Your friend Ellie has brought you to the top secret portal laboratory where she's been working. She excitedly tells you "We've actually got it working!" as she moves around the room flipping switches and adjusting settings. The machinery begins to make a throbbing "hummmm hummmm hummmm" sound. And, with a crackle of static electricity, a ring of blue light appears in the middle of the room. Inside the ring, looks like the membrane of a soap bubble, spinning with rainbow colors. Ellie says "Let's discuss your weapons and survival gear. What have you brought?"