Well the trip here was really cool though a little disorienting and slightly chilly at the end for some reason! Thankfully it's a lot warmer here and so she doesn't need to put on a sweater though she didn't take any clothing with her... but she didn't need to, did she! She picked that power that lets her change her clothes however she wants! Are her clothes even right for the people who live here though? Still she might as well change into something more practical if she can. How does this work? Jenna concentrates. In a moment she's wearing thick black boots (comfy!), khaki shorts down to her knees, and a pale blue t-shirt, and one of those tan adventurer hats, chin strap and all, perfect for adventure! Does she look good? She can't tell, there's no mirror here, and the water pool thing on the magical portal isn't really properly reflective enough. Maybe the hat is too silly? She concentrates for a moment, and puts it back wherever it came from. She can change her clothes with magic. 

She can change her clothes with magic! She can change her clothes with magic!!!! She has magic now!!!!!! Jenna giggles joyfully, bouncing up and down and spinning in circles, her arms out wide as she delights in her new powers. She's magic now! Magic!!! Magic!!!!!! She's never ever been so happy in her life, not even that time her friends gave her that surprise party and... okay maybe the cake and balloons and surprise party when she was having such an awful birthday (pop quizzes and bad grades on birthdays should be against the rules) was better. Barely. Maybe. She still can't believe Kelly and Chrissy managed to put all that together without her finding out. But besides that, this is the happiest she's ever been in her life. 

Okay maybe possibly she should stop bouncing and spinning and making herself very slightly dizzy and take a look at the magic portal over there. She looks. That's definitely a magic portal, with magic runes on it and everything. She picked the language one, right? Maybe she can figure out what it says. She skips (she's still really happy okay) back over to it and takes a closer look at the symbols to see if she can magically determine what any of them mean. 

Maybe these aren't runes. Omniglot doesn't seem to be working. Upon closer inspection they might be constellations? Not any constellations she's familiar with though.

Not long after that, maybe ten or fifteen seconds, the watery portal inside the ring disappears and the lights on the ring go out. The dots or constellations are still there, just much dimmer, there are also more of them between the ones that were brightly lit before instead of the previous blankness. In each constellation, one of the dots is distinctly larger than the ones around it for some reason.

Oh wow, there's a lot of them. Which ones were lit up before? Jenna can't remember, and they really do look like constellations, not runes, now that she's gotten a closer look. She's not sure what that means at all, and is suddenly worried that she should have copied them down or something so she'll know what runes or constellations or whatever they are she needs to get back home. Well, it's a bit too late now, and that probably won't be her only way home, will there? No, it can't be, there'll be some other magical way for her to find home. She just has to go on an adventure and save the world from an evil villain or dark force or something first. It'll be okay. It will.

Taking a deep breath to steady herself (she's on an adventure it'll be fine the notebook said so), Jenna looks around some more. There's the pedestal nearby, maybe she should check that out? Or maybe... she should check in with the notebook first? Too see if it has any insight on things. Just in case. 

Jenna takes another deep breath, takes out her notebook, sitting on the ground near the portal, and remembers that she's happy and on an adventure (magic!!!) and takes out the one pen (she should have thought to bring more! At least this one is new) and writes. 

I made it! I'm here, and I came through this weird tunnel which let me out at this magic portal! And changed my clothes with magic and everything and it's real, and I'm here! 

A weird tunnel? That's neat! Different worlds can have very different arrival methods and I'm not sure I've heard of any weird tunnels before! You sound excited. I'm glad you're having fun with your new powers!

It's pretty exciting! There's this large ring, big enough to fit a car through, and when I showed up it had symbols on it lit up and the ring looked like a pool of water but glowy, that's what I came out of. But then it turned off when I was looking at it, and I'm not sure what symbols (they might be constellations, they look like stars) were lit up anymore. I didn't need to memorize them or anything to get back home, right? I don't want to have accidentally lost my way home already. There will be some other way to figure things out and also maybe the symbols don't have anything to do with where I came from and I'm just worried over nothing? Right? 

