[IC] Myriad Reality

[Webmaster]

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Well it's not so much hard to explain, more so hard to translate. Impossible, actually, if you want complete accuracy. But to put it as close as possible... I suppose you could say they're a lot like sheets of paper with information inscribed on them all arranged in a vertical filing cabinet. With higher dimensions possessing more information than lower ones, and by extension more energy too.

*Pauses*

This does not always result in sapient life from what I've found, it rarely does actually, but there is the occasional higher being that I've met here and there.

@Zyx

Are you a higher or lower dimension?

[ANYM]

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Are you a higher or lower dimension?

@Webmaster

*The world beyond the rift sloughs about once more, and you get a distinct feeling of pride wafting off of its motions*

Higher, naturally. Most lower dimensions are impossible to make sentient, let alone sapient, since there isn't enough information to make use of. Not enough complexity, if you will. It'd be like trying to shove a human intelligence onto an old vacuum-tube computer and expecting that individual to have the same level of intelligence once you're done - assuming you could even make the different hardware setups compatible to begin with that is.

[Multifarious]

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Any ideas?

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*Blasts the barrier with my cannon*

@Server

*It shimmers in response as they begin to move closer on either side*

[Webmaster]

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*The world beyond the rift sloughs about once more, and you get a distinct feeling of pride wafting off of its motions*

Higher, naturally. Most lower dimensions are impossible to make sentient, let alone sapient, since there isn't enough information to make use of. Not enough complexity, if you will. It'd be like trying to shove a human intelligence onto an old vacuum-tube computer and expecting that individual to have the same level of intelligence once you're done - assuming you could even make the different hardware setups compatible to begin with that is.

@Zyx

So higher dimensions are even more suitable to sustaining a consciousness? That's unlike anything I've ever heard before.

[Server]

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*It shimmers in response as they begin to move closer on either side*

@Multifarious

*Pushes against one of them with all of my weight*

[Crew]

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Any ideas?

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*Blasts the barrier with my cannon*

@Server

*Tries a door within our encapsulated space, to no avail, then kicks it down, rushing into a standard, small hospital room*

[Server]

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*Tries a door within our encapsulated space, to no avail, then kicks it down, rushing into a standard, small hospital room*

@Crew

*Follows behind you*

[ANYM]

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So higher dimensions are even more suitable to sustaining a consciousness? That's unlike anything I've ever heard before.

@Webmaster

Neither had I until I became one. But in a way it kind of makes sense, although too much complexity means the ascending mind won't be compatible enough and will end up frying itself in the process.

*Pauses to slosh some more, as though thinking*

Come to think of it, it would explain why human religions always had ascension be a thing relating to a peak or height one needed to reach. And it also explains why so many visions of places such as heaven were described so inconsistently and incomprehensibly. It was likely because they were higher dimensions whose complexity was too great for the observing intellect to properly process.

[Heroic]

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Orion: *nods to the both of you, and flits away*

Shinji:*turns to you*

Watch your six, 1,500 units on the right flank and increasing. Seemsl ike that's the easiest access point to get into the station from here. They'll flood in from that access point. Let's pinch them in that hallway and prevent their advance.

*arts to the left, pushing back the masses with an energy wave, forcing my side toward the hallway*

@souleaterfan320

Hm.
*With a reverberating hum, a blue aura forms around my hands that coalesce to a sharp point, then with another, loud swoosh, it converts to white-hot, emitting heat that chars even the ground in my immediate area just from being in proximity. I face the armada full-on, and blast them all with an overwhelming swath of both heat and kinetic energy, sending them tumbling away*

[Crew]

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*Follows behind you*

@Server

*Looks around, and sees no alternate escapes. No vents, windows, or anything of the sort exist in the room*
Absolute dead end…
*A draft seems to flow in unnaturally from the ceiling.*

[Server]

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*Looks around, and sees no alternate escapes. No vents, windows, or anything of the sort exist in the room*
Absolute dead end…
*A draft seems to flow in unnaturally from the ceiling.*

@Crew

*Scans from one object to another, looking for a way out before I turn my gaze upward*

[Webmaster]

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Neither had I until I became one. But in a way it kind of makes sense, although too much complexity means the ascending mind won't be compatible enough and will end up frying itself in the process.

*Pauses to slosh some more, as though thinking*

Come to think of it, it would explain why human religions always had ascension be a thing relating to a peak or height one needed to reach. And it also explains why so many visions of places such as heaven were described so inconsistently and incomprehensibly. It was likely because they were higher dimensions whose complexity was too great for the observing intellect to properly process.

@Zyx

Do you regret your decision?

[Multifarious]

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*Scans from one object to another, looking for a way out before I turn my gaze upward*

@Server

*The ceiling shimmers as we enter the room*

[Server]

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*The ceiling shimmers as we enter the room*

@Multifarious

*Jumps and raps my knuckles against the ceiling*

[ANYM]

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Do you regret your decision?

@Webmaster

*Is silent*

...you know, I'm not sure. On the one hand, I cannot experience existence in the same way I once did, but on the other I've managed to achieve so much more even if it's by sheer accident. After all, beyond the boundary this portal represents I can do pretty much anything I set my mind to. That's not something everyone can make good on, no matter how many times they might say it to themselves in a day.

[Nemeses]

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*Jumps and raps my knuckles against the ceiling*

@Server

*When you jump, an arm suddenly thrusts through the ceiling, intangible to the material, grabs your forearm and yanks you through, pulling you upward and tossing you to the side on the ground floor above*

[Server]

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*When you jump, an arm suddenly thrusts through the ceiling, intangible to the material, grabs your forearm and yanks you through, pulling you upward and tossing you to the side on the ground floor above*

@Nemeses

Wha—woah!

[Webmaster]

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*Is silent*

...you know, I'm not sure. On the one hand, I cannot experience existence in the same way I once did, but on the other I've managed to achieve so much more even if it's by sheer accident. After all, beyond the boundary this portal represents I can do pretty much anything I set my mind to. That's not something everyone can make good on, no matter how many times they might say it to themselves in a day.

@Zyx

Do you ever feel lost, or stuck?

[Nemeses]

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Wha—woah!

@Server

*Zyland comes tumbling after you moments later, and I stand up without hesitation*
7th floor from the top. Floor 1398.
*Leaps and disappears into the ceiling like a ghost*

[ANYM]

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Do you ever feel lost, or stuck?

@Webmaster

Not particularly. It's rather hard to be lost or stuck when you're an entire dimension after all, though most of my time has been spent gathering matter and energy from uninhabited portions of the universe so that I can increase the space I have to work with.

*Pauses and shifts. A sign of discomfort in any language*

Apologies for that, by the way. I wasn't aware you were in the radius of the portal's siphon.