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.]

Comments

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger nods once and drops the last rock as he stares ponderously into something his mind is unable to comprehend. It hurts and finally he must avert his gaze. So he turns to Charles beside him, grinning idly as he reaches an arm over the vortex, then waits as if daring Charles to do the same...]

[encored]

[an arched brow. he's uneasy, certainly, but not easy to scare. in reply to the silent dare, he seats himself at the edge of the void with his feet dipped over the side like someone enjoying a lake or pool, and lifts one out again after a few seconds. then, in a very matter-of-fact tone:]

It could be worse, I suppose.

[strike_you_out]

[As Charles dips his feet into the void, Slugger lowers a hand through the portal and then slowly draws it back out again to find that it still exists at the end of his arm. The only uncomfortable effect the void seemed to have so far was on his mind.]

Worse how? Like a porta potty? [Because if that's what you mean, he can totally agree. That would be gross!]

[encored]

[yep that look you're getting right now sure does say WHERE DID THAT COMPARISON COME FROM... but it's not like he'd disagree.]

That would indeed be worse. I could think of quite a few things that would fall into that category, actually. [all things considered, this isn't so bad yet... vague discomfort, slight headache and sense of something about the portal being completely wrong aside, of course.]