[IC] Myriad Reality

[System]

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*Halfway along the walk to the next chamber, the material of the structure shifts from adobe brick to solid black stone, the gleams with an odd cleanliness for an ancient chamber against your light*

@Valiance

*Gingerly brushes my hand against the walls while I trace my way through the hall*

[Galvanize]

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That was you???

@Webmaster

Yeah…
*lava bursts upwards a distance away from us*

[Webmaster]

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Yeah…
*lava bursts upwards a distance away from us*

@Galvanize

Why didn’t you tell me?

[Galvanize]

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Why didn’t you tell me?

@Webmaster

I was going to tell you when I figured out how to control it. Cause I knew that would save us a lot of money.

[Webmaster]

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I was going to tell you when I figured out how to control it. Cause I knew that would save us a lot of money.

@Galvanize

Artemis is going to try to sell it somehow, you know.

[Valiance]

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*Gingerly brushes my hand against the walls while I trace my way through the hall*

@System

*At the end of the hall, a new massive grand hall is formed, with a ceiling so much taller and walls so much farther apart than it should feel possible given the structure's size itself. Hieroglyphics line the walls from end to end, all the way around the room, and at a distant point within the room, a shadowy figure looms over a humanoid one as they stare at the text on the wall*

[Galvanize]

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Artemis is going to try to sell it somehow, you know.

@Webmaster

That’s why I am glad that you went with me and not her.

[System]

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*At the end of the hall, a new massive grand hall is formed, with a ceiling so much taller and walls so much farther apart than it should feel possible given the structure's size itself. Hieroglyphics line the walls from end to end, all the way around the room, and at a distant point within the room, a shadowy figure looms over a humanoid one as they stare at the text on the wall*

@Valiance

*Scans through the hieroglyphics for decipherable language patterns*

[Valiance]

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*Scans through the hieroglyphics for decipherable language patterns*

@System

*None of the text seems to be able to be made sense of, for one reason or another*

[System]

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*None of the text seems to be able to be made sense of, for one reason or another*

@Valiance

*Looks toward the figures and zooms in my vision, keeping a distance*

[Valiance]

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*Looks toward the figures and zooms in my vision, keeping a distance*

@System

*Closer inspection shows what looks to be a woman tracing over text on the wall with a finger, while a still indistinguishable looking, monstrous shadowy figure looms over her shoulder*

[System]

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*Closer inspection shows what looks to be a woman tracing over text on the wall with a finger, while a still indistinguishable looking, monstrous shadowy figure looms over her shoulder*

@Valiance

*Sends a small drone forward to scout out the rest of the room*

[Valiance]

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*Sends a small drone forward to scout out the rest of the room*

@System

*The rest of the room is totally empty. A further ways down, out of sight from where you currently stand, stairs go up to a more extended grand hall that still has text-lined walls, but aisles of short bookshelves line the center*

[System]

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*The rest of the room is totally empty. A further ways down, out of sight from where you currently stand, stairs go up to a more extended grand hall that still has text-lined walls, but aisles of short bookshelves line the center*

@Valiance

*The drone creeps along the walls and visits the library above*

[Webmaster]

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That’s why I am glad that you went with me and not her.

@Galvanize

You think she would've done something?

[Galvanize]

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You think she would've done something?

@Webmaster

Nah, just bug me about utilizing my new ability.

[Audacious]

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*The drone creeps along the walls and visits the library above*

@System

*Occasionally the library's floors and shelves aisles contain a charred outline of an ancient human body, but the rest of the room is still utterly silent*

[Webmaster]

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Nah, just bug me about utilizing my new ability.

@Galvanize

She's going to do it anyway once she figures it out.

[System]

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*Occasionally the library's floors and shelves aisles contain a charred outline of an ancient human body, but the rest of the room is still utterly silent*

@Audacious

*The drone scours the halls for additional entrances and rooms, and also scans the bookshelves*