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This looks very interesting. I'm in.

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Aria made a soft whimper as she stared up at the Arch. "Wh....wha?" She whispered, hands covering the lower half of her face. "What's going ON!?" She hadn't noticed the other person yet and hit her knees, terrified at the shaking and sudden appearance of something so...so big.

She tried to crawl back a bit, then finally noticed him. He was small, with short red hair and large headphones. She sniffled and adjusted her little outfit. A simple hiking outfit of a short Mint green skirt with Pine green embroidery on it over a pair of short brown shorts. A cute little T-shirt with a slightly longer sleeved one over it and hiking boots.

Hrodgar slung the pick over his shoulder, grunting at the weight of it. He had been on a prospecting journey for nearly 3 days and his beard was starting to get matted with twigs and the unmentionable mess of birds, it was in serious danger of becoming kin to a birds nest.

"ah'll have t'get some wax on it" He said to no one in particular, kicked at a stone idly with his leather bound foot.

Hrodgar was making progress towards the furthest point of his excursion, when he would finally turn and make the long journey home, when all of a sudden the ground shook violently, knocking the dwarf off his feet. He yelped out a curse in Dwarvish and picked himself back up, dusting debree from his clothes, and grabbing his pickaxe.

It took a moment before he noticed the giant glowing window that had grown before him as the earth shook him to his very core. He eyes the corridor of light wearily,
"Oh....grand. No good'll come of this"

He sighed heavily as he reluctantly trudged his way carefully towards the green light that shone in the distance ahead.

Christa saw something in the corner of her eyes and looked back at the big Arch. She blinked as she saw what seemed to be a small man coming through. "Uh...um..." she stuttered a little and tried to get to her feet. She clasped her hands in front of her and she sent her...'senses' in front of her. They were something called Empathy. The power to sense emotions, pain...intentions. She sensed nothing bad coming and some of her Anxieties lessened.

Mikael whistled a nursery tune as he walked along. He had some business in a nearby village to get some materials for his research. He stopped suddenly; something felt a little... off. He looked around and nothing seemed to happen. He shrugged and started walking again and suddenly a blast of light came from over the hill along with a piercing screech along with a shock wave that knocked him off his feet. Mikael shut his eyes and grimaced at the piercing in his ears, "Agh! Goodness me what was that?" he wondered. He looked over in the direction the light had come from after recovering himself. After musing for a few seconds if he should investigate his curiosity got the best of him and he started over the hill.

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Hrodgar had trudged his way wearily towards the source of the light, and could now see that it was a giant white stone archway that stretched across the way in front of him. Through the gate he could see an unfamiliar forest, and two humans, both looking bewildered.

The first was a man, young and pale with bright red hair that gave Hrodgar's a run for it's money, the second was a woman, very thing and with hair a similar shade to the man's.

'I might have known it was humans' Hrodgar thought 'They can't stop tinkering with things'

"Hello!" The young man shouted through the gate.

"Oh great" Hrodgar whispered to himself "Now they're tryin' t'get me involved"

He was mulling over what he should do about this when his sensitive ears picked up the noise of someone approaching from behind him.

"It never rains but it pours" he muttered and looked over his shoulder for the source of the noise. All Hrodgar wanted was to get back to his ale and his forge, but it was beginning to dawn on him that it was less and less likely he'd be returning to them any time soon.

Mikael crested over the hill and saw an interesting sight. In front of him there was a Dwarf, who had apparently heard Mikael as he was looking back at him now; more interesting was a great, white arch, in front of it stood a woman with red hair and... inside the arch, as best as Mikael could figure, was the figure of a person coming through.

Mikael nodded to the Dwarf and approached him, "Hello good sir, do you know what's going on?"

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Hrodger saw the tall human approaching him from the bottom of the hill, wearing the traditional robes of a mage.

"Hello good sir, do you know what's going on?" he said, approaching carefully. Hrodgar was halfway through answering when the voice from the other side of the archway called out to him again.

"Hello!

He turned to answer the new voice and was instantly blinded by a powerful light coming from the figure on the otherside of the archway.

"Lower the light manling" Hrodgar growled towards the light, "I'm not a particular fan of being blinded"

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Mikael shielded his eyes from the light that suddenly came from the arch, interesting, he thought, perhaps that man is a mage of some kind.

The Dwarf Growled at the holder of the light, "Lower the light manling. I'm not a particular fan of being blinded." which made Mikael chuckle on the inside. It often seemed Dwarves were a bit gruff.

The man on the other side made the light disappear and began to ask a question but stumbled over the words finally settling on, "Do you know what just happened?"

