event: portal seven | the void

[mayfield_mods]

The final portal doesn't seem to be a portal at all. It's a glitch hole.

Located on the lawn of the library is a hole much like the ones that have plagued every new location for the past week. As with them, it hurts your eyes to look at too long, but even if you should muscle past the pain and stare straight into it, you can make out nothing on the other side. Nothing, save for a shifting, twitching, swirling void.

Unlike the portals, which were vertically placed like doorways, the hole at the Library is strewn across the lawn: if you want to enter it, you're going to have to jump. Of course, there's no guarantee it will even lead anywhere. Touching the hole or sticking your arm in doesn't have any effect: you'll pull your arm out unharmed. As far as jumping in completely goes, those who jump in disappear from sight. As long as you're on the Mayfield side, there's no way to tell what lies beyond the hole.

There's only one way to find out.

[ooc: Feel free to roleplay up to the point your characters jump in, assuming they do. A single group subthread will be created in a few hours revealing what happens on the other side.]

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[strike_you_out]

[At the sound and proximity of the voice, Slugger's shoulders rise sharply. Turning his head, he finds that shifting his gaze away from the portal comes as a relief even if he doesn't recognize the person standing behind him.

His response to the threat is to peer up at the guy with eyes heavily shaded by his cap's bill, then bare his teeth in a wide grin. It isn't a particularly friendly expression, but it is playful.

Go ahead and try. He dares you.]

[princecreepshow]

[ Bel rather likes that grin. Who needs friendly? Bel's own grin is far from friendly as well. In fact, it's rather wicked, but with a playful edge to it.

He raises his leg, sending a quick kick at the other boy. ]

[strike_you_out]

[The kick topples Slugger over the edge of the portal where he suddenly vanishes.

But while Bel may be a bastard, he certainly isn't the only one. After a brief moment or two, while Bel is still facing the portal, he may feel a presence behind him before something hard and metallic takes a swing at his back.]

[princecreepshow]

[ Bel feels him behind him, and manages to duck just before getting hit.

He laughs, and now there's several knives flashing in his hands for a second before he throws them at Slugger. ]

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger raises his bat as if in defense but the knives seem to pass easily through it and himself with no remarkable effect. Still grinning, he isn't angry about the surprise attack, just curious.]

What?

[princecreepshow]

[ Bel's grin widens as he sees the knives go right through him.

He ignores that Slugger has spoken, to ask a question of his own. ]

Are you an illusionist?

[strike_you_out]

I don't know. [lowering his bat] ...What's that?

[princecreepshow]

[ Bel tilts his head to the side. He plays with a knife in his hand, looking at Slugger beneath his fringe. ]

You serious? Who doesn't know what an illusionist is?

[strike_you_out]

Me.

[It was someone capable of creating illusions, he's sure, but thst definition could just as easily describe a magician or someone without supernatural abilities.]

Are you one?

[princecreepshow]

[ An illusionist is definitely not the same thing as a magician, if you ask Bel.

He snorts. ] No. But I know several.

[strike_you_out]

Know any monsters?

[princecreepshow]

Sure I do. [ Depends on what you mean by 'monsters', of course. ]

[strike_you_out]

Here?

[He actually seems quite curious.]

[princecreepshow]

Ye~s~ What, wanna slay some?