Artifact

Myriad Reality

*Takes a deep breath of desert wind*

Myriad Reality

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The weave.... sounds appropriate. What shall I do next?

@souleaterfan320

You'll be in this pain for a long, long time. You must obligate yourself to your chosen window into the nature of time. Everything must revolve around the element you choose. Some choose even more complex representations, although those tend to get out of hand. Perhaps you will drift toward your own signature discipline, as my student has.

Myriad Reality

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I tend to see time as branches mentally. Strands that can be manipulated.

@souleaterfan320

You may best align with the disciples of the tree, then. Or perhaps the weave.

Myriad Reality

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I see... for reverence... when I traveled through time, it would appear as a constant flow of light and shattered shards of glass. Those shards... acted like portals. Windows of time that I could look through. But there were also times where my powers displaced me without me attempting to use them. Im sorry if you've ever had to clean up after me..

@souleaterfan320

That's not a concern right now. Right now, you need to bind yourself to one of those disciplines. To me, time is a boundless desert.
*Waves my hand, swirling the sands around my arm*
The sands are aimless, directionless, and will swallow you up to be forgotten. The water freaks prefer to look at time's forward movement and seeming inevitability, with many tributaries and vortices. There are many other disciplines as well. Once you've adopted one, you can tap into many of time's deeper essences.

Myriad Reality

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Lets-

*grits my teeth in pain for a second*

Begin.

@souleaterfan320

Let's.
*Cracks my knuckles*
Time is an abstract structure, the nature of which we can only hope to grasp. Thus, we visualize time by nature of analogy. Of similitude. It's an imperfect way of looking at that which we serve.

Myriad Reality

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*winces, grititng my teeth a bit*

Ill take... this... over death. Any time.

@souleaterfan320

I hope for your sake you don't earn both. You won't die, at least not yet. But you won't make it out of this desert without learning the basics of a discipline.

Myriad Reality

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Dane: Do.. what you must.

@souleaterfan320

Very well.
*The sandy winds seem to pick up in intensity until the particulates feel as if they're cutting against our skin, while the battlefield slows down at the same rate that it becomes obscured from our vision*
This won't be pleasant.
*Your bleeding slows as well, but the pain remains*

Myriad Reality

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Displine.. of time...

*raises my hand, and you see a silver-like clock image with golden traces summon forth from my palm*

I'm....less than.. sufficient... but I can.. make it work.

@souleaterfan320

A higher-level branch. That's going to be hard to work with.
*Stares at you with a grimace, visibly contemplating for a brief moment that seems to span for quite some time*
Are you prepared to suffer great pain to live?

Myriad Reality

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Got... any.. ideas?

*coughs up a bit of blood*

@souleaterfan320

*Runs three fingers through the wet sand, muddied by blood*
How attuned are you to any discipline of time?

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Dane: *coughs up a bit of blood, looking over to you*

I'm.. alive... for now.

*I appear to be in rough shape, the hole in my stomach seems to be bleeding profusely, and I look pale*

@souleaterfan320

*Looks down at the wound and then at the clammy skin of your face*
You don't want to die here. Trust me.