As they step into the portal, the mist shoots upwards and envelops them. There is the slightest sense of disorientation before it recedes again - their immediate surroundings do not seem to have changed, but the number scrawled on the wall did. It now said '40'.

Takakage's eyes flick up to the number, to where the stairway was, which has been replaced by a corridor, and to the descending stairs that are where the open doorway would be.

"... interesting." He indicated the floor number. "The highest I made it to was around the high fifties. We came pretty far up."