As the remainder of the group follows the rope through to the dark cave, and emerge from the water each in turn, a gradient of effects seemed to arise along with the various faces as well.
While the android seemed not to have been affected by the experience, short of now being wet, Barhuce's eyes are positively watering and his skin is itchy.
Worse still, Rain and Vri have developed some redness and aching along certain spots on their skins, particularly around the eyelids, lips and some of the more fleshy parts. From beneath the shaman's robes, Jerry squeaks loudly.
As you press forward slowly, dragging your bodies out of the pond, with most of you blindly hanging on to the rope in the darkness, the water here seems to come up to only about mid-thigh. The unhealthy, foul-smelling air still makes the eyes water here inside the cave.
Several moments of tense anxiety passes as you grope around trying to get a sense of your surroundings, before the light of Vri's torch fills the immediate space about you.
At first glance, the small sooty beach up ahead is likely the closest and easiest place to set foot and dry off, as there looks to be no other islands of reprieve in sight, and who knows what other mysteries await upstream as this underground waterway winds around a rock feature toward the right further ahead.
Just then, Val comes rising to the surface at last, positively thrashing and retching. Coughing and sputtering up several mouthfuls of water, she seems to be gasping in a panicked state, clutching her chest between her arms as she wheezes in between coughs, and only calms after after some effort by Violet to comfort her.
(( Barhuce, Rain & Jerry, Val, and Vri are sickened. ))