[IC] Myriad Reality

[Etcetera]

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*Raises an eyebrow*

@Multifarious

Is anyone aware of what material this is made from?

[souleaterfan320]

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...you know what, yea, at the start of this I was fulfilling my word and doing my job because I bet my own life on it. I honestly felt that if you were suffering to the point that living was worse then death, and you wanted to off yourself, I would have let you if it wasn't for that promise. Because I can understand that life isn't all flowers and daisies, that to keep someone alive to just save your own heart from loss is a shitty thing to do, especially if they've been through hell.

But at this point, by damn I am not going to let someone I actually somewhat know off themselves because they keep holding a pity party over the past. I am not about to let some aquaintence I care about dig themselves deeper because of stubborn thinking. And I am not going to give you your pity party or let you think that you'll solve your problems by lashing out and doing the same shit until you vaporize into your own misery.

I don't know you well enough to call you a friend, but I am not so heartless to ignore what little connections I have with people, be them family, strangers, or my friends. And you're right, I don't know what shit you went through. And you don't know what shit I've been through. So stop stabbing your own damn will to live and direct that frustration and hurt into a mord productive direction, you dense fuck. Your life isn't over, and your "former friends" have yet to leave you even after the bullshit you've thrown at them.

So if it makes you feel better, cuss me, punch me, consider me your most annoying and twisted enemy, but don't you dare think I'm going to give up or do this halfway, however much you might hate me for it.

@Stabby

*rolls my eyes*

ugh... why do you care?

[Heroic]

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*I continue to rise as it hits me, and the rings of energy fly from my body in the same way before as I recoil and fly backwards, touching the spot where it hit; I sink back into the ground, and as I pop up again to perform the attack I strike a triangle and the next beam of light bends in a wild direction*

@Balance

*The space in the immediate vicinity is suddenly overwhelmed by massive pressure as the energy attack is compressed to a point and neutralized, and I very suddenly disappear from where I was standing while leaving the orb of light in place*

[Stabby]

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*rolls my eyes*

ugh... why do you care?

@souleaterfan320

Why shouldn't I?

[Balance]

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*The space in the immediate vicinity is suddenly overwhelmed by massive pressure as the energy attack is compressed to a point and neutralized, and I very suddenly disappear from where I was standing while leaving the orb of light in place*

@Heroic

*Immediately dismisses the shadow as it is an impediment to my vision and looks for you*

[Intrepid]

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Is anyone aware of what material this is made from?

@Etcetera

The material is nothing special. I believe it's basalt. Why?

[Etcetera]

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The material is nothing special. I believe it's basalt. Why?

@Intrepid

What is the significance of the ritual?

[Heroic]

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*Immediately dismisses the shadow as it is an impediment to my vision and looks for you*

@Balance

*The orb fires another beam of light toward you, this time continuously*

[Intrepid]

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What is the significance of the ritual?

@Etcetera

It is, by design, the only means by which he left his original body available to be accessed.

[Etcetera]

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It is, by design, the only means by which he left his original body available to be accessed.

@Intrepid

Then it isn't in any physical form here?

[souleaterfan320]

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Shadow Matrix, Crystallise! *The magical shadow transforms and turns into millions of tiny rips in the dimension through which the gas flows; the holes eat through the amaranthine until it disappears completely, dissipated out into empty space; due to the filtering of light, the rips look just like shadow, though not all senses are disrupted from now on*
Very clever. Wasting my magic. Art! Science! Ruined! So uncivilised. You know, learning and art are the markers of a truly great society, and you have just destroyed both like you have no taste. I should call you the lesser!
*Swings Vita in a complicated, sinuous form, and bursts of sharp light spring from the sword and shoot through further dimensional rips, appearing at random points very close to you and shooting toward your body*

@Disdain

*you find that the dimension itself no longer exists as it had earlier, and see that you cut directly into Amaranthine itself*

Abel: you're playing a losing game.

*whilst the amaranthine earlier was destructible, you find your attacks to have no bearing on my physical form*

so close to the truth, yet so far away still. I'd expect nothing less of a Lesser.

*fires an incredibly powerful blast of Amaranthine at you, coating your entire physical form in destructive force*

[Balance]

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*The orb fires another beam of light toward you, this time continuously*

@Heroic

*The chaos field I set up tries to bend the light and I try to summon and hold up a mirror in case the light doesn’t bend*

[Intrepid]

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Then it isn't in any physical form here?

@Etcetera

It is.
*Points to the pyramid*
Within that pyramid, the body is stored in stasis. He's in this very room with us.

[Etcetera]

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It is.
*Points to the pyramid*
Within that pyramid, the body is stored in stasis. He's in this very room with us.

@Intrepid

Why do we not break the pyramid?

[Heroic]

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*The chaos field I set up tries to bend the light and I try to summon and hold up a mirror in case the light doesn’t bend*

@Balance

*While distracted by the light, I appear once again directly above you, intentionally out of your line of sight and looking down on you, as I lock my hands together and swing them down on the top of your head like a hammer. The light bends as your field willed it*

[Intrepid]

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Why do we not break the pyramid?

@Etcetera

The magic it is protected with is elaborate and carefully crafted over countless millennia. Not only is it dangerous, but it would also ruin our chance of getting in.

[Etcetera]

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The magic it is protected with is elaborate and carefully crafted over countless millennia. Not only is it dangerous, but it would also ruin our chance of getting in.

@Intrepid

I see. Very well.
*Walks to the plate*

[Intrepid]

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I see. Very well.
*Walks to the plate*

@Etcetera

*When we are all standing on the plates at the same time, beams of light shoot up around each of us from the crack between the plate and the normal floor tiles around it, and a massive gust of wind picks up in the room that is visible yet unfelt within the confines of the light*

[Etcetera]

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*When we are all standing on the plates at the same time, beams of light shoot up around each of us from the crack between the plate and the normal floor tiles around it, and a massive gust of wind picks up in the room that is visible yet unfelt within the confines of the light*

@Intrepid

*Looks upward*

[Intrepid]

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*Looks upward*

@Etcetera

A small hole opens up within the center of the pressure plates after a moment, and I speak up to be heard over the wind*
Go ahead and insert the substance from your vial! Be careful not to insert the actual vial, however!