Nimda

Myriad Reality

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*Watches as it smacks against a barrier of blue voxels that materializes when its head reaches the plane parallel to where I stand*
To form, maybe. To last? Could be different. Where to next?

@Valiance

*Pulls up the map*
We need to turn a quarter right, and once we get there, straight down.
*The creature hits the ground and continues its hopping pattern as if nothing happened*

Myriad Reality

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*Steps forward, the tiny platforms at my feet disappearing and being replaced by new ones as I walk*
I wonder if these ecosystems require the beast to exist.

@Valiance

*One of the creatures experimentally hops at your platform*
Surely they can’t be self-sustaining. None of this is natural.

Myriad Reality

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Bizarre.
*Looks up at you as you float down to my level*

@Valiance

*Hovers in place once I reach you, each flap of my wings scattering the creatures below me*
Downright unnerving.

Myriad Reality

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*Slams feet-first into a blue voxel platform that manifests just above the surface, as a blue light flashes from it over the ground to analyze the makeup of the new world*

@Valiance

*What previously appeared to be a black planet is actually barren, accompanied by pitch bloblike creatures bouncing rhythmically back and forth, their arms and legs short, jointless lumps, who stare at you blankly and unblinking with white saucer-sized eyes and dark slitted pupils*

Myriad Reality

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*Shifts around so that I'm, falling feet first*

@Valiance

*Obsidian wings tear outward from my back with a slurping sound, and I flick them down to slow my descent*

Myriad Reality

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A much more relatable experience to me than you might think.

@Valiance

I’ve noticed surprisingly many.
*Gravity shifts again, now plummeting us toward the surface of the planet, whose black surface appears to be vibrating*

Myriad Reality

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It was. Unfortunately.

@Valiance

I knew someone with that skill at one point too, but everyone I knew turned out to be good-for-nothing traitors.
*Glances at you*
And my enemy a helpful ally. There “fate” goes again.

Myriad Reality

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You were there. Remember the guy who… Who tried to help my brother?

@Valiance

*Nods*
That was him, then?

Myriad Reality

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*Rubs the back of my head*
I kinda burned my bridge with the one guy I know with that capability too…

@Valiance

What did you do, exactly?

Myriad Reality

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I would say no. Matters of detecting and attacking a soul are not in my skillset. It's a pretty niche field.

@Valiance

Believe it or not, that’s not mine either. Especially without the souls I had collected.