Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Both of them, right? Because if it doesn't work the way we hope it does, then no signal gets out and home is lost.

@Legend

Is it less risky to try and fix all of them? Actually, do we have enough time to?

Myriad Reality

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It really would be a do-or-die move. If we're wrong, we run out of options.

@Legend

In both cases?

Myriad Reality

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I don't know about all that. But if you can fix the machines, maybe we can look and see the last universes they were talking to like we did here?

@Legend

Here’s another couple of options, Nd I just want you to hear me out on them because one sounds crazy. What if we went through and destroyed the ones that are still intact too? Or secondly, what if we just went and “fixed” only one of the stations? In the first case, it could maybe just turn off the whole system’s ability to hide anything? That may or may not be too extreme, but the second one… What if there being only one working facility out of all the ones that got destroyed means signals are forced to route there?

Myriad Reality

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I'm just thinking... Like, we have a detector, right? The problem is that we don't have enough detectors. But what if we went through all those worlds and turned the machines back on using your power?

@Legend

Surely he went through and disabled them all to make it easier to get to your home, right? If I even can do that, wouldn’t having them back on probably re-strengthen the system and make it even harder to find?

Myriad Reality

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First for me, anyway. How far can you take that? Can you undo the damage he caused?

@Legend

I don’t know, to be completely and fully honest with you. I have no idea what the stuff really is, or what it did.

Myriad Reality

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But, like, you reversed it. That's amazing.

@Legend

*Smiles slightly and turns back to looking at the facility*
Is that a first?

Myriad Reality

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Hey Violet, I saw you turn the other world back to normal earlier. How did you do that?

@Legend

Hm?… On the destroyed station? Same way I’d do it anywhere else, really. I took all the parts I didn’t like and just… Moved them somewhere else.

Myriad Reality

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Well, that does make me feel a bit better. I just don't want to put all my chips on him not knowing what he's doing, you know?

@Legend

I’m not betting on it either. But it is a calming thought.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods*
But if the system is tanked, all bets are off. And I really don't like the idea that he's going to find our home if he's gotten lucky with the stations.

@Legend

With some of the stations targeted and destroyed, how could he find anything under these conditions? Nothing here gives working information at all, it’s not even that we’re struggling to see anything. It’s all garbage, and even a professional would struggle to find directions to a buried treasure from the dumpster.
*Turns to look at you*
This isn’t really helping solve anything, but I do think it’s a comforting thought to believe that might be a reason everyone is still okay.

Myriad Reality

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*Shrugs*
So what's your working theory?

@Legend

Ummm. I don’t know. But if we’re having a hard time getting there from where we are, I would really hope that he has been having a hard time too. Isn’t he like, the main person all this was designed to work against specifically?