Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Twirls in circles around Roland as I try to observe everything as well, taking a closer look at any aging or decay on the structures or the plumbing infrastructure*

@Multifarious

*The structures gleam with holographic imprints of an active city, alive with the daily activities of its residents and this snapshot of their world, almost like mirrors into another plane*

Myriad Reality

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*Studies the city in detail from my high perch*
It wasn’t the ground that concerned me.

@Valiance

*The expanse of the city compromises a golden empire, built around five now-dry waterways leading into reservoir towers of varying heights ringing its easternmost corner and webbing throughout speckled buildings, towers, and angular monuments, all of which glitter with prismatic colors*
No?

Myriad Reality

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*Seems to visibly consider leaping down immediately after you, but then halts and waits, watching for a moment*

@Valiance

*Maneuvers through one of the buildings, flying in through a window and out through a door made of gold and adorned with precious gems, coming to rest on the streets with a beat of my wings—the city rumbles in observation of our presence, but does not act further*
The land appears to be safe!

Myriad Reality

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*Drops the large chunk of earth still remaining in my hands, watching it fall to the city below*
No chance to go back to being subtle now.

@Valiance

Then how about we ensure we’re entertainingly loud?
*Swoops up and arcs deep into the city*

Myriad Reality

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*Summons a blue pixelated platform beneath everyone before the fall becomes any more than a few feet as I look down upon the exposed world*
You think their eyes need to adjust to the light?

@Multifarious

I wouldn't count on it.
*Wings sprout from my back*
Especially since its real home is much less obvious.

Myriad Reality

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*The grounds starts to raise, the with the mountain at the far end being ripped from the ground like a lever where I am the fulcrum*

@Valiance

*Without the support of their central pillar of stability, entire slabs of the outermost surface of the planet crumble beneath our feet, falling in chunks into the abyss below, where between the boundaries of the surrounding supercanyons, the world itself is hollow, barely illuminated instead by the golden glints of reflected light against the illustrious architecture of a metallic nation deep below the crust*

Myriad Reality

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Actually, allow me to take it a step further.
*Reaches down and plants my hands into the earth forming cracks in the ground the begin at my fingers and split the ground along a path towards either side of the mountain*

@Valiance

Perfect!
*An earthquake rumbles from where we stand and the cracks encircle the mountain, eating away at the stability of all the surrounding lands*

Myriad Reality

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You have no idea how down I am with foregoing subtlety.

@Valiance

Then please—
*Raises both of my hands to the side and motions toward the mountain*
Be my guest!

Myriad Reality

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*Raises a fist and clenches it so tightly that my knuckles pop*
Knock really hard.

@Valiance

Yes...
*Nods*
Close enough to what I was thinking.

Myriad Reality

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Oh yeah. Mountain is way more hollow than it looks.

@Multifarious

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?