an unusual job interview

Branch, on the forum:
I can recommend other sources of information as well, but I would prefer to do so privately.
Ahrotahn replies by PM.
More sources of information are welcome, including your own opinions, even if you don't feel uniquely qualified. (Maybe especially if you don't feel qualified; experts are sometimes tempted to be too clever.)

A badly-wrapped package.

A brown paper package sits on Ahrotahn's desk in Relto. It shakes and wobbles, giving the general impression that it is grievously annoyed.

Obviously Terribly Catastrophic

Ahrotahn receives a door.

The door is everyday, save for its onesidedness: the doorknob is a plain chrome sphere.

Organizing Takkarash Creation

As Ahrotahn inputs her last PM into her KI, a sudden door appears in front of her with a clap of displaced air.

Someone has cut the doorknob into a stylized rose.

outworlder

Relto is a small island rising out of a sea of mist. Four short wooden pillars stand to one side; to the other, a tiny hut has been built against an upspur of bare rock.

[Note: Due to party-related time dilation, this thread takes place before the arrival of OTC on the forum and the events of "austerity".]

methods and tools

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.)