mayfield_rpg | event: portal seven

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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It'll even kill you, Ciel.

[Yeah, that's an ever present smirk on his face. Though he should try to be slightly worried about himself.]

Either way, us three would probably work best together, at the moment.

[Yuki nods a silent assertion to Ciel's largely rhetorical question.]

...Additionally - Allow time for those who stray to be retrieved as intact as may be possible.

[The fleeting glimpses of memory were interesting. Yuki files each one away in a database as it flits past, and though it is impossible to dedicate the resources to analyze them at present, it was potentially possible to make some sense out of them upon return to Mayfield.]

I will endeavor to maintain its structural integrity.

[She glances at Merem and gives a brief nod.]

Save your warnings to those who can use it. I won't be that careless.

[That comment's to Merem. Her immortality was an advantage, but she doesn't entirely rely on it. This world plays by different rules, after all. Nothing is infallible, as the gradual collapse of Mayfield itself already proves.

There's far too many people here to her liking, and it's obvious from a glance that a good number isn't equipped, emotionally or physically, to deal with this sort of strain. She doesn't like it, no, but one has to keep in mind that this is a retrieval mission. The recovery of the memento takes priority over all else. That's why...]

You're well-versed with the technicalities. We'll eliminate of anything that breaks through.

[Yuki might not need it, but she's got two fairly competent tanks and fighters, if that means anything.]

You can be our primary source of information since parsing things appropriately isn't exactly a skill of mine. And definitely not Ciel's.

[Though the bubble was a little small to employ most of Merem's abilities. Thankfully, a couple of his beasts had been taken down in size so they could fit if needed.]

Now to wait for everyone to be ready...

[Yuki would have found that jab amusing if she ever found things amusing. Her eyes will dart between Ciel and Merem.]

When defense becomes necessary, Homing Mode may be imbued on your weaponry. Inform me if it is desired.

[When, not if. She has no delusions about what will be happening here. The nature of the enemy, she suspects, may be similar to that of one certain blue-haired data entity she had fought once before. This was a realm of corrupted data. It was only natural that it would attempt to destroy them.]

[Hey she can solve matters fine if this was back home, where things obeyed the laws that she's used to. Just not here - but there's no point in arguing with Merem, so that comment slips by without anything from her side.]

Focus on what you have to do. We'll be self-sufficient.

[She's still packing her Keys for something quicker and smaller, and she's not going to hold back on large-scale thaumaturgical spells of offensive nature if the need to deploy them arises. Yuki's without doubt more knowledgeable than them both combined here, but in terms of combat, they should be more than able to hold their own. Part of the whole purpose of the Burial Agency is to 'handle that which no one else can', after all. Going against the unknown is just par of the usual course.]

What Ciel said. Besides, my attacks don't need to be aimed.

[Which implied massive destruction in their own right. Then again, only Ciel really knew what he was fully capable of.]

Understood.

[...It seems she can at least guess what it is they have in mind, as she follows up with - ]

Please avoid attacks that would generate unwithstandable knockback.

[Ciel'll just give a faint nod and

glance towards Merem. Her attacks knock OUT, not back. Her co-worker's beasts now, on the other hand...]

[Have a shrug in return.]

As much as I would love to bring someone out now, it would make walking difficult.

[Yuki will say nothing more, having spoken her piece on every aspect of the situation she deemed to be important. A focus on better understanding the environment currently presented would be optimal. The collection and analysis of data was her forte. She would step in for the offensive only when it was absolutely necessary.

And when Kyon blundered into danger, of course, as she knew perfectly well would happen.

With a last short nod, she will take a few steps past them towards the edge of the bubble, staring unblinkingly.]

event: portal seven | the void

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