Doors [on break]

Tson

Drakador_Chaos @gearshift48
---I see.---
There is an awkward silence, CETA's feet tramping on the stairs, he does not seem to know what to say.

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
They continued upwards and CETA counted two more platforms, whilst he continued to observe the patterns, he almost walked into the careless fleshling when he stopped...
Before CETA could ask what in teh Childrens name the fleshling was thinking, he had already noticed what was wrong.
The fleshling pointed it out anyways.
"So, you know where your friend went? Lost sight of him after the last platform."
CETA scanned the tower beneath and soon found his companion, he seemed to be standing motionlessly on the stairs towards the last platform they had passed, CETA registered no sort of 'activity' from him, he was simply standing there, as if frozen in movement.
"Uhhh... so, should we go and search?"
...the fleshling asked, who obviously didn´t have the advanced sensory equipment of CETA and therefor didn´t know what happened to his companion.

KrankysFirebrand48
As Dhas came closer the noises continued, he heard wooden and metallic clattering, accompanied by scratching sounds from the ground, which seemed to be the same as outside.
Once he stood in the entrance he could finally see with his own eyes where these noises came from.
There was a large worm-creature, around six metres long and probably about one and a half thick, rummaging through a large and crude looking wooden crate. The creature did not seem to possess any arms, which begged the question how it would have built a building like this, maybe it was just an intruder?
As he looked around the room he saw a few primtive pieces of furniture befitting the size of the large wormcreature, like a large bench-like construct.
The being in the meanwhile had it´s head in the chest and apparently still didn´t notice him.

Fort_Master_Gustav
The next flor was similar to the last two, two openings int he walls, staircases leading up and down. This time however there was one, prehaps more perhaps less significant change in the wallcarvings.
He saw, as before, the theme of humanoid creatures, there was another door carved into the walls somewhere, however, there was also the depiction of a large dragon-like creature, which seemed to be falling from the sky, whilst the humanoid below it seemed to look at it.
aside from that, not much had changed, the room was again slightly smaller than the last one, indicating the building he was in was perhaps some sort of pyramid.

CursedPh4nt0m
As he was standing in line and observed the other desks he saw the people talking to the inhabitants, for a while usually, questsions seemed to be asked and answered from both sides and the individuals at the table took notes and wrote down information into a sort of official looking document.
Eventually the outsiders were sent off with the documents to the fotochambers from which they usually returned a few minutes later with some additional papers and returned to another set of tables with locals, who talked to them some more, then they usually left the room through another door he hadn´t seen from the entrance, which seemed to lead back into the same corridor he came from.
The process seemed to be somewhat slow, but at least somewhat successful, as rarely any of the people who had been in line came back a second time.
Soon it would be his turn.

Amazing_Goob
As he came closer to the palace he started to see the better clothed people more than before, it took a while but eventually he reached the palace, he was at one of the northern entrances now, if he went the correct way that is, the city was huge.
...and so was the palace, surrounding the building in a decent distance was a fence that was at the very least ten metres high, and the palace itself was probably around hundred if not more. As if to top that off, behind the palace the clocktower he had already seen from a distance was towering like a wall into the sky, blocking all sight in that direction.
Yet something was odd about it, something he had started to notice after while when walking through the city, the lower levels of the buildings didn´t seem to have any windows at all, which felt really weird.
At the gateway to the apalce there was a sort of checkpoint and a number of guards seemed to be stationed there, various people were standing in line infront of the outposts apparently waiting to be let through.
Along with the inhabitants of the city there also seemed to be a number of... rather odd individuals in line, some of them weren´t even human...

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos Dhas tried to sneak despite the thump and clinging of every step he took.

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos Dhas was familiar with building constructs without arms. After all his race didn’t have thumbs.
”Abomination! You have one galactic minute to give me a reason not to slaughter you.”

