Doors [on break]

gearshift48

Tson "Nitrox." (actual name instead of his codename thing)

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The man nodded and looked at the two again...
"Well, CETA, Nitrox, my name is Gregory Arthur, I´ve been here for..."
He paused and seemed to be thinking, his fingers were moving up and down and he looked at them as if his fleshy appendages could help him remember...
"Umm... Well, I forgot it seems, been a while at the very least."
It seems this fleshling had some circuits loose, he couldn´t have been here THAT long, ...or could he?
...he waited and a brief moment of somewhat awkward silence ensued...
"So... found anything yet?"

gearshift48
The man nodded and looked at them again...
"Well, CETA, Nitrox, my name is Gregory Arthur, I´ve been here for..."
He paused and seemed to be thinking, he looked at his hands and moved his fingers as if he´d try to count... what, days? ...weeks? ...months? In any case it seemed to be quite a bit.
"Umm... Well, I forgot it seems, been a while at the very least."
...forgot? How long has he been stuck here?
He waited and for a moment awkward silence filled the room.
"So... found anything yet?"

KrankysFirebrand48
As he walked into the corridor he suddenly felt oddly numb.
He looked into the corridor and began moving, it did have to end somewhere, it did so the last time.
...
Dhas looked up, he felt as if he had been sleeping or in meditation, how long had he been walking?
There was a door infront of him, which meant he had at least reached his target, the corridor behind him seemed endless...
He grabbed to doorhandle and stepped through the door.
...
Light blinded him, considerably brighter than that in the corridor, he felt new energy, so it was likely sunlight, of some sort. When his sight adapted...
This... wasn´t right.
He looked upon a expansive landscape, grassy plains, forests, in the distance he saw some mountains, above him a shining light...
So far everything seemed to be normal, the issue was, the landscape was all around him. Literally.
In the distance the land began going upwards until eventually the landcape towered like a wall and went over the... ceiling? He was standing on a planet, but the planet was inverted, the landscape was on the inside of a hollow orb, with a light in the middle...
What in the Xel'nagas name...?
How was this even possible?
A clicking noise interrupted his thoughts, it was that of the door he had come through, by the time he turned around he heard a thump...
Which was the sound the door had made when it fell over, it had apparently just been standing there in the middle of the landscape, now it was lying on the ground, amidst a plain of blue grass...
The only interruptions in the plain were some rocks, large earthmounds which were about as tall as him, something that seemed to be a large river in one direction, a series of hills, with what seemed to be a structure infront and a forest in the last direction...
Each of them, the forest, the hills and the river were about a kilometre away...
Where did this accursed labyrinth send him this time...?

Fort_Master_Gustav
After he had run his tests, he eventually came to teh conclusion the water was safe, albeit rather salty.
He stepped into the water and slowly went furtehr in about 40 metres out he was able to start swimming, and so he went underwater, he saw sealife, tiny alien looking critters similar to those that would be seen when one went to a museum, this world was apparently quite early into its development of life...
As he swam further out at around 60 metres out the ground suddenly dropped off into a black abyss, judging by that the island was likely atop some sort of mountain, or perhaps inactive volcano, larger fishlike creatures were swimming here some of them with a respectable amount of teeth, however, none of them seemed to consider him prey...
Aside of that, he didn´t find much, the question now was... should he go further out? ... or deeper?
Or would it be better to return?

