[IC] Myriad Reality

[Melodious]

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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.

@Tank O The Lake

That's cute and all.

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

@Source

But things will be easier if we tie up loose ends before grinding the rest of you down.
*Despite experiencing spatial division, the crystal continues to acts as a unit*

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*A hole opens below me and drops me into it before the blasts connect*

@Webmaster

*Your head seems to glow with an ominous green light out of nowhere, though it seems harmless. The same happens to Isaac and Ona*

[Tank O The Lake]

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

@Armed Forces

Then I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place. You see, we've had our own problems with extraterrestrial entities. Notably, the Infestation, when a force of these parody-humans appeared on our world and laid waste to it. They could only feel joy from sadism, so they would torture anyone they captured. It took us two years and ten million people to fend them off. Now, our governments are rabidly xenophobic, and you being human would only aggravate them, as these aliens could shapeshift into those they killed. In short, if you showed up, don't be surprised if the world does not take kindly to your appearance.

[Armed Forces]

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Then I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place. You see, we've had our own problems with extraterrestrial entities. Notably, the Infestation, when a force of these parody-humans appeared on our world and laid waste to it. They could only feel joy from sadism, so they would torture anyone they captured. It took us two years and ten million people to fend them off. Now, our governments are rabidly xenophobic, and you being human would only aggravate them, as these aliens could shapeshift into those they killed. In short, if you showed up, don't be surprised if the world does not take kindly to your appearance.

@Tank O The Lake

I'll definitely keep that in mind for the final determination. Though, it's not really my say. I don't work directly for the government. I'm with a private group, I only report.

[Source]

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That's cute and all.

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But things will be easier if we tie up loose ends before grinding the rest of you down.
*Despite experiencing spatial division, the crystal continues to acts as a unit*

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*Your head seems to glow with an ominous green light out of nowhere, though it seems harmless. The same happens to Isaac and Ona*

@Melodious

I won’t give you the opportunity.
*The two spaces crash back together, obliterating the distance between you and me; I slam my fist directly into the crystal, which I phase through and hit from the other side with an equally devastating punch, placing me several yards away after it connects and leaving catastrophic forces clashing turbulently in the crystal despite the lack of physical contact*

[Tank O The Lake]

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That's cute and all.

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But things will be easier if we tie up loose ends before grinding the rest of you down.
*Despite experiencing spatial division, the crystal continues to acts as a unit*

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*Your head seems to glow with an ominous green light out of nowhere, though it seems harmless. The same happens to Isaac and Ona*

@Melodious

You've done me a favor, my friend.

*I propel myself directly into the aura, feeling as my body withers and dies. And yet, I do not. By sheer force of will, I live on metaphysically, a quite literal shadow of my former self.*

Now, regarding the slow decay of space you're causing. Is this- *I point to my hazy self.* -intended? Because if it isn't, then you're in trouble. You see...

*All over the system, warpspace rifts begin to open, spewing out thousands upon thousands of spacecraft, each flying the banner of the Withers.*

If what happened to me were to happen to that... best case scenario is you spawn a metaphysical race of Withers into the galaxy who are just as powerful psychically, if not more, yet even harder to kill. Worst case... even I don't want to talk about that. Unless, of course, you were trying to simply destroy Existence, in which case you and I should hang out sometime.

[Tank O The Lake]

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I'll definitely keep that in mind for the final determination. Though, it's not really my say. I don't work directly for the government. I'm with a private group, I only report.

@Armed Forces

Determination as to what? Whether to reveal yourselves or not? Or are we talking something else?

[Melodious]

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I won’t give you the opportunity.
*The two spaces crash back together, obliterating the distance between you and me; I slam my fist directly into the crystal, which I phase through and hit from the other side with an equally devastating punch, placing me several yards away after it connects and leaving catastrophic forces clashing turbulently in the crystal despite the lack of physical contact*

@Source

Nothing needs given. I'm taking it.
*Glances between the points where each of the three designated people are at present, having determined their exact locations, before disappearing in the direction Ona was sent flying earlier*

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You've done me a favor, my friend.

*I propel myself directly into the aura, feeling as my body withers and dies. And yet, I do not. By sheer force of will, I live on metaphysically, a quite literal shadow of my former self.*

Now, regarding the slow decay of space you're causing. Is this- *I point to my hazy self.* -intended? Because if it isn't, then you're in trouble. You see...

