Portal

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Encounter Conditions

etheric

Initial Text

It's hard to ignore the massive, swirling disk of energy hanging above the stage. Perhaps other people can't see it, but you can see it clear as day, rippling with strange patterns of green energy and slowly growing outward.

Summary of Choices

1. Walk in -
2. Send in a Hound - (only with tome of binding equipped and release the hounds technique known)
3. Send in a Spider - (only with tome of binding equipped and unleash spider technique known)
4. Try to seal it -
5. Leave it alone -

Choice Text and Results

Walk in

You hurl yourself into the swirling portal, drawn along its lines of power in patterns you doubt could make sense to any mortal man. The energies of the portal push back against you, tearing at you, until your bloodied remains are tossed back on stage.

Lose all hp?

(or after sending some Hounds)

You hurl yourself into the swirling portal, drawn along its lines of power in patterns you doubt could make sense to any mortal man. Two hounds made of twisted crystalline shards tear through the paths of green energy, rushing towards you, trying to block your inexorable progress.

You've gained 1 energy of In the Portal.

(Fight 2 Twisted Hounds)

(or with some hounds killed off)

You hurl yourself into the swirling portal, drawn along its lines of power in patterns you doubt could make sense to any mortal man. In it's depths, you find a crystalline hound crackling with green energy rushing in the opposite direction.

You've gained 1 energy of In the Portal.

(Fight Twisted Hound)

(Or, with a spider present)

You hurl yourself into the swirling portal, drawn along its lines of power in patterns you doubt could make sense to any mortal man. As you cross what you perceive as the halfway point, a massive beast of black chitin rises out of the stream.

You've gained 1 energy of In the Portal.

(Fight Corrupted Spider)

(Or, with Emerald Gift active, no hounds or spiders left inside the portal, and with an Etheric Defense of 15+ )

You hurl yourself into the swirling portal, drawn along its lines of power in patterns you doubt could make sense to any mortal man.
The energies of the portal push back at you, but you force yourself forward.

In the distance, you can see a city of delicate towers and pure crystal. When the portal finally overwhelms you, the heartache is almost too much to bear.

It's just like they say in the songs… so beautiful.

You gain 10 XP Will.

Send in a Hound

You read the words from your tome, reversing the binding to the best of your ability. The shape of a hound flickers into existence, then bounds into the portal.

(Removes one known instance of Release the Hounds from your techniques)

Send in a Spider

You read the words from your tome, reversing the binding to the best of your ability. The shape of a spider flickers back into being and is caught, shuddering, by the portal.

It changes, twists, and fragments as it's drawn into the portal. The last thing you see are giant chitinous stingers disappearing into the swirling energy.

(Removes one known instance of Unleash spider from your techniques)

Try to seal it

You consult the tome of binding and try to construct a ritual to close it, drawing on the energy of the hounds that haunt the ether. The portal shudders, but doesn't close.

Either you did something wrong or you just need more energy. It's hard to say which.

or, without a Tome of Binding equipped

You wave your hands some at the portal and demand it close in your sternest voice. It doesn't do much except make you feel a little better.

Leave it alone

Yeah, there's crazy and then there's crazy and tangling with that is definitely the latter.