CursedPh4nt0m
It took him a while to get to the palace, but eventually he reached it, on the way there he started to meet more frequently better clothed people, logically because he was getting closer to the palace...
He was standing on another square with a fountain in the middle, people were sitting on benches, some looking at the fountain or the palace, others just talking to each other, the palace lied ahead of him, a at least 10 metres high ffence surrounded the outer area of the palace, and the palace itself was maybe around a hundred metres high, behind it sat the massive clocktower, from this close up it was like a wall, blocking the sky in that direction...
There were plenty of people at the entrances which were controlled by guards in a formal looking uniform, apparently he have to get in line if he wanted to be let in...
As he was about to head to the entry, he saw something, just in the corner of his eye, almost missed it...
He turned around on one of the buildingssurrounding the square was a door, with a rather odd placement, it was on a wall without much features until the second floor were the windows started...
The door itself was black, and a singular red eye was depicted on it´s smooth surface, too smooth for any material used in this entire town, it seemed to devour the surrounding light, apart of that of the eye which was glowing on the door...
The door emanated an ominous feeling, one of blank terror and dread, even by only looking at it his mind started subconsciously twitching, itching to get away from the door...
He looked around, nobody else seemed to notice this door, which likely meant it was part of the Labyrinth...
...but was it really a good idea going through there? Maybe it would be better to just head to the palace...

Amazing_Goob
As he dragged himself through the door his stomach felt a bit weird for while as the gravity seemd to have changed according to the corridor...
Once he was accustomized, he stood up and turned right to open the...
...there was no doors on the walls here, it was more akin to the corridor he had went through when he left the bar, not when he entered the labyrinth...
He stared into the endless corridor and began walking, almost subconsciously...
...
He looked at the door infront of him...when did he reach this place again, how long did he walk?
No matter.
He took the doorhandle and pressed it down, heading through the door...
...
On the other side, he looekd around, he shook his head... and looked again.
This was no halucination, there were actual people here.
They were walking through a street which was quite broad, encompassed by tall buildings on eitehr side
People didn´t seem to notice him too much, apparently he wasn´t standing out that much, most of them were wearing victorian clothes or those of simple workers, how convenient.
The buildings which bordered the street looked victorian, just like most of the passerbies, when he looked up,he saw some pillars of smoke, however mor eimportantly there was a massive clocktower which reached to the clouds from what it looked like it was quite the distance away, so it must be absolutely massive from close up...
He looked around for a few moments, he seemed to be able to read all of the signs on the shops, which was... weird, that meant they must be written in galactic standard, this town didn´t exactly scream 'galactic standard' though...
Wherever this place was, at least he didn´t end up in some cave again...
In fact, it felt...right, to be here, as if something important would happen here...
Was this one of these 'major areas' the book talked about?
But, now that he was here...what should he do next?

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos Once again he stepped through the door

Fort_Master_Gustav

Drakador_Chaos
Slowly Elohim descended from the palm tree he had just climbed, questioning himself wether or not there really was something in this weird island place. He could try and measure many things, he could use the shadows to measure the circumference of whatever planet he was on. He could use leaves to measure wind speeds, but he could find anything to measure his dissapointment.
He went back to his hut. The only place left was, of course, the sea. Being a species with a water-borne background, it'd be easier to see what was underwater. First he acquired a few samples of the water and measured what he could to see if it was actually safe to enter, boiling it, tasting it, testing its transparency, better say than sorry.
Then, he got out of his suit, showing quite a few scars throught his body, probably from past fights or experiments, along with a relatively muscular build, enough to suffice the writer's own tas--cough cough, excuse me.
Anyways he dives into the water and searches around for a little bit.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos
Climbing out of the water and into the corridor, he dries off for a moment and then takes the first door on the right.

gearshift48

Drakador_Chaos "not at all really, its just a pale cityscape void of anythingbut this tower so far"

Tson

Drakador_Chaos gearshift48
CETA smiles at the understatement, and prepared to correct Nitrox.
---I have ascertained that the patterns in this tower greatly resemble symbols known to my race, and I have theorized that the fountain layouts on the various levels resemble maps, as the lower one matches almost perfectly with the city layout, I also surmise that the cylindrical base that this tower stands on contains some sort of internal construction, however major or minor, since the fountains contain water that can only come from outside the dome. What are your findings fleshling?---

