SKATOR, FORTRESS OF SHURA, LOWEST FLOOR. A LITTLE AFTER MIDDAY.Mulk + Gubor + Zorc + Savage + Karna + Ragash + Uram + Lynix(I'll be time-skipping a little bit, just so we can get things moving along. If you'd like to continue or otherwise elaborate on the scene that would be going down with your character, we can do it later via private RP, but let's get things on its way.)
After the lot of you were well fed and, for some, properly unblemished of your sexual tensions, you found yourselves at the lowest floor of the tower, about two stories underground, where the portal to Lozze was being hosted. The room was mostly devoid of decor or adornments, but the sides of the room were littered with machinery, scrolls and runes, all of which seemed to be feeding power further into the hallway, the hallway was the portal, itself, as more and more power, steam and runes coursed through the machinery, reality itself seemed to bend and shift with each floor tile. Magic and flames arced back and forth into the portal and out, glancing further down, you could see that, the further the hallway went, the more cracked the floor tiles became, they began to twist, shatter and float into the air, though the ones way at the end seemed as if they were frozen in time, though magic still seemed to arc from one side to the other, using the bricks as relays to shoot their energy from one side, to the other.
The end of the hallway, or at least, as far as you could see, no longer had any floor to speak of, the runes and symbols merged together and blended from two-dimensions into three, explosive fractals of color arced and distorted around and into each other, causing nauseating whirls in your stomach from merely staring deep into this vortex.
War Boss Yollu'Zin stood proudly in front of you, glaring down the portal with a heavy, intense glare, any sense of nausea that might've come from the portal being subjugated by the mere awe of what he was witnessing. He had been the one War boss you had the most contact with during your stay, supposedly, he had been Shura's right hand man for a very long time, before your ancestor's encounter with old age. Yollu was an Ondon with a large, gray beard that ended around his chest, a singular large horn protruded directly from his forehead. He slowly turned around to face you.
"It is time. I trust you are all fully equipped and prepared? Once you step through here, you shall never again set foot in Skator...But, you need not feel pity or regret, for you take the first steps into somewhere much greater, much lush...Much...More." He spoke, taking a heavy whiff of the air, in reflex, you did the same, even despite the machinery and the intense heat from the steam, there was another smell in here, a smell you had never been graced to your nostrils before...It felt...Sweet? Fresh? You couldn't really quite put the words to describe it, much of it was alien to you and your own senses, used to Skator's harsh, scorching tastes and smells.
"We do not know where you will end up once you step through the portal." Yollu confirmed, nodding his head. "You may end up being split apart...I would suggest that, if you do, you try to localize and find each other as quickly as possible. We do not know how the humans and elves may have changed in the time since we last have seen them, so exercise caution." He turned to the portal once more and nodded towards goblin by the entrance, giving you all a final nod. "Good luck, may Shura's ashes give you the power to glory." He stated, before stepping out of the way, the goblin engineer then gripped tightly on to a lever and pulled. In an instant, a metal grate landed, blocking the way out of the portal room, as more and more energy seemed to be pumped directly into the giant magical gate. It was then you all felt, a pull, a tug, wind gusted in through the portal, hit the walls behind you and then pulled you forward towards the gate itself.
The pressure continued to grow and grow, until Lynix was the first to be pulled off her feet, a stronger gust swept the goblin off the floor and whirling into the portal, Zorc, being the second smallest of the group, found himself the second to be pulled in, the orc's cloak flapping wildly as he was engulfed in the mess of colors ahead. One by one, each of you found yourself unable to resist the portal's pull, as it pulled you along and into its vortex.
........................Mulk + ZorcSpoiler (click to show/hide):
Mulc slowly opened his eyes, only for them to be visually assaulted with an intense, shimmering green. Your eyes hurt as you glanced up at the sun slightly...And the sky...It wasn't red, like Skator's...It was blue, shining, shimmering...Ouch ouch. You winced, okay, note to self, staring up at this sun kind of hurt the eyes a bit. You glanced down, you had landed on what appeared to be some sort of...Carpet? No, it was spread out for way too far...You reached down to grab one of the "strands" and tugged it out, it popping out of the smooth, soft dirt below with surprising ease. The green blade-like molded around your digits as you toyed with it...This must've been that "grass" thing you heard about. You took a whiff of it and, all of a sudden, you found yourself coughing heavily, the air here was...Incredibly, unbelievably fresh, so much so, that your lungs seemed desperate to get rid of all that Skatorian air out of your lungs, quickly replacing it with this new, fresh air...Lozzean air, the trip had been a success. You glanced from one side, to the other, you were in a...Forest, of sorts? You approached one of the trees, feeling the texture of the bark rub against your palm as you glanced up at the branches above and-
Oh.
You glanced up to find a large spot in the branches, probably where you had fallen through, crashing your way down towards the dirt. Mid-way down the path of broken branches, you spotted Zorc, still partially unconscious, being held up in the air as his body was crumpled around one of the branches. While you had crashed your way all the way down to ground, Zorc seemed to have found himself a fair few feet high up into the air...You...You should probably help him down. Then go out and explore, of course! This was a whole new land! Surely there'd be a lot for you to see!
