The New Remnant

Cords says, "No something I'm interested in doing."

Stee will shrug "You only live once. Already survived the underdark so I am game." He will look at Wreak and scratch his head"Ain't that right boy."

When the small harp is placed back on its pedestal, you are surprised to see it slowly start to repair itself. It is a slow process, but it does happen. As you step back, you can see that the scarring on the altar itself is also healing itself. It occurs to Elyse that if they can find the other missing object (of tyranny), perhaps that altar could heal itself, too.

After watching the harp and altar repair itself for a couple of minutes, the serenity is shattered by a semi-loud plaintive wail that again emanates from the tunnel. Looking back at it, you can see it is very narrow and doesn't look like it would be very conducive to climbing down. It really doesn't seem like a good idea.

"We've got plenty to deal with up here without having to drop into some hole that might be a portal to some dark place. Let's wrap up this room and see about eliminating those orcs."

Elyse shares her observations about the self repairing alter pointing out the slow progress so everyone can see. Alright, not down the hole. But if we can find the golden object of Tyranny we might be able to fix the alter and that hole may repair itself once all the alters are back to full strength. I'm thinking those orcs might have been the ones to have pilfered the Tyrannical object.Oliver, what do you think the object might be that we are looking for?

Arc follows his friends action supportively, amazed by Elyse's solution on the harp and Oliver's method to measure the hole.
Now he tries to help to find the tyrant object. He tries both to remember if he have seen some tyranny god in the past, during his travels, and also looking intently around this area.

"We have a lot of temple yet to investigate before the Orcs do."

Based on looking at the drawings behind the altar to the God of Tyranny, Elyse things a long sword is likely what shape it has. Arc tends to concur with that conclusion.

Arc is absolutely convinced (and correct) that the object is not in this room at all. It must lie somewhere else.

"A longsword you say! Makes sense for a God of Tyranny. However, that still doesn't answer why there's a hole with a portal in the altar... I'm going to poke a magical nose and see how it smells on the other side. Maybe we can learn a thing or two."

Oliver retrieves a red rope and a round flask with a wavy rune from his backpack, and politely asks the rope to hold the flask and go down the hole. The red rope springs to life and holds the flask with one end, while Oliver holds the other.Oliver speaks a command word once the flask is at the other side for it to capture surrounding scents, and then issues another command word to release them once the rope has returned. He sniffs around and tries to identify anything of use.

It smells slightly of brimstone. With hints of pain.

Oliver shares this new information with his teammates.

"Hmm, sounds a little like hell. Maybe we should handle the orcs first then we have all the time we need to search."

"There is much of this temple to explore before risking life."

"Incredible! I never knew it to be more than a myth. And yeah, I agree, an infernal realm is more than we can chew right now."

"...though smelling it seemed to be ok. I should lick a meteorite next."

"Aye. I don't relish the idea of jumping down a hellhole. If ye be ready, let's be off. Maybe we'll find the tyranny relic to close this godsforsaken pit."

If we cannot find the relic anywhere here, we might should deal with the orcs either way, they might have taken the relic?

"I think the sooner we deal with them the easier the searching will be. Orcs ain't good for anything but killing anyway." Stee still has bow in hand and at the ready. He will look at Wreak."Ain't that right boy?" Wreak will give a low growl.

Oliver returns the rope and flask to his backpack, and retrieves his Sling.

"But how many of them are there? Can we really afford a direct confrontation?"

"Arc? Were you able to more or less count them?"