[IC] Myriad Reality

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

I'd like to keep it that way.
*Soon we approach the heart of the creature, a pale quasi-spherical bulb that emits white, ghastly tendrils like solar flares, and responds to our presence as we approach by pointing two thirds of the wisps toward us*

@Nimda

Ideally.
*Focuses my gaze ahead toward the target*

[Multifarious]

<Snipped quote by Multifarious>

Fair enough.
*looks at all the ships*
I wonder why she has so many.
*follows you under the ship*

@Blabbo

Probably just different purposes. This one looks like it’d be good for carrying cargo. That one over their seems like a good dogfighter. The big ones for moving people, and the bigger ones maybe as temporary bases of operation in different places.

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

Ideally.
*Focuses my gaze ahead toward the target*

@Valiance

*One of the wisps extends and curls around you*

[Nimda]

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

Ideally.
*Focuses my gaze ahead toward the target*

@Valiance

*The golden light attempts to escape me and is again repressed while I grit my teeth*
That backstabbing...
*Holds up my hand, and a sphere of pure white light erupts from my fingertips and crashes into the smoky appendages pointed toward us*

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*One of the wisps extends and curls around you*

@Artifact

*Flips forward several times and comes to a halt, landing suddenly and forcefully onto one of Chickpea’s artificial platforms*

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*The golden light attempts to escape me and is again repressed while I grit my teeth*
That backstabbing...
*Holds up my hand, and a sphere of pure white light erupts from my fingertips and crashes into the smoky appendages pointed toward us*

@Nimda

Just a little longer!

[Nimda]

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Flips forward several times and comes to a halt, landing suddenly and forcefully onto one of Chickpea’s artificial platforms*

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

Just a little longer!

@Valiance

*Claps my hands together, and as I pull them apart, a Javelin of golden light emerges between the gaps*
After this one, he's next in line.
*Launches the weapon directly into the spere*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Flips forward several times and comes to a halt, landing suddenly and forcefully onto one of Chickpea’s artificial platforms*

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

Just a little longer!

@Valiance

*What seem to be ghostly, disembodied hands extend forward from the main body of the sphere and clasp at you*

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Claps my hands together, and as I pull them apart, a Javelin of golden light emerges between the gaps*
After this one, he's next in line.
*Launches the weapon directly into the spere*

@Nimda

*Rocks at the impact, and several translucent white tendrils wriggle together to repair the damage*

[Magnanimity]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*What seem to be ghostly, disembodied hands extend forward from the main body of the sphere and clasp at you*

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

*Rocks at the impact, and several translucent white tendrils wriggle together to repair the damage*

@Artifact

*Fades into view from nowhere next to Roland, emitting beams of light from my body that shine through the hands and disturb their form*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Fades into view from nowhere next to Roland, emitting beams of light from my body that shine through the hands and disturb their form*

@Magnanimity

*As soon as you can see through the hands, you observe on the other side a gaping maw crashing down on top of you as if being consumed by the main body itself*

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*What seem to be ghostly, disembodied hands extend forward from the main body of the sphere and clasp at you*

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

*Rocks at the impact, and several translucent white tendrils wriggle together to repair the damage*

@Artifact

*Lurches, in a sudden, jerking motion, into a swift jab at the air toward you that sends a crack in spacetime surging toward the sphere, splitting reality like an earthquake severing the ground from itself*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Lurches, in a sudden, jerking motion, into a swift jab at the air toward you that sends a crack in spacetime surging toward the sphere, splitting reality like an earthquake severing the ground from itself*

@Valiance

*That visage completely fades away in the midst of the attack, which tears large chunks from the main body and are quickly addressed by the wriggling tendrils that aim to fill in the gaps*

[Nimda]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*That visage completely fades away in the midst of the attack, which tears large chunks from the main body and are quickly addressed by the wriggling tendrils that aim to fill in the gaps*

@Artifact

*Charges a beam of golden light from my palm, which annihilates all of the tendrils and burrows deeper into the surface of the celestial body*

[Magnanimity]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*That visage completely fades away in the midst of the attack, which tears large chunks from the main body and are quickly addressed by the wriggling tendrils that aim to fill in the gaps*

@Artifact

*Extending out from the platform Roland stands on, a larger structure comprised if blue hexagons manifests itself, from a flat 2-dimensional platform and rounding out into what appears to be a giant bullet aimed straight down toward the abomination*

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*That visage completely fades away in the midst of the attack, which tears large chunks from the main body and are quickly addressed by the wriggling tendrils that aim to fill in the gaps*

@Artifact

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Extending out from the platform Roland stands on, a larger structure comprised if blue hexagons manifests itself, from a flat 2-dimensional platform and rounding out into what appears to be a giant bullet aimed straight down toward the abomination*

@Magnanimity

…
*Raises my fist and slams it down into the ground, firing the bullet-esque structure at blinding speed into the living world, shredding through its surface and internals*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Charges a beam of golden light from my palm, which annihilates all of the tendrils and burrows deeper into the surface of the celestial body*

@Nimda

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

<Snipped quote by Magnanimity>

…
*Raises my fist and slams it down into the ground, firing the bullet-esque structure at blinding speed into the living world, shredding through its surface and internals*

@Valiance

*Enormous cracks open up along the surface on impact, releasing uncountable armies of additional tendrils, all of which worm toward you and seem to move faster when not in your direct line of sight, but the larger of which approach in no hurry*

[Spiritblitz]

<Snipped quote by Spiritblitz>

Pretend they were never there. It's not worth the risk.

@Techspert

Don’t think I can, bud…

[Techspert]

<Snipped quote by Techspert>

Don’t think I can, bud…

@Spiritblitz

...
*Sighs*
Every student I’ve trained has died because they failed to understand the forces they were toying with. Are you willing to adopt that risk?

<Snipped quote by Spiritblitz>

I was in danger?

<Snipped quote by Techspert>

I haven’t seen you this upset since... well, since we were kids.

@Session

Midnight, things are... really, really bad right now. I’m going to do everything to keep you safe.

[Spiritblitz]

<Snipped quote by Spiritblitz>

...
*Sighs*
Every student I’ve trained has died because they failed to understand the forces they were toying with. Are you willing to adopt that risk?

<Snipped quote by Session>

Midnight, things are... really, really bad right now. I’m going to do everything to keep you safe.

@Techspert

Doesn’t sound like you were in a state of good mind to teach either, Time Line.

[Techspert]

<Snipped quote by Techspert>

Doesn’t sound like you were in a state of good mind to teach either, Time Line.

@Spiritblitz

I’ve had several students across several eras. I wouldn’t take the role lightly.