Message #34519

[egamma]

Someone did collect 8 portal stones recently on Dwilight. Nothing happened. More realistically, I'd like to see the day when at last the whole urban myth is put to rest by having the adventurer who collects all 8 portal stones activate it, have it do nothing, and have the recoil of the energy that it releases fry the adventurer only and affect absolutely nothing else, thus killing off the adventurer dumb enough to meddle with stuff that he/she cannot understand.

And also because finally that will teach people that portal stones do not do what they think they do anymore.

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Adventurer/Items/Usable

A weird stone of no apparent use. However, you have heard that eight such stones form a magic circle in stories and legends. Inside that circle, portals to other places or even worlds can be opened, or closed.
(when used) You need eight portal stones to build a magic circle. Collect X more
(when you use 8 stones) "You put the portal stones into a magic circle. They lock into place and magic flows. Nothing obvious happens for a long while...

Finally, the stones begin to glow, and you become excited, anticipating the opening of a portal to another plane of existence.

However, what you get is not all that you had hoped for. Yes, the stones sing, thunder rolls, and a beam of bright green light shoots up into the sky...but then the stones explode, and you seem to hear a mocking laugh, and the suggestion of a voice whispering, "Come to Beluaterra and try that..." ".
(In the region) "Strange Lights (just in) All in the region see a column of light shoot up into the sky from somewhere nearby, and hear a rumble of thunder, but when nothing else happens, they go back to their business."

We know that there isn't anything that they do, currently,  but we REALLY, REALLY wish that they did work.