The kolyarut pauses for a second, before carefully sheathing its weapon. "It is against our protocol to identify ourselves to the protean foes. K394-M43 must have trusted you with its eternal designation to reach this stalemate battleground."
"How much of the forces of chaos have you slain?", it queries.
"Calculations dictate that if your statement is true, the forces of chaos are almost exterminated. The door shall be secured.", the kolyarut finally relaxing its stance and now returning to a position in the middle of the the bronze pattern on the floor.
With no combat threat now, the party can look around some. The northern portion of the room has been altered, likely the protean's influence. The large bronze plates on the floor are inscribed with hundreds of runes each, although all of the party members can find a rune in several languages that they understand, and many more that they do not recognize the script. In each case though, the runes are all for one word: warning.
Faeros however, spots one of the runes is slightly off and raised slightly above the others.
Faeros doesn't believe so. Nilfyr at a safe distance, uses his polearm to press against the runes. The rune panel slides away revealing a slot for a dozen tiny holes in a circular pattern.
The party recovered a strange key from the protean side of things, in the strange alcove where the odd skull was, too. The key happens to look similar to the pattern on the floor.
Artemus pulls out the key, prompting the kolyarut to draw its weapon and point it at the arcanist. "You will hand over that key immediately. The being sealed below must not be released."
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Artemus pulls out the key, prompting the kolyarut to draw its weapon and point it at the arcanist. "You will hand over that key immediately. The being sealed below must not be released."
"If there's some chaotic being below, we are ordered by the hellknights to take it out, we have no intention to release it. You can close the door behind us. Ask your superiors to clairvoyance in a week's time. If they declare it safe, you can let us out again. As we destroyed the proteans here without breaking a sweat, it is likely we can actually remove the threat below as well. Better to take it out than to try and keep it locked up right?"
"Mortals have almost released this chaotic anomaly once and we are tasked to not let that happen again. If you do not refrain from exiting this chamber, I will have to subdue you by force.", the mechanical being's emotionless gaze somehow conveying the sincerity of its threat.