OOM: Sunrise, Sunset
Laini is camped out by the front door. Almost literally, there is a pile of stuff that looks like camping gear to one degree or another, all hitched onto a folded metal frame. She is sitting by it, in jeans, a sweater, and hiking shoes.
The outfit will probably change many times to suit her whim, however. (Just wait until Tomb Raider.)
The outfit will probably change many times to suit her whim, however. (Just wait until Tomb Raider.)
He gestures to his small pack. "I could have brought more gear, but I have no clue what we'll be going into, so I brought the bare necessities and figured you could tell me what else we need."
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"Even some cold-weather gear. You weren't too hard to size." She winks.
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"And that had better not be an insult to my stature. I am manly. Really."
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There is a remote control in her hand, with buttons. She presses a few, and the folded metal frame under the pile starts unfolding and rising up.
"Not a musk ox, really. Even better, see? A carryall."
The carryall vaguely resembles those 6-legged bug-bots sent to explore inhuman terrains, and eventually other planets. The himilayas should not be that much more difficult.
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"Now I want to take it apart and put it back together. Er... not going to attract any bad attention to us, will it?"
Not that he isn't ready for that sort of thing, but it'd be nice to avoid it all the same.
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"I've done this sort of thing before. Nothing will go wrong, trust me!"
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He pauses for a moment.
"Er, time won't go funny on us, will it? As long as still runs faster or the same as home I'll be fine, but none of that sleep for an hour, wake-up a hundred years later, right?"
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"And no sleeping for a hundred years. Really. Where do you get this stuff?" She rolls her eyes at Duo, bemused, and starts for the door. The carryall follows behind her.
"Its only a decade at a time, per dose."
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Where ever they are, its evening, and slightly chilly, though there are lights and signs behind some trees, and the path they are on is concrete, and has a metal handrail. Away from the signs of civilization, however- the ground falls way into what would be a canyon, if it wasn't nearly filled with water. Laini eyes up the path, and then starts along it. The carryall- surprisingly quiet for all its metal components, follows along.
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"I never get tired of lakes and rivers and stuff. Nature in general, really."
He shuffles along the rail for a moment before hopping off and trotting to catch up with the kistune and the walking baggage.
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"Mountains, snow, trees... all the benifits of non-civilization."
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"Snow! I'm looking forward to some proper snow. I have no idea how much we'll get at home."
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There are two great trees, one on each side of the path with branches forming an arch overhead. Three circles down one trunk and three down another.
"The first portal. Even though we approach it from one direction, it has six ways it can go, six settings to locations, if you will. Up, down, right, left, front and back. For where we're going- first setting here."
She points to it, then takes a deep breath. In the twilight it is easy to see the glow that spreads from the first circle on the trunk on the right, until it spreads through both trees and into the area between them. Laini then nods, and looks back at Duo.
"And away we go!"
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Duo drops down to walk on the ground again.
His eyes get wide at the glow. "Ready. Just walk through?"
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Its noon here, by the position of the sun in the brilliant blue sky. Green hills, tall narrow cypress trees, and the poral they exit from is two tall marble columns topped by a cross piece. Other white marble pieces lay scattered around, and the remains of a temple floor hold a mirror-still pool. There is birdsong in the distance, and soon the travelers are surrounded by a swarm of fluttery things in the air. Laini chuckles, waving a hand about to keep them away from her face.
"Same portal here, we're just going through a different setting on it."
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