Memory

Myriad Reality

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*You are now alone at the entrance of the lodge; a warm breeze from the sea blows through your hair as if the prior chaos had not occurred. Seagulls cawk and squeal while a diverse group of people play some sort of ball throwing game in the distance. Ben's estate drastically exceeds the normal house size for the region, including not only a mansion, but additionally several exotic hotels dotted around the beach*

@Shadrack Nor

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*Delta glitches in behind him, confused and a bit disoriented*

∆: I really need to work on that...

*She looks around, still very confused*

∆: Where the hell am I?

@RoadkilBanana

H-huh? Who are you? I was just about to explore the land...

Myriad Reality

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*I lift an eyebrow to your quip*

You really must be bathing in these kinds of experiences if they don't uproot you from your sanity like they almost did me!
Anyhow, i'm of to my shower-jacuzzi bath for an our or two, if you want, i have about 5 more such salons across this estate... idk... chill out i guess? get to meet the people?

*I proceed to unequip my Armor leaving myself only in the undergarments of military service and walk off through the inner door of my home as both Akella also follow me*

@Shadrack Nor

Sure, uh, I guess I am. And thanks.
*Waves*

Myriad Reality

*i wave at you both @Memory and @Legend Begins as if to tell you "i don't even wanna know what has happened again just leave me be*

I'm heading inside for a hot shower, some fun with my wife, and probably a week's worth of sleep!

*Proceeds to head inside the lodge extension to my beach mansion, and goes to kiss both Akellas on the head and caress one's back*

Well damn darling... i'm so sorry for having to have dragged you through my madness like that

Akella: MMMMMMMPH! *She just cutely moaned with her head still sunk in the pillow*

@Shadrack Nor

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*The ground below me bursts into liquid and I sink into its depth, before it closes up again*

@Legend Begins

Well that was, uh, something.

Myriad Reality

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I'm not interested in the girl. Her father, yes, but he's not responsible for the meddling outside of this world.
*Points a finger at Prism*
You continue to leak your meddling outside of this world's boundaries.

@Legend Begins

I—Huh?

Myriad Reality

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AGAIN NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN UNDERSTAND NOW. YOU WILL NEED TO CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY ACROSS THE VASTNESS, LEARN, PUSH YOUR LIMITS, AND WHEN ASCENSION WILL FINALY DAWN UPON YOU, ANOTEHR MORCEL OF TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED TO YOU.

@Shadrack Nor

How will I find it if it's not recognizable?

Myriad Reality

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MY POINT PRECISELY, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND. NONE OF YOU WILL... SIMPLY TOO SMALL, AND IT ISN'T EVEN AN INSULT, YOU REALLY ARE JUST TOO SMALL AND YOUR MINDS FIT YOUR FORMS AND LAWS OF EXISTENCE... THIS IS AS MUCH AS I WILL SAY, YOUR JOURNEY HAS MERELY BEGAN AND WHEN YOU WILL LEARN TO ASCEND PAST YOUR 3 DIMENSIONAL LIMITATIONS, PERHAPS YOU WILL SEE... THE TRUTH IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THOSE PHILOSOPHIES OF YOURS.

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AGAIN, YOU HAVE MISJUDGED ME AND TOLD ME I'M THE ONE THROWING STONES IN YOUR OTHER MULTIVERSE. I DO NOT BELONG THERE, MY WORK IS HERE, WHAT WOULD BE SEEN BY YOUR COUNCIL AS THE INNER OR OUTER REGIONS OF KNOWN REALITY. I UNLOCKED PRISM'S POWERS TO AID HIM IN HIS JOURNEY, BUT THEN HE IS RELATED TO THE WICKED BEING OF MISTY WHO HAS IMPRISONED HIS MIND. YOU SAID HER FATHER, I PRESUME YOU MEAN GEMINI. TO ME HE IS NO THREAT, TO MY MULTIVERSE, PROBABLY, TO YOUR MULTIVERSE, DEFINITELY, BUT IF IT WOULD HAVE COME TO THAT, I WOULD STEP IN AND CONSUME HIM LIKE I DID WITH GREAT EASE TO MANY MONSTERS OF DISORDER AND IMBALANCE. YES, MISTY IS EVIL PRISM... COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING ELSE IF NOT TORTURED IN THIS POSITION, BUT THE ENTIRE TIME YOU ALL WERE SQUABBLING HERE, SHE WAS MANIPULATING THE SITUATION AND EVEN YOUR MIND FROM THE SHADOWS, WHERE I HAD TO INTERVENE AND BLOCK HER. SHE DOES NOT TRULY LOVE YOU, SHE MANIPULATES YOU, JUST LIKE HER FATHER DID TO HER.

