Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*Chuckles*
I can't argue. If we're fortunate, today will be one of the boring ones.

@Legend

*Holds up my hand, crosses my fingers and smirks very slightly*
Fingers crossed.
*Another scan starts, but just after the pulse gets halfway between us and the floor, it can be seen to visibly flicker before dissipating, along with the lights, which seem to sequentially shut out on sets going from the bottom up and plunging us into darkness near pitch-black*

Myriad Reality

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I see. Are most of your objectives so high-stakes?

@Legend

No. But the coolness of stories kind of correlates to the stakes.

Myriad Reality

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Why compress rather than dissipate?

@Legend

It was far to concentrated and self perpetuating, I couldn’t remove the problem.

Myriad Reality

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I suppose that’s one way to avert disaster.

@Legend

It was ad hoc. And definitely improvised.

Myriad Reality

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Ah, you were responsible for the crystallization. That wasn’t a natural phenomenon.

@Legend

No, yeah, it was a result of what I did.

Myriad Reality

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What about when you initially acquired it?

@Legend

This may come as a shock, but after I forcibly compressed the thing down to size, it solidified, crystalized, and stabilized. And I held time in the palm of my hand. It was a crystalline object about the size and shape of a dagger, or large icicle. Roughly.

Myriad Reality

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How did you safely secure the artifact?

@Legend

I didn’t. That’s where I handed it off to Rythian.

Myriad Reality

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That’s unfortunate. How did you resolve the time anomalies?

@Legend

It self corrected when the area wasn’t affected anymore, bizarrely enough, so the cleanup was as easy as it gets.

Myriad Reality

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What a useful research conduit. Your team was fortunate to have found it.

@Legend

It is kinda just collecting dust right now. Lame as that sounds.

Myriad Reality

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Fascinating. Did you retain a sample?

@Legend

It still exists. The whole shard, locked away.