TMN interviewed Tyking II this morning on changes to the Ethereal Portal.

Paramedic asks, "What happened?"
Tyking II says, "Melabrion invited exiles to a conference in his conference room."
Tyking II says, "Of course, none of them spoke Dwarven, so Malkor let me in through the pass to translate for them."
Paramedic says, "Oh really"
Tyking II says, "Anyhoo, the basic idea was that Melabrion made the portal two-way, but he needed a mystic to investigate it."
Tyking II says, "So we did, and it worked fine."
Paramedic asks, "So you can go in and out now?"
Tyking II says, "indeed"
Tyking II says, "of course, it just transports you back to that icky island"

Thanks to Tyking II for sending TMN the images below. Note the presence of ThoomCare member Phroon, with his new purple look.

Meeting with Melabrion
Gathering at the portal
New return portal

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AUTHOR: Phroon
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DATE: 08/02/2003 07:41:29 PM
Sadly, the purple look is only a bottle of paint.
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DATE: 08/02/2003 09:57:07 PM
You call all those Ether creatures leaking out of the portal "it worked fine"?
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DATE: 08/03/2003 09:06:41 PM
Tyking is the best representative there was? Sad day for puddleby
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AUTHOR: Tyking II
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DATE: 08/04/2003 08:38:55 AM
Yeah, it did work fine. It transported people out of the EP. How is that not working fine? Melabrion didn't state that it only transported exiles, that wouldn't be possible.

Anyhoo, who is calling me a representative? All I did was translate what Melabrion was saying. Would you have prefered nobody understand what he is saying?
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DATE: 08/06/2003 09:02:04 AM
Actually, we had a fine, non-snert, interpreter who was on the way there before Tyking even headed there. Unfortunately, Demian wasn't able to get in through a back door and wasn't allowed to fulfill his interpreter role after Tyking made such a childish fuss when Demian tried. Of course Demian was the first interpreter asked and invited. Just makes us all long for the days that Tyking spent in the library doin whatever it is 13 year-old boys do when they are alone.
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AUTHOR: Para
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DATE: 08/06/2003 09:18:50 AM
In all seriousness, it is not clear to me how those who complain so tediously about Tyking are any less annoying than Tyking himself.

Also of note, Tyking took the time to report on the event, to TMN and to others. Others there did not.