System

Myriad Reality

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I've gotta say, I'm surprised you still have it in you to lose control of your projects. Near death experiences are a heck of a thing.

@Valiance

Under normal circumstances, this system should not have been capable of even leaving the lab. But my son and your student short-circuited its activation protocol.

Myriad Reality

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Artificial enough.

@Valiance

In any case, between the prime directive and the ongoing deterioration of its memory, it will continue to grow more dangerous to all of your companions.

Myriad Reality

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Name a more perfect duo than artificial intelligence and going rogue.

@Valiance

Interestingly, that entity is only semi-artificial. You could almost consider it a clone.

Myriad Reality

@Memory

*Motions over to the sudden guests* -> New players? Or are you referring to some of my characters? heh i'm a bit confused....

@Shadrack Nor

Yeah, @Spiritblitz and @Asce have joined the fray. Shoulda made that clearer, sorry.

Myriad Reality

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That all makes sense. My main concern was with your doppelganger, however.

@Valiance

Yes, that. That entity happens to be part of my lab defense system, and is currently to blame for siphoning a majority of my excess magic and slowing my recovery. I've been tracking its behavioral patterns insofar as I can under these circumstances.

Myriad Reality

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Maybe you'll be more inclined to explain what's going on, then?

@Valiance

Certainly. As you may be aware, I was severely injured during a prior conflict with Graveny. Unfortunately, due to cascading, targeted attacks I was forced to withdraw and allow my labs to passively generate the energy I needed to recover.

Myriad Reality

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*Manifests a shimmering dome of red as I slide across the floor as I look around and take in the new environment, still clearly in defensive mode*

@Valiance

Ah, yes. I would appreciate if you didn’t destroy this lab. I can’t afford more setbacks after the energy it took to reach you in that zone.

Myriad Reality

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*With a gust of wind, I dash through the newfound opening without question*

@Valiance

*The doorway fizzles once you style in and leads into a small observation room overlooking a spoked disk of interspliced extreme and peaceful environments about a center point, including lava fields, meadows, tundras, canyons, slices of typhooning seas, the entire environment suspended in a pale blue, clouded sky*
Welcome, Rythian.

Myriad Reality

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*Summons an orb of red similar to those before it, shining a blinding red and stunting the flow of electricity and magical energies alike across everywhere the light touches*

@Valiance

*A competing network emerges from the attack's own connections and forms into a crude door that opens next to you*
Come, quickly!

Myriad Reality

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*Leaves that process running while frantically narrowing a second search down to data gathered as a result of experiments on “Harmony”*

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*A pylon ejects itself from the ceiling rapidly, sticking straight down and acting as an attractive force to your lighting, forcibly pulling the blade into itself and jerking your strike off target by mere centimeters*
… Baba yaga?

@GalaxyRaider

*The system starts to return a small set of results*