Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Roars in your face, and the aura of the cosmic dragon surrounds me before hexagonal pillars of gold erupt from the ground and rocket toward your feet*

@System

*Grabs one with my gilded hand and rips it out of the ground, and then swings it in a wide arc to break the rest of the pillars around me*

Myriad Reality

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*Watches silently*

@Valiance

They do resist each other. Good to know.
*My pupils constrict momentarily and backflips up and out of the gilded river by instinct, while the gold I was standing near liquifies and starts running again*
That may have made it angry.

Myriad Reality

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Seems like a good call.

@Valiance

I need to try something.
*Black scales coat my hands and arms, and I hover just above the river's bed, digging my hand into the soft metal, which creeps up the armor much more slowly than it did the mountain's rocks*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks across the horizon as we move, taking in any changes or movement in our surroundings*

@Valiance

*The town sounds eerily quiet without even the distant rumbles of the statues, but the murals here have captured the affects of denizens in abject terror staring at the water*
Dig?

Myriad Reality

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He'd just better hope it doesn't leave him exposed, in ways he may not anticipate. Come on.

@Valiance

Mm.
*The winding path eventually takes us to the midsection of one of the four primary rivers feeding into the city, itself also turned to gold, and from which all of the clocks drift forward*

Myriad Reality

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If running away means he has to expose himself to the open for even a moment, it’ll be very rough for him. I’ll just put it that way.

@Valiance

We're in his domain. If he doesn't have an escape route, I'd be shocked.

Myriad Reality

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We have about the best support from above you could ask for. Try not to get touched again, and the rest should be easy.

@Valiance

It's not so much that they're threatening as it is I don't want to give it a chance to run away.

Myriad Reality

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We have people observing from above too. If anything stands out in any way, you’ll know as soon as I do.

@Valiance

Let's make it quick. Those statues will slow us down.
*Moves my hand toward my mouth, dropping the draconic form and walks opposite of the previous mural, stopping to check the time every so often*

Myriad Reality

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*Filters through various basic optics to gauge things like hear signatures and energy emission from the city’s material itself*
I can keep trying. The gold is more than just gold, it has properties that make it hard to actually divulge much information beyond just actually looking at it. I can keep you posted if I break through.

@Multifarious

So we just guess and move in the other direction if the time starts going forward? Sure, that works.