You float up to the crack in the ceiling and see that it must be a room above you as you can see the ceiling in that room, but from your vantage point, that is all you see.  You do not hear anything either, the room appears empty.

As you look around for exits, there is the south single door you came from, a single door to the north and double doors to the east and to the west.  Which way do you go?

You reach over to punch the blob (of course) and before you even connect, it pulls you in... and it spits you out in another dark corridor that runs east and west, but it definitely a different one.  As you orient yourself, you hear Necyra's voice coming from the east.  As well as... music from the circus?

The little girl looks up to you as you speak to her, trails of tears evident on her face.  "Necyra?  No, I'm not lost.  But I can't get out of here, can you help me?"

With a 21 - you hear circus music coming from the NE door of the large room.  Maybe some muffled voices?

To’Kurr floats around for a little while then decides to head north and under that door.

     "Necky!!" Siszhu calls out with unexpected giddiness from one such as him.  "You found me!" This last is called out as he starts jogging down the hallway towards the sound of their voice.  "I was all lost and confused but you founds me!"

Insight check (is the little girl telling the truth?): 14

IF I believe she is telling the truth, Necyra responds back with: "Why sure, young lady!  I can help you!  Here, hold my hand and we'll get ya outta here lickety split!  Only, I'm a little lost myself...maybe we could help each other out?  Do you know how to get upstairs from here?"

IF I believe she is lying, Necyra will disappear behind her Pass without Trace veil and continue on down the hall without interacting with the child any longer.

Neph shrugs his shoulder, then moves into stealth mode, rubbing his boots of elvenkind and he walks silently to the door, cracking it open and peering in, around in corners to try and take in the scene before being observed.  

Stealth (for sound, due to the boots) : 32

Stealth (for being seen) : 15

After careful consideration of his options, Myles decides to call upon his mystic powers to fold space and appear in the room above the crack where he immediately tries to assess the situation.

Casting Misty Step
Perception: 23
Investigation: 17

You float under the door and find yourself in another corridor.  To the left are several doors... three along the north wall of the corridor, one at the end and two along the south wall.  Looking to the right the corridor extends on...

You very quietly open the NE door that you heard circus music from and as you peek into the small opening you created, you see a corridor leading north.  The voices of Necyra and Siszhu carry back to you.

You silently move your body from occupying one space with the snakes, to the space above you.  As you look around, the first thing you notice is that the west wall is covered in various balloons of different colors, red, blue, green and yellow.  There is a wooden table across from it with a lot of darts lying on it.  There is a man-sized tunnel on the eastern wall that is rotating and another 5" diameter hole on the south wall.

Necyra isn't really sure if the girl is telling the truth or not, but figures to believe her for now.  As you hold out your hand, she looks at it like it is covered in slime. "I'm 10 years old.  I do not hold hands." she states as she stands up and dusts herself off.  You see she is wearing a nametag that reads SALLIE.  "No, if I knew how to get upstairs I wouldn't be down in this shithole, would I?"

Siszhu as you run into the room, you see a girl conversing with Necyra with a small pout forming on her face.  In the NE corner of the room water has pooled and makes the room feel dank and musty.  You have arrived in the room from the west and there is another tunnel heading south.

     "Necyra!!  It is you!!" Siszhu calls out to Necyra.  "Errr, it is you... isn't it?  And who is the little one??  You're not both like evil water spirits, are you?  All ready to trick and attack me??"

     Siszhu cautiously walks up to Necyra but stays a good ten feet or so away.  "Where are the others?  Did they get swallowed by the red pulsing thing too?"

Necyra withdraws her hand from the girl, and sighs in relief as she is actually glad to not have to hold the hand of the disgusting, wet around the ears weirdo kid.  Just as she's about to open her mouth to rebuke Sallie, Siszhu runs into the room!

Without pause, Necyra flutters full-speed into Siszhu and hugs her with all her might (which is not much, really, as she's pretty dainty and weak), and then lets spill all her emotions.  "Sisz-baby!  You're here!  We've been looking all over for you!  When you jumped into that red pulsing blob, we all got worried!  And we followed, but it appears that it was a portal that dropped us all off in separate places!  But I found you!  I did, I did!  Yay!"

