[IC] Myriad Reality

[Valiance]

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“Stumbled?” As in, I found him there?

@Artifact

As far as I could tell.

[Artifact]

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As far as I could tell.

@Valiance

*Sighs with relief, as if a partial weight were lifted off my shoulders*
I hope that dragon told you the truth.
*Pops the crystal into my mouth*

[Etcetera]

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It’s new? Not something you’ve been pondering for ages?

@Stratocracy

*Shakes my head*
I thought he cared. This is way new.

[The Multiverse]

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How do I stop that fear? What could I do?

@Fractured

Fear may loom large, but... it is not an undefeatable foe. The key lies not in stopping fear, but in confronting it with something greater.

*I place a gentle hand over my heart, the glow around me intensifying slightly as if drawing from an inner well of light.*

Let love be your fire. Love for yourself, love for those you care about, love for what you believe in. When fear rises, meet it with that fire. It won’t extinguish all at once, but bit by bit, the flames of love will burn brighter, and fear will find less and less room to dwell within you.

[Valiance]

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*Sighs with relief, as if a partial weight were lifted off my shoulders*
I hope that dragon told you the truth.
*Pops the crystal into my mouth*

@Artifact

I don’t really know if its intentions were to lie to manipulate or not.

[Stratocracy]

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*Shakes my head*
I thought he cared. This is way new.

@Etcetera

If he truly didn’t care, then why did he do it?

[Interface 2]

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It’d be like going to infinity, and then suddenly reaching negative infinity? I think my dad told me something about that once...

@Memory

Trully! In fact infinity... infinity is what i am made of... but not in its totality, because infinity doesn't have a maximum nor a minimum. There's just infinity in all directions.

And there truly is such a thing as negative infinity... and surprisingly it is not even what C'thon is...

[Fractured]

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Fear may loom large, but... it is not an undefeatable foe. The key lies not in stopping fear, but in confronting it with something greater.

*I place a gentle hand over my heart, the glow around me intensifying slightly as if drawing from an inner well of light.*

Let love be your fire. Love for yourself, love for those you care about, love for what you believe in. When fear rises, meet it with that fire. It won’t extinguish all at once, but bit by bit, the flames of love will burn brighter, and fear will find less and less room to dwell within you.

@The Multiverse

*Stares forward, pondering your words*
...Thank you. I think I get what you mean.

[Etcetera]

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If he truly didn’t care, then why did he do it?

@Stratocracy

*Shrugs*
To kill time?

[Stratocracy]

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*Shrugs*
To kill time?

@Etcetera

That’s not something you do without purpose. It takes motive.

[Artifact]

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I don’t really know if its intentions were to lie to manipulate or not.

@Valiance

I believe its goal was to bring our two mirages into conflict by any means possible.

[Memory]

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Trully! In fact infinity... infinity is what i am made of... but not in its totality, because infinity doesn't have a maximum nor a minimum. There's just infinity in all directions.

And there truly is such a thing as negative infinity... and surprisingly it is not even what C'thon is...

@Interface 2

Really? What could possibly be more negative than C'thon?

[Etcetera]

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That’s not something you do without purpose. It takes motive.

@Stratocracy

It's a thing he would do. That's why it makes me mad.

[The Multiverse]

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*Stares forward, pondering your words*
...Thank you. I think I get what you mean.

@Fractured

*Pats you gently on the head as you feel a soothing sensation of innermost peace and comfort, as if you are truly cared for - then turns to leave while making sure the outer void is still unable to reclaim dominion by waving my hands gently to have a feel of the environment*

[Stratocracy]

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It's a thing he would do. That's why it makes me mad.

@Etcetera

Not even the absolutely insane do anything without some reason. Did he have any beliefs? Any desires?

[Valiance]

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I believe its goal was to bring our two mirages into conflict by any means possible.

@Artifact

There’s a good chance it was as simple, I’d say.

[Interface 2]

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Really? What could possibly be more negative than C'thon?

@Memory

I think that is even above my pay grade... i'm just one tiny subset of infinity... even just saying that feels meaningless. But...

Have you heard the tale of the human Georg Cantor? You probably haven't he's - well was - a human scientist from Benjamin's home world...

he tried understanding infinity, and it drove him mad...

[Etcetera]

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*Pats you gently on the head as you feel a soothing sensation of innermost peace and comfort, as if you are truly cared for - then turns to leave while making sure the outer void is still unable to reclaim dominion by waving my hands gently to have a feel of the environment*

@The Multiverse

*It pulses more gently, relaxing*

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Not even the absolutely insane do anything without some reason. Did he have any beliefs? Any desires?

@Stratocracy

To see if he could? Out of spite? For fun?

[Artifact]

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There’s a good chance it was as simple, I’d say.

@Valiance

And as long as you don’t see me as a monster now, that’s good enough for me.
*Retrieves the map*

[Stratocracy]

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*It pulses more gently, relaxing*

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To see if he could? Out of spite? For fun?

@Etcetera

Well the first option lends credence to what I was trying to get at. But who would he be trying to spite?