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Myriad Reality

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I’ve already got it all. The Darwin Box is still querying everything slowly but I don’t think it’s going to find anything else.
*The display for all the data appears as a holographic projection in front of you*

@GalaxyRaider

What do I have to do to get rid of it? Don't bother trying to trick me either.

Myriad Reality

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I’d feel better if you did it. It’s not what I came here for.

@GalaxyRaider

Fine. Pull it up. Anything that references Melody or digital souls.

Myriad Reality

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*Silently watches as they’re put out of their misery*

@GalaxyRaider

That's it. You delete the rest. I've done what I came here to do.

Myriad Reality

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*Takes a few steps back in case of pressure*

@GalaxyRaider

*The rhomboid enters the tank and begins to dissolve any of the amorphous blobs it comes into contact with, each of which reshapes into a stringy, web-like substance when exposed to the atmosphere outside the cylinder*
As far as any digital creature can suffer, anyway.

Myriad Reality

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What is that? Why can’t you explain it?

@GalaxyRaider

*Turns toward you*
All of his failures who came before me. Suffering.
*The blue rhomboid materializes in my hand and I slam it into the side of the cylinder, cracking the length of its surface and lodging into the thick frosted ceramic*

Myriad Reality

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Well it doesn’t look like what I had in mind…

@GalaxyRaider

*Walks up to the cylinder, staring at its towering form in awe*
...It's been a long time. I'm back. Just like I promised.

Myriad Reality

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Is this going to be what I think it is?
*Prompts power to prioritize to this portion of the facility*

@GalaxyRaider

Maybe?
*The tube lowers, gradually anchoring itself into the lab floor, lighting itself with a low hum and revealing formless gray shapes floating throughout its volume*

Myriad Reality

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Hm.
*Walks along, trying to find the point in the facility’s infrastructure where all the tubes seem to converge*

@GalaxyRaider

*A single device that caps a glass cylinder on each end rests on the second floor, hooked up to the pneumatic tubes through complex chambers and openings*

Myriad Reality

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I see all kinds of machines in this place. But I have no clue what needle I’m looking for in this haystack.

@GalaxyRaider

It should be a machine connected to almost all of these tubes.

Myriad Reality

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How do you know? It might be stored away somewhere.

@GalaxyRaider

Because I know this lab too well. Keep looking.