LynixSpoiler (click to show/hide):
Your eyes suddenly shot open, slowly, you began to rub your face and eyes, you were laying on top of...Something cold. As your consciousness restored fully, you patted the floor. It was metal. You were pretty sure Lozze was not supposed to be made out of metal. You glanced around, you were...In a cage. Great. It was a circular cage, made of metal, bars of some polished, clean metal protruded from the platform you were on and joined together at the top, resulting in a large, metal loop, which was tied to a chain, which in turn held your cage up in the ceiling. As you began moving around the cage, it began swaying around slightly, you were clearly being hoisted in the air. You glanced around, you were in some kind of stone structure...Were you still in Skator...? No...No, you weren't. Even though the materials were all familiar, the feel of this place was entirely different. You were somewhere you had never been before, that was for damn sure. You inched yourself closer to the edge of your cage and glanced down, you seemed to be in some sort of study, of sorts. Directly below you was a large wooden table, littered with books, scrolls and baubles.
And there! Just off to the edge of the table, was your dagger! You cursed under your breath, at least you still had your armor with you. A door off to the side of the room swung open, from it, a large figured made their way through...They covered from head to toe in white, their head was covered by a large, wide-brimmed hat, gray hair dotted their head and...There was no mistaking it. Despite the mask covering part of their face, the glow in their eyes, the fairness of their pink skin, their sharp ears. They were an elf.
http://38.media.tumblr.com/36bd8ae23532899d0bea81bfc08468c7/tumblr_n6nwljmZyn1saew11o1_1280.jpgThe elf, your captor, looked up at you, curiously. "...Ah, the strange creature is awake..." He spoke. Well, good to see that the language barrier was not something you'd have to deal with. He had quite an accent you had never heard before, but you could definitely understand him. "Do you...Understand what I'm saying?" The elf questioned, nabbing a chair to sit himself on, resting his staff on his lap. "...I...No...Hurt...You." He tried to explain, gesturing as much as he could.
UramSpoiler (click to show/hide):
By some miracle, you managed to retain a modicum of consciousness even as you traveled through the portal, sadly, that was short lived as you found yourself being launched high speed towards some sort of whirling construction. You placed both your arms ahead of you protectively, hoping to soften the crash, with a loud crash, you burst your way through the wood, crashing around within the wooden structure until something soft eased your fall. You slowly blinked to find that you had landed on what appeared to be some sort of sand...No...No it wasn't sand. You glanced further at it, it was like...Some kind of wooden, small piece of sand. You scooped a handful of it in your hand, if your theory was correct then...You promptly munched down on one of the pieces...Yes, yes, it was food! It tasted quite good, too! This must be what the books referred to as "grain"! You glanced around your surroundings, slowly stepping out of the pile of grain you had landed on, looking up, there was a wide variety of wooden cogs that all seemed to be working in unison to squeeze small yellow plants, these yellow plants, when squeezed, popped out this 'grain' you had just landed on...You were just glad you hadn't landed on the crushing part of this structure, whatever it was.
You heard voices outside. "Over here!" The voice announced. "It landed inside the windmill!" It added. Oh, so this is the name of this place where you were...Windmill. Regardless, you didn't have much time to hide from them, whoever these voices were...Assuming you wanted to hide, at all. There was only voice, which seemed female in origin, if you had to guess, and judging by the loud sound of footsteps that approached, you could count two pairs of feet.
RagashSpoiler (click to show/hide):
With a loud crash, you found yourself bursting your way through wood, your armor taking the worst of the impact, you found your landing was softened up by a fluffy material of some kind, what appeared to be a bunch of little blades of yellow strands of paper. You stood there for a moment, before you flailed yourself out of that mess of hay, though you had never really seen hay before. You slowly stretched your arms and legs, reaching over back into the stack of hay to grab and pull out your halberd. Then taking a moment to properly explore your surroundings...
MOOO!
You nearly jumped right back into the skies just with scare, turning around with your halberd only to find a strange creature staring at you. It looked like some kind of...Quadruped. It was white with black spots...Or maybe black with white spots? Two small horns propped from its forehead as it looked at you, confused, regardless, it then turned to the pile where you had landed and promptly began munching down on some of it, apparently it was just yelling at you for landing on its lunch...I guess?
You took another look around this small construction, it was similar to those constructions that the orc beast masters used to keep the wild beasts they tamed, except this one was much more...Well...Lively?
Despite the fact there was just one cow around. You glanced around the barn a little more still, for better or for worse, it didn't seem like anyone had noticed your arrival...And you had no idea where any of the others were. You took a few tentative steps out of the barn, there seemed to be a large wooden house not too far off from where you were. You took a moment to let the lush, green sights sink into you...You were in Lozze now, weren't you?
