Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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*A wall of purple fabric slams into you and the jaws, passing harmlessly over Phoebe but making her hair stand up with static*

@Legend Begins

*Yanks my feet up out of the ground one at a time*
Phew!

Myriad Reality

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*Walks toward you, disappointed*
Is that it?

@Etcetera

*Shrugs*
You have home field advantage?

Myriad Reality

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*Anything that touches it immediately sinks and gets locked in place like concrete*

@Etcetera

*Looks down at my feet and back up to you*

Myriad Reality

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You'd look good without those limbs.
*The guillotine opens up to reveal thousands of needles that shoot upward at your feet*

@Etcetera

Thanks!
*Sidesteps off the guillotine as it slides away and back onto solid ground*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks at you with a spark of recognition*
Back so soon?
*The ground twists itself into a horizontal guillotine that slices through your legs*

@Etcetera

*Hops up and plants my feet on the side of the blade as it slams down*
I guess? Don’t really have much say in where I’m going, here.

Myriad Reality

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*Claps my hands together, and they become springy to the touch*
But she's okay??

@Legend Begins

Yep!
*Lands gracefully outside the pit and looks toward Misty*

Myriad Reality

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Did you find her? What's it going to take to pull her out?

@Legend Begins

I saw her, but I didn’t-
*Looks down as the floor opens up, gracefully planting the tip of my toe on one foot onto the edge of one of the blades and landing on it, before leaping back out and away*

Myriad Reality

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We need to find Eclipse, now, and get out.

@Legend Begins

She’s in deep. Real deep.

Myriad Reality

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*In both your minds @Legend Begins you hear a faint and gentle voice respond to your conversations*

Thank you warmly for your interventions! If you wouldn't have shown up, then my new baby multiverse may have well been consumed by a darkness i'm sure you are familiar with by now...

@The Multiverse

*Glances around and then puts up an “okay” sign with my hands*
No problem…?

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I think we may need some kind of post-mortem after this...

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Oh, sure! Er, anytime?

@Legend Begins

What even is “this”? I knew what I was doing in the heat of the moment there but now what?

Myriad Reality

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Much better than before. Something changed about her since last time, and that changed me. Did you do that?

@Legend Begins

*Shrugs with a cheeky grin*