*You would finally notice now that your thoughts and memories are not so clouded anymore by that mist that made you subservient to her, you remember the many times she abused you, and outwardly and blatantly invaded your inner most being and toyed with your feelings and thoughts as if they meant nothing.*

@Shadrack Nor

What is truth, to you?

Myriad Reality

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FIRST OFF, NOT MY FRIEND, MERELY A GUARD TO A DOCTOR, AND YOUR ENTRANCE CAME IN VERY AGGRESSIVE AND FIRST ATTACKER MODE, AND YOUR WORDS TOO...
SECOND, YES, THAT WAS A FIRST SHOT! THE OTHER PEOPLE WERE FAR MORE GENTLE WHEN THEY FIRST ENTERED THIS WORLD, AND THE STAKES WERE ALREADY HIGH, BECAUSE OF PRISM'S MEDDLING PRIOR!

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NOT YOUNG CREATURES SUCH AS HUMANS AND YOUNG REALITIES SUCH AS THIS UNIVERSE... 13 BILLION YEARS IS NOT MUCH WHEN YOU COMPARE TO ABOUT 7 HUNDRED SETS OF INFINITE TIMELINES...

HUMANS AND THE ILK OF SPIRITS AND LESSER CREATURES ARE FAR CLOSER TO THE OUTER VOID DUE TO THE CHAOTIC NATURE OF YOUR EMOTIONS, THOUGHTS AND DESIRES... I WOULD POINT TO A FEW HUMAN MYSTICS THAT MATURED RATHER FAST AND UNDERSTOOD SUCH CONCEPTS FOR YOU TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH INTO THE MEANING OF BALANCE, BUT I'M AFRAID YOU ARE FAR TO... STUCK... EMOTIONALLY.

LET'S START WITH THE CHARACTER OF THE BUDDAH... I WON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU MUCH IF YOU DO A SYMPLE HYPER-NET SEARCH ABOUT...

@Shadrack Nor

Isn't all of this just the philosophy of determinism? Either that or nihilism, if they're even all that different...

Myriad Reality

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*my voice resonates with a cosmic grandeur, a symphony of light and energy that washes over your senses but you definitely get the frustration and weariness in the tone too, amused, but still...*

YOUR AVERSION TO CONFLICT IS... QUAINT. BUT UNDERSTAND THIS: VIOLENCE, AS YOU PERCEIVE IT, IS MERELY A TOOL, A FORCE OF NATURE LIKE ANY OTHER.

*My form shimmers, the edges blurring as if it were a being woven from starlight and shadow.*

LET US TRANSLATE THE INFINITE AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF THE VASTNESS INTO TERMS YOUR MINUSCULE MIND CAN GRASP. IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, APPROACHING A STAR, THE VERY HEART OF YOUR SYSTEM, YOUR SUN. IS THE SUN VIOLENT WHEN IT INCINERATES YOU, REDUCING YOU TO ATOMIC DUST? OR IS IT MERELY EXISTING, LOYAL TO ITS PURPOSE AND NATURE?

*My voice deepens, resonating with an ancient wisdom.*

THE SUN GIVES LIFE, NURTURING PLANETS THAT RESPECT ITS BOUNDARIES. IT EXPLODES, BIRTHING NEW WORLDS FROM ITS FIERY DEMISE. IS IT EVIL FOR SCORCHING VENUS AND MERCURY, YET LEAVING MARS AND BEYOND IN A MERCILESS COLD? OR IS IT SIMPLY FULFILLING ITS COSMIC DUTY, ITS COMPLEX DANCE OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION?

