Source

Myriad Reality

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*follows through*

@Path

*The stairs eventually take the shape of a winding staircase through a twilight environment, stars peeking through the distance*

Myriad Reality

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Very likely... you seem like a frightened ammateur to me... the only key difference between you and me, is that... hang on one sec... there is none, you are just scrawny *I snicker vilely* !

@The Odeoron

*The steps begin to become reflective like glass, with gaps between them vertically*
For someone who wants allies, you aren’t doing yourself any favors.

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Well that was uncalled for... at least from my perspective... do you two have history together?

@Source

@Interface

Just met him today.

Myriad Reality

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Dude... Darryl over there, seems to know a bit more than just 'this is stone people in space' rhetoric. Like how can you be so nonchalant about this whole thing anyway?

@The Odeoron

I think you underestimate how many quests we take.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks at you with a dry expression of 'seriously?!'* Yeah, you do need therapy... the moment you start thinking that every person you meet has some link to a past dickhead team like the ones that did that, it is the moment you begin suffering from a condition called paranoia!

@The Odeoron

It’s caution. Not even remotely similar.
*The stairs start to become thinner, shorter, and smoother*

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I'm part of the space federation called the Kah'Yah'Zdenn Federation. We are a collation of species from this universe and the collapse of these systems, made us lose around seventy-eight billion innocent souls with their sudden collapse... i'd say that is a lot wouldn't you?

@Interface

Yeah, sounds like it to me.

Myriad Reality

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Gio, my man... *Rubs the bridge of my nose* Have you ever had therapy? You seem to see everyone around you as people who want to kill you... what could people possibly gain from that?

@The Odeoron

Ask the last crew who tried to.

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Yes i am, that's why i went ahead with the investigation, and my superiors are the quest givers not me...

@Interface

Who do you work for?
*Continues pulling myself up across the steps*

Myriad Reality

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Well i'm fine with that, but i'm not fine with him....

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*Mentally*

The feeling or the guy?

@The Odeoron

From my perspective, you’re all trying to get me killed.

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*blinks in consternation* Well this is great... and they said this is top notch quantic photon generators...

So at which point are we going to discuss what this place is? From my point of view, this looks like an anomaly that could have only happened if some advanced civilization tempered with a black hole the wrong way...

@Interface

Not enough information to say. It could be a society of flying rock creatures, it could be something else. Aren’t you the one who wants to know, quest giver?

Myriad Reality

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*Grunts annoyed* I don't know... should i?

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*Approaches you and whispers in spite of his help* Psst... what you thinking about the new guy? The so called quest giver?

@The Odeoron

I think you’re all suspicious at this point.

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.