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Myriad Reality

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This stuff could really hurt a lot of people if it gets worse.

@GalaxyRaider

I doubt it's capable of meltdown. Those designs were phased out long before this was built.

Myriad Reality

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Not to insult you or anything. But how dystopian is your world to allow this to happen?

@GalaxyRaider

It's an old reactor, we don't use them anymore. It would've just sat out here untouched if it wasn't sabotaged.

Myriad Reality

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Shielding for radiation. And a little concoction with a similar effect… The latter isn’t my work. Not a pharmacist or a chemist or anything like that.

@GalaxyRaider

With your hobbies, I would've believed it.
*Steps toward the terminal, and looks through the passage the lead shielding once guarded, protecting an open pool of water surrounded by pristine technology and housing the facility's reactor*

Myriad Reality

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*Hands you the geiger counter, and summons to my hands in a similar manner a small container about as big as my arm. I open it up, strap a device to my wrist, and then remove a pill from the container which I swallow as the trinket whirs to life without visible effect*

@GalaxyRaider

And that show just did... what, exactly?

Myriad Reality

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*Aims the geiger counter at the debris around the room*

@GalaxyRaider

*Much of the debris ticks up to unsafe levels in close proximity and the room itself exceeds healthy limits of radiation, and a sole terminal blinks blue amidst the ruined equipment, wedged between the lead pillars*

Myriad Reality

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*Glances down at the ticking geiger counter as we walk, and I tilt my head to the side for a moment*
Agree to disagree.

@GalaxyRaider

*It continues ticking faster, but still within marginally-safe levels*
I guess it depends on your perspective. If you get struck by lightning three times, are you unlucky because of your circumstances, or lucky because you survived?
*Past the dismantled control room and through a narrow shaft is a close, experimental monitoring station, complete with its own set of broken technology, once-protective lead pillars now lying horizontally on the ground, and an ashy white powder coating the ground*

Myriad Reality

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I know a couple guys who could fix that.
*Ducks in behind you*
But odds are a mutation would be far less useful than a whole new arm.

@GalaxyRaider

I don't know, you have like, ghastly sorts of luck.
*The wall that separated us from the core of the plant originally is completely torn down and most of the equipment lies in pieces, disassembled*

Myriad Reality

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I’ve got ways to handle it if it gets bad enough.

@GalaxyRaider

I hope so. I don't need you growing a third arm out your neck.
*Heads inside*

Myriad Reality

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It was pretty safe last time we were here. Perhaps it’s just as simple as some stuff was forgotten and left behind radiation shielding that’s given way now.
*Shakes my head*
Not a good thing to have just sitting around either way.

@GalaxyRaider

Negligent at best, criminal at worst. Do you need to wait out here?

Myriad Reality

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Mm. Precautions can be taken. But I’d definitely appreciate taking our time here as little as possible.

@GalaxyRaider

What bothers me more is why there's any radiation at all. This place has been decommissioned for years.