The lever, surprisingly, goes down with only a bit of effort on Gareth's part. There is a loud ka thunk as it sounds like some mechanism has been triggered. There had been a sound of dripping water and that got louder. Quentin has just enough time to look up before the floor underneath Gareth suddenly crashes down turning to a ramp on an extremely steep slope. The reporter would have no chance as he is sent tumbling into the abyss.

When the rope pulls taut on Claire she might have been able to brace herself but she was just at the lip of the newly made ramp so odds were she'd be yanked over before she could react. Which left Quentin, who suddenly had the weight of two full-grown adults yanking against his midriff. He tightens his grip on his pick ax as he is yanked towards the hole sharply and for a moment he brings all three of them to a halt.

However, his companions combined weight strains against his grip on the handle of his pick. A handle that was nothing more than wood, he'd not bothered to wrap it with leather for extra grip. A decision he regrets as his grip slips and he too is sent plunging down the slide.

For slide it was, a water slide, the three companions would find shortly after they started to slide there was an unpleasant bump and then water was surrounding them sending them hurtling into the dark through, twisting this way and that as they are carried further and further away from where they'd entered.