"You go left. I'll keep watch."

"Alright."

And she slips past the grate-thing and into the gap. There's a good bit of blood splattered over the camp, with a trail leading forward into the tangle of pipes. She proceeds cautiously, daggers out (her bow won't help her much in tight quarters like this), but nothing attacks her. Eventually, she's out of sight of Elana, and she's about to turn back, before she spots a body out of the corner of her eye, slumped against the wall. There's a journal next to the corpse, which she picks up, and cautiously flips through as she returns.

"Just a body," she says. "Though I found his journal, and he describes 'eyeless creatures' capturing the rest of the team and keeping them in cells. Apparently they escaped, and most of the rest went further into the ruins."

"'Creatures' as opposed to machines?"

"Yeah."

"Wonderful."

"Pretty sure they're intelligent-ish too - the corpse had an arrow in its shoulder. Looked primitive, but not like any I've seen in my travels."

"I wonder where they got the materials, this far down. And how the shooter managed to hit a target, if it was indeed eyeless."

"No clue, and could be some kind of enhanced senses deal. It's technically possible to hit a target in the dark if it's making enough noise."

"I suppose you'd be likely to know."

"I've only ever tried it once, it's not particularly accurate, but if that's the only way you hunt, and you're not worried about wasting arrows..."

"Any other details?"

"On the arrow? It's head was odd, somewhat hooked. Probably a pain to remove, but I can't imagine it being stable. Probably won't go far once fired."

"Of the creatures. Beyond their eyeless nature."

"Not really. They attack in groups, seem fairly cruel given their actions towards the archaeologists, have some kind of organization..."

"Hopefully they burn more easily than the constructs."

"I'd assume so. C'mon, let's get going."

Up the ramp.

The slithering sound turns out to be a metallic ball rolling in a patrol route across the metallic grates at the top of the ramp. It doesn't seem to have spotted them yet.

Ena carefully nocks an arrow to her bow and draws back, but doesn't quite fire just yet.

Is there a corner to trap it in?

There's certainly dark corners, but it doesn't seem to be going into any of them, instead sticking to the middle path.

Right. A second ice trap is probably out then, at least as an entire solution. A more useful first move would be a distraction. Atronach. She prepares the spell, and glances at Ena to check her readiness.

Ena glances back and nods, shifting to the side so she'll stay hidden a few seconds longer.

She waits until the sphere is just at the farthest point she can reach with her conjuration, then calls forth the elemental in front of it.

The sphere unfolds and attacks the atronach. Ena releases her arrow then swiftly knocks and fires another one, managing to get two into delicate parts of the machinery, before the machine notices her and shifts so she isn't doing as much damage.

And since she's tried fire and frost, now is a good time to experiment with lightning, using the arrowheads as conductors to guide the shock into the construct.