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

[soulless_soldier]

Dunno, ain't gonna find out. [She can also use this power to skip fast down the mountain, though at this pace keeping her footing is tricky. She slides and hits the ground sometimes, but it back up fairly fast.] You remember where the entrance was?

[justdumbluck]

The entrance? Uh...

[Come on, think! He looks around frantically, then points off to the left.]

That way! I think.

[soulless_soldier]

Yeah, the portal! Better still be there...

[Barton's sense of direction is pretty good, so she thinks he's right about that, and skips down that way. She'll keep her eye out behind her to make sure Firo doesn't get too far behind.]

[justdumbluck]

[Firo's sticking close behind.]

Doubt they'd go through this much trouble just to kill us, so there's gotta be somethin' there!

[...He hopes.]

[soulless_soldier]

They always go through a lotta trouble to kill us...!

[justdumbluck]

But-

[His line of thinking was that a whole volcano is a bit much, but if he thinks about it, it's not too much bigger than some stuff Mayfield's done before. Which is not a comforting thought at all.]

I was just tryin' to be optimistic!