methods and tools

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

The gate opens in an small space. Through a doorway ahead is a mid-sized room, scattered with chairs. One wall, directly across from the doorway to the incoming gates area, is made of some clear material. On the other side of it is another room, with a metallic floor raised slightly above the first one's, with a half-dozen complex diagrams and space for many more.

The way into there appears to be through a decontamination room to the left. There is a door on the right into the rest of the base. Embedded in the wall to the left is the door to the outgoing gate area.

Both rooms are windowless and otherwise minimally decorated.

(Observant guests may note that the gravity is about a third of what they are used to.)

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Incoming Gate

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Thorn, Lena, and Tyche are standing near the gate, ready to greet arrivals and direct people. (Thorn looks rather amused by something.)

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[dotted_lines]

Steve steps through the portal. He takes a step, and his feet push him upward more strongly than he is used to. He trips, then falls, slightly slower than usual, before catching himself against a wall.

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[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Thorn goes to make sure that he is alright.

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[ambrovimvor]

Anda steps through the gate, takes an extra step quickly, and eyes the rather showy tower.

Linsa steps through the gate, and promptly stumbles and would fall if Anda did not reach out very quickly (too quick for standard human reflexes) and grab her and steady her.

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[scatteredstars]

"Hello," Tyche says. "The gravity change is a bit jarring, isn't it."

She is fiddling with a device in her hands. "The basic blueprints are almost done downloading; this should be ready by the time you're warded."

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[kaolinandbone]

Lioncourt steps through the portal and continues walking as if she were on earth, seemingly oblivious to the lighter gravity. She spares a single glance for the tower before being directed onwards to the diagram room.

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[scatteredstars]

Lena greets Lioncourt with all courtesy.

"You are one of the first people to be warded, since you presumably want to get back to your guests. If you wish to get ready, the decontamination is through the door to the left. Our warders will be arriving shortly."

She then proceeds to briefly explain the procedure. (From the decontamination area you go into the far room, walk over to a free circle with people by it, and stand in it when they tell you to. There will be small quantities of blood, please try not to be alarmed.)

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[mountains_themselves]

Raezenoth floats through the gate, completely uncaring of the gravity difference.

Once through, he looks at Thorn. "I have another person I would like warded."

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[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Thorn's immediate question is: "Do you have a way to get them here?"

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[calledtoventure]

Ahrotahn heard there was a thing happening. She comes to participate.

...oh cool, nonstandard gravity! This party is great.

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[scatteredstars]

Zahi smiles at her. "It doesn't seem like the fact that we were on Mars got conveyed very well, but at least someone likes it."

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[hide_and_seek]

Kit follows the other people through the gate.

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[scatteredstars]

Lena smiles politely at Kit and conveys the directions, with a question regarding her preferred identifier.

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[antiprojectionist]

A man in a tattered labcoat with outrageously purple hair slouches in through the gate. He doesn't appear to be paying much attention to the gravity, but his stride shifts automatically as he steps though the gate, and his eyebrows quirk.

"One-third gee?"

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[scatteredstars]

"If you have an Earth, you should know what I mean when I say that we're on Mars. If not; we are on a planet for which that is normal."

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[aestrix]

An elf in a sparkly dress steps through the portal. She's remarkably graceful about the change in gravity, and jumps a bit, giggling.

"Fun," she observes, smiling. And then she looks up and sees the tower-image. She makes an appreciative 'oooo' sound.

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[scatteredstars]

Amadi greets her politely, though a corner of his mouth twitches up at her reaction to the tower (which has been additionally decorated with a board bearing an electronic list of names, and a note about forum access being available on the pads). "Some people," he says drily, "insist upon showy representations of things. Hello, what should we call you?"

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[poll_the_stars]

Inavet... Is frustrated. She possibly shouldn't have left the party early out of - well. Genuine panic response. That. Was probably unavoidable, but - she suspects she could have handled it better. Probably. Are her hands still shaking? Stop that. Stop it right now.

Whatever. She can handle this. Show up, get warded, leave. Easy. She informs Lioncourt (and gains permission) to gate back to the castle, and then step through the portal.

She stumbles and hisses a curse word in the strange gravity. Maybe if she were less of a wreck she would handle this with poise and grace. But unfortunately, she is kind of a wreck.

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[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Thorn... notices this. Waves off Zahi, who was about to head in her direction.

She remembers seeing this person at the party; wary, but not this much. Orz, probably.

"Hello," Thorn says, keeping her hands where Inavet can see them, and carefully not blocking her route to the rest of the room.. "I saw you talking to Meletiti Entelecheiai earlier, so you may know some of this already, in which case I apologize, but..." She launches into the directions, moving as she does to try to get Inavet out of the way of more incoming people.

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[vvvvvvibrant]

The Souleye's crew proceed in an orderly manner through the gate, barely even noticing the change in gravity.

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[scatteredstars]

Lena greets them! She gives them directions and asks for identifiers to put on the list.

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[kelardry]

Lantern steps into the lower gravity and twirls a little.

"Protection, appreciation, gratitude." A clear orb of glass appears in the air, attached by two twisting threads to two smaller blobs of glass, before vanishing.

"Biohazard -and other-, magic-vaccination, location is?" A small bumpy glass sphere, linked by two threads to a larger purple sphere with a clear flat disk growing out of one side.

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[botanical_engineer]

Kyeskei walks through the portal, then looks around in confusion. There is suddenly much less weight pressing her feet down and her stomach flutters for a moment, as though she is falling, and the walls are all made out of... something grey, not stone, not wood, and when she presses her hand to it, it was never alive. What?

Almost certainly an effect of it being another world, not a cause for concern, just something to find out about. If a world could have a self-editing small-seed that gets inside of people and controls or kills them, without even touching them, there would be nothing to stop the world from being made out of strange materials, or from making everything in it lighter.

She steps away from the portal to allow others to go by.

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[thisvorlunatic]

When the last of the party guests who were invited through the gate have crossed it, Leaf and his mother come through. The gate closes.

Leaf opens a gate to fetch his father.

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[thisvorlunatic]

Raezenoth wanted his acolyte gated in, so Miles goes back to the gating area and does that.