Server

Myriad Reality

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I do think so. But first, I want to test the behavior of what’s going on to see if there are any special rules to them. For all intents and purposes, if they are not inherently resistant to interaction, then removing them will actually be incredibly easy. But with stuff made by powers of different folks, you have to take into account special rules that apply to them, so for all intents and purposes I’m going to have to take it slowly and carefully to make sure we don’t trigger any reactions that make things worse.

@Melodious

*Taps my temple*
Oh, that makes sense. Do you know what kinds of rules it might have?

Myriad Reality

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*Smiles at you through the window*
A few things. Mainly, it would have meant an operation could be more dangerous than otherwise. But for just about every reason, it’s good that it doesn’t hurt.

@Melodious

*Taps my fingertips together*
Do you think you might be able to help me?

Myriad Reality

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That’s good. That bodes well in terms of how much any potential operation might hurt you, short or long term.

@Melodious

What would it have meant if I was in a lot of pain?

Myriad Reality

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*Leans forward and scans all wavelengths to see if there are any unique traces of radiation coming from your body, in particular from these epicenters, harmful or otherwise, and especially focused on thermal output*
Hmm… We can circle back to that, because I’m curious. This should be treatable, though, as long as Mierno hasn’t put any special rules in place with arbitrary ability tomfoolery. Have you experienced any physical pain that you think might stem from this, beyond just hunger pains?

@Melodious

*Shakes my head*
I'm just very hungry.
*The points seem to be emitting a form of slowly dropping low-energy waves, but nothing else of note*

Myriad Reality

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*Sits down in a swivel chair, staring in thought at the screen and rotates back and forth slightly, legs crossed and using one ankle as a pivot*
Is that the start of your history or did it begin somewhere else, even before that?

@Melodious

At first he was helping me with my hunger. One day he snapped, and it's never been the same.

Myriad Reality

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Tangentially. We’re not particularly close.
*Tasks the computer to tally the number of points across your body where this phenomenon occurs*
I don’t know him to be a bad person though, at least not on purpose. Do you two not get along?

@Melodious

*It appears only twice in my body*
He sets off my hunger, and hasn't been very good to me... Last time I saw him, he put me in a coma.

Myriad Reality

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Mierno’s not exactly the sort to deal in the metaphysical, at least not to my knowledge. That bodes well for meaning it’s a manageable problem.

@Melodious

Do you know much about him?
*Any signal emitted by the scan is voided when it comes across the micro-black holes Mierno planted in my body's energy consumption systems*

Myriad Reality

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Right. That entirely depends-

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*Walks around to an adjacent room, and a panel on the wall opens up to reveal a window, clearly meant for observation but with a load of equipment and monitors behind it. I try to pinpoint the exact epicenter of the force sapping energy from your body with remote scans*
Tell me, Jade. What happened exactly? Were you attacked? Physically assualted?

@Melodious

I wish I knew. I just know that Mierno walked in, I got really hungry, and I blacked out. When I came to, this happened.

Myriad Reality

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Analogy it is... but what if this physical thing, was created with something other than just infecting the host indirectly?

@The Odeoron

What are you thinking it was?

Myriad Reality

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You didn’t. But for all intents and purposes, we’re going to treat this as a parasite just like that.

@Melodious

So Mierno planted this into me? And you can get it out?