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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. ]

Comments

[lilyberation]

White Lily Cookie shifts from where she clings, looking out the window as well, expression impassive- but he knows her well enough to know that that is a lie, that something swirls heavily inside her.

"... I do."

[jesterlies]

Can he get a closer look? Is there- actually a way to pop these windows open? Or are they set in place. Any writing he can see from here? On the stones?

He frowns, pouring through the information he has about this place.

"I wasn't aware our moon goddess was dead."

She obviously isn't, he's spoken to her, but that sure looks like the grave for a moon goddess.

[sticksandbonesmods]

There's no way to get to it, and the windows are sealed- you can only get to the Pale Mourning through one way, and the door seems to vanish after a few moments, leaving the grave in peace in it's garden.

[lilyberation]

"... Something happened. Something we don't know yet."

[jesterlies]

He scoffs softly and keeps walking down the hall. Where is this leading them-

"It seems to me there's quite a lot shrouded in mystery here. I wonder how much we can trust our patron Goddesses really. How much has been omitted from the Truth to serve their needs."

Ever the paranoid one.

"Deceit doesn't have to come from lies, after all."

[sticksandbonesmods]

The hallway seems to warp a little, like the rooms its leading to keeps hopping in and out of place, constantly reshaping itself.

Eventually the wall opposite the windows become murals.

The first is two dark children with halos of gold and crimson light, hand in hand as they wander the clouds, an endless ocean swirling beneath them.

[lilyberation]

"We can only trust what we verify with our own hands. ... I trust that they are kind. but kind... doesn't always mean trustworthy, does it?"

After a moment though, she swings around from clinging to his chest to hug him around the neck, soothing and light. He's tense, she can tell.