[IC] Myriad Reality

[Tank O The Lake]

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*Puts one of the pistols away, exchanging it for what looks like a bomb, before turning to look at you when you yell with concern*

@Armed Forces

My daughter! Where is my daughter!?

*Looks to see an unconscious teenage girl being carried away on a stretcher by two androids. My posture goes ramrod straight, before I become a grey blur streaking across the battlefield after her.*

*Looks back to you*

HELP ME!

[Webmaster]

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*The moment you enter into the storm's boundaries, you feel reality itself warping wildly around you as well as within the very space you occupy, as well as all other things in it with you. The stressing and decompressing and tearing and reforming of reality itself occurring many times in every instant all eat away at everything within*

@Melodious

*The waterfall of data continues to flood the area with new viruses even as the existing ones are deleted—my own recovery barely keeps up with the rate of deletion, introducing minor bugs every few seconds*

[DELETED 93286j5]

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I’m almost inclined to think the mountain is supposed to keep that beast sealed in.

@Fractured

Perhaps. Or maybe the beast simply grew too fat for its own good. Although that would beg the question of how exactly. It isn't exactly easy to get food with creatures like that Beholder we killed sitting around.

[Fractured]

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Perhaps. Or maybe the beast simply grew too fat for its own good. Although that would beg the question of how exactly. It isn't exactly easy to get food with creatures like that Beholder we killed sitting around.

@Caldizar

It hardly seemed alive. It didn't like us being in its mouth, but it didn't seem to move very much.

[DELETED 93286j5]

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It hardly seemed alive. It didn't like us being in its mouth, but it didn't seem to move very much.

@Fractured

*Shrugs*

It might not be able to. Or that might be a result of it being so big.

[Fractured]

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*Shrugs*

It might not be able to. Or that might be a result of it being so big.

@Caldizar

*Nods*
That's a good point. There's something off about this entire mountain.

[DELETED 93286j5]

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*Nods*
That's a good point. There's something off about this entire mountain.

@Fractured

*Nods*

Agreed.

[Dark Cloud]

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*Nods*

Agreed.

@Caldizar

So the question is what to do about it.

[Fractured]

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*Nods*

Agreed.

@Caldizar

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So the question is what to do about it.

@Dark Cloud

Or whether we need to do something about it.

[Dark Cloud]

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Or whether we need to do something about it.

@Fractured

*Nods vigorously*

Indeed.

[Fractured]

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*Nods vigorously*

Indeed.

@Dark Cloud

If we can skip the monster, I vote to skip the monster. Would save me a lot of trouble.

[Nimda]

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If we can skip the monster, I vote to skip the monster. Would save me a lot of trouble.

@Fractured

You’d also skip all of those skill-ups you could get.

[Fractured]

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You’d also skip all of those skill-ups you could get.

@Nimda

That’s something I could live with.

[Dark Cloud]

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If we can skip the monster, I vote to skip the monster. Would save me a lot of trouble.

@Fractured

Sounds prudent enough, then let's skip it.

[Fractured]

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Sounds prudent enough, then let's skip it.

@Dark Cloud

We still have to figure out how to get down though.

[Dark Cloud]

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We still have to figure out how to get down though.

@Fractured

Indeed, if you'd just let me teleport you this wouldn't be so inconvenient.

[Fractured]

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Indeed, if you'd just let me teleport you this wouldn't be so inconvenient.

@Dark Cloud

No matter how much earth magic I learn, I will never teleport into the ground. That’s a mistake you don’t make twice.

[Tank O The Lake]

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My daughter! Where is my daughter!?

*Looks to see an unconscious teenage girl being carried away on a stretcher by two androids. My posture goes ramrod straight, before I become a grey blur streaking across the battlefield after her.*

*Looks back to you*

HELP ME!

@Tank O The Lake

*I keep running, ignoring the bullets shattering on the toughened graphene of my cloak. I am about to reach Alexandria, when, with a faint ptick, a dart embeds itself within my neck. I fall over and struggle to rise, struggle to fight off the sedative. Alexandria's eyes flutter, and she looks at me with a helpless gaze.*

Hold on... I'm coming...

*Before I finish my sentence, whatever they have Alexandria on drags her back down. I stand, but become unbalanced and fall to my knees. Seeing this, Dmitri pulls a dart gun of his own and loads a dart rimmed with blue, firing it into me. The heavy-handed dose of stimulants is enough to keep me going, but they need time to kick in. In the meantime, as I lapse into and out of consciousness, I am granted brief glimpses of the androids as they load Alexandria onto a waiting vehicle and drive her off. I am unable to stop them, with the stimulants only kicking in once she is far out of my reach, almost as if by a cruel hand.*

[Dark Cloud]

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No matter how much earth magic I learn, I will never teleport into the ground. That’s a mistake you don’t make twice.

@Fractured

Well you seem capable enough, try to see what you can do.

[Fractured]

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Well you seem capable enough, try to see what you can do.

@Dark Cloud

I thought you were supposed to be some kind of ultimate mage.