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*Each password generates a corrupted decryption key until ‘Tempo+Rhythm’ releases the cleartext contents of the whole folder, scattering across the desktop*

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*Pauses and stares down at the keyboard when the password is accepted*

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*The cursor blinks blankly as background services continue*

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*Takes a deep breath and starts sifting through the new information*

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*The new records contain largely benign experiment results, including successful and failed viral strains, but the results that align with the date of the sudden shift in research priority expose another set of logs concerning a patch labeled Purge01*

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*Reads more about “Purge01”*

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*The only traces of the program itself left are program fragments and error stacks from destroyed viruses, and the logs seem to indicate that the patch rapidly destroyed viral code sequences and traces of foreign data introduced to the test subjects*

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*Checks a change log and tries to see if the last time it was modified in the system lines up with the dates of the experiments themselves, or if it was notably more recent*

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*All of the metadata lines up with the experiment timeline, including variations of Purge01 itself according to viral trials*

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…
*Takes the program fragments and tried to piece them together like a puzzle even in spite of missing pieces, in an attempt to assemble even just a fuzzy image of something useful from it*

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*Takes a small jump forward*

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*Grins*
Yeah, I’d love to see one too.

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*you fall through the floor and a land on a platform that appears only at your feet, seemingly floating in the air*

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Well, maybe I might take you both to my library sometime.

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What, like a grimoire library?

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Grimoires, tomes, research on different magic and how it affects different worlds. Just to name a few examples.

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That would be awesome!!! Can we go now?

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*Steadies myself with my palm on impact*
That’s... unnerving.

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Nope!

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I can see the path…
*I point my tail in front of you*
Follow the direction of my tail.