After eating your pies, you make your way to the manhole. Lifting it off, there are Iron rungs, forming a ladder down there. Staring into the darkness, Renaer asks the party “So, off into the sewers then eh, hope you’re ok Floony boy. Are you all ready to head down? We may be being foolish, trying to take on the Xanathar Guild, so we’ll need to be very careful. Who’ll lead the way?”

"Anyone got a torch or something on them?"

Aimee pats her large robe pockets then shrugs lifting her hands.

"Nope! Maybe the pie lady has some?"

"No, I did not think to bring torches," Dnee shrugs and says. "I thought we wouldn't have to use them."

"I've got a lantern back I my place I can go grab..."

"We'll go back and eat pie while we wait!"

Lyss scampers off to retrieve her lantern, returning shortly.

((Also, I misremembered her having a crossbow, she has a shortbow, so she's kitted out with that now too.))

Full of pies, and Lyss’s hooded lantern in hand, you peer down into the sewer. The smell of excrement wafting up from the hole.

"At least we've full bellies, so when we throw up later there's something to come out!", Lyss says cheerfully as she sets to lighting her lantern.

"Yep! Dry heaving is so much worse! The pies will probably still taste good too!"

Aimee gags a bit at the smell, her eyes watering but her smile never waivers.

Spark breathes in and sighs in contentment.

"Ah.  There’s something comfortably unassuming about sewers, no?  Shit never pretends to be anything other than shit."

"Unless there is corn in it!"

You climb down the ladder into the sewers. A putrid stream flows along this sewer tunnel, which leads in two directions. In one direction, you see a tiny symbol drawn on the wall in yellow chalk: a palm-sized circle with ten equidistant spokes radiating out from its circumference.

As Dnee climbs down into the sewers. He looks long and hard at the yellow symbol. "Is that... the sun?" Dnee asks to no one in particular. "But that wouldn't make sense..." He takes a little longer to try to decipher the meaning of the symbol (History or Religion: 14).

((Is there anywhere to walk besides in the stream? If not, how deep is it? Is the marking anything that is immediately recognizable (Thieves' Cant marking) to Lyss?))

"The kenku did say to follow the yellow symbols," Kerri says, cleaning her clothes with every step she takes, magically.

Dnee - You have seen the symbol before tattooed on the wrists of members of the Xanathar Guild.

There is a narrow sidewalk by the stream, forcing you to move in single file if you don’t want to wade through the waist-height sludgy water.

((Waist high on big folk is swimming for Lyss, so she's on the walkway!))

Dnee points at the shape, and then briefly remarks, "This is the right way." He follows the shapes. Seeing Lyss struggling in the water, he'll offer to pick her up and carry her.

Lyss will accept carries when the walkway doesn't suffice, she'll hold the hooded lantern up and (barely) light their way, keeping it mostly hooded so as not to draw too much attention.