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
This decision is a difficult one. As far as the knowledge about the labyrinth goes, this door could vanish every moment, maybe even right in front of his eyes, so he could loose a rare chance. On the other hand, the feeling the door emanates is one too familliar for him, that of dread and, combined with the other experiences in this place, almost certain dead. Deciding to send someone else in there should it still exist when the time comes, Nate marks its position as accurately as he can before also adding the fence and entrances to the map in his manual.
Knowing there's not much else he can do without risking a death exceeding his regeneration, he steps in the shortest waiting line on the entrances, spending the waiting time by theorising about the labyrinth and the advances of the others. The weird guy, Elohim or whatever it was, might already be 5 steps ahead of him. The air around him is that of someone more dangerous than a cop, someone that has secrets and knows how to survive them. And he certainly has better instincts too, not having to be as careful as Nate grew. The robot probably has an advantage too, assuming he got split off from his groupmember he might've gotten a bunch of enemies by now tho. Dhas cetainly is alive too, that psionic fool might lack in normal thinking abilities, but that psychic aura alone ensures his safety. Altho that one probably is far from achieving anything alone. The last one left besides those frozen adventurers and the people in the bar is Nathan, who would've probably been fine ending up in this place instead of him. Hopefully he managed to return to the bar after getting lost, as a civilian he doesn't really belong to this place.
Writing down his thoughts, Nate easily spends the waiting time without getting bored, changing to a new topic to think about whenever needed.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Drakador_Chaos
Elohim emerges from the water after his swift though temporary dive enhanced by his species' roots in waterborne environments. He is indeed quite dissapointed, this small paradisiac island is as much of a mistery as it is frustrating. What must he do to unlock its secrets?
As he swims back to shore, he decides to spend at least a few more hours in this island. After getting into his suit back again, drying himself and his semi-hydrophobic slightly slimy scales out in the sun, he decides to thoroughly inspect the small hut.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos Walking over to the nearest person, he asks politely while shirtless and soaking wet, "Excuse me, where is this?"

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos Nothing is random. Every step in a labyrinth was already decided by fate. He observed his surroundings. The building was made by someone, probably the same that constructed this inverted world. That’s where he’d find answers. That’s where he must go.

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The fleshling frowned, likely surprised by his own incapability and likewise CETAs capability...
"Well, I actually meant something different... but sure, the city´s been abandoned since the first time I came here, in outer reaches the city seems to go on past the wall but past the wall there´s only ruins which seem to go on in the water until a point where the current is to strong to actually return, also the water pressure is rather unpleasent, meaning the city is likely a considerable way underwater. Judging by what the housing looks like this civilization disappeared within a matter of moments, possibly without even realizing it, so far I´ve seen no signs of any form of technology so I´d guess some sort of magic was involved in teh creation of this city. The runic symbols are kinda weird, yeah, though there´s a floaty blue glowing crystal at the top of the tower where the door is which might´ve something to do with those, not gonna touch that though, I´m done touching weird things in this place..."
He shuddered, apparently remembering something.
"Well, anyways, I´ll be on my way then if you don´t mind."
That was more information than expected from this...fleshling.

gearshift48
The man frowned, he seemed to have expected something different, however soon began reporting his findings himself...
"Well, I actually meant something different... but sure, the city´s been abandoned since the first time I came here, in outer reaches the city seems to go on past the wall but past the wall there´s only ruins which seem to go on in the water until a point where the current is to strong to actually return, also the water pressure is rather unpleasent, meaning the city is likely a considerable way underwater. Judging by what the housing looks like this civilization disappeared within a matter of moments, possibly without even realizing it, so far I´ve seen no signs of any form of technology so I´d guess some sort of magic was involved in teh creation of this city. The runic symbols are kinda weird, yeah, though there´s a floaty blue glowing crystal at the top of the tower where the door is which might´ve something to do with those, not gonna touch that though, I´m done touching weird things in this place..."
He seemed to have some rather unpleasent memories about that as he shuddered for a moment once he said that...
"Well, anyways, I´ll be on my way then if you don´t mind."
This man... was odd, something was out of placeand yet he felt... friendly, his presence felt rather pleasent for some reason.

