Listening And Continuing

Taking 20 on Listen, you don't hear any human noises, not precisely, but the rhythmic splashing to the south, where the pipe terminus junction is, briefly seems less rhythmic. The flowing water sounds to the north continue unabated.

Once you start moving north, you find that drains appear about once every block, and some light filters in from above. These drains have been cleared and maintained quite recently.

Some 80 feet north, the pipe ends as it spills out into another, larger pipe, that runs east-west. This pipe is easily 20 feet wide, and is deep with moving water and floating sewage. The sewage and water flows to the east. This pipe is higher than the one that you are exiting. Catwalks run on either side of the pipe, five-foot-wide plaster-and-wood walkways that are bolted to the wall. As is the case with the pipe that you have exited, the pipe is mostly fired ceramic.

Looking to your right (eastwards) you see more flowing water, and perhaps the shape of another pipe feeding into this one just at the edge of your 60 foot vision range. Looking left (westward) you can see that about 40 feet from your position there are several feeder pipes that merge together into this large one. The feeder pipes are 5 or 10 feet in diameter and ahve a pronounced slope. All but one of them seem to be flowing in a normally functioning manner.

The catwalk on your side and on the other side terminates just before the merging of the feeder pipes. To the right the catwalks extend as far as you can see (60 feet). Nowhere do you see a way to cross the water and sewage to the other catwalk.

Make Spot checks.