Efficacy

Myriad Reality

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Not quite. A few dimensions off.

@Fractured

*Pumps my fist and winces again, lowering it down gingerly* I was in the IA just a little bit ago. I’m a Tier Four! And I’m not dead!

Myriad Reality

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In a medical center. It looks like you had a bit of a rough trip.

@Fractured

A medical centre? I—yeah, I did. Am I still in the IA?

Myriad Reality

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*Looks up*
Hello. How are you?

@Fractured

*Turns to look at you and groans as I do* Huh? Oh—well, everything is aching. But I’m alive... Where am I?

Myriad Reality

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*The other four copies of me merge into one and sit next to the medical bay*

@Fractured

*Eventually comes to, staying in place and looking around groggily* I—I’m not— *Puts both my hands to my face and breathes hard, almost sobbing* I did it. *Lets out a whistling breath and slumps down*

Myriad Reality

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Thanks. *Breathes slowly as I work, and eventually my glow fades; Soren is released from the Harmonisation* I did it.

@Mammalia

*Breathes slowly and deeply and has a pulse, but doesn't wake up*

Myriad Reality

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*Shakes myself* Right! Uh—okay—just gotta... *Spreads my hands over his body as they glow in a shifting, translucent red aura, and I put out all the fires, restoring the flesh where it's been burned, bit by bit*

@Mammalia

*My eyes shoot open and I holler in pain* Not the scars— *I slump further in the bed and shut my eyes, my lungs slowing*

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. *Leads you to the door and opens it up*

@Mammalia

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Thank you.
*Walks outside*

@Fractured

*I am lying face-down on the ground*

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, I will. *Walks toward the door*

@Mammalia

*Slowly pushes myself up, my skin still smoking, burning from within* No—can't die now—*Wobbles toward the door and stumbles again, falling onto one knee*

Myriad Reality

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*Pushes through the fold in hyperspace as my connections to my home universe break all at once, focusing on the thought of Ruby Jean as I struggle forward, repeating her name*

@Efficacy

*I feel parts of me start to get hot, smoke rising from my body and disappearing into the 3D spaces that I leave as I pass through hyperspace* Come on, come on—stay together, Bryson— *Shoots out of a portal onto the snowy mountain ledge outside of the base and hits the snow hard; the portal snaps shut loudly*