Part 9: Plundering the Plunderers' Plunder

Some quick Googling and completely unscientific alanysis would suggest a dwarf weighs about 150lbs, and a set of plate armor would weigh about 50lbs. Furthermore, a powerful wizard named Archimedes, who probably only Eltrezar and Spugnoir would have heard of, once wrote a famous principle stating that a body immersed in a fluid is subjected to an upwards force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, and therefore 1lb on land weighs about .85lbs underwater, and a dwarf wearing full plate and weighing 200lbs on land would likely weigh only about 170lbs while laying prone at the bottom of a Giant Crayfish pool. Multiply that by two dwarves, and you have about 340lbs.
Surely Eltrezar's weenie arms would still be ill-equipped to pull a rope bearing that sort of weight, but between himself and the four other party members standing around the pool's edge, all of whom have a 14 Strength, 70lbs apiece doesn't seem like anything we need to make an ability roll for...

Luban and Mal should have been able to see if there were any other victims down there. We were at the bottom, right?

I forgot about Infravision. They descended about 50' until they hit the bottom of the pool, so they were out of the 30' range of any torches, lanterns, or light spells shining down from above. They did not see anything that gave off a heat signature. Just a cave-like tunnel extending into 60' of darkness, sort of like this:

Mal and Luban both felt a current that was at least strong enough to slowly start dragging Thurig's prone form into the darkness, but Mal and Luban seemed able to resist it without too much problem.