The only thing Lou could be sure of, upon entrance, was that this was not the Casino. The hairs on the back of his neck raised as he looked around the unfamiliar interior. Splitting up no longer sounded like the ideal, given that this was entirely uncharted territory — perhaps a pair of their group could have reasonably handled an empty Casino floor, but he had no idea where they were now, nor what to make of it. There were six of them, which was enough to split up and take all three paths as groups, but would that really be wise?

He had an inexplicable aversion to the path that went down, and eyed it warily. There wasn't supposed to be a down, in the Casino, which meant that path took them into entirely uncharted territory. Not that they weren't already more or less in uncharted territory, but at least with the other two it was possible that this was an illusory tunnel placed inside the Casino, not some sort of strange magic that had transported them entirely.

Subtly, Lou reached into his pocket to run his fingers over the end of his wand, wondering whether magic would work here — wherever here was. "Does anyone recognize any of these runes?" he asked, indicating the markings on the wall. "They might give us some idea of what we're in for, down each path."