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

[doesnotgetit]

[Three Families? Oh right, Rin's war was totally different... I guess his war followed the same rules and traditions. She's not even going to pretend to understand all that stuff.]

Was the Grail the only thing they fought over? If so, then it won't be a totally naive dream. Take out the source of conflict, and there's no conflict to be had.

[mayfield_mods]

This is suddenly happening!

[waiting_for_the_worms]

((OOC: The mods said in another comment that we're free to backtag to finish threads if we want, just that no group at this point can progress past the summit, so if you want to keep going with this, just reply here and we'll finish their convo at least.))

...No, it wasn't the only thing. They were all trying to unlock the highest secrets of magic. I think they would have found a way to fight over it regardless of the Grail.

[doesnotgetit]

[OOC; I am a-ok with doing that!]

... Sounds kind of complicated. But... if they're trying to unlock previously unseen levels of magic, wouldn't it be better to work together, instead of against each other?

[... A friend of Rin's, with knowledge of magic and the Grail War, completely blind to mage politics. Weird, huh.]

[waiting_for_the_worms]

But everyone wants to keep the secret for themselves. Mages are greedy like that.

[doesnotgetit]

... That's completely ridiculous.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

Yeah. It is.

...But if you've been in a Grail War yourself, how do you not know about any of that? Did you come from outside the magical community? I heard something like that about Caster's Master in the War I was in, but I didn't think it was all that common.

[doesnotgetit]

I'm... abnormal, it seems. [She scratches the back of her head.] I'm not sure how different our worlds are, but I know it's pretty big... I think Rin called it "Second Magic"? It's a parallel world, I guess.

[waiting_for_the_worms]

That makes sense.

...Well, as much sense as anything else in Mayfield, I suppose.