[IC] Myriad Reality

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Has Ridge indicated involvement with any new controversies lately?

@System

No. None at all. The only key element I have to go on-
*Sighs*
-is the fact that the location he retreats to that I mentioned prior, was a full world he left simulating in the back of his mind. A planet with an imaginary society that’s just disappeared. And if it’s gone because something happened to it, then someone is out there with more knowledge of our past than I believed to still be around.

[Unhinged]

<Snipped quote by Heroic>

Hugs are a normal for a lot of places, especially as a greeting. I think he might’ve liked it.

@Zealz

*Stands up after Zoey lets go of me, looking mildly dizzy from the violently excited shaking*
I’m impressed with how well everyone took it, all things considered…
*Shakes my head to clear the dizziness*
Sven probably loosened everyone up so they were less perturbed by more visitors. Usually it’d be way more upsetting to folks.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

No. None at all. The only key element I have to go on-
*Sighs*
-is the fact that the location he retreats to that I mentioned prior, was a full world he left simulating in the back of his mind. A planet with an imaginary society that’s just disappeared. And if it’s gone because something happened to it, then someone is out there with more knowledge of our past than I believed to still be around.

@Valiance

Could his mental state have something to do with its disappearance? Simulating one’s past like that would be considered clinically unhealthy behavior.

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Could his mental state have something to do with its disappearance? Simulating one’s past like that would be considered clinically unhealthy behavior.

@System

It could. I can’t argue that it couldn’t. But to drop it entirely and also disappear himself, without a word of any kind, in any form, anywhere to anyone is where the coincidences start to tower to suspicious levels.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

It could. I can’t argue that it couldn’t. But to drop it entirely and also disappear himself, without a word of any kind, in any form, anywhere to anyone is where the coincidences start to tower to suspicious levels.

@Valiance

Who is the figure you alluded to earlier?

[Zealz]

<Snipped quote by Zealz>

*Stands up after Zoey lets go of me, looking mildly dizzy from the violently excited shaking*
I’m impressed with how well everyone took it, all things considered…
*Shakes my head to clear the dizziness*
Sven probably loosened everyone up so they were less perturbed by more visitors. Usually it’d be way more upsetting to folks.

@Unhinged

I think I did a good job helping too.

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Who is the figure you alluded to earlier?

@System

The common enemy? Whoever it is responsible for the initial tampering in your lab that wrapped you up in a whole lot of trouble.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

The common enemy? Whoever it is responsible for the initial tampering in your lab that wrapped you up in a whole lot of trouble.

@Valiance

And the figure from your past?

[Unhinged]

<Snipped quote by Unhinged>

I think I did a good job helping too.

@Zealz

How exactly did you get roped into all of this anyway?

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

And the figure from your past?

@System

It could be anyone. Ridge was infamous, back when we still had a people. Maelstrom’s always been a problem wearing my brother’s face, and his face was what everyone always saw.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

It could be anyone. Ridge was infamous, back when we still had a people. Maelstrom’s always been a problem wearing my brother’s face, and his face was what everyone always saw.

@Valiance

So your hypothesis is that one of them survived?

[Zealz]

<Snipped quote by Zealz>

How exactly did you get roped into all of this anyway?

@Unhinged

I wanted to follow Zoey around!

[Yatagarasu]

<Snipped quote by Yatagarasu>

Not cheating. Skill.

@Legend

*Sighs silently*

[Techspert]

<Snipped quote by Legend>

*Sighs silently*

@Yatagarasu

*Interleaves my fingers and sits silently for a few moments in deep thought*

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

So your hypothesis is that one of them survived?

@System

If it was an attack targeted at a recognizable mirage of the past? I see no likelier possobility.

[Unhinged]

<Snipped quote by Unhinged>

I wanted to follow Zoey around!

@Zealz

*My eyes shift to Zoey with a deadpan glare*

[Heroic]

<Snipped quote by Zealz>

*My eyes shift to Zoey with a deadpan glare*

@Unhinged

*Laughs nervously and throws an arm around each of your shoulders*
I am really glad you’re both here with me now.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

If it was an attack targeted at a recognizable mirage of the past? I see no likelier possobility.

@Valiance

Does anybody from your shared history stand out as a possible culprit?

[Valiance]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Does anybody from your shared history stand out as a possible culprit?

@System

More than anyone else? Not at all. Everyone is supposed to be dead and gone.
*Turns and stares out the observation window*
No offense to any of them though. I find it hard to believe most would give Ridge trouble unless things changed. He was always a step above.

[System]

<Snipped quote by System>

More than anyone else? Not at all. Everyone is supposed to be dead and gone.
*Turns and stares out the observation window*
No offense to any of them though. I find it hard to believe most would give Ridge trouble unless things changed. He was always a step above.

@Valiance

*On closer inspection, each of the slices contain a number of cyclic processes including eruptions, earthquakes, and squalls that maintain the weather and climate patterns in their sectors*
Then the going hypothesis is that one survived, secretly acquired the strength to eliminate or restrain Ridge, and then destroyed his imagined world?