Source

Myriad Reality

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*Uncomfortably twitches eyebrow at your staring* You got a problem with me dark wizard looking guy?

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*Snaps fingers and suddenly several orbs of technology come out of my pocket and light up in bright white* There, this should help...

@Interface

*The darkness of the environment seems to swallow up the light of the orbs, reducing them to a dim glow*
It’s a start.
*Climbs up the first step*

Myriad Reality

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*Telepathically* Bro! Something feels reeaaaaly off about this dude... ever since we saw him back at the tavern i got this... ick... do you know that candy that is too sweet, so sweet it makes you sick because of it? Yeah... he gives me that kind of vibes... and i get chicken skin everywhere just looking at the dude. Like he's right ways up but sideways at the same time... uuughhh

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*Speaks normally* I... uuuh... FINE! *Follows suit and keeps walking wile sideyeing you @Interface*

@The Odeoron

*Eventually, in pitch darkness, we reach a series of large stone shelves about as tall as we are, arranged in a staircase*
Watch out. We need to go up.

Myriad Reality

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*Eyes you annoyed* Because i don't want to needlessly risk the lives of my people? What kind of people are you all? So apparently care-free about the lives of others!

@Interface

*Shrugs and walks into the darkness*
He's right.

Myriad Reality

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Ugh... Not me! My people and i! Yes, this thing, whatever this place is, has played a role in the destruction of my home. Well, thankfully my planet and its federation has managed to establish colonies across this galaxy beyond the powers of whatever is destroying stars here... I'm just a general of my people trying to investigate what this is...

@Interface

...Meh. Fine.
*Slams another ball bearing against the stone and it becomes like liquid around you*

Myriad Reality

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What are the odds to... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Are we going to debate probability equations in the middle of a building that is out of space and time? And what if i told you that i was among the people who asked for help here because this cosmic event participated in the destruction of my home?!?! *I frown annoyed*

@Interface

Yes, I am; I value my life more than I care about how gravity works in this world. So you're saying you were the one who posted the quest?

Myriad Reality

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Followed you? What do you mean *I blink consternated while im still stuck* Hey, i'm here for my own reasons... wait you are the guys from that tavern thingy! I could say you followed me now can't i? But in all seriousness... i'm stuck in here...

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uuugh... well hello to you too i guess...

@Interface

*Walks over to you*
You could explain why you're here first, and then we can decide to let you go. What are the odds that you showed up without following us?

Myriad Reality

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Uuh... hey guys *Waving awkwardly from far in the tight corridor as i'm stuck in the shortened corridor* Can you help me out a bit here? *Chuckles sheepishly*

@Interface

*Cuts my eyes toward you*
You followed us. Why?

Myriad Reality

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Doesn't mean i have to like it though... *Keeps on moving forward but with nearly undue caution scanning the aura of the place every so often for potential traps, or anything that can explain what this place might be*

@The Odeoron

*As we walk along silently, the corridor becomes more narrow, eventually becoming claustrophobic, but the hall is otherwise completely featureless*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks at you with a 'seriously?' expression on my face* A castle... upside-down, in space... or up side to planet surface *Points to the planet above us* and the quest mentioning a mysterious cause that causes solar systems to 'collapse'...

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Give me an alternative then man!

@The Odeoron

Yes. But this is just a castle. Probably trapped, probably dangerous. But not a castle worth freaking out about.

Myriad Reality

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Uh... hey Prism... this stinks eldritch all over...

@Source *Looks at you concerned and amused at the same time* Yeah, call me biased, i'm a traumatised fellow! This stinks like evil! Call it different if you like, i call it... we need to either bomb the place out or yeet back to safety!

@The Odeoron

It's a castle?