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

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

Like I could let you go alone, mou!

[tenderoblivion]

[Yuki will glance around at the crowd of people surrounding them, many of whom were defenseless, younger than 16, or otherwise unsuitable to even have gone anywhere near this place. Her eyes flick back to Shana.]

I would not have been alone.

[This is said in almost an irritated manner. These people were exceedingly foolish.]

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

How many of them are contractors of the god of atonement again?

[tenderoblivion]

[If she had a sense of humor, she would point out that she would perhaps prefer the god of perfect defense or the god of instant and free resurrection, but she does not. ...Not to that extent, anyway.]

I am uncertain. I will inquire.

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

Mou, you know I'm one of the strongest fighters in town.

[ Have all the glary eyes. ]

[tenderoblivion]

Were power to be scaled by arbitrary guidelines, that would be an accurate statement of your respective strength. However, your brand of strength may be limited in this space.

Be careful you do not overstep the bounds.

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

Of course! Mou! I'd just die then anyway.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

(... And so, I followed them in. Great idea. Why did I do that again? Probably because I'm used to babysitting Haruhi at this point. Nagato and Shana are both far more capable than I am. Oh well, what's done is done, right?)

[tenderoblivion]

[Yuki will turn to Kyon with an expression of what he, at least, should be able to recognize as less-than-satisfaction.]

You are endangering yourself needlessly.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... I noticed. Not my brightest idea.

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

Mou.... that really was pretty stupid.

[tenderoblivion]

[Yuki will say nothing more about it. But see if she saves your butt the next time you get assaulted by a rogue interface, hmph.]

Stay close. Your safety must be assured.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Right, I'll be careful.

(Great, they're ganging up on me now.)

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

[ As if this is something new for Kyon. ]

[tenderoblivion]

[Silly Kyon. Horrifying deadly adventures are for data entities and flame hazes.]