Legend

Myriad Reality

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The chances aren't the same; the fact is that it's worked so far in part because nobody from here goes to interact with many other universes. We stick to a few certain ones.

And yes, I've fought him before, actually. There is less randomness to this than you may think, the problem is less that it was random and more that something is wrong.

@Yatagarasu

What do you mean by something being wrong?

Myriad Reality

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I think the chances of you beating him, completely killing him before he can escape, and doing so as soon as you find him before he can garner any information from you, are very low. I don't mean any offense by that, I've simply underestimated him befote.

@Yatagarasu

But what I mean is that aren't the chances the same of him finding this place anyway if we do nothing?

Myriad Reality

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*Nods*
That’s what I was thinking.

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If his trail already lead us here, it sounds like it’s only a matter of time before he stumbles here by accident just like we did.

@Audacious

*Nods my head expectantly*

Myriad Reality

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*Once again closes my eyes for a moment as I think*

The fact that you're here means you're close. The best I can do is give you a guide who can lead you past here, and have them shadow you until you've lost the scent of this place. Then they could give you a direct path. But that probably isn't ideal when you're on a time crunch...

*I open my eyes*

Time moves very slowly here, compared to most places, so you don't have to worry about having lost too much time. But I can't say the same for wherever you might go next. The real problem is that the circumstances I mentioned mean that I can't prevent what happened from happening again, so the chance of getting back here is unfortunately there.

This would he a lot easier if it were a different enemy, one who I didn't think could or would try to find this place.

@Yatagarasu

If following my dad's trail got us here, wouldn't you want us to beat Dynamo so he can't find this place? It seems like that will happen no matter what we do.

Myriad Reality

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I can't let you go there, to where I believe your enemy is. If you go to enough other dimensions, like I assume you would need to in order to find your way there yourselves, that would make it harder to trace a path back here.

*I place a hand on my head*

I apologize for my wording.

@Yatagarasu

*Takes several breaths with sharp exhales*
Don't scare me like that. Can you at least give us some pointers or advice?

Myriad Reality

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You very well could end up not getting a chance to assess, let alone anything else.

*Sighs deeply*

But you want to find your dad. If he was fighting Dynamo, chances are he ended up in the exact place I'm afraid of him being in. I'm not satisfied with your plan, but... Normally, I couldn't in good conscience prevent you from going, even if it made others aware of us...

But right now there are extenuating circumstances. So I'm sorry, but I can't let you go when there's such a high chance of you being traced back to here. Even if you don't know how you got here, others could reverse engineer a path from studying you, now that you've been here.

@Yatagarasu

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, how does keeping us trapped here help anything!?

Myriad Reality

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Then what is your plan for how to proceed? Run into a likely defeat and pray that you can save him? Gather allies to help you? What will you do if you're too late, if you were already too late to begin with? A recorded message doesn't give much assurance that he's safe.

@Yatagarasu

Find him, assess, get whatever allies we need. But the only way for us to make the right plan is to know exactly what's going on.

Myriad Reality

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*Closes my eyes for a moment*

I can see why your father was rivals with him, if he was the type to make backup plans for what to do. But what was this plan? Just... find him and hope you can help?

@Yatagarasu

I'm not sure now. The message told me to adapt to the situation at hand, because it hit an unpredictable condition.

Myriad Reality

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You received a message, telling you to find him, and you aren't sure what the problem is or why he's fighting Dynamo? That's not especially... reassuring.

@Yatagarasu

It was a contingency plan. But that's why any information you can help us with would mean the world to me.