Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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A folly begetting what consequences?

@Valiance

The map.

Myriad Reality

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If it’s still alive then its influence is still out there, but if it’s dead then it’s not. Seems simple enough to verify and foolish to lie about.

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The next time we simply find a more vital point to attack.

@Valiance

Perhaps such a point exists. Perhaps not. But your folly was to disturb its slumber.

Myriad Reality

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You expect us to take your word for it?

@Nimda

I tried more than once to tell you the reality of your missteps. But you resisted.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods*
It did feel easier than it ought to have been.

@Valiance

The true scale of your prey is beyond the confines of that dimension. It instead, occupies several.

Myriad Reality

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She can share on her own behalf if she likes. My business is no business of yours.

@Valiance

Then perhaps you should have trusted your own intuition. That force that you encountered, if it can indeed be compared to something knowable, was not the entity you sought. As much as it can be understood, what you saw today was akin to a cell in your body, not its heart. And the defenses, its immunities.

Myriad Reality

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Are you asking?

@Valiance

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The worst of your kind?

@Nimda

*Responds with a subtle hint of bitterness*
What you’ve accomplished is a pinprick of a pinprick. In that respect, yes. I am asking what your purpose was today.

Myriad Reality

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*Scowls*
We killed that thing. What else?

@Nimda

“That thing” being?

Myriad Reality

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You came all this way to say something so I imagine it’s because you believe the reality to be different than what I believe.

@Valiance

I genuinely question what your true goal was.

Myriad Reality

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*My posture shifts on your arrival*
Right.

@Valiance

Do you realize what exactly you accomplished today?

Myriad Reality

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I figured as much. At least you found your way back without the map.

@Nimda

*Materializes in a flash of golden lightning*
As did you both.