"I always feel like the two of us missed some very important information," Bruce said as he climbed up the ladder on the passage wall. "We shouldn't have left in such a hurry. If we'd waited a bit, there definitely would've been a show to watch."
"What did you want to see?" Schiller asked.
"I wanted to know whether they'd repair the mechanism if it broke," Bruce said thoughtfully. "Maybe that would've drawn out the background story."
"Then leaving quickly was the right call," Schiller said. "If nothing unexpected happens, the next room should bring up the background."
Bruce was a little puzzled. "How do you know?"
"This dungeon isn't centered on plot. It's mainly about escape rooms and mechanisms. But if there's no background story at all, it comes off as stiff, so the dungeon designer probably wrote a simple one. You'd better not expect too much."
"A simple story is still a story. Let's take a look." Bruce braced himself on the passage entrance and climbed up. Schiller climbed up too, and Bruce pulled him up.
After walking down another short stretch of corridor, they entered a new room. It was still an empty room, only with a cage hanging from the ceiling. Bruce had just started forward to examine it when something suddenly tripped him, and then the floor in front of him collapsed. He fell straight in.
"Oh, damn it, what the hell!" Bruce's voice came from below. Schiller leaned over to look and found that he had fallen into a slanted pit. The walls of the hole had no masonry, only soil. There were also some damaged bricks at the bottom.
The small space below was just about big enough for one person. There was light in the room, making it possible to vaguely see