Calling all travellers, please report to gate

[exascendee]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Daniel Jackson
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Anyone seen a Stargate lying around?
WHEN: Early Bloomingtide. Backdated to some days before phylactery shenanigans because he's gonna be distracted by that.
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: He doesn't have super high hopes at this point, but he's yet to come across anything in his research and he's getting impatient.

[ If this sounds vaguely like someone speaking over an announcement loudspeaker, that's because that's how Daniel is treating this. ]

Hi, my name is Daniel Jackson. If anyone has seen, heard, or read of something called a Stargate, please get in touch with me.

It looks like a large metal ring, about twenty feet tall, with roughly forty glyphs around the circumference, and nine chevrons along the edges. It'll probably be very old, maybe found in a ruin somewhere. Uh, it could also have been called a Chappa'ai, Astria Porta, Ring of the Gods...

Anyway, if this rings a bell for anyone, please let me know. It's important. Thank you.

Comments

[exascendee]

No, that's.... [ Ugh. He's not an idiot, thanks. ]

A chevron is just a shape that looks like a V.

Anyway, I obviously wasn't talking about rifts, but thank you for your contribution.

[ Regardless, Stargates have way more in common with eluvians, if anything. ]

[doneisdone]

Then call it a V, no reason to get fancy about it.

had to go make a facepalm icon real quick

[exascendee]

It's the proper terminology for architecture, if I said a V you might've thought I was referring to the writing, it's-- [ Brief pauses and some shuffling noises as takes his glasses off and rubs the bridge of his nose. ]

They're shapes that are attached onto the ring, they're vital components that light up when they're activated.

[doneisdone]

What's the point of that?

[exascendee]

It's... a teleportation device. Like a.. Magical gateway for travel. The chevrons are sort of the... keys.

[ He's already started to give up on explaining the concept of space travel and advanced technology to the people of Thedas. Magical doorway will have to do. It's not the first time he's had to fall back on it when explaining stargates to more primitive planets, and it won't be the last. ]

[doneisdone]

Travel where.

[exascendee]

To other stargates.

[ Please don't make him. ]

[doneisdone]

.......why

[exascendee]

To... travel.

[ Imagine his face just going ??? right now. ]

To cross long distances quickly?

[doneisdone]

[A long, contemplative silence. Then:]

Haven't seen any.

[exascendee]

....

[ Finally, overly pleasant/cheerful, but definitely somewhat sarcastic. ]

Alright, well, thanks anyway!