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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Re: Incoming Gate

[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.

Re: Incoming Gate

[scatteredstars]

"Martian gravity," Amadi says. "You alright?"

Re: Incoming Gate

[botanical_engineer]

She reels a little at the sudden information in her mind (this is gravity, and this is why spherical planets have varying amounts, and this one has less gravity, for those reasons), most of which is consistent with what she vaguely remembers from the booklet explaining other worlds' physics. She can think about it, and process the information, and ask questions later.


She smiles a little at the person in front of her. "I am fine, I was just startled. This is interesting."

Re: Incoming Gate

[scatteredstars]

Amadi looks mildly concerned at the startlement, but decides to politely ignore it when she seems to recover quickly. "Other worlds are that," he agrees, smiling back a little. "What would you prefer to be addressed as?"

Re: Incoming Gate

[botanical_engineer]

"I am Kyeskei. Who are you?"

Re: Incoming Gate

[scatteredstars]

"I'm Amadi," Amadi says, and then proceeds to give the directions.