Nimda

Myriad Reality

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You’re only amused while you can talk. Your confidence will die fast when one of you has to live without the other.
*Swipes my thumb across my chin with a grin, and, outside the sphere of influence we’re currently in, a beam of light blasts diagonally through the mountain where the base resides, sending the mass of rock and rubble crumbling and falling toward where we are*

@Nemeses

*Retrieves an ivory scepter from the void, laced with gold and reinforced with the same dense metal my gun is made of*
Give me a read on this guy. Strengths, weaknesses, everything you've got.
*Withdraws a small leather drawstring bag from the void as well and takes a ball bearing before slinging the bag around my neck, casting my gaze to the rocks hurdling toward us*

Myriad Reality

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*Stands up straight and rolls my shoulders back*
Everything you do from this moment on, is an act of cruelty against Gio.

@Nemeses

*A curtain of pure light parts on either side of myself, revealing me reaching into a pocket of darkness*
Don’t threaten her with a good time.

Myriad Reality

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It’s like we already said: This isn’t about that now.
*Grips your head and whips my arm to the side, snapping your neck almost entirely in a circle*

@Nemeses

*As soon as you do, a white light envelops you, isolating you from everyone and everything else*

Myriad Reality

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*Shifts my hand that’s in the gun such that it catches and contains the burst, scattering out from between my knuckles and releasing a puff of smoke*
How about the last?
*Crunches the barrel of your gun in my hand, the moves my free hand to the opposite side of your head*

@Nemeses

If you really wanted to kill me...
*Strains against the hold with surprising strength for my size*
You chose the wrong way to frame us.

Myriad Reality

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*Knowingly grabs the barrel and points it slightly off angle, away from my head, at the same instant you make the move, then kicks you in the leg behind your knee, dropping you to your knees and tightening my grip*
The best thing you can do for yourself now is beg your guardian angel to stop keeping you alive.

@Nemeses

It wouldn’t be the first time.
*Ignites the magic potential of the gun, converting it to a directed explosion aimed at your torso*

Myriad Reality

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*Takes my hand back and grunts*
I would love to make it all about her. It’s all things were ever supposed to be.
*Straightens my jacket*
But, if you insist. Until I have reason to believe otherwise, you are both suspects number one, and I will act accordingly.
*Turns to Gio*
You can still turn yourselves in. Will you?
*Pauses for just a moment, before you would go to answer, and suddenly warps behind you with speed dwarfing the brothers prior and wraps my arm around your neck in a stranglehold*
Didn’t think so.

@Nemeses

*Pulls my pistol and fires it at your head behind me*

Myriad Reality

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*Raises an eyebrow with a clear thought on my mind, but neither speaks nor acts on it*

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*Stares down Gio while you do, looking him up and down analytically. Your analysis only relays the info that the detonations did truly occur from within the tech on stage, with no evidence of projectiles or other manipulation from afar. Nothing residual even signifies a sabotage device, and energy signatures don’t match anyone known*
Well, you at least truly don’t know anything, Gio. But that doesn’t seem surprising.

@Nemeses

*Rubs my palm with my thumb*
Sorry for not having supernatural spirit vision. There's not a lot I can do about that.
*Mumbles something exasperated under my breath*

Myriad Reality

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You’re sticking to that?
*Takes a few steps forward*
If I had the foresight to know things would have ended up going this far, I’d have stopped it. No questions asked. I thought the people known for frequenting this trash heap of a world were generally acknowledged to be decent people, so forgive me for misjudging you.
*Puts my hands in my pockets*
Ona is coming back to her family. For the crime of harboring a criminal, I was willing to ignore you, and even trying to do so. For the crime of mass murder… Don’t make me kill you.

@Nemeses

I'm not going to stand here and pretend to be a good person, but if you think you can acc—

Myriad Reality

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There is no framing. I do not care about either of you, or at least I didn’t. I had faith in these two dealing with you through a bit of effort.
*Points my finger upside-down at the mountain base*
There’s only one thing any of us came for.

@Nemeses

So you slaughter a crowd of innocents to get your way? I'm no hero, but this is sick.

Myriad Reality

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Gio, I think he's framing you.

@Session

We've never even met him.