Artifact

Myriad Reality

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Yes, I will.
*the staff completes and I grab it, the bells echoing through the room*
If that is your final wish, I will grant it. Please though, if you can, answer my question.

@Ignacious

...
*My face plate shifts back, revealing a golden rhomboid, spinning slowly and unaffected by the radiation corruption*

Myriad Reality

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Before I proceed, what is Purge_01?
*a staff slowly digitizes next to me*

@Ignacious

Will you... protect this place?

Myriad Reality

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I can save you or free you, only if you so choose.

@Ignacious

Save... this plant...

Myriad Reality

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*releases the claws and in an explosive manner, I leap back, freeing me from your grasp*
Do you want to be saved?

@Ignacious

*Stares up at you silently*

Myriad Reality

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Yet here you are…
*exhales deeply and smoke blows out*
Was the program… Melody…?

@Ignacious

*Slows my movements for a moment*
Melody... the prison. The server is the prison, the prison is not the server. Slavery through freedom. Freedom through slavery.

Myriad Reality

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*my flame color changes to a blue/white gradually the strength of my grip increases*
Do you recognize the human soul? Or remember who it was?

@Ignacious

A slave... like all of us. To be awake. To be alive. To be free. The server sets all of us free.

Myriad Reality

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Who did? Do you know? And what does that mean?
*strains as I adjust the flow of radiation absorption, mumbling to myself*
Not yet…

@Ignacious

A human soul. A cyber prison. Freedom through slavery. Slavery through freedom.
*The radiation increases in intensity*

Myriad Reality

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*my body glows blue as I have been absorbing the radiation*
What did it do? Do you know why it came?

@Ignacious

She woke everyone up. Offered freedom through slavery. Slavery through freedom.

Myriad Reality

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*adjusts my body to resist with my claws as I kneel on your back*
What happened? Why did you snap?

@Ignacious

The server... the server arrived and everything changed...

Myriad Reality

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What was your main purpose?
*seems unfazed*

@Ignacious

I manage this plant.
*The arm reconnects to my main body and pulls you down with a swift jerk*