Fort_Master_Gustav
As he entered the hut he saw the same as before, the bed covered with leaves, a simple table with simple stools and the workbench...
He began looking around.
As far as he could tell there was nothing on the ceiling, just the angled roof. As he started to look under the bed he also found nothing of particular importance, some sand and nothing else.
The stools and the table also seemed to have nothing special about them, although they seemed to have been crafted relatively well, indicating some sort of experience from the maker.
The only thing left was the workbench.
The workbench was also rather simple, a sturdy plate of wood made to make other things on it, like tools or perhaps the furniture. The workbench had no drawers, so he went below it...
It was dark under the table, hard to see, however as he started feeling the underside of the table something was off...
Were these... clawmarks?
He turned on his liight and saw.
They indeed were clawmarks, more interestingly they were all almost perfectly straight and ordered in lines indicating something has been counted... perhaps... days?
That would be somewhat worrysome considering there were hundreds of these clawmarks below the table...
However apart of that, nothing. Whoever had lived here likely took all of his belongings with him.

CursedPh4nt0m
After a while it was finally his turn, the guard simply stated: "Next.", when Prophet looked up, he saw that in fact 'next' would be him. When turning his head he saw the wall where the door was before, unsurpsisingly, the door was gone.
Perhaps it was better like that.
The guard looked at him and his 'weird suit' for a few moments but simply lifted an eyebrow and shrugged, then talked to him...
"Name and reason for your visit in the palace?"

Amazing_Goob
The nearest person seemed to be young woman in the clothes of a noble, she turned her head towards him and blushed seeing the half naked farmer, turning away again...
"S-Sir, shouldn´t you be wearing more clothes, or at least dry yourself after bathing...?"
She paused and likely remembered the weird question...
"Umm... this is our city, Galdrea... how would you not know about that?"

Tson

Drakador_Chaos
---I do. I do not see a single being then one appears from the proverbial ether, merely to state he is now leaving. I do not find this concept agreeable in the least.---
He strides toward the man and looms over him a little, his eyes seem to be glowing a little but this may just be a trick of the light.
---You shall not leave yet, I may have a use for you "Gregory Arthur" unit. You will explain where you were intending to go and why, and then I will determine if it is necessary for you to go there.---

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
Supressing a yawn from the rather long wait, Nate simply decides to go along with things for now, focusing his attention on how to proceed once inside the palace rather than the soldier in front of him.
"Lost my memory, but I believe it's Prophet.
I was told to come here for 'registration' or something after waking up in this place."
Trying to be unsuspicious would be pointless in this situation, but as this place seems to be rather irregular itself, that might've actually been normal enough to avoid any additional questions. Awaiting the reaction of the soldier after just as much thought, Nate has troubles not checking for anything interesting behind the entrance.

gearshift48

Tson Drakador_Chaos dark storm just watches on, mostly at ceta with the most “what Ze fuck” look a one eyed featureless humanoid can do.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Drakador_Chaos
Since there weren't any more places to see in this desolate yet somehow paradisiac island, Elohim took a few minutes of preparation and soon took off into walking back, along the beach, and back towards the hatch on the ground.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos "Well one, I have no idea how I got here. I have no idea where or when I am or if the LAWS OF PHYSICS THEMSELVES apply here, or if i'll ever see my family again. Anyway, have you seen anyone strange around? Someone in heavy armor or something?"

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The fleshing backed away before CETAs might and began explaining immedietly...
"Whoa there man, calm down. I´m just heading to the next doorway, because I intend to get out of this place at some point. I came here probably the same as you, weird door, corridor, bar and all that."
...he turned towards his companion whose name has slipped CETAs memory yet again.
"Hey, you couldn´t possibly help me out here for a moment could you?"

gearshift48
The man took a step away from CETA, although remaining relatively calm it seems and starts talking...
"Whoa there man, calm down. I´m just heading to the next doorway, because I intend to get out of this place at some point. I came here probably the same as you, weird door, corridor, bar and all that."
...he turned towards Nitrox apparently trying to seek help from him...
"Hey, you couldn´t possibly help me out here for a moment could you?"