Tson

Drakador_Chaos @gearshift48
CETA stares downward, then engages his loudspeakers, blaring his voice at a volume that would be uncomfortable from many meters away.
---Climb you Pustule or I will forcibly carry you.---
He disengages the speakers again and turns to Gregory.
---He will follow, we continue. He is perfectly functional, merely occasionally tends to stall, it is probably his weak organic brain.---

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
Despite the situation and the rather long wait, Nate suddenly gives off a small smirk, so slim only someone directly staring at him would even notice. This process, the entire area, all of those things are absolutely out of place compared to the actual situation he is in. Cut off of his dimension, trapped in a deadly labyrinth and having lost contact to all his 'groupmembers' if one could call them such, that is Nate's situation. Yet, he came to end up in a city with a more or less normal daily life and despite not even belonging in this place, he is now waiting for registration, prepared for a rather long process full of formalities. Wait.
Nate looks around again, scanning the present outsiders for any features indicating a longer presence in the labyrinth. Used gear, rations, splinters of wood, worn-down weapons or clothes, anything at all. Finding someone sharing his fate should give him at least a slight advantage and some valuable info.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos He shrugs and gets in line like everyone else- he's not going to be that guy, and these people were probably 'mistborn' too.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Drakador_Chaos
Elohim sets himself to climb atop the pyramid. stopping at each floor to see the symbols and keeping track of his location.

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The man looked at both of them, then he nodded and kept walking upwards, about half an hour later the staircase ended, the man walked to the center platform and waited...
"Well, we´re here, the door is in the back."
As CETA observed the room the first thing he noticed was the large ethereal blue glowing crystal which was floating above the center spring on the platform, the crystal had a calming and entrancing aura, it emanated a faint light from its center along with an unknown energy his sensory equipment couldn´t sort into any known niches.
"Oi, you people still there?"
CETA turned his attention towards the fleshling, according to his internal clock he had been looking at the crystal for an entire five minutes, his companion seemed to have done the same.
"Don´t touch that thing, trust me, terrible idea."
Who did this mortal think he was, he was CETA he would touch whatever he deemed fit!
The room had a spherical roof and very few windows, through which he could see the entirety of the city, the signs on the ground in this room seemed to be the most arcane in the tower, fit for it highest floor, looking through his records he started to notice something, it seems the signs on the different floor seemed to be small alterations of the signs on teh former floors going from the shape on the lowest to eventually those on teh highest floor. Curious.
In the back of the room another bridge connected to the wall...
...and on said wall was a familiar looking wooden door, similar to those he had formerly seen in the corrdior...
Was this the way onward, or perhaps even out?
"So...I´ll be leaving then...?"
The fleshling turned halfway towards the door and waited.

gearshift48
Arthur nodded and then continued up the stairs, after another terribly boring half an hour the staircase stopped, it seems they had reached the top floor.
"Well, we´re here, the door is in the back."
Arthur exclaimed, Nitrox began looking for the door but his gaze was immedietly cought by a large blue glowing crystal that was hovering above the spring in the center of the platform...
Its presence felt calm and entrancing, a faint shimmering came from its center, he felt the urge to walk towards it and embrace it...
"Oi, you people still there?"
For a brief moment Nitrox felt as if he had woken up from a dream, then the moment was gone.
"Don´t touch that thing, trust me, terrible idea."
Nitrox shook his head and looked around the room instead, there were some windows in the walls through which he could see teh entirety of the city, they were pretty high up, he could see the ceiling of the airpocket the city was in from this place...
In the back of the room, between the two staircases, there was a familiar looking wooden door on the wall, it looked similar to those he had seen in the corridor in the beginning of this ordeal. Was this the way out Arthur had been talking about?
"So...I´ll be leaving then...?"
The man asked, already having turned halfway towards the door.

KrankysFirebrand48
The wormcreature jumped in surprise, or did something as close to 'jumping' as a wormcreature could do, moving it´s head out of the chest, rising to around three metres, it indeed had no arms, but a number of durable looking mandibles at the side of its head, which seemed to twitch occassionally. Four tiny eyes at each side of its head were fixated on Dhas.
"W...What are you!? What are you doing in my home?"
Like him, the creature seemed to communicate psionically.
As Dhas expected the creature was terrified by him.

