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Myriad Reality

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Hate tot tell ya, you've been stuck in that darkness for years.

@GalaxyRaider

I’ve always been a rebel, myself.
*Combines both halves of the tablet, which unify in a bright flash and glow deep red amidst ribbons of data streaming in complex patterns around the object*

Myriad Reality

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*watches you both unamused*

@Ignacious

Something wrong?

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This changes nothing.
*Slides off your back to my feet*

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*Gives a thumbs up*

@GalaxyRaider

Every step deeper into the darkness makes it harder to leave.
*Walks the tablet over to its twin*

Myriad Reality

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I would be perfectly fine. But I also am a princess. It’s a tough call.

@GalaxyRaider

A goofball is what you are.
*Leaps off the top of the tower, and a pair of air jets in my shoes kick in to soften the landing a few inches above the ground*

Myriad Reality

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That’s two. And also really slow.
…
Do I have to stay up here still?

@GalaxyRaider

That depends, do like the idea of me princess-carrying you to the bottom, or do you want to risk the odds of falling as soon as you change the terrain?

Myriad Reality

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You’ve got it! This is a cakewalk for you!

@GalaxyRaider

It really isn’t all that bad. I wonder what took Cure so long.
*Finally pulls us both to the top and grabs the other half of the slab*
Invisivision.

Myriad Reality

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That’s one!
*The final obstacle is a simple set of stairs, but an almost comically large one where each stair is several steps across to the next*

@GalaxyRaider

*Grabs onto each step and hauls myself up, straining more due to gravity each time*

Myriad Reality

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Good call! If we both work on important stuff at the same time, it’s really efficient.
*Looks to the side as the path upward comes to an end, and a floating spiral-ramp upward becomes the next platform in view, though not inconveniently spaced like the prior parts*

@GalaxyRaider

*Grabs onto the edge of the spiral ramp and uses it to fling myself upward like rungs of a ladder instead of running around the center*
Especially your progress in pronouncing invisivision.

Myriad Reality

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It’s like giving you night vision. Only instead it’s invisible vision… Invisivision. Say that five times fast.
*Plants my fingertips on either side of your head, showing the tiny little square platforms scatter about in front of and below you as objects made of shimmering rainbows of pixels*
Invisivision. Insivis… Didn’t even make it to two.

@GalaxyRaider

I’ll let you work on that while—
*Sprints forward, leaping from one to the other, not letting both feet land on any of the squares before launching to the next one*

Myriad Reality

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I play with your senses just a tiny bit, and make it so that I can show you what I can see through your own eyes.

@GalaxyRaider

The thought sort of creeps me out, but... sure, go for it.

Myriad Reality

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Or, hear me out, I can cheat.

@GalaxyRaider

And what is your cheating strategy, exactly?