd say it would be very very difficult for someone not to notice ice shards blasting out 5 ft around you.))

Stena moves towards the lift and looks over to Lex and then up, and then around at all the Drow on the ground here.

((Looking for anything in particular, or just looking around for flavor?))

((She is trying to signal to Lex that it may be go time. If she see anything it would be by chance!))

((Stena can make a performance, and Lex an insight!))

Performance: 4

((Nailed it. Some expressive eyebrow action going on!))