Audacious

Myriad Reality

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These are numbers, and they’re counting down. It’s possible that the device is going to launch some kind of offensive.

@Legend

Sooo will it let you stop it?

Myriad Reality

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I see. Very well.
*Plucks a device out of my eye and leaves it suspended, directed at the screen, and begins a linguistic pattern analysis of the character structure, order, and frequency*

@Legend

*There are 12 total characters represented, and the change increments and pattern indicate a countdown in a base 12 number system*

Myriad Reality

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Are you able to read this?

@Legend

*Arches my back, leaning as far as I can without letting go of the pylons*
Uhh, no. No I can’t.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks around the room for new devices*
I don’t want to chance that notion.

@Legend

It doesn’t sound like practical design to put the place where you work in the barrel of the gun!
*Nothing new appears to be around except for the notification on the window with the changing text*

Myriad Reality

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As far as I’m concerned, we’ve been in the barrel of a weapon since we entered the tower.

@Legend

I don’t think it works like a gun… Um, but I’m starting to have my doubts.

Myriad Reality

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This device is bizarre...

@Legend

Are you sure it isn’t a weapon? It feels like a weapon.
*Looks up as the door opens wider, raising our platform into what appears to be a well lit room*

Myriad Reality

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I’m not certain why we’d be delivered anything.

@Legend

*The rod eventually approaches the bottom of the platform, but doesn’t stop, and the platform begins to rise as the ceiling opens up via a sort of hangar door that was not apparent before. The primary terminal begins flashing characters in indecipherable script as well*

Myriad Reality

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Good question. Right now, it appears to be a sort of battery, but that assessment may change.

@Legend

I hope you’re right about that. Not sure why we’d be delivered a dangerous sounding mega battery.

Myriad Reality

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Hm, we may be able to use that as our generator instead.

@Legend

What is it?

Myriad Reality

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*Walks over to the opening we came from and looks down*

@Legend

*A humongous metal rod is is slowly rising from where the ground floor opened up, supercharged and overflowing with copious amounts of the same Element of Power that powers the terminal and the mechanisms it controls*