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-Harlok, having left Khira and anyone with her to examine the stairways, goes up to the discovered Iron Door and
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Two doors, Syrena discovered as she investigated what she could see of the ascending steps, led to catacombs. That made sense, since they were in a special mausoleum. Perhaps these other tombs were somewhere near New Prahv, in different parts of the city? The third stairway seemed to be the one that led to the Azorius stronghold. The vampiress reported as much to her companions upon her return. She got back just in time to hear the khenra's description of what they saw through the portal.

"You said that this was a picture of your world before the Dragon's dominion, then? ...Could the portal cut not only across space, but time as well? It would make space, if this also led to the First Blood's tomb, who I assume would've dies centuries ago..."

It was an interesting thoery that the necromancer had; did the portal respond to a potential user's thoughts? Then whose dictated that it lead to Ravarin? Was that even the place that they saw before, the dead forest under an eternal dusk?

Darkness and light brought to their knees...

Then the jackal poked the portal again. Testing her theory was what it looked like to Syrena. The red-haired syndic stared at what happened next. Whether it changed or responded, however, was irrelevant. After a few moments of no one doing anything, the so-called Maiden of Blood put a palm on the portal's smooth surface next, trying it out herself...

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Old Mar 19th, 2020, 08:13 AM
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It felt kind of like fading out from existence for a moment as if a puff of smoke. The voices around the wight morphed to a muffled cacophony as he became enthralled watching the mystical pool of magic swirl and shift before his undead eyes. When touched by the others, the images flashed to what the ranger must have been convinced were their deepest desires, or places they wished to be at that point in time. Jens' imagination began to run wild at the prospect of what that possibly could be for him. An ocean of hot zombie strippers? A plane of never-ending fireworks that light the sky with flashy images of comedic value? An endless maze of gourmet cheese? Perhaps it would bring him back to a time before the assassination - known only to Djentry as the "botched explosion" - to be reunited with his beasts as well as his properly functioning body.

Scattering companions made no direct impact on his tunnel vision. In fact, it was comparable to being back in that creepy pathway that led them to this very chamber, only in his own mind. No senses active but the sense of imagination - and through this source of wonder, he was left unable to see the more "reasonable" paths right before him. Surely he would have followed the man scouting up the stairs to the iron door at any other time, cracking jokes at the expense of his blue companions for their delight in all things bookish, and taking comfort that Slaughterhouse - his new favorite fan - would be right behind him.

Not now, however. Now was the pivotal moment of true "Djentry" essence. To be a meta icon and shatter invisible walls by challenging a seemingly arcane barrier. To embody all that is "too much", corny, overdone, and absolutely dated to a degree that it should be perceived as downright offensive.

"ALRIGHT, THUMBS UP?!" his voice split the relative silence asunder, shouting over the chatter of his female acquaintances.

"LET'S TO THIS!"
He bolted forward in a putrid blur, mind still swimming in a pool of intangible possibility.

"LllleeeEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOYYY-"

The mighty, animalistic roar erupted from his decaying throat as soon as his first stride was gracefully executed.

"DJEEEEEEEEENKIIIIINS!"

Djentry was gone almost as quickly as he was there, pushing past whoever stood between him and his potential universe of bombs and bombshells, summoning all of his years of training to acrobatically leap through the gateway into the unknown.

 


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NarratorEveryone stopped for a full minute as they each recognized what just happened. It took a short while before anyone could react to the fact that Djentry had just leapt through an inter-planar portal without knowing a damn thing about what was on the other side.

On the other side of the portal, Djentry found himself standing in the middle of a vast cathedral chamber. It was circular, with stained glass windows between a dozen huge pillars of stone. He was on the edge of the circle, looking down at concentric rings of pews, all of which were aimed at a single sarcophagus in the center. The stone lid of the grave was sculpted in the shape of an angel and a demon wrapped around each other, their faces merged into a single skull-like visage. There were no doors in this room, save the portal he'd just rushed through...
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-Not hearing much from the door Harlok was just about to return to the others when he heard what he believed was the annoying zombie screaming out a name just before the sounds of a commotion back towards the portal. Rushing back down the stairs Harlok scanned the room for the undead idiot but only seeing bewildered faces. "OK, WHAT HAPPENED NOW"?
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The females were still dilly-dallying with their little investigations regarding the portal, so Slaugh was not at all surprised that Djentry just decided to charge in with his famous joie de vivre; ironic since he as actually an abomination of life. Not that the half-giant cared about political correctness.

In fact, the roustabout was relieved that the decision was made, and chuckled at the wight's charge. It was even funnier when one of the Orzhov stuck-ups got all hot and bothered about what just happened.

