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Prepared for the absolute unknown? Absolutely.

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Very well.
*Tears down the wall, exposing another room full of technicolor wall wiring*

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Why’d you even make this many rooms? Redundancy?

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These are all testing chambers that were running different experiments at one point in time. It happens that the fastest path to the control room that avoids other security systems takes us through five.

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Five was the easiest possible? Geez.
*Walks up to the hole into the next room*

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Unfortunately.
*The wiring on the walls flash, sparking and fizzling out*

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Surprised you had no back door.
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You went in first last time. It's only fair.
*Precariously steps through the hole, avoiding the electrical wires*

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In a sense, this is the backdoor.
*Follows behind you, and bands of color-warping ribbons stream across the room*
It won't recognize me without more biological signatures.
*Several of the patterns on the walls are consumed by a puff of smoke and the ribbons turn monochrome, fall onto the ground, and fade away*

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A more convenient one, then.

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Mhm.
*Inspects the walls*
This simulation appears to have failed, similar to room three.

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You believe so?

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I have marginally lower confidence than I did in room three's failure to manifest.

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*Walks to the other end of the room*
I see.
*Places my palm flat against the wall*

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I'm also skeptical, for that matter.

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*Removes my hand, leaving a luminescent green palm print on the wall. From this point, the wall begins to corrode away with quickly increasing speed*

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*On the other side of the wall is a cylindrical computer with a screen that wraps around the center of the complex, a model of the lab chambers lit blue with five flashing red*

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*Turns around*
I don't believe it for no other reason than things never end this easily.

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*Steps around the central computer*
Correct you are, my dear. These old systems weren't built with the level of rigor that I'm quite used to.

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*Steps around the central computer*
Correct you are, my dear. These old systems weren't built with the level of rigor that I'm quite used to.