Fort_Master_Gustav
...on the next floor the symbols seemed to show more of the dragon creatures and humanoids and more of the signs he could not read. The humanoids seemed to fighting against the dragons indicated by flames coming from the dragons heads and odd lines coming from the humanoids, going in the direction of the dragons, in another section there was an image of large objects and a portal like...something, the object looked somewhat like bubbles? ...eggs? ...spaceships?
Was this a war?
The next floor showed only the dragoncreatures, they were flying between massive pillar- or tower-like objects, the sun was standing above the scenery with oddly swirling lines inside it. Another picture on the same floor showed teh same dragoncreature closer up, they had indeed six limbs, some of them were wearing robes or armor and seemed to be capable of bipedal walking.
The next floor showed the dragoncreatures again, though these did not wear any robes, they seemed more... primitive? Flying above them was a large serpent-like creature with horns, looking down on them, additional lines indicating a sort of light emanating from it towards the creatures, in some places where the lines almost reached the ground, mounds of...earth? ...seemed to be on the ground, some having the rough shape of one of the dragon creatures...
Each of the floors was slightly smaller than the one before it, the next floor was only about a hundred metres in diameter, there was light coming from the staircases upwards, indicating this was the highest walled floor...
The walls here were almost entirely covered in the ominou signs apart of a single visualization.
There was the large serpent creature floating by the side of a large tree, in teh direction it was looking...
A piece of the wall carving seemed to be missing here. it seemed to be broken out with force. and there was no sign of it on this floor anywhere.
...he had visted six floor and didn´t find a sign of this piece anywhere, although he admittedly didn´t start on the lowest floor, nor had he been on the roof of the building yet...
Or anywhere on the outside. The question now was, what to make of these carvings and how to proceed...

CursedPh4nt0m
As he observed the other people in his line and the other lines, he saw a large variety of gear in various states of degradation, some of it seemed to be in use for years, other as if it had just been crafted or made in a fabricator.
The, at least from the looks, most seasoned one was a large Werewolf like creature in another line with scars on its arms which wore a number of pretty worn down leather belts and metal armorpieces, interstingly enough its apparent confusion seemed to overshadow any sort of intimidation its appearence would usually cause.
Before he could make any contact with it though, it was his turn, the woman at the table looked at him for a few moments then nodded.
"Greetings sir, before we start the registration process I need your passcard. Weßll have to go through some formalities then I´ll be able to answer your questions, unless you have any particularly important ones you´d like to ask beforehand, then please go ahead and ask."

Amazing_Goob
As he waited for his turn he looked around, there seemed to be alot of people going in and out of this place, each person in the line seemed to talk to the guard the guard then asked a few questions and eventually gave teh person some sort of paper, then the person went in, some also headed off into the city...
About fiften minutes later it was his turn, the guard looked at the shirtless farmer for a few moments...
"Your name and the reason for your visit in the palace sir?"

gearshift48

Tson teleports up (after I forgot I dident make a posti) “I am here calm yourself.” follows up.

Tson

Drakador_Chaos @gearshift48
CETA grabs a handful of Gregory's hair, preventing him from moving.
---Hold, what do you mean by 'a bad idea', one does not know these things without experimentation. Who touched it, and what happened to them.---
He scans the room and the crystal as he waits for an answer, turning to make sure Nitrox is following him.

gearshift48

Tson
Drakador_Chaos nitrox stands at wherever he is in the room/top of tower “Yea an explanation is in order, you can’t just say “don’t” with no reason as to why. If anything that makes people more likely to touch it.”

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos "Nathan Biraz. Ah, I think I'm a "mistborn" whatever that means- I would like some answers. Oh, and I would like to find someone, another mistborn I believe."

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
And just as fast as it came, the feeling of absence and tranquility vanishes again, causing Nate to snap back into reality.
Finding a protection against - whatever weird experience he just had a second time in this place - would be of importance for his safety and further progression, but that surely requires more info and time, so it's best to focus on the current aim.
Speaking of which... Remembering the conversation, Nate quickly pulls out the 'pass' from before and lays it on the table.
"All I've got is that sheet the guard at the door gave me, I don't have anything else from here.
But I do have a question I consider urgent. I've been sent here as a 'mistborn', yet I don't even know the meaning of that term. If you would kindly tell me what a mistborn is, that would likely help with the formalities."
Hopefully no one else took bigger notice of Nate's spacing out, that would likely lead to complications. On the other hand, someone else from the labyrinth might know a thing or two about that phenomenom tho. And with that, Nate is already concerned with his theories again, paying barely any attention to his sorroundings other than the woman in front of him.

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos
Interesting. Another psionic being. Dhas had not seen many creatures with strong enough psionic potential to be able to use telepathy. Perhaps the Xel’naga are involved.
”I am Dhas, executer of the Ihan Rii. I have been brought here by a door controlled by fate.”

