Final Activation of the Platform [7/21] Spooky Forest Dev

[12:50] A warm smile is given towards Thera!

"Hello, sister! We're going to do the ritual to activate Ohtli's machine now!"

Magdalen wiggle-waves a hand the way of the platform! It's partially intergrown into a massive oak tree... An oak tree with a Spire Shard embedded into it, with three large pillars partially fused into the sides, and with numerous arcanium wires connecting all three components, paired with runic designs covering them! The tree is also covered in rune-lined mithril plates that are fused into it. All of the runes are done in ever-so-fine pieces of arcanium…

"If you and Lady Ohtli can stand on the platform, we can begin!"

Magdalen wanders up to the side of the tree! Two of her hands press to one of the plates, and a soft, pleasant hum ebbs from the Wayfinding rune-lined plates that utterly run from the inside of the tree to the outside! Glittering circles of viridian runes begin to form in a massive radius around the tree, faint, but consolidating as the power of the shard streams outwards...

"Once in position, both of you work together to see a place in the Spirit Realm. A nice, beautiful place, and begin pushing your mana through the platform, a mana-image of that place should appear around you...

Then, once you've confirmed it, tell me and we can begin the process of overlapping!"
(Magdalen Elisheva)
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[12:51] Teivel moves to the side, literally already did his part and not wanting to do much more.
(Teivel)
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[12:52] Ohtli Tezcacoatl says, "I suppose we should discuss which place to focus on, foremost."
[12:52] Jun Ultovex says, "More project things."
[12:52] Ohtli Tezcacoatl says, "And obviously not Helheim."
[12:53] Ohtli Tezcacoatl asks, "Your thoughts, Thera?"
[12:54] Thera Elisheva says, "We could focus on the Mother Tree."
[12:54] Ohtli Tezcacoatl says, "Excellent choice."
[13:02] Helheim was out. Joruheim, as pastoral as it was, didn't fit nearly as well as the idea of the Mother Tree, of Yggdrasil. Given the purpose of the forest as a whole, that's what fit the best.

A place of rest, of peace, of healing, and abundance that connects this realm to the next.

The old Drakan is a little more sure this time as she steps up onto the runic plate, dragging Thera along with her (hopefully not literally). Once hidden somewhere in the dark reaches of Crafthold's caverns, it's heartening to see the old structure given new life and purpose in the here and now.

Meditation, particularly disciplined meditation and focus, doesn't escape Ohtli even in her twilight years. Just as clearly as she saw the splendor of Joruheim in her minds eye, she can envision Yggdrasil, the center tree in all its wonder and majesty.

To bring that vision, that image to Agartha, this war torn continent. Quite the blessing she intends to do,and certainly not on her own. A culmination of efforts from so many, certain proof that there was maybe still a flicker of hope for this accursed rock.

She sees it in her minds eye then, the beauty of the locus of creation. The old bird gives the waiting angel a nod.

"There...there, that should do it. Are you ready to begin, miss Magdalen?"
(Ohtli Tezcacoatl)
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[13:26] A nod-nod is given!

A three-hundred-and-sixty degree Territory display of that place within the Spirit Realm flickers into existence as it's chosen! Pure white branches interwoven with the Lifestream, light pouring all around...

"Okay! So, now I'll begin activating the circles in sequence now..."

Magdalen comes to trace her fingers over different runes along the three pillars, the designs illuminating white-gold, streaming mana into the different plates within the tree! Ohtli would begin to see large-scale runes appear within the mana-ghosted image.

While, at the same time, those same runes would appear in the real world, in the corresponding places. Magdalen offers a refresher of what's to occur!

"So, this system will create a simultaneous connection from this place to that, by creating two active portals, one from there to here, and one from here to there, and smushing them together.

It won't damage either world, nor create a rift, but simply kind of... Fold space and overlap the places. In the Spirit World, your forest here will appear, and here, the tree will be visible within the radius! Mhm, an overlap, which should theoretically allow for denizens and energies from each place to cross over!

When the system is turned off, due to the safe nature of Wayfinding, things in the radius will be shunted back to where they belong!"

As she explains, the different circles materialize around the area, huge circles of viridian runes that hang, floating at the level of the middle of the tree! Outside, Magdalen traces runes belonging to the exterior plating!

Netherworld was done initially, the Spiritmancers making the connection via their mana, and the initial activation of the world overlapper! Territory was created around the platform, Travel and Interpolation is what Magdalen fine-tunes with those movements of her fingers, ensuring that both portals, real world to spirit, and spirit to real world, have proper connections to one another. Conversion consolidates that which is more energy from the spirit realm into more of a physical form, and what is more physical from the real world, into a more energy-based form, to allow the over-lapped worlds to interact, and then...

The two Portals activate! The land around would glimmer powerfully, as massive shapes would begin to be seen, the branches of trunk of the world tree, the immaculate beauty of Yggdrasil visible...

But for how long, and what effect will this have on the world?
(Magdalen Elisheva)
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[13:36] Jun muches on a dead leaf.
(Jun Ultovex)
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[13:43] It's only mildly nerve wracking, standing on the dais and waiting. A certain tension hangs in the air, an excitement. So much man power and materials, so much sacrifice all placed into this forest. Finally it reaches some form of culmination.

Then when it's done? When it's through, when the gift is completed? Maybe, just maybe she can finally find some peace and quiet of her own. Eight decades of life and then some has made her bones oh so heavy...

"And there will be a way to control all this?" she asks, watching the floating ghosts of runes impose themselves on her view of the Mother Tree.

That it won't hurt anything is the hope. That neither realm will be harmed and, if the worst came to pass, that the connection could be severed. If she's to be Warden of this place and present it as a gift, then that must be the case.

Ohtli couldn't suffer to see something pure like this turned to a foul purpose.

Magdalen expounds on its function, and it's everything she could have hoped it to be. The land around, all around the tower and the forest, shimmers with light.

What was once a projection becomes reality. The great tree, Yggdrasil, visible and practically able to be touched. The surrounding beauty, awe-inspiring of the central locus of the Spirit Realm, brought forth with daunting clarity. Not just for her own eyes, but for all to witness.

The old bird can do nothing but watch, her eyes misting over, and be struck with a sense of sheer wonder. Her head bows. A prayer is muttered.
(Ohtli Tezcacoatl)