Memory

Myriad Reality

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*The drone slowly havers past all the statues, continuing to follow its dedicated path while scanning the statues and the other surroundings for security measures*

@GalaxyRaider

*So far no security is detected, and the statues appear to be dense, clay-like structures—the sound of ringing metal echoes from one of the halls*

Myriad Reality

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*It floats slowly in a controlled path toward the pull as it scans the room*

@GalaxyRaider

*The statues themselves depict a masked warrior in a plethora of poses, holding an assortment of weapons—the observation room has a number of corridors branching from its central viewing chamber*

Myriad Reality

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*The droid floats toward the structure in a straight line, and upon reaching the point of nearly touching the wall, it blinks forward, disappearing and reappearing in the same instant on the other side of the wall*

@GalaxyRaider

*On crossing the wall's border, the bot encounters a similar pull to when it entered the canyon, although with less intensity, and it finds itself in an observation room overlooking the canyon filled with natural light filtering in from above, and the room itself dotted with several statues in varying poses*

Myriad Reality

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*The eye flashes once again a few times in rapid succession, and then emits a beam of light from its eye that flashes on and off rapidly while staring at the structure, analyzing the density, molecular structure and strength of the material itself*

@GalaxyRaider

*The structure abides by typical architectural principals but consists of reinforced versions of each material used in its construction, although none exotic*

Myriad Reality

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*It’s eye flashes blue a few times, and it independently skirts the top of its permitted skyline, continuing to follow a path to the last coordinates it was given to the object*

@GalaxyRaider

*It eventually comes across a glass cantilevered structure built into the canyon's side, supported only by diagonal structure beams beneath and itself flat with a boxy design and a curved outer viewing window*

Myriad Reality

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Not even a clap-on light system? How barbaric.
*Whistles and clicks my tongue, then gestures with my head down toward the chasm while looking at the little droid*
Sic ‘em.
*The robot descends eye-first straight down into the darkness*

@GalaxyRaider

*The droid enters without any resistance and is immediately met with a lighted canyon interior, but it fails to send a signal back out of the ravine*

Myriad Reality

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*Claps twice and stares expectantly down at the darkness below*

@GalaxyRaider

*Not a single sound echoes back up to you, but the blackness is as still as glass—the sparse wildlife around the canyon instinctively avoid it*

Myriad Reality

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*Mumbles*
Make my job difficult…
*Puts my hands in my pockets and stares blankly into the abyss as a a small metallic ball appears in a flash of light, floating in the air with a pair of halos spinning around it perpendicular to each other*
…
*Picks up a rock nearby and drops it into the darkness below*

@GalaxyRaider

*The rock is swallowed up as soon as it crosses the boundary line between light and darkness and becomes immediately undetectable*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks up and around, speaking to seemingly no one*
Is there any chance you’re here?

@GalaxyRaider

*The only response is the wind whistling across the sandy terrain amidst the setting suns on either side of the horizon*

Myriad Reality

*Takes a deep breath, and then flips open a round, silver gadget to take a look at the reading inside, as it takes a moment to initialize before signaling back to me traces of the last object it was assigned to be linked to*

@GalaxyRaider

*The signal brings you to the edge of a black ravine with an intense inwardly pull applied to anything below surface level, as if the very substance of the pit were designed to prevent anything from exiting*