Well I have finally really started the adventure, thank god! It was really annoying for me too not being able to do anything but character descriptions. For those of you that may have raise an eyebrow at my adding a gnome into the group there are two reasons for that: 1. Ollie really reminds me of a gnome and 2. I'm a really big fan of the whole Jared - Slanter relationship. I hope you didn't mind the pun too much. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~* Jen being the most caring of the group was the first to try and comfort Caleb.

"Shh, it's ok. It's ok." She said shifting down close to him. "It's going to be ok." Caleb started rocking slower and the sobs became quieter.

"Here, chew on these." Katie said as she offered him some dark green leaves. "They'll help calm, you down."

"Where did you get those?" Asked Steph as the rest of the group had gathered around.

"From this pouch here," She said pointing to one of several pouched around her waist. "I can't explain how I know it will help but I'm sure it will. As Caleb chewed and swallowed the bitter tasting leaves her did indeed find himself relaxing and everything around him growing fuzzy and warm.

"Well now that that's done I think we should all find out what happened, Katie?" Nick P. asked looking pointedly at her.

"Me? You're asking me?"

"You built the damn thing, you should know what happened!"

"Don't look at me if the dumbass over there hadn't stepped on it then nothing would have gone wrong! It's very sensitive. I can only guess that the machine overloaded with all the information that was put into it, mainly a. all the books that Nick Mick brought, and b. Nick your list of characters."

"So where's the machine now!? And how are we going to get back!? And why am I yellow!?" Ollie cried who was now more than just a little upset.

"Well I assume it's still in our dimension, the portal was never meant to be big enough to fit a human, and certainly never to suck anything into it. As for our different appearances I think that much has to do with the list Nick brought in, apparently the machine changed us into the characters instead of just making them up."

"So where are we?" Chad asked as for the first time since they got there everybody looked around at the rolling hills that surrounded them.

"I see a path leading into the forest over there!" Nick called excitedly.

"And I can sorta a little smoke rising from somewhere inside!" Katie called after.

"You're nuts, I don't see a thing." Casey said as by now every body was peering into the distance where Katie and Nick had pointed.

"Well we do and I think we should check it out!" Said Nick angrily, upset that nobody believed him. Nick Mick was wondering the same thing, why could nobody but Nick and Katie see the supposed smoke and path. He looked at them wondering when he noticed something.

"Katie could you brush your hair back?" He asked going on a hunch.

"Ok." She said wondering.

"A ha! Just as I thought!" Nick Mick cried while everybody else looked back and forth between Katie and him wondering what he or she had missed.

"Oh my god! What happened to your ears?!" Allan cried. Everybody turned and stared at Katie's pointed ears as she gingerly felt the pointed tips while Nick, ignored, did the same.

"You're an Elf, both of you are." Nick Mick announced proudly. "That's why you could see the smoke and path when nobody else could, Elven senses are naturally heightened." The others could only stare in wonderment at the seemingly impossible creatures in front of them. It took several minutes before anybody was ready to move in the direction of the path, all doubt of whither or not the path really existed no erased from their minds.