That works just as well as the fire.

It kills the atronach with a few powerful blows and turns to charge Elana, but they're able to down it before it can reach her.

"There has to be a better way to deal with those."

"...They're rolling. They might have trouble moving if you ice the ground under them? Or at least between them and us."

"Mm. Possibly."

"There's also a chance we'd be able to put some of this rubble between us and them, but that'd be more difficult."

There's a clicking sound, only barely audible over the pipes. Might be the pipes themselves, actually.

If it is the pipes, there's not much they can do.

There's a tap, then a glint in the corner of her eye - 

And a metallic spider flying right at her, sharp limbs driving towards her chest and face.

She throws her arms up to fend it off.

It leaves gashes in her arms, then backs off for another attack.

Ena plants a dagger into one of its main joints, then backs off. The spider whirs, but the dagger's stronger than it, and its limb is noticeably affected as it presses its attack.

She pushes it back with the sheer weight of the spray of flame she directs its way.

It stumbles... And then lightning arcs Elana's way.

The machine will have to try harder than that to beat her with her own school of magic. She pulls the lightning aside and sends it back.

There's a metallic screech - heightened when Ena follows up with some quick arrows - and it finally collapses.

Elana examines her scratches. "Tch."

They don't seem poisoned or dirty, at least.

"Yeesh. We need to be more alert going forward. Especially since I suspect those eyeless creatures might be fond of ambushes, too."

"They'll be easier to see coming, assuming they're actually alive."

"Perhaps."

"Try to take the first one we meet alive."

"I'll certainly try. I think I have a mildly paralytic poison somewhere, too, I'll move that so it's more to hand."

Nod. Onwards, senses alert this time.

Ena spots another possibly machine-releasing scuttle and steers them clear of it. 

After a few feet, there's a table with a strange, primitive-looking, darkly colored sword. Next to it are a pile of blueish, spherical things, held together by dark grey webbing. It looks vaguely like an egg sac.

Further on is a ramp. Ena peers up it, trying to find shapes in the gloom. There's a metal channel down the center of the ramp. "I don't like the look of that," she says, nodding to the ramp. "Think it's worth risking a light?"

"The constructs don't seem to react to light, and it shouldn't draw the notice of blind creatures."

"Alright." She creates a small globe of light that follows her, bobbing as she slinks up the ramp - and her paranoia pays off, since she's able to spot and avoid several pressure plates, that she points out to Elana. 

And with the spots to avoid pointed out, she's able to neatly do so.

There's more strange egg sacs at the top, and along one wall a suspicious-looking scuttle. Ena eyes the room, and says, "We can probably avoid triggering that by sticking to the opposite wall. Maybe."