System

Myriad Reality

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That all makes sense. My main concern was with your doppelganger, however.

@Valiance

Yes, that. That entity happens to be part of my lab defense system, and is currently to blame for siphoning a majority of my excess magic and slowing my recovery. I've been tracking its behavioral patterns insofar as I can under these circumstances.

Myriad Reality

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Maybe you'll be more inclined to explain what's going on, then?

@Valiance

Certainly. As you may be aware, I was severely injured during a prior conflict with Graveny. Unfortunately, due to cascading, targeted attacks I was forced to withdraw and allow my labs to passively generate the energy I needed to recover.

Myriad Reality

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*Manifests a shimmering dome of red as I slide across the floor as I look around and take in the new environment, still clearly in defensive mode*

@Valiance

Ah, yes. I would appreciate if you didn’t destroy this lab. I can’t afford more setbacks after the energy it took to reach you in that zone.

Myriad Reality

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*With a gust of wind, I dash through the newfound opening without question*

@Valiance

*The doorway fizzles once you style in and leads into a small observation room overlooking a spoked disk of interspliced extreme and peaceful environments about a center point, including lava fields, meadows, tundras, canyons, slices of typhooning seas, the entire environment suspended in a pale blue, clouded sky*
Welcome, Rythian.

Myriad Reality

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*Summons an orb of red similar to those before it, shining a blinding red and stunting the flow of electricity and magical energies alike across everywhere the light touches*

@Valiance

*A competing network emerges from the attack's own connections and forms into a crude door that opens next to you*
Come, quickly!

Myriad Reality

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*Leaves that process running while frantically narrowing a second search down to data gathered as a result of experiments on “Harmony”*

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*A pylon ejects itself from the ceiling rapidly, sticking straight down and acting as an attractive force to your lighting, forcibly pulling the blade into itself and jerking your strike off target by mere centimeters*
… Baba yaga?

@GalaxyRaider

*The system starts to return a small set of results*

Myriad Reality

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*Projects a holographic display from the box directly in front of my face and queries the term “Project Melody” in that time range*

@GalaxyRaider

*The fuzzy search function matches a huge amount of data, which slowly transfers to your device*

Myriad Reality

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I took a gamble on potentially waking them up. It doesn’t look like I did.
*Glances down at the floating box, which still rests in the air, calmly humming*

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For the best.

@GalaxyRaider

*At this point, the box has an overview of the lab's resources, still transmitting slowly*

Myriad Reality

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…
*Takes a moment to analyze the security systems remotely to make sure they are no longer on high alert to the others like before*

@GalaxyRaider

*The security appears to be fully active and engaged, but isn't responding, but contains a login entry from a user named "Oni"*

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs and then takes a real look at my immediate surroundings for the first time*

@GalaxyRaider

*The lab is surprisingly barren of equipment with a large frosted tube alongside one wall, and a system of pneumatic tubes navigating throughout the rest of the room and a few choice machines strewn throughout and bolted to the floor*