[IC] Myriad Reality

[Stratocracy]

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*After much walking, the hollow skull housing eclipse becomes the most prominent feature of the horizon*

@Legend Begins

*Pauses only momentarily, shaking my head at the sight as I continue toward it*

[Fractured]

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*Pauses only momentarily, shaking my head at the sight as I continue toward it*

@Stratocracy

*The skull emits an aura of safety and security, but not absent of its accompanying suspicion—inside is an opened floor-bound hatch full of a thick inky blackness twinkling with faint refractions of light*

[Nimda]

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*Stays wary of any further change in my surroundings, of any threats or such making themselves apparent*

@Valiance

*My voice emits from one side of you and then the other with each sentence as the scenery rolls along the wind of my breath like a detailed vapor*
She's hidden her true nature from you. A monster who's consumed as much of her own kind as she has mine. I can offer a means to put the heavenly one to a deeper slumber that she cannot.

[Stratocracy]

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*The skull emits an aura of safety and security, but not absent of its accompanying suspicion—inside is an opened floor-bound hatch full of a thick inky blackness twinkling with faint refractions of light*

@Fractured

Is anyone down there?
*Waits momentarily for a response*

[Valiance]

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*My voice emits from one side of you and then the other with each sentence as the scenery rolls along the wind of my breath like a detailed vapor*
She's hidden her true nature from you. A monster who's consumed as much of her own kind as she has mine. I can offer a means to put the heavenly one to a deeper slumber that she cannot.

@Nimda

Right. And the reason I am to believe I’m not being manipulated by the namesake “Mind Dragon” would be what exactly?

[Nimda]

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Right. And the reason I am to believe I’m not being manipulated by the namesake “Mind Dragon” would be what exactly?

@Valiance

I can reveal truth and sow division, but I cannot lie. Your companion is far more wicked than I.

[Fractured]

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Is anyone down there?
*Waits momentarily for a response*

@Stratocracy

*No sound emerges but the glooping of the liquid, but you catch glimpses of Eclipse and myself in the glimmers of its surface*

[Stratocracy]

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*No sound emerges but the glooping of the liquid, but you catch glimpses of Eclipse and myself in the glimmers of its surface*

@Fractured

Hello?
*Looks around momentarily, picking up a small twig and poking the strange liquid with it*

[Valiance]

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I can reveal truth and sow division, but I cannot lie. Your companion is far more wicked than I.

@Nimda

Why can’t you lie? Why should I believe that?

[Fractured]

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Hello?
*Looks around momentarily, picking up a small twig and poking the strange liquid with it*

@Stratocracy

*The liquid overreacts to the touch, bouncing back and forth like a gel*
...
*Looks toward you, my feet pointing toward the surface, and waves*

[Nimda]

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Why can’t you lie? Why should I believe that?

@Valiance

That question is an endless spiral in pursuit of truth. I can see her entire history, and her tortured life caught between her people and the creatures she despises.

[Valiance]

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That question is an endless spiral in pursuit of truth. I can see her entire history, and her tortured life caught between her people and the creatures she despises.

@Nimda

I know as much.

[Stratocracy]

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*The liquid overreacts to the touch, bouncing back and forth like a gel*
...
*Looks toward you, my feet pointing toward the surface, and waves*

@Fractured

*Raises an eyebrow as I slowly wave at you in confusion*

[Fractured]

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*Raises an eyebrow as I slowly wave at you in confusion*

@Stratocracy

*One word of my voice echoes out of the pool*
Deep.

[Stratocracy]

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*One word of my voice echoes out of the pool*
Deep.

@Fractured

Huh?
*Points at myself and then points at you*

[Fractured]

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Huh?
*Points at myself and then points at you*

@Stratocracy

*Stares at you with a questioning look, barely visible amidst the refraction*

[Nimda]

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I know as much.

@Valiance

You can see what she wants you to see. Your position is very different than my own.

[Stratocracy]

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*Stares at you with a questioning look, barely visible amidst the refraction*

@Fractured

*Drops my twig into the liquid*

[Valiance]

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You can see what she wants you to see. Your position is very different than my own.

@Nimda

I’ve seen and heard about all the bad things she has done. What you’re failing to acknowledge is something she even displayed just moments ago, when she saved people even I believed couldn’t be. If you tell me there’s nothing to be redeemed in that, then I know you’re lying.

[Spiritblitz]

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*Waves back, the word “fear” bouncing against “safe”*

@Fractured

*the word protect comes up from my hand and wraps around you*