Second Antenna

The Second Antenna/Second Level Antenna is the antenna situated in-between the rest of the antennae. Bears the name 'Al-Mabsut' (the second one, *in the middle*).

It is found in one of the most mesmerizing parts of Vuori, underneath the center of The Long Road. Geographically, it belongs to *Liopyri* and borders *Kato Melies*.
It appeared in Vuori Chronicles #6 'Amidst the Groves in Liopyri', portrayed as the Spooky venue where Demon Dogs rose from the graves. It was also honorably mentioned throughout the series.

In the 2020 location revision, the Second Antenna was officially considered a part of Kato Melies, along with the entire hill surrounding it.

## Location

The Second Antenna is found a few feet above the first one and into the core of Vuori. Its exact location lies below the center of the lower part in The Long Road, right in the small Radio station. On its right, one can continue beyond the woods, to Yperfoto, Ano Melies and finally Where Partridges Gather, and right behind it lies The Entrancing Graveyard.

## Discovery and Description

The Second Antenna was reached and theoretically discovered by Vuoriors James Kingston and Sotiris Annis on Friday, April 4 2014, late evening. After a rather perilous ascention from Rocky bas-relief of an almost non-existent road, the Vuoriors reached the central part of the Second Antenna Road and the Radio Station. The station itself is surrounded by wire and has signs of high voltage danger. Enclosed by a beautiful forest, the Antenna is a rather striking sign of technology in the Nature. Off to it on the right and down, one can locate The Entrancing Graveyard. The Second Antenna also owes some of its reputation to it being the final stop before the Final Antennae/Third level antennae.

## Ksefoto

A beautiful , newly-named location, Ksefoto, is located in the midst of *Kato Melies*, shortly off the road of the antenna. Sunset takes on various opalescent colors on this top, and rumors have it strange rituals might take place at Nightfall.
It was walked over plenty of times in the morning, but sunset was viewed in Spring 2018 by Vuoriors Periklhs Vairaktaridis, Sotiris Annis, and James Kingston.

Ksefoto also appeared on Vuori Chronicles #6 'Amidst the Groves in Liopyri' where the fox Eli defeated the *δαιμονες*, malevolent spirits who had possessed the carrions of dogs. According to the tale, the place came into existence after Eli destroyed the sprits' totem, blowing away the cypress that used to grow on the spot and leaving behind the empty grove.

## The Bottoms and the Piso Melies controversy

Throughout the plethora of excursions to Vuori during the Coronavirus outbreak of early 2020, an extensive series of locations lying beyond Liopyri was systematically re-visited by Vuoriors, which begged the question of how the newfound areas would be named. Vuorior James Kingston has made the decision to add a series of smaller locations as belonging to the generalized area of Kato Melies, which encompasses the **Second Antenna** hill and everything surrounding or on it.

Beyond the hill and to the left, however, a huge gorge-like structure reveals a densely vegetated valley, the last remaining natural border between the middle portion of the Mountain and the hill of the Final Antennae. The valley can be reached via a very abruptly formed downward slope which begins behind The Entrancing Graveyard and is called The Sunken Road. This road eventually branches outwards to plenty of dirt paths, respectively called The Sunken Paths, which either lead through The Poisoned Road to the mildly restricted areas of The Shooting Fields at the Army Field or towards the Ano Melies borders and the broken treks to the right. If one follows the latter treks, they can discover the glade that is found around the middle of the Final Antennae hill, called Ano Mpalkoni ( revealing Ksefoto to be its respective Kato Mpalkoni) as well as a variety of Broken Treks which had unknowingly been used by Vuorior James Kingston and fellow friend and explorer George Stroubis back in 2016 to reach the Lone Antenna. All these locations had to belong to Ano Melies, since they were found around the height of Yperfoto, a series of glades that extends above the Entrancing Graveyard and the Second Antenna, already a part of that location. What this effectively means is that Ano Melies were charted for the first time after the rather obscure references to them in The Vuori Chronicles and are officially stretching from Ano Mpalkoni and the Rocks of Alkarij, through the broken treks behind the Second Antenna, via Yperfoto and finally ending around Yperfoto Road to the Partridge Way and the infamous Partridge top, Where Partridges Gather.

The rest of the areas belonging to the Bottoms, the aforementioned valley, including the thyme strewn slopes and the Woods of Eucalyptus at the ends of the Sunken Road belong to the hill of Second Antenna, and therefore to Kato Melies.

The informal name Piso Melies to describe those areas has been *unofficially* used by Vuorior James Kingston to by-pass the trouble of the details surrounding the naming and borders of the Ano Melies areas.