Multifarious

Myriad Reality

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*Steps around the central computer*
Correct you are, my dear. These old systems weren't built with the level of rigor that I'm quite used to.

@Host

So we'll see if the computer knows where she is.
*Leaps backward into a portal that opens directly in front of you, headed for the base*

Myriad Reality

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What do you have in mind?

@Etcetera

Where did Zoey get sent? No one would know but me.

Myriad Reality

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*Steps around the central computer*
Correct you are, my dear. These old systems weren't built with the level of rigor that I'm quite used to.

@Host

*Taps my chin, and speaks to Data and not you*
We just gave ourselves a pretty simple tool to test if this is reality, I think.

Myriad Reality

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*On the other side of the wall is a cylindrical computer with a screen that wraps around the center of the complex, a model of the lab chambers lit blue with five flashing red*

@Etcetera

*Turns around*
I don't believe it for no other reason than things never end this easily.

Myriad Reality

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I'm also skeptical, for that matter.

@Etcetera

*Removes my hand, leaving a luminescent green palm print on the wall. From this point, the wall begins to corrode away with quickly increasing speed*

Myriad Reality

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I have marginally lower confidence than I did in room three's failure to manifest.

@Etcetera

*Walks to the other end of the room*
I see.
*Places my palm flat against the wall*

Myriad Reality

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Mhm.
*Inspects the walls*
This simulation appears to have failed, similar to room three.

@Etcetera

You believe so?

Myriad Reality

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In a sense, this is the backdoor.
*Follows behind you, and bands of color-warping ribbons stream across the room*
It won't recognize me without more biological signatures.
*Several of the patterns on the walls are consumed by a puff of smoke and the ribbons turn monochrome, fall onto the ground, and fade away*

@Etcetera

A more convenient one, then.

Myriad Reality

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Unfortunately.
*The wiring on the walls flash, sparking and fizzling out*

@Etcetera

Surprised you had no back door.
...
You went in first last time. It's only fair.
*Precariously steps through the hole, avoiding the electrical wires*

Myriad Reality

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These are all testing chambers that were running different experiments at one point in time. It happens that the fastest path to the control room that avoids other security systems takes us through five.

@Etcetera

Five was the easiest possible? Geez.
*Walks up to the hole into the next room*