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
The imbecile grinned and answered...
"Is that so? So if I´d tell you not to jump off the tower you´d do that? Would probably have the same effect really, when I touched that damned crystal the first time, the next thing I remembered was sitting in some damp underground labyrinth!"
He continued this time directly addressing CETA.
"I would appreciate if you´d let go of my hair, if I´d have known a machine as advanced as you has such terrible manners I might´ve actually just jumped the tower instead for fucks sake!"
If nothing else, this mans impudence was impressive at the very least...

gearshift48
Gregory turned his head towards Nitrox in CETAS grip and grinned at him...
"Is that so? So if I´d tell you not to jump off the tower you´d do that? Would probably have the same effect really, when I touched that damned crystal the first time, the next thing I remembered was sitting in some damp underground labyrinth!"
That, sounded like an oddly familiar place, specifically like the one he landed in after he was attacked by that...thing, in teh corridor.
He looked at CETA and continued.
"I would appreciate if you´d let go of my hair, if I´d have known a machine as advanced as you has such terrible manners I might´ve actually just jumped the tower instead for fucks sake!"
...an odd idea, not a very helpful one though.

Amazing_Goob
The guard looked at him for a moment then he nodded...
"Wait here for a moment."
He turned around and disappeared through a door, a few moments later he returned and gave him a piece of paper.
"Take this pass and go to the western entrance, show it to one of the guards of the center gate, they´ll let you through and tell you the way to registration. maybe you´ll find the one who you´re looking for there."
The guard nodded again.
"You´ll have to go around the palace though I´m afraid, good luck with finding whoever you´re looking for."
The man turned his attention to the next person in line, it appears he considered their conversation finished.

Tson

Drakador_Chaos gearshift48
CETA lets go, and straightens up, glowering down at Gregory, then turns and walks toward the door.
---I believe then there is nothing more to be said, if that is the case. The irrationality of your kind is most amusing.---
He does not sound amused though, if anything he sounds quieter than usual, he grasps the handle upon reaching the door and pulls it open, stepping through after a second of contemplation.

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos He walks around the palace and to this western entrance, and does as the guard says, giving the pass to the guard at the central gate.

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
...as CETA opened the door he found the already familiar corridor behind it, walls, floor, ceiling, no other doors and stretching seemingly into infinity...
A curious place indeed.
Once he stepped through the door he almost subconsciously started walking, ceiling light after ceiling light passed by and soon...
...CETA looked up at the next door, and opened it, walking through. He heard clicking behind him before he even really realized he had left the corridor.
It was the same sort of 'transition' feeling as last time... was this one of the effects of this place? To shorten travel times perhaps?
As he looked around the first thing he noticed was the grey-ish black grass that was growing on the ground. He seemed to be in the valley of a hilly area. The hills were more rocky towards the top and the skies were of a mix of black and red, additionally to traces of sulphur and some other gasses in teh atmosphere, indidcating strong volcanic activity.
The cloudsthemselves looked...odd, though CETA couldn´t quite pinpoint what about them was so, they were however moving quite fast, the strong winds may be the reason why the hills were more rocky towards the top, having eroded the soil and only leaving barren rock.
Behind him, leaned against a large rock, was the door he came through, closed.
Aside from the door there weren´t any significant landmarks though, however, his sensors registered movement towards the top of the hill ahead of him...

KrankysFirebrand48
The creature stood still for a while then it tilted its head, looking curious...
"I am Bul'qoq... What is a 'Door' and what is 'Fate'?"
Whatever this creature and this world was, it did not seem very advanced...

CursedPh4nt0m
The woman took the pass and looked at it for a few moments, then noted his name into a document she had on the table, then she looked back up at him...
"If you can believe it or not, aside from the world of your origin, there is a countless amount of other worlds out there in the sky, as we have learned by talking to a countless number of other 'mistborn'. 'Mistborn' is a term used in this city which describes individuals which come from one of these otehr worlds, we do not exactly know how or why these people are being dragged from their world into ours, these people seem to be chosen at random from various races and regardless of what they were doing at the time of their... relocation, but from what we can tell it seems the mist outside the city has something to do with it, therefor 'mistborn'."
She nodded.
"Any other questions, or shall we continue? I have your name, the next things would be your size, race and origin, as well your abilities and capabilities and former profession, if you had any."
She looked at him, waiting...

