[spoiler]strange artifact in black plague

[jo291]

Aye!
Now I'm not the best man in the world to tell if you're joking or not, because I can't hear if your voices are sarcastic, but you better be.

Have none of you played Overture?
That artefact is a save point. Whenever Philip touches one he "leaves" a part of himself inside it, saving his process. Go to the Overture forum and read through some of the threads, I think we had one specifically for the artefact where we speculated about it giving immortality to the users.
Nothing else of them is known, nor their origins, but they are likely to come from somewhere inside the mine and will probably not be explained.

If you notice, the vents suddenly become smaller. That's one of the illusions ;-)

The vents become smaller? All I noticed is that you're warped back.

no its a different artifact it goes into your inventory