*All over the system, warpspace rifts begin to open, spewing out thousands upon thousands of spacecraft, each flying the banner of the Withers.*

If what happened to me were to happen to that... best case scenario is you spawn a metaphysical race of Withers into the galaxy who are just as powerful psychically, if not more, yet even harder to kill. Worst case... even I don't want to talk about that. Unless, of course, you were trying to simply destroy Existence, in which case you and I should hang out sometime.

@Tank O The Lake

Destruction is is stupid. Mindless destruction is worthless. My sole intent is to use Existence.

[Tank O The Lake]

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Nothing needs given. I'm taking it.
*Glances between the points where each of the three designated people are at present, having determined their exact locations, before disappearing in the direction Ona was sent flying earlier*

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Destruction is is stupid. Mindless destruction is worthless. My sole intent is to use Existence.

@Melodious

You don't think like I do. Then again, not many do. You know what? You've piqued my curiosity. What would a cosmic entity like you, a being of literal deific strength, which I would know, since we've killed a few, want with this place?

[DELETED 93286j5]

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Alna: Yes I am a man of m-
*A ripple appears in front of us as a nebulous figure saunters out with a young lady*
Aegis: Misty and I have returned, we failed to kill the general.
Alna: Oh yes, I nearly forgot about that! Hello m'dear!
@Webmaster

@Dark Cloud

*Raises an eyebrow*

Acquaintances of yours?

[Armed Forces]

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Determination as to what? Whether to reveal yourselves or not? Or are we talking something else?

@Tank O The Lake

That, but also whether to even propose the annexation at all.

[souleaterfan320]

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Is it? I'll need to try that out.

@Legend

I'd highly recommend it. Some of the best wine here on Sol-3.

[souleaterfan320]

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*My eyes go wide as I quickly find some form of cover*

@ZAVAZggg

* a few moments after the dust settles. You see a frigate class ship resting in a nearly quarter-mile wide crater. It had managaed to keep from destroying the city, only damaging roughly 10%, a few buildings with broken windows, debris scattered about. A single man walks from the wreckage, heavily wounded*

[Melodious]

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You don't think like I do. Then again, not many do. You know what? You've piqued my curiosity. What would a cosmic entity like you, a being of literal deific strength, which I would know, since we've killed a few, want with this place?

@Tank O The Lake

More strength, of course. I'm far from the strongest there is out there beyond Existence... For now, anyway.

[Source]

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Nothing needs given. I'm taking it.
*Glances between the points where each of the three designated people are at present, having determined their exact locations, before disappearing in the direction Ona was sent flying earlier*

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Destruction is is stupid. Mindless destruction is worthless. My sole intent is to use Existence.

@Melodious

*Rather than following, amplifies my own senses*

[Legend]

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I'd highly recommend it. Some of the best wine here on Sol-3.

@souleaterfan320

Where is it grown?

[Melodious]

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*Rather than following, amplifies my own senses*

@Source

*Speaking*
Tell me, will Artahe remain sealed if you are dead?

[Heroic]

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*Speaking*
Tell me, will Artahe remain sealed if you are dead?

@Melodious

Of course he would. My life isn't tied to the ability.

[DELETED jdl3932]

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* a few moments after the dust settles. You see a frigate class ship resting in a nearly quarter-mile wide crater. It had managaed to keep from destroying the city, only damaging roughly 10%, a few buildings with broken windows, debris scattered about. A single man walks from the wreckage, heavily wounded*

@souleaterfan320

*Crawls out from under my impromptu cover, a bench for all the good it'll do, and runs over to you*

What the hell is going on?

[souleaterfan320]

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*Crawls out from under my impromptu cover, a bench for all the good it'll do, and runs over to you*

What the hell is going on?

@ZAVAZggg

Man: *I fall to one knee, looking exhausted. I look up to see you, and imediately draw a sword with glowing, chainsaw-like teeth, and aim it at you*

Who are you?

[souleaterfan320]

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Where is it grown?

@Legend

I believe just outside of the tourist district. There's a lake with the orchard/winery just a few yards from it. Great place, clean air.