Amazing_Goob
The guard looekd ta the pass for a few moments and then nodded.
"To get to Registration you need to go through the maingate, then down the corridor and at the second crossing left. In that corridor it´s teh first door to teh right, should be easy to find."
The guard waved him through and a few moments later he was standing infront of the maingate.
The gate was wide open and about six metres high, oddly enough it looked as if it was heavily armored.
Inside he saw balconies at about three or four metres height, there were dozens of people constantly going in and out of the palace reaching from people that looked like farmers or engineers to nobles and otherworldly humanoids.
Aside from these visitors there were also plenty of guards standing around in the palace, maybe the place was at least somewhat safe then...
The corridor itself was held simple, golden arches, the balconies and occassional chandeliers were the only things that interrupted the otherwise relatively blank walls, a few hundred metres further back he saw a pillar standing in the middle of the corridor with some sort of painting on it, though he couldn´t make out any details from this distance...

CursedPh4nt0m

Drakador_Chaos
"How exactly do you get 'relocated'? And what is that mist exactly? Is it the reason for this city's layout? Or is there another danger I should know of?
Sorry, it's just... I woke up in one of your streets today, with barely any memories, but a faint glimpse of me wearing this armor and trying to grab some sort of key. The next and only other thing I remember is looking at a fountain in this city. So please, if you have any answers for me, maybe they'll help me settle down a bit.
By the way, where am I to begin with? The name of the world, the city, anything goes."
So some weird power is sucking sentient beings into this place.... Dimensional instability should allow traffic in both directions, which doesn't appear to be the case. Which means some sort of powerful artifact might be the cause. Whatever it is, solving this riddle should at least give him an edge, so adding it to the to-do list shouldn't be a bad idea.
"And regarding my race: I look human enough, don't you think? It's whether that or I happen to be a shapeshifter without knowing it. Is that common here? You know either shapeshifters or losing ones memory..."

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos He continues farther into the palace, gawking at everything. When he gets to the painting, he inspects it thoroughly. It was a rare opportunity for him to look at art.

Tson

Drakador_Chaos
---Hmph---
He looks around, taking in the odd scene, stooping he grasps a handful of the soil and straightens up, examining the grassy sod, before replacing it again, and walking on, he walks toward the hill, scanning it while he does so, in an attempt to work out what the movement is, he approaches cautiously, however, whatever it is has probably already noticed him, as gold on grey tends to stand out...

gearshift48

Drakador_Chaos dark storm reasonably darts In after ceta

KrankysFirebrand48

Drakador_Chaos
”How primitive. Now, where am I? What is this place?”

Drakador_Chaos

CursedPh4nt0m
The woman looked at him for a brief moment, then she nodded.
"So, human." She noted it down.
"You seem to have a keen eye for the cities defensive measurements. This City is called 'Galdrea', we do not know why the city is layed out like this as the cities existence preceeds its known history. We do not know hwat the mist is and yes, it does pose a danger. When passing a certain distance beyond the walls you will not return, don´t go out and try for the sake of it, we lost count of the people that did and none of them returned. The Mist goes as far as the eye can see, and regularly spawns creatures and people like you and the others you can see here into this world, unfortunately, most of them are hostile, therefor the city is heavily fortified in case of breaches."
She paused, that´s apparently as much information about the mist as he´d get right now.
"...and for your interest, yes, there are shapeshifters in this world, Amorphae, Shapeshifters and Doppelgaengers, to be exact and a variety of other creatures that can take human shape.
So, shall we continue? You do not appear to know your origin, anything in regards to abilities and former profession?"

Amazing_Goob
As we walked around the halls he noticed a number of other doors, all seemed to be rather heavy and plated with metal... Rather odd for the inside of a 'Palace'.
Aside from that there wasn´t much to see though, the corridors were held simply, with the only decoration being a few metres above ground level. Occassionally some of the doors opened and people walked through which then proceeded to head further in or out of the palace, most of them looking like some sort of nobles or palace servants.
There was alarge number of other people walking through the palace, though most didn´t take notice of him, and those who did just frowned or nodded towards him as a sort of greeting.
Eventually, he reached the pillar and observed the painting...
queen
The painting showed a woman, which he couldn´t quite tell how old she was although she looked rather young, maybe in her twenties or the beginning of her thirties.
She was wearing a hood on the painting and looked kind of sad but at the same time also somewhat wise, despite her seemingly young age. It was rather interesting to look at...
Notably, the pillar the painting was on was in teh middle of the second crossing, so to reach his destination he´d just have to go left and then the first door on the right, he could even see it from here.

Again, credit for the art goes to milady @Stormi_chan ❤