Alternatively, there appeared to be a large...Uhm...Amount of...Something...Off to the other direction. You weren't quite sure how to describe it, they seemed like...Little "plants"? They popped out of the ground higher than the grass and, at their very top, there seemed to be some sort of...Fruit or vegetable popping out. It was yellow and seemingly made of a bunch of little pellets, and there was a large, large amount of them, like an entire sea of yellow that swayed with the wind.
GuborSpoiler (click to show/hide):
"Oi...Ted, you sure that's a whale?" A voice spoke, before you felt yourself be poked around the forehead.
"Well, what else could it be, Lea? I found it floating by the shore, think it might've gotten stuck or something..."
"This is the ugliest fucking whale I've ever seen in me life."
Another poke and you couldn't help but stir, slapping whatever was poking you away only to get a few desperate yelps from the two voices from earlier. With a painful grunt, you slowly pulled your face out of the...Sand, it seemed like, shaking your head to get all of the little grains of sad out of your face, blinking repeatedly as you tried to get it out of your eyes.
"Ho shit, Ted, it's alive, and it's moving!" The voice announced, in shock. You slowly recovered your vision and took a look around, you were at what appeared to be some sort of...What was it called...? ...Beach? The smell of fresh water breezed against your skin, filling you with a sense of refreshment you had never felt before you in your life, looking slightly down, you could see water...And water...And more water...You had never seen this much of it in one place! Back in Skator, water so rare, precious, a commodity resource but...Here...There was just SO MUCH of it, it seemed to stretch and reach further than your eyes could even see. You glance up to see a few birds flapping about as they flew high above, the sky was blue, dotted with the said white birds, who seemed to be flocking off to somewhere else. You glanced down at the large mold of yourself you had left in the fluffy, white sand, it let off heat, not as hot as...Well, everything, in Skator, a warmth, but a comforting one, even as you felt the little bits of sand drift between your fingertips.
You turned your attention back to the two voices from earlier, spotting a man and a woman, the man was equipped with some sort of small wooden rod with a string attached to it, clearly not meant for battle, that thing looked like it would snap at the slightest pressure.
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With a loud splash, you dragged yourself out of the river where you had been dumped on, the current having pulled you in the moment you landed. You finally dragged yourself off the current and onto the edge of the river, grabbing onto a rock and then pulling yourself onto the dirt. You slammed your briefcase onto the ground, it popping open only for your portable goblin referee to start coughing and spitting out all the water he was subject to while stuck inside that briefcase. "Aaa...Augh..." The deep-voiced goblin cursed, coughing out water. "...I don't...I don't get paid enough for this kind of nonsense." He grumbled, fixing up his suit and trying to squeeze the water out of his clothes. "...So...This is Lozze, huh...?" He mused, fixing up his clothes with short, calculated movements. "I don't see any of the others around...But we don't have time for that, do we champ?" The goblin questioned, turning to you. "I think we crossed a small outpost or something while we were getting dragged around by the current...How about we head on straight over there and start spreading out your glory, eh?"
KarnaSpoiler (click to show/hide):
"...So, Karth, got a six?" One of the guards asked, two guards sat atop of a stone tower, by themselves, equipped with beaten iron breastplates and with short swords on their belts. Both of them were sitting on opposite sides of a small wooden table, playing cards with each other.
"...Nope." The other guard replied, "Go fish, Seth."
"Oh for fuck's sake, Karth! You can't be serious! I can't not have any of those cards! You're lying, I'm sure of it! And if I'm wrong, may God strike me down where I stand!"
Just then, a massive, glowing portal opened up right on top of them.
"...I WAS KIDDING! I WAS KIDDING! I WAS KIDDI-" He was cut short as you were spat out of the portal, landing directly onto their table with a loud crash, the two guards were sent reeling backwards, at your impact. The table itself, softening up a good deal of your fall as you slowly struggled to your feet, looking around, you were definitely in some sort of tower, just by the shore, too. You took out the map you had acquired earlier, tracing along the shape of the shore and looking at the map...You identified the are you were in! Well...Sort of...There were a few differences, no doubt the results of many years since this map's creation. But you were fairly sure that, according to this map, you were at the location this map called "Deepholm", staring right at what appeared to be an area called Aine Bay, to the southeast of the map...So this is where you landed...You took a moment to wonder if the others would've landed nearby, too. Though, before you were able to give the matter much thought, the two guards whom you had crashed onto began stirring, one of them pushing a large piece of wood off of himself while the other was still buried in the debris of your crash.
Seeing you, he reached over for his sword, not drawing it yet, but threatening to do so, keeping his distance away from you. He wasn't much to look at, both he and his colleague were both rather flimsy looking, their physique was reminiscent of that of a teenage orc, though, if your memories of what you were taught of served you correctly, humans and elves developed a lot less muscle than orcs...So, it made sense that they'd look so flimsy, I suppose.
"D-Don't you move a muscle!" The guard shouted, his voice cracking, his legs shaking. "Wh-Wh-Who the heck are you?! Wh-What was that?! E-Explain yourself, right now! Are you one of those damn wizards?!"