event: portal four | the mountain

[mayfield_mods]

The fourth portal, as might be expected, can be found atop the hill known as Makeout Point. The other side of the portal isn't altogether that much different from the side you're entering from, save for the thicker trees and somewhat darker lighting.

The other side of the portal is significantly colder than the Mayfield side; frost covers the ground, and although it's not quite freezing, you'll want to bundle up. A glance at the sky reveals what you might have been dreading: glitch holes, in varying size, litter the skyline. The sun is hidden behind a set of thick clouds, creating a melancholy atmosphere.

The landscape around you is relatively flat, and you can't see too far beyond the forest ahead of you. It isn't until you turn around, facing the portal that you entered from, that you see the rising slope of the ground. The mountain rises high, higher than you can see from its base. There's a rough, primitive path heading up its slope, and for now simply hiking will be sufficient. As you get further, however, simply walking won't be enough: you're going to have to climb...

Somewhere, closer than you might prefer, a single wolf howls, and is shortly joined by more.

Better get moving.

Comments

[selematpagi]

I-I guess yah could, if you really wanted to! I bet they taste really gamey.

[ Gosh mom, you'd eat just about anything!

The cold wind hits Yukko, but thankfully Kyouko and Yoshika block the blunt of it, just as planned. Even so, the sudden change in temperature forces a shiver, and she really wishes she brought a coat. It isn't awful, but it's bad enough to bother her. Yukko crosses her arms snuggly and huffs. She bunches her lips up. ]

S-So that letter said that there's supposed to a memento? Or whatever? [ Because Yukko wants to be helpful. But it looks like finding this thing was going to be harder than she thought. ] J-Jeez, I'm really hoping that it ain't at the top!

[echoing_sutras]

I'll definitely know it when I see it. That kind of thing tends to stick out. -Up and up they went...-

[jumpsinline]

[ Correction: she CAN and WILL eat anything. At least she has sense enough now not to chew on inanimate objects (unless someone tells her it's food).

The thing about the cold is that she can feel it and the wind, but other than it drying out her eyes a bit and whipping her short hair around it doesn't seem to bother her. The zombie trudges onward between the two girls. ] It looks reaaally high up.

[ . . . ] Where are we going? [ Please don't tell her there are stairs, with that incline. She hates stairs. ]

[selematpagi]

[ Yukko nods begrudgingly. More work for her. Lame. ]

We're going up! [ Yukko points to the curving path. Jeez Yoshika. ] We might have to climb. I think. I don't think we can just walk up that big mountain - if that's where this thing is, at least!

[ She's still hoping that it isn't. The chances of a Yeti spotting double the further you go up a mountain. That's a proven fact. ]

[echoing_sutras]

We're definitely going to have to climb, but when we do, I can carry Yoshika on my back. -She WAS a bit lighter, after all, missing a few things...-

[jumpsinline]

[ ...oh so THAT'S why she's carrying rope. Gotcha. Yoshika just thought it was for dragging a cart or something. She seemed to equate "we're going to go get something" with shopping. ]

Oh okaaay. [ Yoshika takes a look ahead and around them. Were there wolves? She kind of wanted to see what one looked like. ]

[mayfield_mods]

This is suddenly happening!

[echoing_sutras]

-The mountain's shudder almost through Kyouko off entirely, her claws digging in nice and tight as the thing shook. What the hell was that? Turning up, her eyes widened. Oh no...-

UM... GUYS, I THINK WE BETTER HEAD BACK! NOW!

[jumpsinline]

[ Yoshika's situation is already precarious, but she has the strength to hang on, if nothing else. ] Whaaaat's haaaappening? [ Mountains shouldn't DO that! ]