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.)

Comments

[meletiti_entelecheiai]

A light flickers, and suddenly a projector activates. The illusion of a man, dressed in a red suit, appears in the middle of the room, eyes closed and a look of concentration on his face.

(This is entirely feigned. The hard part of alethics is almost always in the design of the spell, not the casting.)

For a moment, he simply hovers there, unmoving.

Then the room - unblurs, sharpens unnaturally, every edge picked out in a glaring color not of this world. The light fantastic reaches out from him in curlicued fractals, cracks in reality growing like writhing vines to the edges of the room.

When they reach the floor and walls and ceiling, they seem to lose coherence, the light rushing across the Boundary of the room in a wave of unlight, a computerized grid appearing momentarily.

"Within this space, may the Truth be known to all.

Blur. Blur. Blur. Blur. Blur.

Five times blur and then hold."

/.[[Transmission] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [Reception]] [Blur]./ ->
/.[[[Communication] [Outward]] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [[Communication] [Inward]]] [[Chaos] [Distortion]]./ ->
/.[[[Communication] [[Momentum Ephemeralized Reified] [Symmetry Ephemeralized Reified]]] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [[Communication] [[Momentum Ephemeralized Reified] [[Symmetry Ephemeralized Reified] [Void Reified Ephemeralized]]] [[Possibility Ephemeralized] [Warp Ephemeralized]]./ ----

And Aisilian vanishes, replaced by an image of a tower, reaching to the skies, phantasmal clouds around its base and stars about its tip. A tower of Babel. A tower in slow, tumbling ruin, beautiful arches formed of crumbling masonry and spires of exposed iron and blue crystal, caught in mid-fall.

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.)

Warding

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

On the other side of the decontamination shower is the diagrammed room, with a flexible up-ramp to it. (This will change to a steeper up-ramp and a down-ramp as wardings proceed.)

Dotted Lines, Thorn, Anda, and Linsa

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

"I hope you're not hurt," Thorn says (she sounds mildly concerned). "We should have warned people about the gravity."

Thorn and Dotted Lines

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Thorn is on break, replenishing some of her lost blood.

Shortly after she arrives, however, she stands back up and heads out the mysterious door, carrying her protein drink.

P L O T

[onwhatwingswedareaspire]

Eventually it is time for the last few people to leave through the outgoing gate area.