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

[hawkeward]

You were just complaining about the cold ten minutes ago! [Not even hot lava can stop Marian Hawke from being a smartass.] Make up your mind!

[Somehow, the path going back down seems a lot longer than the way up had been. Heat and lava will do that to you, I guess. Cupcake follows Nathaniel's lead and starts jumping over the larger rocks in their way in order to follow a more direct path down.

Meanwhile, Hawke still doesn't protest to the hand gripping hers, as much as she's tempted to push ahead and start dragging Anders along instead - but she doesn't dare risk it, not when it might slow them down. But she'll trust him and Nathaniel both to lead the way, this time.]

Are we there yet? That lava isn't slowing down any, in case anyone was wondering.