(Moved from Chapter 1)

Frank is there at the Gateway of the Path to the Center. He did not even bother engaging in conversation with the water royalty that's there since he knew nobody would be watching so it'd be his word against King Urser's as to what all has been said.

Shelly is there with her father King Maximus Urser. But something is different. Rather than the King wearing the crown, Shelly is. She is seen smiling and playing with a handheld gaming system.

Also there is a team of 6 cherubs. The li'l angels are all sitting in a circle, praying. Upon everyone's arrival, the cherubs stand up and line up in an almost military fashion in greeting to the new arrivals. No saluting, though.


Interestingly, Murla, the queen of darkness, is also there. She has an amused smile on her face and a slight sneer like she sees everyone here as her playthings.

Miraculously, the current King of Thunder is here as well. He is holding a staff and looks at Raichel with a nervous look.

The only others of note here are a huge rock monster standing about 20 feet tall and some beautiful man with white hair dressed in off-white/grey robes and holding a large wooden staff that looks more like a stick found in the woods. The only person besides Raichel who might know THESE two would be Blake, but he isn't likely here for a number of reasons. Speaking of whom, there is no representative from Death. That is unsurprising.

The place is certainly magical looking. There is a rainbow colored path made of who-knows-what and seems to converge from paths that stretch off to the various planets. The path just stops at the gate. People can not see a path on the other side of the gate and any attempt to go to the other side of the gate simply shows the person the backside of the gate. It is clearly an extra-dimensional gate of sorts.

The gateway itself is simply that. A large, thick gate that seems to be made of every attribute whether blunt or otherwise. For instance, it's existence hints at it being made of order. But the gate is not consistent, continually mutating before one's very eyes, making it also seem to be made of chaos. Interlaced throughout the gate are fire, water, lightning, vines/tree branches , and an unsettling low-pitch grinding sound like lions growling and metal twisting can be heard from it. The gate forms eyes when everyone is gathered. The eyes are made of pure light, only interrupted by the skulls it has for pupils. It turns its gaze directly at each person there.

The place quakes a little, the sounds of the gate get slightly louder and the quake slowly passes. In the same sound that gate sounds have been growling with, a voice can be heard coming from the general direction of the gate, "Get familiar with each other. When you are ready, I will give you the rules."

Prism Jr. and Sr. have spent the trip debating within and between themselves telepathically about whether or not to annex the smaller colony back into the larger one, and if so how to go about doing it.  The debate gets rather heated and intense, so Prism tends to be out-of-it and does not comment on the giants conversations unless addressed directly.  Not that they would have commented much anyway since they tend to keep politely quiet among royals.

Depending on the length of the trip, Mits would have spent her time with casual meet-and-greet.  Of course, her idea of such focuses less on who you are and why you're going and more on what you do.  That's just how adventurers do things where she comes from.  Few care about your back story, just whether you're up to the task at hand.  Nobody wants a gimp mage on the team when entering Dynamis.

"I'm a level 75 Red Mage with maxed out merits and sub-jobs," she'd explain, "And also a Black Mage with decent gear.  Meaning I'm heavy into elemental and enfeebling magics with a side of healing magic and swordplay."

She pat-pats her Joyeuse with a proud smile.

"I've soloed all the elemental avatars no prob, been hailed as a hero in several nations, and helped take down several gods along with innumerable hyper-notorious monsters.  Lately I've been acting as a stand-in monarch for the Fire Nation.  OH!  And I play a mean flute too!  Not quite level 75 bard yet, but... judge for yourself!"

She plays a pleasant up-beat magical tune on her flute as various notes and such appear and float around her.

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Upon arrival, Mittens is very very happy.  Water monarchs to answer Frank's challenge!  Nifty cutscene showing off exotically frightening yet beautiful scenery!  Angelic beings guarding a portal of DOOM!  This is what she LIVES for!  ADVENTURE!

"Well hello there!" she greets with a big smile, "Mittens is the name and adventure's my game!  You two are members of the Water Nation's royal family I take it?  A pleasure!  Safe to assume you caught that live broadcast?  Well herrre's Frank!"

Mittens presents Frank like some kind of game-show host.

"Oh..." she lightbulbs, "Name tags!  Someone get them name tags.  And the cute angels too... if they'll be joining us on our journey?"

She smiles questioningly at the cherubs as if she's Dora expecting an answer from the audience.
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  Darkthorne considers the nametag handed to him, and the various shopping lists of magical ability around him his senses and scans pick apart the capacities of (as if this will amount to anything though).