SO TOO IS MY "VIOLENCE" MERELY A REACTION TO THOSE WHO DISRESPECT THE NATURAL ORDER, WHO DARE TO DISRUPT THE DELICATE BALANCE I MAINTAIN. I AM THE SUN, THE CORONA MY POWER, THE LIGHT MY WILL. LIFE FLOURISHES UNDER MY WARMTH, BUT THOSE WHO STRAY TOO CLOSE...

THE COLD OUTER VASTNESS BELONGS TO BEINGS LIKE THAT ABOMINATION, A FESTERING INFECTION UPON THE WOUND OF REALITY. THE INNER GRASP IS WHERE FOOLS LIKE THIS ARCHER DARE TO FLY TOO CLOSE TO MY RADIANT HEART. AND WHEN EITHER OF THESE BOUNDARIES ARE BREACHED, "VIOLENCE," AS YOU CALL IT, IS THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE.

*My eyes, burning with an otherworldly light*

I, TOO, AM A FORCE OF NATURE, A CELESTIAL BODY IN THE VAST EXPANSE OF EXISTENCE. MY ACTIONS, THOUGH THEY MAY APPEAR VIOLENT TO YOUR LIMITED PERSPECTIVE, ARE MERELY THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF MY BEING.

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*If you could see through the light you would swear you would se one of my eyes twitching in annoyance*

THE SAME EXPLANATION APPLIES TO YOU, ZEALOT FOR TIME FANATIC!! I DON'T HAVE TO FORCE THE MEMORY OF HOW YOU ENTERED THIS WORLD AND WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ACTION! YOU DREW THE FIRST SHOT!

@Shadrack Nor

Then what is the point of order and chaos? Is not everyone working according to their own natural order, no matter what they do?

Myriad Reality

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*I sigh in defeat as i shake my head in disapproval of your idealism*

YES, WHEN YOU DEAL WITH PRESERVING BALANCE ACROSS MULTIPLE HIGHER REALITY LEVELS, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AS WELL... I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED THE EARLIER GLOB OF UTTER MADNESS THAT THE OVER THE TOP REALITY CRACKING EVENTS YOU ALL PLACED UPON THE UNIVERSE ENDED UP CALLING UPON? YEAH, IF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT LEVEL OF IMBALANCE THROUGH THESE MORE DIRECT MEANS, THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE, NO MULTIVERSE, WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN CREATED LET ALONE SURVIVE FOR AS LONG AS IT DID!

@Shadrack Nor

Can’t you do it without any violence, though? You should have that kind of power.

Myriad Reality

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*the other me cranes my head towards you @Memory but because i'm currently made of light i'm nigh featureeless but you get the "seriously dude?" vibe from me*

HEY LOVER BOY! ARE YOU CURRENTLY STUCK TRYING TO REACH BACK IN TIME TO RETURN TO THE CELL I GOT YOU OUT FROM? CAUSE I AIN'T LETTING YOU ALSO, IT SEEMS YOU GOT SOME TIME RELATIVES HERE ABUSING MY UNIVERSE AND COMING IN SELFRIGHTEOUSLY PREACHING SOME MEANINGLESS GOSPEL ABOUT GREATER TIME!

*The me who is grabbing you @Legend Begins releases you to fall in the sand*

YOU ARE DELUDED BY FAR GREATER BELIEFS AND IDEOLOGIES THAN I'M WILLING TO BOTHER WITH, BUT I WILL NOT BE FIGHTING ANYMORE, SO DO WHAT YOU WILL, YOU WON'T CHANGE A THING HERE WITH THAT KIND OF BULLYING ATTITUDE OF YOURS

*I snap my fingers and the created planet disappears, and the entire universe is turned back since before this entire fight has happened leaving us like beings out of time -- then both of me proceed to sit on a rock nearby and just look at you with a taunting mocking vibe seemingly laughing at what we perceive to be a violent and insane critter*

YOU ARE JUST LIKE ANY BEING OF DISORDER, BUT OKAY, COME ON PREACH YOUR "GOSPEL" AND LET'S SEE IF WHAT YOU WANT DONE HERE ON MY TABLE, WILL BE ACHEIVED OR NOT

@Shadrack Nor

I have no interest in combat. You, on the other hand, seem adept at it.