The New Remnant

Oliver follows along as well.

Cords marches along with them.

Having checked out everything (that you want to) on the third floor, you go down to the second floor. As you walk the way to the next corner to keep going down to the first floor, you see the big room with all of those secondary shrines/altars to the secondary gods/divine servants. Yo do remember that you never checked the center room in the middle of the second floor. Mentally noting that, you continue down to the first floor. You move through the foyer area and move past the tapestries and Oliver and Elyse whip up some handy lights. You check on the Entertainment altar and see that it has finished healing itself. When you get to the Tyranny altar, you can see that the hole has been closed up, but not all the damage has yet been healed. It does look way better than before. You can see that when it finishes the process the altar will be pretty impressive, assuming you really enjoy a skulls and swords design.

Whether you truly appreciate the styling, the details are pretty impressive and you all take a couple minutes to take it all in, now that the details can be mostly seen. You snap our of your daze and turn to decide on your next step when a glowing figure appears before you. It is non-threatening, and starts speaking in a language none of you has ever heard of before. However, after a couple moments, you are able to understand the meaning of what it is saying. "You have performed a great service here. While our influence here has waned, you have still helped this temple. For that we thank you. Because of your service, we would like to gift you a reward. Please take these tokens of our appreciation. In a time of great need, you may call upon our aid and we will answer the request. When you do so, the token will disintegrate. Again, we thank you." At that, the figure disappears and is replaced by a waist-high pedestal that has six stones that are flattened spheres, about 3/4 an inch tall and 1.5 inches in diameter.Once each of you have taken your token, the pedestal disappears.

OOC:
They are basically a one-time do-over. If you expend it, you get to replace a failed roll with an automatic Success.
Once each of you have taken your token, the pedestal disappears.
OOC:
Now, are you going to go back up and check that small area on the second floor, go to the basement, or check outside the temple?
WOOT. Onward to the basement. :) Cords takes his received gift and pockets it away.

"Downward then? Let's not forget about that centermost room on the floor above."

Oliver is amazed at the apparition, but recovers easily once it disappears, pocketing his Power Stone.

"Do you think the glowing figure was one of them, or a separate messenger? Really makes you wonder how the structure of their pantheon looks like."

"Also, as Blornvid says, perhaps we owe a quick visit to that central room just above."

what are the chances that we will find some kind of tunnels down there? Aizashi notes with some curiosity.

Not a bad idea to have no surprises sneak up on us from behind. Above then below. Says Elyse nodding in agreement with Blornvid and Oliver.

Stee will take his token and" I agree with not leaving that central room unchecked and at our backs. It shouldn't take long."

You all decide to make the basement wait a little, and head up one floor. You walk through the hall of other gods and see that the central area has two doors; one on the north facing and one on the south facing. Opening the north door, you see a very unexpected sight: There are even more statues and small altars present in here, just like are all presented in the hall outside, but they are apparently being stored in here. It's as if there were just too many of them, and some had to be stored in this room. You can't tell whether they were just rotated through, or if these were ones that had been "demoted", or what. But it is a very odd sight. Elyse and Oliver detect the same low-level magic that they can feel with any of the other statues and altars.

You then move down around to the south door and you see what looks like a store room of some kind. There are several shelves set up in rows, each containing multiple boxes. (So a given shelf will have several boxes, neatly placed side-by-side, the contents of which are not obvious.) The exception to the boxes are right next to the door where there are several small books that are neatly placed side-by-side. Elyse gives a quick scan of the boxes, and doesn't detect any magic. The small books do radiate minor magic, but she doesn't think they will be scrolls or anything like that.

Oliver lets out a whistle at the sight of the storeroom.

"Would you look at all those shelves? It appears the solstice came early this year! Anybody up to open some boxes? I'm going to start with the lower shelves from the right."

Stee will look at Oliver"Look all the presents to open. Let's do it." Stee will start searching boxes with Oliver.

Cords will be doing some Christmas package opening. Not likely to miss any either.

Blornvid lends a hand with the search.

Aizashi will help as well.

Elyse stands back as the boxes start flying off the shelves as everyone starts rifling through them and watches as they hit the floor in case something or note gets missed...

Everyone hits the shelves with enthusiasm, rifling through the boxes none too carefully. As you go through them, no one seems to find anything interesting, other than Blornvid. He finds a talisman with a symbol they have seen frequently throughout the temple. When he shows it to Oliver, Oliver gets a little excited as it is obviously magic, but he isn't immediately sure of what it does.

Elyse, on the other hand, stands back a bit to let the others make a mess. As they go through things, one thing that is discarded by Stee catches your eye. It is a big tome that Stee didn't seem to appreciate, but Elyse sees that same symbol on it that is on the talisman found by Blornvid. When she checks the tome, she can see it isn't magic (beyond some slight preservation magic), but what it does contain is a description of the pantheon of the temple they are in! While many would find it irrelevant, in the right hands (like some of the researchers at New Paphos), it could fetch a nice price. It is a pretty significant historical find.

Further search doesn't really find anything much, and before too long you all tire of the game.

"Alright then, lads and lass, let's see about that basement."

Elyse packs the tome in her pack and gets ready to head down to the basement...