BANG
A blinding flash lit the entire main room of the tavern, and those who were unfortunate enough to be looking at the origin of the flash in the center of the room at that moment caught a glimpse of infinity. Looking into infinity induces two known symptoms. The first of which is a mild headache, because that's an awful lot of information to process. The second is sudden, intense irritation, as infinity is infinitely
boring. It isn't like some sort of mystical time warp situation like people keep insisting in fictional movies and books, but rather it is like endless paperwork, all of which is designed to make you question your time management skills and stress out over deadlines, which in this case are coming up rather quickly. Infinity's manager wants those papers handed in by the end of this !QI1156Eklj, or he'll fire the lot of you and give your jobs to the first people to walk through the door.
Once the flash dissipated, there was a much more interesting sight to be seen in the middle of the room. A large, metallic, table-like object coated in elaborate silver and gold symbols had appeared in the center of the room, and it was bleeding enough magical energy into the air that the air had grown rather excitable and started giving off a fantastic magical light - which was, of course, a rather unfortunate shade of
lilac.
The wooden table that had been sitting where the object was now sitting had violently ceased to exist on any plane whatsoever.
Eight figures scurried around the table-like object - one humanoid female and seven shoggoth, pounding away at the symbols, adjusting the artwork, and muttering incantations.
BANG
Another flash, and what appeared to be a large witch's hat popped out of infinity and deposited itself on the female humanoid's head, followed by the void more or less vomiting out a number of packed travel bags on top of the strange metal altar. The witch found herself pleading with the bizarre magical machine as though something were about to go horribly wrong.
"Oh, no... No. No. Nononononono. PleasepleasepleasePLEASE. Noooooooooooooooooooo"BANG
A third flash, and the altar disappeared, leaving behind the witch, the luggage, and her seven small flying companions, all of whom were now dancing together through the air and flailing their tentacles tauntingly. The witch was pacing back and forth where the altar had been, and seemed to be
very stressed out. Each one of the squidly creatures spoke, in sequence, in a slightly different voice through the mouths that appeared to take up the entirety of their heads. They would be cute if they weren't so slimy and annoying.
"That's what you get for programming it like that.""Should've listened to us, Mari.""We're experts at this, Marissa.""There wouldn't have been any problem if-""-you had told it to take you where you-""-wanted to go, instead of where you should go."The seven stopped moving and bundled together, aggressively flying within inches of the witch's face. She appeared to be somewhere between distraught and terrified. The final of the seven spoke.
"...We're trapped here now, Marissa, and we can't contact the rest of the brain. We're stuck here with you, and you're stuck on whichever plane we've landed. Probably forever. This is your fault."