[IC] Myriad Reality

[Server]

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I’m just brainstorming here. Dramatic brainstorm talk, you know. But there’s nothing that comes to mind that could cause this, even if you feel like it shouldn’t be happening here?

@GalaxyRaider

Do you have a geiger counter?

[GalaxyRaider]

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Do you have a geiger counter?

@Server

*Summons one to my hand in a flash*

[Server]

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*Summons one to my hand in a flash*

@GalaxyRaider

*It beeps noticeably more the closer we get to the facility, but not to immediately dangerous levels*

[GalaxyRaider]

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*It beeps noticeably more the closer we get to the facility, but not to immediately dangerous levels*

@Server

Is radiation harmful to you in any way?

[Server]

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Is radiation harmful to you in any way?

@GalaxyRaider

It's not great, but I'll be fine.

[GalaxyRaider]

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It's not great, but I'll be fine.

@Server

Okay. If it’s like this here, might get worse.

[Server]

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Okay. If it’s like this here, might get worse.

@GalaxyRaider

I'll bounce if it gets bad enough. That must've caused the corrosion too.

[GalaxyRaider]

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I'll bounce if it gets bad enough. That must've caused the corrosion too.

@Server

Mm. Precautions can be taken. But I’d definitely appreciate taking our time here as little as possible.

[Server]

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Mm. Precautions can be taken. But I’d definitely appreciate taking our time here as little as possible.

@GalaxyRaider

What bothers me more is why there's any radiation at all. This place has been decommissioned for years.

[GalaxyRaider]

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What bothers me more is why there's any radiation at all. This place has been decommissioned for years.

@Server

It was pretty safe last time we were here. Perhaps it’s just as simple as some stuff was forgotten and left behind radiation shielding that’s given way now.
*Shakes my head*
Not a good thing to have just sitting around either way.

[Server]

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It was pretty safe last time we were here. Perhaps it’s just as simple as some stuff was forgotten and left behind radiation shielding that’s given way now.
*Shakes my head*
Not a good thing to have just sitting around either way.

@GalaxyRaider

Negligent at best, criminal at worst. Do you need to wait out here?

[GalaxyRaider]

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Negligent at best, criminal at worst. Do you need to wait out here?

@Server

I’ve got ways to handle it if it gets bad enough.

[Server]

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I’ve got ways to handle it if it gets bad enough.

@GalaxyRaider

I hope so. I don't need you growing a third arm out your neck.
*Heads inside*

[GalaxyRaider]

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I hope so. I don't need you growing a third arm out your neck.
*Heads inside*

@Server

I know a couple guys who could fix that.
*Ducks in behind you*
But odds are a mutation would be far less useful than a whole new arm.

[Server]

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I know a couple guys who could fix that.
*Ducks in behind you*
But odds are a mutation would be far less useful than a whole new arm.

@GalaxyRaider

I don't know, you have like, ghastly sorts of luck.
*The wall that separated us from the core of the plant originally is completely torn down and most of the equipment lies in pieces, disassembled*

[GalaxyRaider]

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I don't know, you have like, ghastly sorts of luck.
*The wall that separated us from the core of the plant originally is completely torn down and most of the equipment lies in pieces, disassembled*

@Server

*Glances down at the ticking geiger counter as we walk, and I tilt my head to the side for a moment*
Agree to disagree.

[Server]

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*Glances down at the ticking geiger counter as we walk, and I tilt my head to the side for a moment*
Agree to disagree.

@GalaxyRaider

*It continues ticking faster, but still within marginally-safe levels*
I guess it depends on your perspective. If you get struck by lightning three times, are you unlucky because of your circumstances, or lucky because you survived?
*Past the dismantled control room and through a narrow shaft is a close, experimental monitoring station, complete with its own set of broken technology, once-protective lead pillars now lying horizontally on the ground, and an ashy white powder coating the ground*

[GalaxyRaider]

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*It continues ticking faster, but still within marginally-safe levels*
I guess it depends on your perspective. If you get struck by lightning three times, are you unlucky because of your circumstances, or lucky because you survived?
*Past the dismantled control room and through a narrow shaft is a close, experimental monitoring station, complete with its own set of broken technology, once-protective lead pillars now lying horizontally on the ground, and an ashy white powder coating the ground*

@Server

*Aims the geiger counter at the debris around the room*

[Server]

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*Aims the geiger counter at the debris around the room*

@GalaxyRaider

*Much of the debris ticks up to unsafe levels in close proximity and the room itself exceeds healthy limits of radiation, and a sole terminal blinks blue amidst the ruined equipment, wedged between the lead pillars*