"I think you’re right about control versus free fall but once we go down there, there is not guarantee that we can all make it back up. If we tie together and walk around the edge we can support those who slip and fall because one person couldn’t drag all of us down.
I really don’t like the idea of descending into the unknown abyss without a way out or knowing what’s below us. Any one else got an opinion?"
Lower my little ass down there and then bring me back up. I’ve got good awareness, improved hearing, and transcendent olfaction.
If I scream like a girl, it wasn’t me. Just pull me back up.
“Works for me. We can use the 25’ rope around him and the 10’ around the guy on the edge that should keep everyone safe enough.”
“I’m fine withe the plan as well. The guy who’s best at scouting should be the one to investigate.”
(Plus, it keeps me more out of harms way.)
I don’t know who’s best at scouting, but there’s little doubt who has the keenest senses.
Who knows, maybe there’s a monster down there who can only be defeated by calligraphy.
The pen is mightier than the sword, after all.
Are you selling penis mightiers?
“Brunis why don’t you lower our fair scribe over the edge, hopefully his flair for words will be able to describe what he sees. I’ll hold on to the rope around you so you don’t go over the edge while you’re lowering him.”
And somebody hand me a light.
I’ll keep an eye on the other areas/egresses of the room we’re in.
“You know… next time we pass dose Mushshoomies, I vant to try to put them into my bag, but this time without cutting them- maybee if I used mine axe to break up the ground around it, and then pulled dem out slowly, I could have the whole intact mushroomies! I must do that when we pass by another one of dems! Bork bork bork!”
Ingmar will assist in holding the rope as needed.
I’ll be sure to stand on other side of the group from Ingmar. 
OK, you bypass the mushrooms in the bat cave and head down the right corridor. You all manage to get down the drop and into the next chamber. It’s kind of a tight for six people. Eren is tied off, he takes a torch, and he’s lowered down the hole. Chunks of rock are loosened underneath him and fall into the hole. This is not strong ground.
All you see down there is rubble, and it’s about 15 or 20 feet down.
Cella, you think you see something moving in one of the unexplored tunnels.
“Sssh. I think I see something.” I point.
I can see the bottom, though?
Yes, quite clearly.
You can hear something coming down the passageway. It sounds like a chittering, sort of.
I get my sword at the ready. It might be the kid, but it might not be.
“Ummm . . . I think we need to get him up real quick.”
Symon braces his weight against the rope holding Brunis to make him more stable.
Something is definitely moving on the other side of the hole. The torch light barely reaches it, so you can’t really make it out. Whatever it is is small, but it doesn’t move like a child. It’s much swifter.