She'll then shove away from Siszhu in embarrassment for her little outpouring of emotion, and flutter a little backwards before realizing/remembering that the little girl is there with them.  "Siszhu, this is Sallie.  Sallie, this is my friend Siszu.  Siszhu, Miss Sallie is lost...I think she's one of the children we were sent here to look for.  I was just about to escort Sallie to safety, but both of us are rather lost.  Any idea how to get out of here?"

     Can a full-ish snake like Yuan-ti blush?  Siszhu is very happy to have been found (or did he do the finding?  Wait a minute now....) and is pleased with the hug, but mindful not to squeeze Necrya for fear of squishing her.

     "I didn't jump in!  I kicked and was... poofed!" Siszhu explains, best he can.  "Twice!  First time it sent me to tunnel that went only places we been already... To the hippo... to the mirrors.  I did find some goodies!" Siszhu opens the sack on his hip containing a red and blue toy top, a figurine of a black horse wearing a white saddle, a magnifying glass, and two scrolls.  "They was just sitting there so they seemed free to anyone...?"

     "Anyway! Nothing seemed interesting since we been where the tunnel led so I kicked the red thing... Err, I think I punched it that time... And now here's you!"

     "Who's the kid?" Siszhu then asks, suspiciously... sniffing at the air in their general direction.

Insight? Investigation? Perception?  All minus 1...  4!

Necyra and Siszhu are started when silently an elf walks up from the south and Neph says “Who loves ya, baby?  What have you people been doing while I was gone?  Whossat?  So, do you know the way outta here?”

"Hey, are you there?" Myles calls out into the respective holes.

No hearing anything, To'Kurr is beginning to wonder if he didn't accidentally nibble on a few of his new special tabs he was saving until after their mission was over. This is all starting to feel like a very bad trip he had years ago when he first met the others.

He tries to speak, but no sound emanates from his smokey, cannabis smelling form.

Just like before, To'Kurr thinks to himself.

He continues floating along down the long hallway to the right.

Necyra deviously eyes the scroll that Siszhu shows her...."Oooooh!" she says as she wraps her fingers around a tendril of hair, "...those scrolls look delectable!  Mind if I take a look at 'em?" and then just then, she's startled when she hears the dulcet tones of the Bald One ©.

(Arcana check to identify each individual scroll: #1 = 22, #2 = 11)

"YOU'RE BACK AS WELL!" she says a little too loudly as she flutters over to Nephvir and rubs his bald pate for good luck (casting Guidance @ will on Neph).

To both Siszhu and Nephvir: "I popped outta that ooey-gooey red blob just over yonder (she points down the hallway to the west), and just came upon this little rug-rat here, crying because she's lost.  Her name's Sallie...and I think she's one of the kiddos we were sent in here to rescue.  I offered to bring her out of this hell hole, only, I don't have a clue exactly where we are right now!"

You both notice that when you approached Necyra, she was completely hidden, but once you got close enough, you yourself appeared to have entered a veil of shadow and silence (OOC: she's currently under a Pass without Trace, which you guys are also protected by now that you're within 30' of Necyra).

"Little Sallie here is a BIG GIRL and doesn't want to hold hands.  She's too old for that kinda lovey dovey stuff!" she says, with dripping sarcasm.

You hear no response.

As To'Kurr's mood drifts south, he floats east and after about 50' the tunnel opens up into another room.  Inside the room there are three chairs, with archery targets next to each, and they rest above three 5-foot-wide and 5-foot-deep basins along the north wall. A wooden countertop separates the area you float in the room from where the chairs and basins sit. On the counter are a lime green shortbow, a pink sling, and a yellow light crossbow. Additionally, 14 pieces of ammunition are present for each weapon. Among the ammunition are 2 jet-black arrows, stones, and bolts. A sign above the chairs reads ‘Be Young Again! Play in the Water!'

Myles starts to cautiously and carefully examine the room.

Perception: 18
Investigation:17