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[kingincognito]

Who: Joshua + anyone involved in the portal project!
What: The portal is finally ready!
When: Mid-May
Where: The center of the Grove
Warnings: idk it's portal shenanigans, I'll add warnings if we need them!

[ It's taken a couple of months, but with the combined effort of a few good brains, the portal is finally as ready as it's going to be. Calculations have been made, plans have been formed, and now all they have to do is put the sun and moon stones in place, and pray.

Literally, because it's been in his notes that faith could have some power in helping them get where they need to go. Hopefully.

Midway through the month, Joshua puts out a message through the netbooks. ]

To everyone that has helped with the portal:

Our efforts are ready to bear fruit. I would like to try activating it tomorrow. Let us meet in the center of the Grove at noon, when the sun is at its brightest.

We know not what awaits us should the portal be successful, so I would prefer to err on the side of caution. If you can fight, please come prepared to do so. Also, we will certainly need hands to relay anything we might want to bring back. If you are Corrupted, however, I am afraid I must ask you not to be involved as a matter of safety and security. My apologies.

[ And, come late morning the following day, Joshua is there, umbrella in hand to protect himself from the sunlight. He has gathered boxes and crates for any potential recovery of items, should the portal work properly, as well as basic medical supplies just in case. Small bouquets of flowers are placed around the base of the portal, in what might be a startling abundance. Better to have more than needed than not enough. ]

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[succiduous]

Gnosis will investigate the reception desk. Is this where the checkout cards are, where is the receptionist, is there any cool junk to go through? etc

[sticksandbonesmods]

We'll circle back to the first roll, since he's investigating the receptionist desk first!

He'll find that the chair is more like a very plush stool, and is covered in red fur. There's a ledger for every section of the library, of names and a lot of paw print stamps... And some very pretty flowers in a bowl. They look like they're made of sparkling blue glass but smell fresh and fragrant. He'll also find a little teacup, but it's empty. The receptionist seems to favor mint.

[succiduous]

look you gave him an unmanned desk in a library, you know he's nosy

Anyway, is there a little desk bell he can ding annoyingly until the receptionist comes? The flowers are pretty but he mentally notes this down as "things for Flamebringer" and carries on reading through the ledger. If there is a bell he will ring it occasionally while he works.

Very studious this one.

[sticksandbonesmods]

It's buried under papers but there is! And at the first ding, he can hear a squeak and lots of... pitterpatters?

And then a rather large creature- larger than the others around- waddles down the hallway, spots Gnosis and immediately beams, and runs the rest of the way.

He squeaks and chitters happily, and now that he's closer Gnosis can also see he's wearing little gold spectacles on a chain on his muzzle. Gnosis will also find he can understand the creature perfectly-

Welcome, welcome! Oh, it's been so long since we've had patrons. What are you looking for?

[succiduous]

Crane squawk—?! He is not the proud owner of a bone ring (checks his inventory) nevermind I lied he does have one but he did not think to wear it today, so he's shocked when he can just. Understand.

"...mostly, I was seeing why the desk was unmanned. Some others just got the portal to this plane open, so I popped in to see what it was, without much of a plan."

[sticksandbonesmods]

Well, I have to check on the littles, you know! And it's a big library, eeeevery paw to maintain it helps. I was helping one put some of our new books up.

He sits at his desk and gently baps one of the flowers before chittering in a little laugh to himself.

It's been dreadfully long, but we get new books still. All knowledge and writing in the world comes to us, you see!

[succiduous]

"Does that mean if one of us writes a book or shares something, it ends up here? Do you have books on other worlds, too?"

[sticksandbonesmods]

Oh, yes! All knowledge is preserved here. And fiction, too! Our lord did love a good work of fiction. ... Though, we do not transcend the universes. He was only the God of Knowledge in this realm, and thus that is as far as his influence reaches.