Mikael shook his head, "I have no idea and judging by their reactions, I'd say they don't either." he gestured towards the others near him, "So... who are you?" he asked

Spirit had been walking from village to village, staying here and there and doing a few odd jobs. Nothing really out of the ordinary until suddenly the ground shook, nearly knocking him off balance, and off in the distance he could see a strange green glow. Interesting.. he thought to himself. He might as well go and see what it was, he didn't really have anything better to do..

He set off at a brisk pace, hoping to be the first one there to see what it exactly was, and if it was a monster trying to eat someone. If it was, he could probably get a decent reward for killing it and saving them.

As he ran, he saw two figures. One roughly the size of a man, the other more dwarvish in nature. He sighed, either the glow was about to kill them or he got there late.

He continued his pace and eventually reached it. Upon further investigation it looked like some odd kind of portal a mage might construct..but it didn't seem too keen on dissapearing, and two people on the other side.

He was also correct on one of the figures being a dwarf and the other a man, and a mage at that, at-least by clothes. "Did you build this?" He said pointing from him to the gate. Not waiting on a response, he ventured closer to it.

Inspecting it and the people on the other side intently, they were dressed rather..oddly. At-least no clothes he'd ever seen. He decided to take it a step even farther, he stepped towards the entrance, his eyes faintly illuminating what upon further investigation looked like a tunnel.

"You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this." He turned and told them, yet hesitated mid-way of the entrance.

Christa timidly backed up, nervously gulping and groping her pockets for her MP3 player, she kept backing up and yelped a bit. She caught her foot on a root and fell back on her ass again. She muttered a bit and sighed. She turned her music up and closed her eyes, trying to wake up from what she thought was a dream.

She opened her eyes again and saw what looked to be a man coming through the Arch. He was rather tall. She looked to the other young man, the one with red hair. "I...I think we should run."

"Do you know what just happened?

"I have no idea and judging by their reactions, I'd say they don't either."

Hrodgar shook his head. The more and more humans that joined the conversation the more confusing it got.

"So... who are you?"

The man who had approached from behind had began to question the humans from the other side of the strange archway, but before either could answer yet another human had approached the scene. The new comer had walked straight up the gateway and began to ask rapidfire questions, without waiting for the answer.

"Did you build this?" The strange man asked Hrodgar, glancing at the gate. ""You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this."

Hrodgar sighed heavily and watched as the thin human on the other side of the gateway took a step back to mirror the new comers step towards the gate.

'This is ridiculous' Hrodgar thought.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" He finally said out loud "I didn't make this gate but even I can tell that it's powerful magic. We don't know what it's purpose is, or if it's safe to go through it, so blindly walking through it strikes me as a mighty stupid move"

Hrodgar stroked his beard and took a closer look at the physical construction of the gate. It didn't bear any tool marks that would have told of human construction, or the square marks that would signify it's being constructed directly out of magic and no runes precluded it from being Dwarven in design. It was as if it had literally sprung into existence on the top of the hill for no reason.

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Mikael raised an eyebrow as another man came up from behind, asked a few questions and not waiting for any answers said, "You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this." with the Dwarf giving the man a warning, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. I didn't make this gate but even I can tell that it's powerful magic. We don't know what it's purpose is, or if it's safe to go through it, so blindly walking through it strikes me as a mighty stupid move."

Mikael nodded, "I agree with the Dwarf. While I am intrigued we don't know what this does..." he stopped as the man 'inside' the arch stepped out of it, shivering a bit and turning around to ask the other person inside the gate, "Is this.. like... a portal?"

Mikael considered the man; he wore strange clothes and his speech sounded a bit odd, though Mikael could understand him, "I'll have to agree with you on that. This arch being a portal makes the most sense out of any explanation I can come up with... but again, who are you?"

Hrodgar rolled his eyes as the Human from the other side stuck his foot into the strange archway, before stepping bodily through it and turning to face the thin human still on the other side.

"Is this.. like... a portal?" The red headed newcomer said.

"I'll have to agree with you on that. This arch being a portal makes the most sense out of any explanation I can come up with... but again, who are you?" Asked the long haired human.

"So obvioosly th' first thin' ye do is step en it. yoo're lucky yer guts ur still inside ye manlin' Hrodgar grumbled, with another roll of his eyes.

He shook his head, it was clear that this was getting them nowhere, and at least the portal was clearly safe. The new arrival through the portal was dressed in a manor of clothing that wasn't familiar to Hrodgar, but this didn't strike him as a particular problem as there were many places in the world and it was entirely possible that the style of dress and speech were from some far of country.

"It's seems obvioos 'at this is some sort ay teleport speel. probably yer area ay expertise eh'd imagine" He said, nodding his head towards the long haired, cloaked human standing next to him."Which coontry dae ye hail from?" He asked, this time turning to face the human who had stepped through the portal first.