A bit of back-story [WIP]
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Earth contexts
-two days after all three gates had been discovered-

-An extract from an American earth newspaper,

Two days ago on the seventh of September three phenomenons appeared in different locations around the world; what appear to be large marble archways. It has now been confirmed that each object acts as a doorway to an unmapped planet similar to earth.

Three 'gates' ,as they are being called by officials, have manifested themselves. One within the city of Saskatoon, SK in Canada. One in the south African city of Johannesburg and one in the center of Tokyo, japan. It has been confirmed through astrological readings that all three gates lead to the same 'Otherworld'.

Japan was devastated by an attack from sentient beings from beyond the gate believed mostly to be human. As many as 4000 Otherworld troops, some atop huge flying creatures, swarmed through the gate and began to slaughter anyone within the city. The attackers were defeated by the JSDF within hours, despite their small number of personnel stationed in the city. Tragically civilian deaths are believed to be in the hundreds. Japan has responded by mobilizing 6000 troops through the gate to establish a settlement. The gate archway has been secured with a steal casing.

South Africa experienced a similar affair, though their attacker was but one creature. A large red being which would best be described as a dragon. It had already set a half mile wide radius of city ablaze before it was eliminated by air to air missiles. Casualties are believed to be in the thousands. As of now attempts are being made to destroy the archway, none of which have been successful.

Canada's gate has remained silent and they have reportably given America the go ahead to send an armored military units through their gate. The gate itself has been sealed off in a concrete wall.

These gates that have appeared will no doubtably change history forever. whether it be for better or for worse is unknown.
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Otherworld contexts
-two days after all three gates had been discovered-

-An official report from the imperial army.

We have been defeated, all but 70 dead or imprisoned. Our enemy appeared at first to be those of similar culture, soon was it discovered they had cruel magic never seen once before. Even our dragons were shot from the skies by their powerful fires.

We have retreated from the hill of Arnus, defeated. Our enemy, unfortunately, has lain claim to the sacred hill of Arnus. But they are few in numbers, a second strike would surely drive them from our lands!

Long live the king.

Sir Reoir Narekov.

-A local news-pamphlet from a small desert village.

Citizens you may rest easy, for no longer shall we live in fear of the cruel wings of the basalt-rock fire-dragon.

Two days ago local farmer, Arkanoviksh Miles, witnessed divine punishment be bestow upon the fiery-fiend. As the great dragon swooped low to catch livestock from a hill a flash of white light appeared, and with it a great white prison. The dragon flew dazed into the cage entrance and has not returned. It is most likely trapped in the underworld, serving punishment for its crimes. Let us remind you that no one should approach the cage entrance, lest we disrespect the god who has so kindly removed our greatest nemesis.

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Otherworld gate opening provinces.

Niorvria - green gate
Niorvria is home to many races, mostly elves and humans. The inhabitants live peacefully as its government is smart enough to avoid any possible wars through diplomatic processes.

The people of Niovria did not witness the gates opening.

The empire - red gate
The most powerful and richest nation the empire is inhabited almost solely by humans. It prides itself on its unmatchable military strength and many inhabitants treat the lands kings and rulers as gods, not always by their own will.

The people of the empire mobilized an army though their gate as soon as it was opened.

Corthoerm - yellow gate
The eastern province of Therom island, most inhabitants of the socialist corthoerm are human farmers. The country itself is very religions and has often found this as a reason to war with other nations.

The people of corthoerm believe the gates opening to be divine, and therefore should be left un-interacted with.

@fij707
This looks very interesting. I'm in.

Kit Black - In front of the gate, southern Canada.

The blast of light and ear ringing screech knocked him to his knees, dazed. He put his hand to his forehead and tried to make out what had happened. As his eyes began to adjust he saw before him a great white arch. It must have been at least 40 foot high. It's massiveness mad him feel small by comparison. Kit stood, staring at the object. He was intrigued by its presence but at the same time rather frightened.

At first he didn't notice the figure standing to his right. He caught their movement from the corner of his eye. A young woman, maybe in her early twenties, she had long red hair. He wondered what she was doing here so late, possibly hiking too?. She seemed just as confused as himself...

He shouted to her, his ears were still ringing: "What the hell is going on?!"

Aria made a soft whimper as she stared up at the Arch. "Wh....wha?" She whispered, hands covering the lower half of her face. "What's going ON!?" She hadn't noticed the other person yet and hit her knees, terrified at the shaking and sudden appearance of something so...so big.

She tried to crawl back a bit, then finally noticed him. He was small, with short red hair and large headphones. She sniffled and adjusted her little outfit. A simple hiking outfit of a short Mint green skirt with Pine green embroidery on it over a pair of short brown shorts. A cute little T-shirt with a slightly longer sleeved one over it and hiking boots.

Hrodgar slung the pick over his shoulder, grunting at the weight of it. He had been on a prospecting journey for nearly 3 days and his beard was starting to get matted with twigs and the unmentionable mess of birds, it was in serious danger of becoming kin to a birds nest.

"ah'll have t'get some wax on it" He said to no one in particular, kicked at a stone idly with his leather bound foot.

