GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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*Points up at an obscured tablet on a platform*
Find me some path from here to there. We may need to get a bit acrobatic.

@Server

A path that you can’t see entirely, huh? Okay.

Myriad Reality

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*Smiles to myself*
Then here’s you’re warning: we’re about to go.
*Takes off running*

@Server

What am I even looking for?!

Myriad Reality

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*Hoists you up under one arm and swings you onto my shoulders*
Perfect. You ready?

@Server

*Swings my arms around in circles as I shift around and try to maintain balance*
Woah there! A little warning goes a long way.

Myriad Reality

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I can’t see it. Cure said it was an athletics challenge, and as long as you don’t touch the ground, you should be able to tell me where to go.

@Server

You need a guide, huh? Should be easy, if that’s all.

Myriad Reality

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You want to help me grab the other half of this key, and we can see if it gets us the rest of the way?

@Server

Yeah, let's do it. You having trouble?

Myriad Reality

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Anything good?

@Server

There's some stuff. Not sure how much it is compared to what you all could find, but I was really hoping for... More.

Myriad Reality

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*Several half-corrupted recovery documents on the system also outline some of the theorized functionality of Purge01-like programs, including removal of viral strains while maximizing structural integrity of remaining code*

@Server

*Saves all the noteworthy files separately onto a new drive*

Myriad Reality

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*Different student researchers seem to be co-authors for several papers, but no single line connects more than a handful*

@Server

A pipedream, I guess...

Myriad Reality

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*The snippets indicate that Purge01 deleted critical operating functions that triggered the errors in the records—they also appear to import replacement functions and modified system architecture instead of leaving the functionality empty, but the replacements returned null data, leading to live-swizzle failures*

@Server

*Takes a deep breath and starts backing up through all the information I’ve looked through, seeing if maybe the name of any co-researchers were left credited in the works*

Myriad Reality

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*The fragments of Purge01’s different iterations piece together not unlike a virus itself, modifying micro chunks of code and applying indecipherable operations on those that meet an unspecified set of requirements; the results also demonstrate an inverse correlation between the effects of Purge01 and the number of generations a virus lineage has been farmed at the lab*

@Server

*Sees if I can fill in any further gaps through inference by putting the jury rigged code next to the old error records to compare*