Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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I have thoughts but they can wait until the end.

@Audacious

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Okay... so.
*Hits the continue button*

@Legend

If the situation calls for it, you may have one chance to get home. After there's a lack of callback from the intermediate layer, our home world will eventually attempt to access random relays directly to provide a situation update to allies. Unless something has gone horribly wrong, you'll get multiple shots at this, but you have to either find the relay that's being connected to directly, or you need to find a way to trace the signal across multiple hops. More than likely, you'll want a combination of the two. Just be very careful, and use your best judgement. This protocol is a last-resort for when someone other than me needs to step in to protect our world. Otherwise, I'd be happy to let it fade into obscurity.
*Smiles*
Last thing. I love you, please stay safe. You and your mom are my world. Dynamo out.
*The hologram fizzles away*

Myriad Reality

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Um, I guess let's just try to remember then.
*Hits the next button*

@Legend

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I’m definitely trying, at least. Pen and paper wasn’t in my travel bag.

@Audacious

Alright! Glad to see you're hanging in there. You know, it's really hard to pick a tone for this since I don't know what's happened in advance, but let's just hope it's not as bad as it seems.
*The middle ring layer fades out*
If you're getting this message in particular, the relay proxies had their dead man's switch activated. That means they've lost their signal to the middle layer and I haven't had the chance to override them. That or you've found a major bug. If they've lost connection, either our path universes can no longer communicate with the relays, someone has found an exploit in the system, or there are no path universes anymore. Each situation has chilling implications.
*The center of the diagram fades out, leaving just the outermost ring*
This is your current situation. Home isn't reachable. You can use this station to track down more proxies and see if there's a log somewhere that will tell you what's going on. Once you know what the situation is, I'm afraid you're going to need to use your best judgement on how to proceed. I wish I could do more to help you. One more slide is left, so press continue when you've digested all that.

Myriad Reality

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*Shakes my head*
No, I want someone else to be here. I'm going to miss something.

@Legend

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*Nods and waits silently*

@Audacious

Okay, get ready to write this down. PaMDA is based on a proxy system, and you're standing at one of its many relay stations. Well, it's also a nondeterministic Turing Machine based off of universal intermediate hypercalculations and—
*Waves my hand*
That's not the point. We guard our universe behind practically uncountable layers, made up of the paths surrounding our home. Then we project from there to one of just as many proxies, which send information to other proxies.
*Projects a sphere surrounded by a series of dots forming rings, themselves followed by a ring of smaller points interconnected in ever-shifting, random configurations*
This system injects so much noise, it's practically impossible to trace your way back to our home. And even if you manage to pull it off, our universe will have been shuffled with one of its paths, making it even harder to find the real one. Once you have that background down, hit continue.

Myriad Reality

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*My eyebrows raise*
That do something??

@Audacious

*A handshake occurs between the devices and my image materializes as a hologram above the metal*
Hey, Isis. If you're watching this video, it means something has gone well and truly wrong. And for some reason, I'm not able to get in touch with you to tell you what it is. Sorry about that. But you need to know what's going to happen next. So make sure you're in an isolated place, make sure no one could be eavesdropping, and press continue.

Myriad Reality

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*Waves bubblingly with a warm smile as you leave*

@The Monitor

*Disappears into a beam of light*

Myriad Reality

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*Nods and salutes you in military fashion* As tense as things went for now, we are glad you are better than some others we met early on...

@The Odeoron

I hope you meet many more who bring you peace.
*Smiles*
Best of luck.

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And we will be welcoming him with open arms when that time comes.

And the only gratitude to be found in here is, i think, in that we get to carry the moral legacy of our heavens and bring that light in these murky places.

@ArGavryiell

I'll leave you to it. I would recommend that you be careful, but it sounds as though you have an abundance of caution as it stands.

Myriad Reality

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I think it is more so that in our world, our God still held out hope, much like yourself, that he would repent eventually hence only locking him up in the deepest pits of hell as its king and ruler... here... well things can go in any direction really, that is what frightens me...

@The Odeoron

Uncertainty is a frightful thing. But that's why you have the free will to construct your own path.

Myriad Reality

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Agreed, and much obliged for the advice. In my God's Eyloshyiaah Omniverse, the rules were similar. Premature civilizations hearing too soon of a multiverse and pocked dimensions and spiritual planes too soon, would turn to darkness and end up destroying not only their world but neighbouring ones... but if a civilization was already a harmonious and holy galactic kingdom under divine rule, then they may experience their multiverse and prosper as a result...

@ArGavryiell

*Nods*
Indeed. And on this scale, that right goes to whatever independent multiverse they may or may not be a part of. It's a thankless job, but once you're established, my, er, employer as I think you described him, may be interested in meeting you.

Myriad Reality

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You'd think that the bastard would have been already gone too far... how many aeons older than all of us?...

@The Odeoron

Perhaps your world wasn't equipped to stop him. As a tier four, that may not be the case.

Myriad Reality

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*Places a hand at my chest and smile* We are grateful to have known you Grace! Do you have to go now?

@ArGavryiell

I should make my leave soon. If I may offer some final advice before I do, if you pursue your goal of protecting the sovereignty of individual universes, you should strive to not make them aware of Existence as a whole, and resist those who do. It has historically not gone well and shaped their lives in ways that rob them of their freedom.