[IC] Myriad Reality

[Armed Forces]

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Scouting?

@Tank O The Lake

You seem like an analytical sort of guy. I'm not hear throwing myself into your world's most dangerous places for fun, exactly. Nor did I come alone. We're trying to determine how ready your world might be to be exposed to the bigger picture.

[Tank O The Lake]

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You seem like an analytical sort of guy. I'm not hear throwing myself into your world's most dangerous places for fun, exactly. Nor did I come alone. We're trying to determine how ready your world might be to be exposed to the bigger picture.

@Armed Forces

The bigger picture of what?

[Armed Forces]

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The bigger picture of what?

@Tank O The Lake

The bigger picture that you small lot are already aware of. Existence. Or, as those not experienced in the terminology of the interdimensional might call it, the omniverse.

[GalaxyRaider]

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I mean, we stole it, so it would be kind of hypocritical to really oppose it.

@Tank O The Lake

*Chuckles*
Great.
*Cracks my knuckles*
I'll get started now then, if that's cool. I'll try not to mess up anything important.
*Bits and pieces of wiring and technology start stripping from the walls seemingly on their own, and gently making their way through the air toward me*

[Dark Cloud]

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*Your wrist is impaled by another sudden piece of me jutting outward, this time like a spike, and my wrist bends as unnaturally as you try and force it*

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You impose your rules based on your reality on those from beyond your reality, and you'll quickly see you're dealing with more than you bargained for. Hope you have another trick up your sleeve.
*The hand is incinerated entirely upon entering my body, as the Brinkspace held within spirals outward and overcomes the reality behind me* Redefine absolution.

@Melodious

*Reels back seething, disappearing and reappearing a short distance away.*
Son of a bitch, ah fuck my hand.
*My hand slowly regenerates and a flex my new fingers.*
I should have known your as corrupt a being as I.

[Source]

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*Your wrist is impaled by another sudden piece of me jutting outward, this time like a spike, and my wrist bends as unnaturally as you try and force it*

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You impose your rules based on your reality on those from beyond your reality, and you'll quickly see you're dealing with more than you bargained for. Hope you have another trick up your sleeve.
*The hand is incinerated entirely upon entering my body, as the Brinkspace held within spirals outward and overcomes the reality behind me* Redefine absolution.

@Melodious

Hng.
*Hops backward and slams my other hand against the crystal, causing mountainous force to cascade up and down in the direction orthogonal to my palms*

[Tank O The Lake]

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The bigger picture that you small lot are already aware of. Existence. Or, as those not experienced in the terminology of the interdimensional might call it, the omniverse.

@Armed Forces

I'm afraid many more than you believe are already aware. The Gateway is supposed to work by passing its cargo through a spatially-contracted section of Existence and back, shortening millions of light-years to a few meters. When my colleague broke it, the thread was severed, "leaking" anything it tried to transport into Existence. The people, though, may not be ready. I can already imagine the religious crises that would cause.

[Armed Forces]

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I'm afraid many more than you believe are already aware. The Gateway is supposed to work by passing its cargo through a spatially-contracted section of Existence and back, shortening millions of light-years to a few meters. When my colleague broke it, the thread was severed, "leaking" anything it tried to transport into Existence. The people, though, may not be ready. I can already imagine the religious crises that would cause.

@Tank O The Lake

Well, there is a little more to it than that. I represent the largest known nation in Existence, here.

[Melodious]

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*Reels back seething, disappearing and reappearing a short distance away.*
Son of a bitch, ah fuck my hand.
*My hand slowly regenerates and a flex my new fingers.*
I should have known your as corrupt a being as I.

@Dark Cloud

Corrupt would be inaccurate. Simply different.

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Hng.
*Hops backward and slams my other hand against the crystal, causing mountainous force to cascade up and down in the direction orthogonal to my palms*

@Source

And now, it's time to change the game.
*The crystal suddenly releases a condensed explosion focused between your eyes, seemingly out of nowhere*

[Source]

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Corrupt would be inaccurate. Simply different.

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And now, it's time to change the game.
*The crystal suddenly releases a condensed explosion focused between your eyes, seemingly out of nowhere*

@Melodious

*Twists into a backflip, using my free hand to continue the momentum and landing on my feet*

[Melodious]

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*Twists into a backflip, using my free hand to continue the momentum and landing on my feet*

@Source

*The space you flip into distorts and tears violently in a confined region, collapsing in small, individual pockets*

[Source]

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*The space you flip into distorts and tears violently in a confined region, collapsing in small, individual pockets*

@Melodious

*When my foot hits the ground, spires of earth shoot above me and occupy the space in the pockets; any material left unaffected is converted into pure energy and shoots toward you*

[Melodious]

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*When my foot hits the ground, spires of earth shoot above me and occupy the space in the pockets; any material left unaffected is converted into pure energy and shoots toward you*

@Source

*On impact, the energy disappears into me as though disappearing into an endless void*
Game changed.
*The crystal suddenly begins to burn cold as you feel it sucking away at your energy directly*

[Tank O The Lake]

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*The space you flip into distorts and tears violently in a confined region, collapsing in small, individual pockets*

@Melodious

Hey! Nemid!

*You see an unnaturally tall, but painfully thin creature soaring towards you, propelled by his own telekinesis.*

Why don't we have a go?

[Tank O The Lake]

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Well, there is a little more to it than that. I represent the largest known nation in Existence, here.

@Armed Forces

And you want to annex us?

[Source]

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*On impact, the energy disappears into me as though disappearing into an endless void*
Game changed.
*The crystal suddenly begins to burn cold as you feel it sucking away at your energy directly*

@Melodious

We’ll see.
*Shoots more spires into the crystal*

[Melodious]

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Hey! Nemid!

*You see an unnaturally tall, but painfully thin creature soaring towards you, propelled by his own telekinesis.*

Why don't we have a go?

@Tank O The Lake

I'm through playing. I'm finishing you all off at together.

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We’ll see.
*Shoots more spires into the crystal*

@Source

*The purple seems to be changing to more of a blue, and the more you attack it now, the more actively it seems to sap from you. Space itself is modulates around me, mimicking an aura as it becomes more heavily Outside than Existence*

[Armed Forces]

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And you want to annex us?

@Tank O The Lake

Yes and no. Our expansion is predicated on willingness and cooperation, not hostile or forceful takeover.

[Tank O The Lake]

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I'm through playing. I'm finishing you all off at together.

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*The purple seems to be changing to more of a blue, and the more you attack it now, the more actively it seems to sap from you. Space itself is modulates around me, mimicking an aura as it becomes more heavily Outside than Existence*

@Melodious

Oooh, this is good.

*I reach one hand into the aura. It comes back rotten and skeletal. Yet still, the fingers move, though there it nothing to move them. I reach in once more, pulling out with no hand at all, but a wisp of shadowy smoke closely resembling one in shape.*

Nemid, anathema of Existence, destroyer of worlds, and- I'm just making this up. Tsk, tsk, tsk. What are we going to do about you? You forget, we are the epitome of resilience. Even if matter cannot exist here...

*I grab a Vampyr and hurl him, screeching, into the void. He comes back a shadowy, phantom creature with two glowing points of white light for eyes.*

Life finds a way.

[Source]

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I'm through playing. I'm finishing you all off at together.

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*The purple seems to be changing to more of a blue, and the more you attack it now, the more actively it seems to sap from you. Space itself is modulates around me, mimicking an aura as it becomes more heavily Outside than Existence*

@Melodious

*Swipes my arm diagonally across in your direction, cutting space cleanly in two with the crystal at its center*