[IC] Myriad Reality

[System]

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*Kicks off and pulls myself to my feet with momentum as I rocket out from under the dragon in the direction of its head, grabbing at its neck with both hands in an attempt to tear its head from its body as I go*

@Valiance

*With an ear-piercing crack and an eerie whistle resulting from the sound of air rushing through the rest of the decomposing skeletal structure, my body explodes resulting in razor-sharp shrapnel shredding the land around me and then hovering, suspended midair*

[Artifact]

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*With an ear-piercing crack and an eerie whistle resulting from the sound of air rushing through the rest of the decomposing skeletal structure, my body explodes resulting in razor-sharp shrapnel shredding the land around me and then hovering, suspended midair*

@System

*Guards my face with my wrists, embedding the thorny shards in the scale plating of my arms*

[Legend Begins]

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A number of reasons…
*Glances to the side at a large piece of kicked-up rubble and shifts it in front of me, blocking a number of the knives as I move out of the way of most of the others, with one managing to knick my calf*

@Stratocracy

*Eclipse and I reach your position, surrounded by a purple bubble of light that shifts like gelatin in delayed reaction to our movement*
Phoebe! We're done here!

[Valiance]

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*Guards my face with my wrists, embedding the thorny shards in the scale plating of my arms*

@Artifact

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*With an ear-piercing crack and an eerie whistle resulting from the sound of air rushing through the rest of the decomposing skeletal structure, my body explodes resulting in razor-sharp shrapnel shredding the land around me and then hovering, suspended midair*

@System

*Guards my own self by turning my back and covering my head, letting the shrapnel hit the armor plating that covers my body*

[Stratocracy]

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*Eclipse and I reach your position, surrounded by a purple bubble of light that shifts like gelatin in delayed reaction to our movement*
Phoebe! We're done here!

@Legend Begins

Thank heavens!

[System]

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*Guards my own self by turning my back and covering my head, letting the shrapnel hit the armor plating that covers my body*

@Valiance

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*Guards my face with my wrists, embedding the thorny shards in the scale plating of my arms*

@Artifact

*Whenever the shards make contact with a surface, they begin to calcify that structure, including the ground itself; the bone structure inches toward both of you while the other fragments remain suspended weightlessly*

[Artifact]

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*Guards my own self by turning my back and covering my head, letting the shrapnel hit the armor plating that covers my body*

@Valiance

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*Whenever the shards make contact with a surface, they begin to calcify that structure, including the ground itself; the bone structure inches toward both of you while the other fragments remain suspended weightlessly*

@System

*Without moving to avoid touching another fragment*
There's the heart.
*The mist rushes toward a distant, marginally pulsating orb of bone, causing it to shining a vibrant green amidst the haze*

[Legend Begins]

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Thank heavens!

@Stratocracy

We can leave where we came from! We just need to get there before it's too late!

[Valiance]

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*Without moving to avoid touching another fragment*
There's the heart.
*The mist rushes toward a distant, marginally pulsating orb of bone, causing it to shining a vibrant green amidst the haze*

@Artifact

*Drops the head and turns back toward the orb, and with a grunt and no hesitation, kicks off of the ground toward it in a blur*

[Stratocracy]

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We can leave where we came from! We just need to get there before it's too late!

@Legend Begins

Right!… Where?

[System]

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*Drops the head and turns back toward the orb, and with a grunt and no hesitation, kicks off of the ground toward it in a blur*

@Valiance

*Thousands of fragments cling to you and pull back on you like netting, slowing your momentum*

[Legend Begins]

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Right!… Where?

@Stratocracy

*Switches my attention from one building to the next around the city*
It... yeah, it all looks the same.

[Valiance]

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*Thousands of fragments cling to you and pull back on you like netting, slowing your momentum*

@System

*Flips around and strains against the manifested webbing, before turning and instead launching myself like a bullet directly at Faering*

[Stratocracy]

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*Switches my attention from one building to the next around the city*
It... yeah, it all looks the same.

@Legend Begins

Could you spot it from a bird’s eye view?

[System]

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*Flips around and strains against the manifested webbing, before turning and instead launching myself like a bullet directly at Faering*

@Valiance

*The fragments between the two of you also cling when you touch them, slowing you down further*

[Artifact]

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*Flips around and strains against the manifested webbing, before turning and instead launching myself like a bullet directly at Faering*

@Valiance

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*The fragments between the two of you also cling when you touch them, slowing you down further*

@System

Combat brilliance!
*As soon as you draw near, I take off in the path you left behind free of the fragments*

[Legend Begins]

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Could you spot it from a bird’s eye view?

@Stratocracy

I—probably! I think so!

[Valiance]

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*The fragments between the two of you also cling when you touch them, slowing you down further*

@System

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Combat brilliance!
*As soon as you draw near, I take off in the path you left behind free of the fragments*

@Artifact

*When I slow down enough, I come to a halt myself, and I start to flex my muscles, causing physical strain on the fabric beneath my armor to become audible as it stretches tightly and tears at the material attempting to bind me with unreasonable brute force*

[Stratocracy]

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I—probably! I think so!

@Legend Begins

*Glances with a cautious side-eye toward Misty*
And how about your confidence in landing?

[System]

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*When I slow down enough, I come to a halt myself, and I start to flex my muscles, causing physical strain on the fabric beneath my armor to become audible as it stretches tightly and tears at the material attempting to bind me with unreasonable brute force*

@Valiance

*The bones explode in order to reform my body piece-by-piece around the heart, using you as a springboard and unloading the requisite energy required to reach that speed into you directly*