Memory

Myriad Reality

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*Mushroom proceeds to explode, giving me a mouthful of purple spores*

*Klisp, watching through the portal, giggles at the sight almost as if anticipating this to be only the first step of what's to happen to me due to the spores*

Soldier Boy: *Coughs dryly as i spit and scratch my tongue* EW! It tastes like rotten fish!

@Shadrack Nor

I'm... glad I didn't try that myself. How are your copies getting along?

Myriad Reality

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Soldier Boy: Yuup... they... ey boys! have you started the reading already?

Soldier Boy clone: *laughing* What? yup! not like it's the best activity out there

Soldier Boy: Cut the crap and get to readin'!

*Pokes the mushroom as it retracts and forms a protective bubble with its tendrils*

Soldier Boy: Ew...

@Shadrack Nor

By splitting the work up, it really shouldn’t be absurdly difficult for any individual copy of you.
*Watches the mushroom with interest*

Myriad Reality

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*looking at a mushroom with glowing wiggling tendrils* Sooo... what am i looking at and how is this thing going to fix the universe?

@Shadrack Nor

I don’t think the environment will do much for us. But study will. Have your copies started reading the text?

Myriad Reality

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Soldier Boy: Riiiight... i guess i'm about to find out now ain't i?

*the caverns, the surface, the forests, the jungles, they are all yours to explore and Ben's...*

@Shadrack Nor

You are. Spread out.
*Every exposed inch of my half of the regions begins to fill with Prism copies, all studying the same content*

Myriad Reality

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Soldier Boy: Dude! like seriously! How can you just understand these things so easily and nonchalantly, anyway?!

@Shadrack Nor

When you spend ten thousand hours doing anything, you become an expert. The more versions of yourself you assign to a task, the quicker you’ll learn, with certain caveats.

Myriad Reality

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Klisp'Anarion: Vrrvlvvlrrvllplplplplrlrlrlrp! *Would you grab Ben here and show him the ropes? and what are you gonna be practicing first? there are about a hundred potions that deal with primordial horrors and such...*

@Shadrack Nor

My plan was to practice everything. All at once. And sure, I can teach Ben.

Myriad Reality

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Klisp'Anarion: YAYRL! ulrulrrlrlpplp! *WHOHOO! I finally get to use my world pockets... er... yeah, i developed pocket dimensions specifically for natural growth of the top tire alchemical ingredients* *He waves his paws and dozens of portals open to impressive environments that seem to be literally their own biospheres and ecosystems*

@Shadrack Nor

*Nods, impressed*
Very fascinating!
*Thousands of Prisms begin to flood the biospheres*
This looks like it’ll be more than enough space.

Myriad Reality

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Klisp'Anarion: *Nods gesturing to the many doors and archways that have been manifested in between the bookshelves and the elevated platforms with hovering stairs leading to them* Prprlrprl, prlrprlr! *I did said i have these extentions to my research lab here for when i hold multiversal discourses and millions of souls pop in to participate...*

@Shadrack Nor

This is the perfect opportunity. I’ll assign a few members of the hive to collecting material, and divide the rest into sections to study specific material.

Myriad Reality

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*finally i get it and begin reading the basic philosophy of how energies and mana and aether plus will and the right tool conjure up events that are classed as magic from the basic elements for newbies book*

Klisp'Anarion: Prprlrprl, prlrprlrprlpplrlr, olprrlprloprlrlopr... *Right after this next book, i'll put you to practice Prism, while he is still... getting the hang of it...* *Rubs his forehead with visible frustration*

*You are given the book: How to assemble your first Essentia transmuting tool -- written by Kilogoln Ariol and co-authored by the Writing Hands of God*

@Shadrack Nor

*The countless duplicates of me all begin practicing at once*
Is there a way to create more space for us? This is a bottleneck right now.

Myriad Reality

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Klisp'Anarion: Prrlrl.. YYILRL! *His... BEN! YOU ARE READING IT UPSIDE DOWN!*

@Shadrack Nor

Ah, well... there’s always combat training.