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All right, everyone. Real talk for a minute here.

You've probably been watching us down in Misery Square and if you have been, you've probably bee thinking we're getting close to getting done. You're right.

We've got the Door just about set up now. You remember Blackdog telling you about that, right? All right. Well, we've been working on it because we think we're getting close to having it in real working order. There were a lot of theories that wound up getting unexpectedly tested in all of this--so that's a good thing, when you think about it. Things about how the routes into and out of the City are made and how to make a way from one place to another and whether it's a one-way street in that route. Things like that.

It's looking really good. I mean, it's looking really good. I know the Door itself looks kind of like someone crashed a car into Stonehenge, but from our angle it's looking really good. We're getting good readings and we're seeing signs that it's going to be functional. It's--

I don't know how to explain it. Not in a way that you can put into words. When I was a kid, I fell in a lake and I could see down to the bottom of the lake and there were bones, human bones, on the bottom of that lake. I remember, before my uncle pulled me back up into the boat, thinking that this was something like a vision, that seeing these bones meant more than what I might first think it meant. And I was right. Maybe it's a little too poetic or grandiose or something, but that's how I feel right now, looking through this Door.

It's just a doorway for now because it's just the arch and a bunch of stuff around it. But it'll be a real Door soon.

What you really need to know is that we're getting ready to test it. We think we'll have it ready to go this afternoon or tonight. There's some other parts of it we need to get good and sure about before we turn it on.

Anybody who's worried that it might destroy the City, just come talk to me. Seriously, I can promise you it won't destroy the City. It might shake things up a little. And we've got a theory about what might happen when we turn it on this first time. I mean, you know how nature abhors a vacuum, right? We think something--something kindly like, as Blackdog might say--that might happen. But just at first. This is part of how we're going to stabilize the pathway out of the City.

You've been really patient with us. And you've supported us for so long. Thank you. I honestly can't thank you enough for everything--for all your support, for all your questions, for all your demands, even for all your insults. Because even those made us stop and take a look at what we were doing and ask ourselves if it really was for the good of the City and its Cityzens.

We're getting close to making good on our real promises to you: to get you out of the City if you want to get out.

Hang on for just a little longer. And watch for the test today or tonight. If we're thinking right, there might be some fireworks at first. Nothing too bad, but it might be a little, uh, bright.

Talk to you soon, City.

[ooc: The test of the Door will take place late tonight, the 13^th of February, very late at night. Indeed, just about at midnight. It will be rather spectacular with lots of glowing lights in shades of blue and silver and a loud but gentle hum. Very sci-fi.

The results of the test will be the Fourth Wall curse event this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (14, 15, 16)--that is, the visitors will be flooding in because the test of the routes that the Door can create were successful. The visitors will also get out again because the test of the Door was successful. But none of it is permanent because there's still more work to do. ~~Shh, science!~~ Remember that the Anons promised there would be free movement into and out of the City. They're not there yet.

Anyone who tries to go near the Door while the test is going on will either be held back by members of the Anonymous Movement or they will find that the Door itself pushes them away with its glowing light.

However! Observant Cityzens may notice a figure lurking near the test-site for the Door. And they may even notice that figure creeping closer...and closer...and closer... Until at last, in the midst of the test--he darts through the Door and out of the City! The members of the Anonymous Movement who are at the test seem shocked and concerned, Blackdog is barking all the while, but none dare approach the door. Indeed, it seems to repulse anyone who comes near it.

Who was that? What happened? What does that mean? Stay tuned!!]

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The door is like that but metaphorically, right? No bones at the bottom of it.

Yeah, no worries. That's a metaphor. I did nearly drown in a lake with bones at the bottom, but that lake is a long way from here. No bones at the bottom of the door.

Or at the top.

Or at the top. Or on the sides. Or in the corners. No, no bones about it.

Now that's more reassurring, you should've started there.

Yeah, probably should have. But, hey, you know I'm still figuring this stuff out myself.

Very uplifting to hear from the folks trying to open a door between worlds.

C'mon, gimme a little credit here.

I'll give you points for trying.

Thanks.

And some points for proving a little more trustworthy than the Deities.

Now those points are the more valuable kind of points. Thanks.

Okay, thank you for this, but how have you stabilized the door? What is the nature of it? Does it somehow use the energy of the City to reverse the process that brings us here?

Kind of. What we know is that we--I mean Blackdog and Deacon and A and Kat and all of us--can go back and forth. We can come and go from the City. We know that part. We're staying because we want to stay. So what we're looking at is how we're able to do that. What is it about us that let's us come and go? We've got some notions of it. So we're trying to use what we know in that regard to make a more permanent portal.

That's kind of a roundabout answer, I know, but it's not a simple thing to explain.

[The lack of a thorough scientific explanation results in palpable disappointment.]

But you have reason to think that it will work and that it will be safe?

Yes. That we've got.

Good enough, thank you!

[He'll just see what his tricorder has to say once the thing's fired up.]

Let'r rip, T-Bone!

I'm about to!