>>5654692>>5654800>>5654824Preparing a team of highly-trained and prepared warriors and warrior-priests, the portal is once again opened. When no troll emerges, they go through.
After several hours of the portal not opening, it is decided that it would be opened again, only upon opening it, the initial team re-emerges. They explain that they've only been on the other side for a few minutes, and want to know what is wrong. They note that the sun is now setting, meaning that time has passed out here, but seemingly not as much within the pocket dimension.
The landscape on the other side is completely barren; it seems to stretch onwards with no significant features, forests or landmarks, a true wasteland lacking even wind. After several expeditions, including one where food is brought into the pocket dimension, and once the same food rots outside it is re-opened and the food that went into the pocket dimension proving to remain fresh, it is determined that this pocket dimension must be some manner of time-altered prison plane. It was built to contain the troll, or perhaps other things, or perhaps the troll found his way inside accidentally---the answer is unknown.
A number of things are proposed for it; it could be used as a storage place for food, since time moves more slowly inside of it, allowing for food to be stored for much longer periods of time. It could be used as a prison, since there is no way to open it once inside. It could be used as a kind of forwards-time-machine, as anyone who enters it and remains in for a long time would emerge years, perhaps even decades or centuries into the future. It could even be used as a means of protecting a large group of people from a crisis; evacuating into the pocket dimension and then re-opening it once the crisis has past.
>What is to be done with the pocket dimension? 