  'More interesting frame at least than the last one of those I saw.' He thinks regarding the portal.  Of course back then he and those with him were geared up to take out a pantheon as opposed to what could be considered Newb Starting Gear for a Sci-Fi FPS Darkthorne currently had.

  Darkthorne crumples up the tag offered to him, and puts on one from his own pockets.  "When you have time, could you elaborate on the methods you personally put to use when finishing the Deities off?" Do not offer to send a strikeforce after gods.  While often tempting Kasketon has enough to deal with at home without sending off decent gear and people until it became a necessity.

J'Renn dosen't seem to be doing much of anything to pilot the vessel, rather she people watches as the royals mingle on the habitation deck of her vessel, basically a giant park with 30-odd foot tree in the middle, and small streams througout feeding into a small pond.  All over the park are several round tables with drinks, and small hors d'ouerves, as one is taken, another diffrent drink or morsel is offered.

Once they have landed and isembarked J'Renn instructs her vessel to get a full scan of the area.  She also makes sure she is the last to exit her vessel before locking it down.

When they drop off at the Gateway of the Path to the Center and wander onto the rainbow-colored path, Cham can't help but look every which way as rapidly as possible, sprouting several heads at the peak of his excitement.

After a few seconds of that, however, Cham pulls his heads back in and hops into a go-kart that pops into existence right below him. As the rest of the group walks the rainbow road to the Gateway, he putters alongside them, whistling. He pulls out a banana and considers eating it, but he decides to save it for later.

After Mittens handed out nametags, Cham actually discarded the one she gave to him and pulled out a red vest with a big, white nametag already on it. Of course, it reads 'Cham' in black letters. For now, he's using this as his primary attire.

When they reach the wild-looking gate, Cham forgoes any introduction to the new faces and seems absolutely fascinated by the gate. He drives up to it and slides around to either side of it to see if he can find where it goes. Several times, he even tries sticking his arm through it and waving his hand around on the other side.

At the imposing voice from the gate, Cham actually frowns, his cart disappearing beneath him as he plops to the ground and folds his arms, "Huh? Rules? Grrr.... no fair! Those are boring!" Sticking his tongue out briefly, he moves his hands to his ears and sticks his fingers inside while humming a little tune.


Sadly, Agent Superball went missing during the period between chapters. Some reports indicate that he deflated like a balloon shortly after announcing Cham to the party. The universe may never know...

During the trip over and currently, Paula has stayed very quiet and kept close to Miranda. She tries to make eye-contact with the King of Life every so often, but she looks away with a blush whenever he looks back.

She doesn't seem scared of the new company, but she IS clearly anxious around them, wondering what all of their goals here seem to be.

When they reach the Gate, her fur stands partly on end at all of the wild energy around it, and she takes a step back when the eyes form and start to speak. Again, she stays quiet, but she watches the gate warily between periods of looking around at the others collected there.

During the trip, Alexis is silent. While she considers Mittens a total egotistical braggart, she still finds that better than eager to go to war with Nature. She really didn't comment, which means inevitably, Mittens would have poked her to talk.

Alexis says, "I have no idea what you mean by Level 75 or Red Mage or Black Mage or Bard. I don't believe you when you say you have soloed the elemental avatars and not even your nation would believe that without seeing it. And gods? Maybe. If they are gods like Raichel. The term "god" varies in power from one world to the next. If you're trying to prepare us to work together towards a goal, don't tell us what you've accomplished, but rather what kind of abilities you have. Of all the things you said, the only things that were believable or made sense were the mention of elemental magics, enfeebling magics, healing magic, swordplay and playing a flute. Which you do nicely."

Upon arriving, Alexis has a look around. She seems a little intimidated by the gate, but otherwise keeps her cool.

Alexis says to Murla, Max and Shelly, "Greetings, your lordships."

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Doug was silent on the trip there, though when asked what he can do, he would inform Mittens that he would not be joining the group to the core.

The guy who gave Darkthorne his nametag seems downright offended and continues with nametag giving, while giving Darkthorne the evil eye. When Cham discards his, the guy gets upset enough to stoop to kindergarden level and says to Cham, "Copycat! Darkthone just did that! You're just doing it to look cool like him, aren't you, little mr suck-up!"

When asked what she can do, Raichel would simply say, "You saw me at the arena. That is what I can do. Simple." Simple, sure, but she has found so many ways, devastating and otherwise, to use her 'simple' powers.

Upon arriving, Raichel greets the royalty present. She isn't worried about Cham not listening to the rules as she has heard them before and knows the consequences are bearable.