Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Roars in the recoil of the attack, and the river explodes into golden walls reaching up into space, which split the city into four and expand in all directions, closing in on both of you*

@System

Worthless creatures.
*Grabs your jaws by the hinge and holds them open, twisting them directly toward Roland*

Myriad Reality

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*Tracks your position with the beam, keeping it trained on your movement*

@System

*Uses the distraction to barrel over the river's edge and slam my claws into your neck*
Of course you wouldn't be one of the ones to speak.

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.