[IC] Myriad Reality

[Server]

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Mierno’s not exactly the sort to deal in the metaphysical, at least not to my knowledge. That bodes well for meaning it’s a manageable problem.

@Melodious

Do you know much about him?
*Any signal emitted by the scan is voided when it comes across the micro-black holes Mierno planted in my body's energy consumption systems*

[Legend]

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*Closes my eyes for a moment*

I can see why your father was rivals with him, if he was the type to make backup plans for what to do. But what was this plan? Just... find him and hope you can help?

@Yatagarasu

I'm not sure now. The message told me to adapt to the situation at hand, because it hit an unpredictable condition.

[Melodious]

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Do you know much about him?
*Any signal emitted by the scan is voided when it comes across the micro-black holes Mierno planted in my body's energy consumption systems*

@Server

Tangentially. We’re not particularly close.
*Tasks the computer to tally the number of points across your body where this phenomenon occurs*
I don’t know him to be a bad person though, at least not on purpose. Do you two not get along?

[Yatagarasu]

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I'm not sure now. The message told me to adapt to the situation at hand, because it hit an unpredictable condition.

@Legend

Then what is your plan for how to proceed? Run into a likely defeat and pray that you can save him? Gather allies to help you? What will you do if you're too late, if you were already too late to begin with? A recorded message doesn't give much assurance that he's safe.

[Legend]

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Then what is your plan for how to proceed? Run into a likely defeat and pray that you can save him? Gather allies to help you? What will you do if you're too late, if you were already too late to begin with? A recorded message doesn't give much assurance that he's safe.

@Yatagarasu

Find him, assess, get whatever allies we need. But the only way for us to make the right plan is to know exactly what's going on.

[Server]

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Tangentially. We’re not particularly close.
*Tasks the computer to tally the number of points across your body where this phenomenon occurs*
I don’t know him to be a bad person though, at least not on purpose. Do you two not get along?

@Melodious

*It appears only twice in my body*
He sets off my hunger, and hasn't been very good to me... Last time I saw him, he put me in a coma.

[Melodious]

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*It appears only twice in my body*
He sets off my hunger, and hasn't been very good to me... Last time I saw him, he put me in a coma.

@Server

*Sits down in a swivel chair, staring in thought at the screen and rotates back and forth slightly, legs crossed and using one ankle as a pivot*
Is that the start of your history or did it begin somewhere else, even before that?

[Server]

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*Sits down in a swivel chair, staring in thought at the screen and rotates back and forth slightly, legs crossed and using one ankle as a pivot*
Is that the start of your history or did it begin somewhere else, even before that?

@Melodious

At first he was helping me with my hunger. One day he snapped, and it's never been the same.

[Yatagarasu]

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Find him, assess, get whatever allies we need. But the only way for us to make the right plan is to know exactly what's going on.

@Legend

You very well could end up not getting a chance to assess, let alone anything else.

*Sighs deeply*

But you want to find your dad. If he was fighting Dynamo, chances are he ended up in the exact place I'm afraid of him being in. I'm not satisfied with your plan, but... Normally, I couldn't in good conscience prevent you from going, even if it made others aware of us...

But right now there are extenuating circumstances. So I'm sorry, but I can't let you go when there's such a high chance of you being traced back to here. Even if you don't know how you got here, others could reverse engineer a path from studying you, now that you've been here.

[Legend]

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You very well could end up not getting a chance to assess, let alone anything else.

*Sighs deeply*

But you want to find your dad. If he was fighting Dynamo, chances are he ended up in the exact place I'm afraid of him being in. I'm not satisfied with your plan, but... Normally, I couldn't in good conscience prevent you from going, even if it made others aware of us...

But right now there are extenuating circumstances. So I'm sorry, but I can't let you go when there's such a high chance of you being traced back to here. Even if you don't know how you got here, others could reverse engineer a path from studying you, now that you've been here.

@Yatagarasu

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, how does keeping us trapped here help anything!?

[Melodious]

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At first he was helping me with my hunger. One day he snapped, and it's never been the same.

@Server

*Leans forward and scans all wavelengths to see if there are any unique traces of radiation coming from your body, in particular from these epicenters, harmful or otherwise, and especially focused on thermal output*
Hmm… We can circle back to that, because I’m curious. This should be treatable, though, as long as Mierno hasn’t put any special rules in place with arbitrary ability tomfoolery. Have you experienced any physical pain that you think might stem from this, beyond just hunger pains?

[Audacious]

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You very well could end up not getting a chance to assess, let alone anything else.

*Sighs deeply*

But you want to find your dad. If he was fighting Dynamo, chances are he ended up in the exact place I'm afraid of him being in. I'm not satisfied with your plan, but... Normally, I couldn't in good conscience prevent you from going, even if it made others aware of us...

But right now there are extenuating circumstances. So I'm sorry, but I can't let you go when there's such a high chance of you being traced back to here. Even if you don't know how you got here, others could reverse engineer a path from studying you, now that you've been here.

@Yatagarasu

Can’t… Let us go?

[Server]

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*Leans forward and scans all wavelengths to see if there are any unique traces of radiation coming from your body, in particular from these epicenters, harmful or otherwise, and especially focused on thermal output*
Hmm… We can circle back to that, because I’m curious. This should be treatable, though, as long as Mierno hasn’t put any special rules in place with arbitrary ability tomfoolery. Have you experienced any physical pain that you think might stem from this, beyond just hunger pains?

@Melodious

*Shakes my head*
I'm just very hungry.
*The points seem to be emitting a form of slowly dropping low-energy waves, but nothing else of note*

[Melodious]

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*Shakes my head*
I'm just very hungry.
*The points seem to be emitting a form of slowly dropping low-energy waves, but nothing else of note*

@Server

That’s good. That bodes well in terms of how much any potential operation might hurt you, short or long term.

[Yatagarasu]

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Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, how does keeping us trapped here help anything!?

@Legend

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Can’t… Let us go?

@Audacious

I can't let you go there, to where I believe your enemy is. If you go to enough other dimensions, like I assume you would need to in order to find your way there yourselves, that would make it harder to trace a path back here.

*I place a hand on my head*

I apologize for my wording.

[Server]

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That’s good. That bodes well in terms of how much any potential operation might hurt you, short or long term.

@Melodious

What would it have meant if I was in a lot of pain?

[Audacious]

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I can't let you go there, to where I believe your enemy is. If you go to enough other dimensions, like I assume you would need to in order to find your way there yourselves, that would make it harder to trace a path back here.

*I place a hand on my head*

I apologize for my wording.

@Yatagarasu

*Sighs*
But are you telling us we’re out of luck? Because if trying to get there just means we end up here, and we can’t get past this point, then we just have to shrug it off and accept the loss?

[Legend]

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I can't let you go there, to where I believe your enemy is. If you go to enough other dimensions, like I assume you would need to in order to find your way there yourselves, that would make it harder to trace a path back here.

*I place a hand on my head*

I apologize for my wording.

@Yatagarasu

*Takes several breaths with sharp exhales*
Don't scare me like that. Can you at least give us some pointers or advice?

[Melodious]

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What would it have meant if I was in a lot of pain?

@Server

*Smiles at you through the window*
A few things. Mainly, it would have meant an operation could be more dangerous than otherwise. But for just about every reason, it’s good that it doesn’t hurt.

[Server]

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*Smiles at you through the window*
A few things. Mainly, it would have meant an operation could be more dangerous than otherwise. But for just about every reason, it’s good that it doesn’t hurt.

@Melodious

*Taps my fingertips together*
Do you think you might be able to help me?