Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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*Waves with both hands as the pit itself shatters into an aimless void*

@Etcetera

*Falls for only the slightest fraction of a moment before you feel a tug on the transparent force that’s seemingly attached itself to you, and in an instant, I close the gap and am in your face- Though very distinctly with my arms at my sides, and in no position or stance to attack*

Myriad Reality

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*As they shatter, the fault lines spread into the ground below you, which collapses into a pit full of spikes of hardened, bleached bone*

@Etcetera

*Falls onto my back, slamming through the bone and crumbling it to fragments around me, and I get up slowly- casually, and unfettered, while looking back up to you*

Myriad Reality

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*Scowls and digs into the ground like butter, from which erupts a wide field of obsidian spikes that impale you from several angles*

@Etcetera

*Disappears behind the wall of spikes, only to emerge from them by walking through them toward you, warping the stone and bursting through it as it shatters in resistance to my movement*
Cold, unfeeling stone.

Myriad Reality

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Just her?
*Flings the sign at your neck, sharpened to a deadly edge*

@Etcetera

*The sign crunches and bends as it hits my neck like a solid wall, bouncing off and falling to the ground ringing*
I guess so, because there was no meaning behind that attack.

Myriad Reality

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If I go and force open a path for you two... that's only going to work once. You need to go with her or you'll be stuck here until you wake up.

@Legend Begins

Then go wake me up when you're out. She wants to kill you, and if she does it more quickly than you expect then we're all stuck.

Myriad Reality

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Heh.
*Cracks my knuckles, emitting the sound of crunching bone rather than popping cartilage, and steps toward you*

@Etcetera

*A similar kind of pressure is relieved from your presence, as though you yourself are emitting a similar outward force to myself*

Myriad Reality

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I... I am, yes.

@Legend Begins

Then you go, you take your knowledge of how this stuff works, and you get my sister out safely. Then you come back for me.

Myriad Reality

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Go back to the entrance. If Misty's distracted, you should be able to leave. If she's not... well, I'll open a door as soon as I can.

@Legend Begins

*Keeps my gaze unwaveringly locked on Misty as a kind of intangible pressure begins to exert from my direction, though not necessarily one of raw power*
You are Eclipse's friend, yes?

Myriad Reality

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*Flashes a set of jagged teeth when you emerge, eyes burning with murderous intent*

@Etcetera

*Stares firmly at you with an intensely stern gaze, but not a malicious one*
Stop.

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Take Eclipse and get out!

@Legend Begins

Getting out of a pool is a little harder for someone who doesn't know how to swim.

Myriad Reality

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*Claps twice and from the ground burst a set of razor-sharp jaws that chomp you in two*

@Etcetera

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*Vaults my staff between them and swing above the jaws, rotating it horizontal and pulling it out to leave them to slam shut without me*

@Legend Begins

*Steps away from the hideout entrance and into the open*
Stop!