Don't worry! You'll definitely be able to find your way home again. It doesn't say it explicitly in the description, but the Secret Identity drawback makes sure of that—it wouldn't be much of a drawback if it never came up, after all! And even without that, it's really really really unlikely for someone to never find their way home even if they look, and it usually means they're getting something that's really important to them by not going home.

Okay, phew. Jenna was apparently a lot more worried about than than she thought she'd be! She didn't have any reason to be worried though! She just needs to go on her adventure first probably. She can look for home later and also will probably end up back there anyways. 

Thanks! I feel better now, I guess I was a little worried. I'm gonna take another look around, see what I can see then. There's no one here yet, but someone will probably show up sometime! Can't save people without someone to save! 

She closes the notebook, takes a deep breath (she's on an adventure it's ok to be nervous but also she's gonna have fun) and stands back up and heads over to look at the weird pedestal. 

It's mostly cylindrical but the top is slanted and flares out a little. It also has a rim or ring around most but not all of it's slanted top. On the face it has two concentric rings of symbols that look like the ones on the big ring around a large blue button.

The symbols really do look similar! She wonders what they mean. But okay, she should probably try things, right? There were lights on the pedestal before, right? And these symbols are on things that look kinda like buttons... and if the symbols look the same... what happens if she tries to press one of them? 

It lights up.

Thought so! And does the corresponding symbol on the magic portal light up too? She turns to look and if it is lit up will try very hard to compare. 

The magic portal does not react.

Oh huh. Maybe if she presses the really big blue button then? 

The big blue button briefly lights up and then both it and the symbol she previously pressed go dark.

Well that didn't work. Maybe she picked the wrong button? She tries again, this time with a different symbol. 

The same events repeat.

Hmmm. Okay, what happens if she tries to press two different buttons then, one after the other. Do they both light up on the pedestal or does or switch or do something else? 

They both light up. If she presses the blue button they go back out again.

Okay, maybe the big blue button is a reset button? No it's way too big to be a reset button it has to be the enter button and maybe she's entering the wrong code and it's rejecting her input. Maybe she isn't picking enough symbols either, she can't remember exactly how many were lit up when she came through but it was more than two. More than four probably. And less than... she's not sure. What happens if she presses four buttons and then presses the giant blue enter button. What about five? Six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve? (It probably wasn't twelve many that's too many.)

The same thing keeps happening until she tries to press a seventh symbol. When she does that all the symbols turn off.

Huh. Maybe the center button is the button to reset and whatever combination is 6 or 7 symbols long or something. Still seems really weird for a giant blue button but maybe that's just how it works. She tries a few more 7 button combinations at random to see if anything else happens. 

This does not have any new results.

Yeah that's more or less what she expected when the first one didn't work. Alright, that means that either there are people living here who can help out (though there aren't any nearby that she can see but maybe they're somewhere else) or maybe there's an ancient crumbling abandoned  temple with strange symbols on its walls that will give her the combination she's looking for once she's evaded the traps and defeated undead skeleton guardians and solved the riddle at the heart of the temple that shows she's worthy of the ancient knowledge. Probably there are just people around who can help. "Hello? Is anyone around?" she calls out. She looks around for a path of some kind, or any sign of people responding to her call. 

As if the universe was waiting for her to finish, this is exactly when she hears very loud bangs in the distance. It might be gunfire? It doesn't sound quite like it does on TV but it's similar.

Is that bullet sounds? It's probably not bullets on a magical place although guns were invented a long time ago like hundreds of years ago so maybe you can have magic and also guns at the same time though they didn't have bullets they had like muskets and things which used shot. It's still probably not guns though, though if it is she should probably figure out what's going on and help out whoever is in trouble if someone is. And if not it's not gunfire (it's probably not gunfire) then it's probably some kind of thing involving people. So she heads towards the loud bang sounds that aren't bullets or any kind of gunfire, carefully. Cautiously. Just in case she might surprise someone and that someone might shoot at her. With the gun that they probably don't have. (Which direction were the probably-non-gun-bangs from anyways? The trees? Elsewhere?)