This damn wererat can land a hit on Navarro, though. A large gash opens across his chest and he stumbles backward.

Garril swings at the wererat, but the ongoing melee is chaotic and he does not to strike it.

The very injured dire rat runs away!

Shadi's slings a fifth icicle into the wererat. "I'm almost out! Hurry up and kill it!"

Acid Splash! ...that one almost hit, it would have if she wasn't aiming around Navarro, but unfortunately she is. Hopefully he can finish it with a stab if he's going to be so close in that she can't shoot it.

Navarro finally strikes true and spears the wererat right through the heart. It collapses to the ground.

Garril flattens the last unconscious stunned dire rat with his warhammer. It dies. 

Navarro breathes heavily. "They're not usually so aggressive! Or prone to attack guardsmen. They fought to the death, too."

"That's weird! I know goblins usually run away if they're alone, even if they're just alone because the rest are knocked out. Are wererats the same way? ...also that was a lot of nibbles, and that stab looked bad. We might want a channel. And I'll need to get this treated for infection..."

She droops a bit at the thought. "Hopefully I don't need a Remove, they're a little expensive for me."

Shadi channels. Some of the party's wounds close, but not enough. She channels again. Tencednil is fully healed, but Navarro is still injured.

"That will have to do. I need to save the rest, in case we run into undead."

"Thank you! This is much easier with quick healing." Having been down here with none made that clear very quickly. If she had actually gone down as many times as she's been implying, it would no doubt be even more so.

And now, time to follow Navarro some more.

Navarro follows his map through the cramped tunnels. The maze slowly spirals downward until they exit into familiar straight passageways. Sewer water is flows openly down the middle of this place. At evenly spaced points, there are doorways in the stone. Some spiral up in staircases, some have lead into long dark tunnels, and some are just holes in the wall, leading to nowhere. The commercial access tunnels.

They reach a crossroads. Tencednil recognizes it, but there's no wooden barrels down the walkway this time.

"Which way here?" She flicks a quick sign to the shadow, and it starts hovering out to check the paths — this time, prioritizing the place where she knows the access tunnel they want originates.

Navarro is reading his map. "I think it should be to our left... somewhere around here..."

The shadow swoops forward, detects the tunnel exactly where she knew it was, and flits back to poke at her.

"Is it about fifty feet to our left? There's an access tunnel there." She thinks for a moment, then whispers excitedly. "...It's dark out here, if the people inside need light my friend might be able to see them through the tunnel! And if they're still far enough away, they won't be able to see her!"

"That could be it. If we send your friend through the tunnel, can it tell us what's down there? I don't understand its method of communication."

"She can sort of talk to me, and she understands Taldane, so I can ask her questions. She can't tell me things if she's not close though. If she goes there I need her to come back to know what she saw."

He nods. "That should work. Please send her in to look."

She nods to the shadow, and it flits up to the end of the tunnel. What can it see from there? Is there visible light inside?

The tunnel is thirty feet long, sloping upward at a steep angle. At its end lies a wooden door. Light peeks through the small gap between the door and the walls.

It flits back. <Thirty feet! Door! Light!>

Should she lie? ...no, that would be too obvious. "There's someone in there. The tunnel goes thirty feet, then there's a door, and she could see light on the other side. She can't see through the door, though. And I don't think we can sneak in and check if there's a door in the way, that's probably obvious."

"That's very likely to be our target." He marks down their location on his map. "Have your friend check the other nearby tunnels too. There could be multiple entrances."

She has it do so! ...it refuses to go anywhere where it's substantially beyond her darkvision, though. 

"Those tunnels don't look like they have anything, they just go up. And that one maybe goes to a basement but there's no light, so she's not sure. She doesn't like going very far away from me, though. If you want her to look at all of those, we need to walk around a bit more."

"I believe we're in the right place. Checking all the others one-by-one would take too much time. Let's go."

Navarro turns around and walks back the way they came.

Oh good, she doesn't need to wait until they open the door on their own. That would be a pain.

And back out of the tunnels! Hopefully no ghouls this time, she's still not very good with ghouls.