Hrodgar was making progress towards the furthest point of his excursion, when he would finally turn and make the long journey home, when all of a sudden the ground shook violently, knocking the dwarf off his feet. He yelped out a curse in Dwarvish and picked himself back up, dusting debree from his clothes, and grabbing his pickaxe.

It took a moment before he noticed the giant glowing window that had grown before him as the earth shook him to his very core. He eyes the corridor of light wearily,
"Oh....grand. No good'll come of this"

He sighed heavily as he reluctantly trudged his way carefully towards the green light that shone in the distance ahead.

Christa saw something in the corner of her eyes and looked back at the big Arch. She blinked as she saw what seemed to be a small man coming through. "Uh...um..." she stuttered a little and tried to get to her feet. She clasped her hands in front of her and she sent her...'senses' in front of her. They were something called Empathy. The power to sense emotions, pain...intentions. She sensed nothing bad coming and some of her Anxieties lessened.

Mikael whistled a nursery tune as he walked along. He had some business in a nearby village to get some materials for his research. He stopped suddenly; something felt a little... off. He looked around and nothing seemed to happen. He shrugged and started walking again and suddenly a blast of light came from over the hill along with a piercing screech along with a shock wave that knocked him off his feet. Mikael shut his eyes and grimaced at the piercing in his ears, "Agh! Goodness me what was that?" he wondered. He looked over in the direction the light had come from after recovering himself. After musing for a few seconds if he should investigate his curiosity got the best of him and he started over the hill.

Kit wanted to see through the entrance, he slowly approached the base of the object and peered inside. The woman was already looking at something within. At first all kit could see was darkness, but as he looked closer he noticed a distant light at the far end of the structure as if it was illuminated from above.

A small figure appeared at the end, silhouetted against the dim light. Kit looked toward the woman as if to signify he had no idea what was going on then turned back to face the silhouette. It was approaching steadily, and looked something like a short person. He called out to them "Hello?".

Hrodgar had trudged his way wearily towards the source of the light, and could now see that it was a giant white stone archway that stretched across the way in front of him. Through the gate he could see an unfamiliar forest, and two humans, both looking bewildered.

The first was a man, young and pale with bright red hair that gave Hrodgar's a run for it's money, the second was a woman, very thing and with hair a similar shade to the man's.

'I might have known it was humans' Hrodgar thought 'They can't stop tinkering with things'

"Hello!" The young man shouted through the gate.

"Oh great" Hrodgar whispered to himself "Now they're tryin' t'get me involved"

He was mulling over what he should do about this when his sensitive ears picked up the noise of someone approaching from behind him.

"It never rains but it pours" he muttered and looked over his shoulder for the source of the noise. All Hrodgar wanted was to get back to his ale and his forge, but it was beginning to dawn on him that it was less and less likely he'd be returning to them any time soon.

Mikael crested over the hill and saw an interesting sight. In front of him there was a Dwarf, who had apparently heard Mikael as he was looking back at him now; more interesting was a great, white arch, in front of it stood a woman with red hair and... inside the arch, as best as Mikael could figure, was the figure of a person coming through.

Mikael nodded to the Dwarf and approached him, "Hello good sir, do you know what's going on?"

Kit slowly removed his phone from his pocket and began to dial. He thumbed in two numbers before halting, The person in the distance had stopped approaching. He cleared the dial and looked over to the woman... his face looked concerned.

"Hey, you think that we should we inform someone?"

The figure in the distance was joined by another. A taller silhouette. Kit turned on the phones rear light, it illuminated the interior enough that you could see the features of the two people. They looked and were dressed like something out of a fairy tale..

Kit shouted again. "Hello?!"

Hrodger saw the tall human approaching him from the bottom of the hill, wearing the traditional robes of a mage.

"Hello good sir, do you know what's going on?" he said, approaching carefully. Hrodgar was halfway through answering when the voice from the other side of the archway called out to him again.

"Hello!

He turned to answer the new voice and was instantly blinded by a powerful light coming from the figure on the otherside of the archway.

"Lower the light manling" Hrodgar growled towards the light, "I'm not a particular fan of being blinded"

"I'm not a particular fan of being blinded"

Kit stood still for a second before he thumbed at his phone and shot it back into his pocket. The people in front of him looked.. vaguely human. He hesitantly started to talk.

"Erm.. are you guys?.. have you?.." he trailed off and looked round the group before raising his hands in a confused manner. "Do you know what just happened?"

Mikael shielded his eyes from the light that suddenly came from the arch, interesting, he thought, perhaps that man is a mage of some kind.

The Dwarf Growled at the holder of the light, "Lower the light manling. I'm not a particular fan of being blinded." which made Mikael chuckle on the inside. It often seemed Dwarves were a bit gruff.

The man on the other side made the light disappear and began to ask a question but stumbled over the words finally settling on, "Do you know what just happened?"

Mikael shook his head, "I have no idea and judging by their reactions, I'd say they don't either." he gestured towards the others near him, "So... who are you?" he asked

Spirit had been walking from village to village, staying here and there and doing a few odd jobs. Nothing really out of the ordinary until suddenly the ground shook, nearly knocking him off balance, and off in the distance he could see a strange green glow. Interesting.. he thought to himself. He might as well go and see what it was, he didn't really have anything better to do..

