Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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*I shake my head*
No, they don't work the way they did in our memories. It's based on our connection to the NS, and our inherent potential with them. It's infuriating, but I'm just slower at it. And we don't even know where the person who's faster than me stands in all this.

@Malevocholy

And I don’t imagine there’s anything else we can do to boost you above them?

Myriad Reality

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Overwhelming a weakened opponent is the closest I know of to that. If Ulthar's right, we have to go through someone with a better version of my own power anyway. Apparently I'm only the second best at it now.

@Malevocholy

Can you expand it somehow? Make yours the superior version?

Myriad Reality

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... Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that, that's really brilliant and NO. That's not how it works at all.

@Malevocholy

*Holds up my hands in front of my chest*
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. Is there really no “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” approach you can take?

Myriad Reality

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Equal power levels. She's stuck because there's a huge portion of the Borderline power being used to keep her there.

@Malevocholy

You and some other codex can't combine forces to make... I don't know, supervectors or something and keep them contained?

Myriad Reality

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That's one part of it, yes. More as in "she can do basically anything by making it real that it's happened."

@Malevocholy

Except escape prison, apparently.

Myriad Reality

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From what we know, she's basically as strong but the big difference between them is her power is "actualization." Which is cheating by the way, and we don't know much about her personality other than that she also has a fanatical following just about the same size.

@Malevocholy

As in... she can just make whatever she wants show up?

Myriad Reality

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That's the plan. If we release the prisoner, she'll keep her occupied enough to slowly drain both their power. The key thing is Ulthar keeping them from fighting outright where they'll... basically destroy everything. Then if we take out their followers, it might be possible to beat them both. We're a little afraid that beating her alone will just release her rival too and then we're in the same position.

@Malevocholy

What is her rival capable of?

Myriad Reality

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Boredom? Possibly overconfidence? That thing about not liking to kill people, and currently that she's using a lot of her power to keep her rival imprisoned.

@Malevocholy

Sounds like the perfect time to strike. Maybe if we introduce enough problems, she'll use up all of her power.

Myriad Reality

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We don't know that she has any.

@Malevocholy

If she didn't have limits, surely she'd have won by now. There's got to be something we can exploit.

Myriad Reality

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A trap that stops someone who controls what counts as a border and what doesn't? Maybe you can outsmart her, but right now the only way we can think of to do that is what we're trying.

@Malevocholy

I'll do some brainstorming. What are her limits?