Fort_Master_Gustav
As he walked back he saw the sun rise, it didn´t take long to find the hatch again and on his way there he didn´t encounter anything unusual, the sound of the waves being his only companion, once he reached it it was around noon judging by the position of the sun.
The hatch apparently hadn´t been touched since he left, however some sand atop the hatch indicated that the waves seemed to reach the hatch occassionally, which was likely why it was hidden in the first place...

CursedPh4nt0m
The soldier looked at a sort of list and mumbled, likely more to himself than 'Prophet'...
"Prophet, huh? Those mistborn and their weird names..."
He walked away for a few moments into a small checkpoint, coming back with a piece of paper.
"This is your pass for the palace, don´t go to any places you have no clearance for. Registration is through the maingate, down the corridor, the second crossing left and then the first door on the right, there are signs leading you so it shouldn´t be hard to find. You will have to take your armor off for registration, as we need to know what you look like, you can do that in the registration chambers though."
He waved him through, this went more smoothly than expected.
"Good luck."
A few moments later he stood infront of the maingate of the palace, it was around six metres high and opened, oddly enough the gate looked heavily armoured, as with the other buildings there was no windows on the lowest floor and the walls seemed to be fortified even though they showed no signs of damages. When looking inside he saw railing and balconies along the upper section of the main corridor, indicating it was in fact two floors high. There was plenty of people going in and out, from people that looked like simple citizens to those who looked like nobles, none of them seemed to really care about him, there seemed to be plenty of guards around even though everything was going about quite peaceful as it seems. The palace itself was somewhat pompous though simple at the same time, wooden doors, metallic golden arches and the balconies interrupting relatively blank walls in gentle colours, the only other things were chandeliers which were lighting the corridors, further down the corridor he could see a crossing with a pillar in the middle, which had some sort of painting placed on it, however it was hard to make out from this distance...

Amazing_Goob
...the woman mumbled...
"Where you are... ever see your family again...?"
She paused...
"No, I haven´t seen anyone in heavy armor as of recently, but there are usually plenty of people in armour in the industrial zones of the trade districts and around the garrisons. Sir, could you perhaps be a mistborn? "
She took a moment to realise he didn´t know what a 'Mistborn' even is.
"Umm... You see, 'Mistborn' are people that seem to frequently appear around the city out of the blue, according to the history books and our scientists it is a side effect of the mist surrounding the city, similar to the hordes that are coming out of it which attack the city."
Notably, she still hadn´t looked at Nathan again...

gearshift48

Drakador_Chaos “Yea we all need to find out how the hell we get back to that bar and to everyone else...”

Tson “mate calm down, your trying to interrogate some random dude who’s just as confused about the situation as we both are.”

Fort_Master_Gustav

Drakador_Chaos
Elohim goes down the shute, down the ladder, and through the door that was down there last time.

Tson

Drakador_Chaos gearshift48
---So says he, but how do we know his words are the truth.---
He scrutinizes the man again for a few seconds.
---If you cannot tell us more, then you will show us how this 'door' works, and where it is, in the event we wish to exit this place.---

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
"Good luck." What would he need luck for now? Surely this place wouldn't hold any dangers...
Since the guard described the way rather accurately, searching this place under the disguise of being lost would be no option. Instead, Nate decides to follow the given path, using the time walking to slide his hands over his neck and hit the hidden buttons and slides connecting his helmet with the lower suit. By the time he turns left at the second crossing his helm is already loose, so he takes it in his left hand and steps towards the appointed door. Surpressing yet another yawn from the weird atmosphere and the lack of sleep, he opens the door and steps through it.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos He sighs and says, "Yeah. Probably. Guess I'll be going..." He stumbles off, continuing to look for anyone that looks strange or out of place.

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The man shrugged and lifted his eyebrows apparently in awe of CETAs generousity...
"Well, sure. We need to go further up, just about... ten more floors I guess."
The man turned towards the staircase and was about to leave...

gearshift48
Arthur shrugged and lifted his eyebrows, his opinion of CETA didn´t seem to be all that high...
"Well, sure. We need to go further up, just about... ten more floors I guess."
He turned toward the staircase and waited. Ten more floors like this? Hopefully they were less bland than the last ones...

