Artifact

Myriad Reality

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I don’t think there’s anywhere to be here other than alone.

@Valiance

Once a hoarder has nothing left to hoard, why stay?
*Narrows my eyes, scanning up and down the mountainside*
Unless this planet sees more activity than meets the eye.

Myriad Reality

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Creatures of habit just like all the rest, I suppose.

@Valiance

*Sniffs the air*
Even with the cosmic dragon's influence, this behavior is unusual. Dragons live in solitude, but rarely perfect isolation.

Myriad Reality

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Lest our luck and ideals meet.
*Steps in behind you after a very brief moment and glances around, then looks expectantly up at the mountain*

@Valiance

As if its lair could be any more obvious.

Myriad Reality

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Roland made me stay behind on the last big venture. I want some excitement!

@Multifarious

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*Shifts my shoulder pad slightly and lumbers over behind you, rolling my shoulder a few times to loosen it up*

@Valiance

You'll both have more than your fill. With any luck, your fill of violence rather than distress.
*Steps through and emerges onto a barren, cracked stone of a landscape, chilled with a supernatural eerie cold, and scattered with canyons that break apart the endless plain—before us stands a single towering mountain to break up the monotony of the landscape*

Myriad Reality

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*Manifests in a wave of blue pixels, chanting to Roland with my arms raised*
Let’s go let’s go let’s go!

@Multifarious

*Summons a portal to the first universe*
You're eager, aren't you?

Myriad Reality

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*Blankly stares back for a moment*
You know, I think I will simply choose not to be mind controlled, and that will be that. Simple.

@Valiance

I agree with your proposal. First comes the unknown unknown.
*Rolls up the map and stuffs it away before stepping outside*

Myriad Reality

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I have resisted mind manipulators before. Where they scale to these things? I have no idea.

@Valiance

If it takes over your mind, I'll ensure your death is swift and pain-free.
*Smiles impishly*

Myriad Reality

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You've thought it through, for sure. Sounds like as good of a plan as we can get.

@Valiance

Before we go, do you have any resistance to mental manipulation? I anticipate that these worlds are infected at this point with that creature’s influence.

Myriad Reality

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Admittedly not a frequent experience I've had, to say the least. But sure, makes sense.

@Valiance

As important is the element of strategy. I don’t trust precious metal or gem dragons to forego some underhanded trickery, I’d rather the mind dragon not possess the rest of our foes before we slay them, and we ought to prevent the bone dragon from resurrecting our previous opponents, if that is indeed within its capabilities.

Myriad Reality

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What makes bone dragons such a joke, anyway?

@Valiance

Bone is not very durable, and undead usually possess but a fraction of their living counterparts’ strength. Simply put, have you ever felt threatened by an undead? Nor have I.