Legend

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs*
You can say his name. The shock factor is long gone.
*Puts my hands on my hips while staring at the equipment*
But that must mean this is important in some way.

@Audacious

It's just hard to say for sure without knowing how the system really works. For all we know, it could be a glitch somewhere.

Myriad Reality

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*Taps my chin*
Hmm. Surely this means we’re on the right track then? This one is more central to the network, and not isolated at an end of the web.

@Audacious

We know it's where, um—
*Glanced at you*
Bad man has signaled to the most.

Myriad Reality

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That's probably true... Is it all errors?

@Audacious

Nope, mostly the same as last one. Just more than before.

Myriad Reality

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Anything stand out?

@Audacious

Oooh, this one's got a bunch of errors. But it might be a bad idea to go chasing those.

Myriad Reality

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Can you see the logs here the same way as before?

@Audacious

Ittttttt—
*Pulls up my phone and scrolls through the options again*
Looks like it, yeah!

Myriad Reality

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Ha. If it were so easy, right? I wish I knew the answer to that.
*Looks around this new facility’s equipment as we approach, looking for anything unique, and anything that might be designed to interact with*

@Audacious

*This station appears entirely identical to the last one, down to the machined version number on the chips*

Myriad Reality

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Compared to like, if it was my Dad here instead of me. I feel like he’d have had a magical answer ages ago.

@Audacious

So if you stop and ask yourself "What would Sven Waternaux do?" what's the answer?

Myriad Reality

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As far as I could tell.
*Starts walking toward it*
I’m afraid we’re being really inefficient though, mainly.

@Audacious

*Walks alongside you*
Inefficient compared to what?

Myriad Reality

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Thanks!
*Keeps my focus on this station, looking over its integrity compared to the others, and any other standout features*
I just hope it’s not a waste of effort, trying this route.

@Audacious

*This station seems to be sitting amidst the space debris and only anchored enough to protect itself from collisions, and seems entirely intact*
This is exactly what dad told us to do, right?

Myriad Reality

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Come on!
*Wastes no time in ducking through*

@Audacious

Nice work!
*Jumps in as well, and this time the next station is on a space debris ring of a multi-ringed planet, the surface of which can be seen glowing with ever-shifting plumes of magma that burst onto the surface with a magenta hue before cooling to a deep red and sinking back down, casting an almost biological rhythm of glow onto the surrounding matter*