Welcome to the Rotting Cellar, but I would not become too comfortable here. There is a strange fungus spreading throughout these deeps, and it threatens the expedition's success. We are not certain whence it came, but I have a suspicion. I believe the fungus to be spreading through the water. We must know where this growth is coming from.

'Take this cloth strip and dip it in the waters below. If it changes colour, then things are indeed quite bad.

'Return to me with the results.'

Sylfa is in the Rotting Cellar, east of the Water-works.

You dipped the white cloth strip in the water, and it turned green. You should return it to Sylfa at once.

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