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

[periastron]

( A long silence, and then: )

Not chevron like the car, right?

[exascendee]

No, chevron like a V-shaped architectural feature.

[ But she knows what a car is, so at least she's familiar with more modern things. ]

[periastron]

See, that makes more sense, but the cars are a lot funnier to imagine, don't you reckon?