The reason why this area is represented with a circle inside a chamber is glaringly obvious as soon as you come in.
The room looks...out of place in Van Medoh, you realize immediately. The brown and metallic walls change into bluish gray tiles, the walls turn smooth, and there's a strang echo with every step you take. Looks like you entered into some some of short chamber, meant to be only for passing through. The floor extends from wall to wall and curves upwards, up to halfway up. Grooves fill the surface...
...for the boulders to roll on.
There's a number of metallic boulders rolling around, twice as large as a person, and undoubtedly pretty heavy, rolling slowly and with no purpose. They don't seem to be machines or alive, fortunately for you.
What is a machine, though, are the two guardians over there in the center, attached to the roof, and unlike the one from the initial chamber, they're not dilapidated and rusty. Time has been far kinder to these ones...but they're inactive, turned off. Strange.
On the other end of the chamber there's a contraption of some sort. Presumably the reason why you had to come down here! You can't see the details from where you're standing.
NOT SPIKES
The room looks...out of place in Van Medoh, you realize immediately. The brown and metallic walls change into bluish gray tiles, the walls turn smooth, and there's a strang echo with every step you take. Looks like you entered into some some of short chamber, meant to be only for passing through. The floor extends from wall to wall and curves upwards, up to halfway up. Grooves fill the surface...
...for the boulders to roll on.
There's a number of metallic boulders rolling around, twice as large as a person, and undoubtedly pretty heavy, rolling slowly and with no purpose. They don't seem to be machines or alive, fortunately for you.
What is a machine, though, are the two guardians over there in the center, attached to the roof, and unlike the one from the initial chamber, they're not dilapidated and rusty. Time has been far kinder to these ones...but they're inactive, turned off. Strange.
On the other end of the chamber there's a contraption of some sort. Presumably the reason why you had to come down here! You can't see the details from where you're standing.