He set off at a brisk pace, hoping to be the first one there to see what it exactly was, and if it was a monster trying to eat someone. If it was, he could probably get a decent reward for killing it and saving them.

As he ran, he saw two figures. One roughly the size of a man, the other more dwarvish in nature. He sighed, either the glow was about to kill them or he got there late.

He continued his pace and eventually reached it. Upon further investigation it looked like some odd kind of portal a mage might construct..but it didn't seem too keen on dissapearing, and two people on the other side.

He was also correct on one of the figures being a dwarf and the other a man, and a mage at that, at-least by clothes. "Did you build this?" He said pointing from him to the gate. Not waiting on a response, he ventured closer to it.

Inspecting it and the people on the other side intently, they were dressed rather..oddly. At-least no clothes he'd ever seen. He decided to take it a step even farther, he stepped towards the entrance, his eyes faintly illuminating what upon further investigation looked like a tunnel.

"You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this." He turned and told them, yet hesitated mid-way of the entrance.

Christa timidly backed up, nervously gulping and groping her pockets for her MP3 player, she kept backing up and yelped a bit. She caught her foot on a root and fell back on her ass again. She muttered a bit and sighed. She turned her music up and closed her eyes, trying to wake up from what she thought was a dream.

She opened her eyes again and saw what looked to be a man coming through the Arch. He was rather tall. She looked to the other young man, the one with red hair. "I...I think we should run."

"Do you know what just happened?

"I have no idea and judging by their reactions, I'd say they don't either."

Hrodgar shook his head. The more and more humans that joined the conversation the more confusing it got.

"So... who are you?"

The man who had approached from behind had began to question the humans from the other side of the strange archway, but before either could answer yet another human had approached the scene. The new comer had walked straight up the gateway and began to ask rapidfire questions, without waiting for the answer.

"Did you build this?" The strange man asked Hrodgar, glancing at the gate. ""You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this."

Hrodgar sighed heavily and watched as the thin human on the other side of the gateway took a step back to mirror the new comers step towards the gate.

'This is ridiculous' Hrodgar thought.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" He finally said out loud "I didn't make this gate but even I can tell that it's powerful magic. We don't know what it's purpose is, or if it's safe to go through it, so blindly walking through it strikes me as a mighty stupid move"

Hrodgar stroked his beard and took a closer look at the physical construction of the gate. It didn't bear any tool marks that would have told of human construction, or the square marks that would signify it's being constructed directly out of magic and no runes precluded it from being Dwarven in design. It was as if it had literally sprung into existence on the top of the hill for no reason.

"I...I think we should run." She said.

Kit didn't know what he wanted to do.. he felt like running. But another part of him felt that if he did run, he would be running from something more interesting than his life was now. He would be running from something amazing.

"Wait, just one look." He said softly.

Kit stepped forward, he placed one foot through the gate entrance. It felt cooler than the evening dew and caused kit to shiver.

With a gulp he stepped up into the gate, and turned to face the young woman.

"Is this.. like... a portal?"

Mikael raised an eyebrow as another man came up from behind, asked a few questions and not waiting for any answers said, "You two can stand here if you wish. I'm investigating this." with the Dwarf giving the man a warning, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. I didn't make this gate but even I can tell that it's powerful magic. We don't know what it's purpose is, or if it's safe to go through it, so blindly walking through it strikes me as a mighty stupid move."

Mikael nodded, "I agree with the Dwarf. While I am intrigued we don't know what this does..." he stopped as the man 'inside' the arch stepped out of it, shivering a bit and turning around to ask the other person inside the gate, "Is this.. like... a portal?"

Mikael considered the man; he wore strange clothes and his speech sounded a bit odd, though Mikael could understand him, "I'll have to agree with you on that. This arch being a portal makes the most sense out of any explanation I can come up with... but again, who are you?"

Hrodgar rolled his eyes as the Human from the other side stuck his foot into the strange archway, before stepping bodily through it and turning to face the thin human still on the other side.

"Is this.. like... a portal?" The red headed newcomer said.

"I'll have to agree with you on that. This arch being a portal makes the most sense out of any explanation I can come up with... but again, who are you?" Asked the long haired human.

"So obvioosly th' first thin' ye do is step en it. yoo're lucky yer guts ur still inside ye manlin' Hrodgar grumbled, with another roll of his eyes.

He shook his head, it was clear that this was getting them nowhere, and at least the portal was clearly safe. The new arrival through the portal was dressed in a manor of clothing that wasn't familiar to Hrodgar, but this didn't strike him as a particular problem as there were many places in the world and it was entirely possible that the style of dress and speech were from some far of country.

"It's seems obvioos 'at this is some sort ay teleport speel. probably yer area ay expertise eh'd imagine" He said, nodding his head towards the long haired, cloaked human standing next to him."Which coontry dae ye hail from?" He asked, this time turning to face the human who had stepped through the portal first.