At least, none that the half-giant bouncer could see. That wasn't saying much, but he felt like he needed to reassure both himself and his crew. He saw Khira poke the portal, after which the surface of the mirror-like opening started to change. From what he could deduce from the khenra's description of her home, they were looking at it through the opening.

"HEH. Guess we go in now. Djendry, so stupid as hell, breaks my bones... Heh."

Drawing the massive hammer from the hoop on his belt, Slaughterhouse marched in, ready to back up his pal for life.

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-Completely enthralled with examining the portal, Victoria doesn't even notice when Harlok wanders off to examine the other stairways. Syrena's thought that the portal might reflect different points in time was also interesting but how could it be a portal if it led to the past as well as to other places. The past has already happened and traveling into it might cause a change in the present. If that change then made it impossible for the individual who made the change to travel back then the change would never happen. Yes, there was powerful magic like Wish which could counter events that had happened in the past but even then there were limits. Returning someone from complete destruction didn't make it so that they would have been alive ever since their death, they would just appear in the present, having not existed in the time between the two events.

These questions were however struck from Victoria's mind as Djentry screams and goes running past her, shocking the necromancer out of her contemplation. Falling back and landing on the floor Victoria doesn't even have the time to be scared, the event having occurred so fast that she initially didn't even comprehend what had transpired. When Harlok reappears and demands to know what had happened she was finally released from her shock and rushes over to him.

"Mr..Um, um. Mr.. THE ZOMBIE. He just jumped into the portal while screaming something".
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His investigation of the mausoleum tree fruitless, Savin straightened up in time to see the wight Rakdos ranger charge straight into the portal, ending further careful investigations of the portal just like that. Palm went to forehead as the blood mage sighed, being more dramatic with his exasperation than accurately conveying his emotions. In fact, there was a sense of jealousy in him that loathed the fact that he hadn't thought to that himself.

"Who in the name of Rakdos is Leeroy, anyway? That ****ing firecraker sucking- Well, Khira, after your magnificent mammaries?"

The tall vedalken bowed to the khenra and gestured his remaining companion to enter first, since Slaughterhouse was also already inside.

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"Mmm maybe," Khira answers Syrena in regards to the image being relevant to now or prior. It's obviously not a question the khenra can answer straight away, especially once the portal shifts again. "There should be more people, and we did not allow crocodiles to just walk the street. Perhaps there were some parts that were not so destroyed as others, I do not think -" she starts to theorize, though her own contributions to the arcane discussion is cut short by a screaming zombie rushing past her and into the portal. Khira just stares for a moment, looking back to where Djentry was a moment ago as if to confirm that yes, he just blindly ran through a portal into what is presumably another plane.

"I uh... do not know any Leeroy. But have a sudden and strange hunger for chicken," she observes as Slaughterhouse jumps right in after him. Well this certainly seemed like a bad idea, but on this other hand, standing around babbling about magic was boring. And it took little more than a few words from Savin to provoke the khenra into action. "Oh! Why yes, they are, are they not?" she asks both proudly and rhetorically. Taking his suggestion literally she leans forward towards the portal while leaning her head backwards, going through chest-first only to snap forward into a quick handstand before coming to her feet on the other side, having no real idea where it led to but not caring much either. Anything, it would seem, to alleviate boredom.

 

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"Mrs. Black has the right of it, I'm afraid," Syrena said, watching the Rakdos troupe enter the portal in slight annoyance. She should've known that they would throw caution to the wind; then again, perhaps more decisive action was needed anyway. She certainly wouldn't get any answers out here.

"Well," the vampiress began, looking to her companions. She cocked her head to one, side, gesturing at the portal. "I suppose we should follow and make sure they don't desecrate Ravarin's tomb..."

The red-haired syndic waited for the others to enter the portal, however; she wanted to be the last to go in. When everyone had gone, Syrena withdrew a vial from her pack and put a finger to her temple, closing her eyes as she did so. In a few moments, a glowing thread emerged from her head, its end being pulled by a perfectly manicured red-nailed index finger as the Dimir agent encoded all information about the First Blood into this strand, stowing it in the safety of her pack.

Now, then... Let's begin, shall we?

The Maiden of Blood smiled to herself as she looked at the portal, swaying her hips playfully as she sauntered towards the shifting doorway.

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-Pinching the temple of his brow Harlok sighed, looking between Victoria and Syrena before marching towards the portal. "<sigh> And this is why you should always work with professionals", he grumbles as he enters the portal.
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-With a great deal of hesitation Victoria follows the rest into the portal.
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