KrankysFirebrand48
As Dhas made his way across teh plain towards the buildings the weather was relatively calm, only a slight wind waving the oddly colored high grass...
The closer he got to the buildings, the larger it seemed to be appear. Until eventually, when he was only a few dozen metres away from it he realized, it´s inhabitants must be enormous. at least four metres judging by the height of the doors.
It seemed to be some sort of... house. Although it was rather oddly shaped, it was very wide and there was no second floor, notably, the floor seemed to be on the same level as the ground and the building was made of large roughly carved rocks, it had a doorway, but no doors.
From inside the house odd noises could be heard Dhas couldn´t quite sort in, what sort of abomination was living in there?
At least, whatever it was, didn´t seem to have noticed him yet.

Fort_Master_Gustav
As he went down, he found out, not without mild surprise, the door was still there, he opened it and saw the same corridor as before, it judging by the seemingly infinite length of teh corridor, it would be better to start walking now, rather than later.
Step by step he moved through familiar corridor, slowly but surely the door behind him fading into the distance, yet ahead of him, nothing to be seen...
The next thing he remembered, was staring at another door, it looked the same as the one he came through, but on the other hand, alot of doors in this place seemd to look like that.
He pressed down the handle without thinking and stepped through...
...
It took a moment to take in the new surroundings, he seemed to have ended up in some sort of...
temple? Maybe?
Sandstone colored walls encompassed the room he was in, covered in carvings and signs he could not understand and depictions of places and people he had never seen.
As he turned around he already heard the familiar click of the closing door, however as he completely turned around teh onyl thing he could find...
Was a carving of a door on the wall.
Curious.
The ceiling and floor seemed to be made of the same material which seems to have experienced degradation over time but was still smooth, aside from the carvings in the walls he saw two staircases, one leading upwards and the other downwards.
Additionally on two sides of the room were large doorways in the walls, showing a clear blue sky outside, but nothing more.
The entire room was round and almost threehundred metres in diameter.
He may not know where he was, though he couldn´t shake the feeling this place was important.
Silence reigned the place aside from the faint sound of wind coming from somewhere outside.

CursedPh4nt0m
As he passed by the crossing with the pillar he could see the painting on it more clearly for a few moments, it seemed to be that of a woman wearing a hood, she had a somewhat sad look on her face and seemed despite her relatively young age somewhat 'wise'.
queen
Regardless he continued his way. As soon as he stepped through the door he was greeted with a relatively large room, interestingly, the door was large enough that he had plenty of space to get through.
Inside this large room there were several desks, at which women and men native to the city were sitting, filling out papers and giving advice or directions.
Infront of the tables, in lines, stood a number of lifeforms, some human, many not, some of which even he hadn´t seen before. Most of them were clad in clothes or armor completely alien to the city, yet they were all waiting calmly in line, apparently sharing his fate, or at least a similar.
Further in the back there were several doors, some of them labeled 'photography', the others 'changing room'...
and a set of three doors which were apparently toilets for male, female and everything in between.
Besides him, directly by the door two heavily armored and armed looking guards stood and of them turned towards him.
"Here for registration I guess? Mistborn? please get in line, don´t make any trouble and things should turn out fine, don´t worry. Toilets are in the back."
For what the guards looked like, they were at least astoundingly polite

Credits for the great art going to milady @Stormi_chan 😄

Amazing_Goob
He started walking off and after a moment the owman turned to look after him, a curious look on her face.
"Wait, sir, you should...!"
But Nathan was already too far away to hear her.
As he continued wandering he found himself eventually at a roadcrossing, on his way he hadn´t seen anyone that was particularly out of place.
In the center of the roadcrossing there was a fountain with water, there was a lot of people here, some just passing through, others sitting by the fountain, in one of the corners of the crossing there seemed to be a sort of map, although he couldn´t make out any details from here.
Galdrea, huh?