[Pit Town]

Nick is walked over the edge and lowered into the pit, slowly at first.
The radiation meter on his wrist starts showing cautionary signs, but the internal meter beside it says the suit is doing its job.

The first reaches of the pit are studded with ropes and little flags that hang from just inside.

About every ten meters there's markers hammered painted onto the wall, florescent green splotches.

The song gets infinitesimally louder with each foot he drops.