Boide opens the door, which is not locked, to reveal the room beyond. The door opens onto a stone platform in a natural cave. The ceiling averages 50 feet high above the platform, while below, another 50 or so feet, the floor is a deep pool of boiling mud. Opposite the entrance is another platform, approximately 90 feet away. Between them a series of wooden discs are suspended from the ceiling by massive chains. The discs are about four feet in diameter, and three feet apart. Each disk is attached to its chain by a giant steel staple. The discs hang and move freely. Everything here is coated with a wet, slippery, algae scum that gives off a feeble phosphorescent glow.
