The Monitor 2

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Afraid to say the lost history predates even this old geezer.

@Etcetera

Monk: *Blinks surprised as i chuckle*

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Can't call myself a scientist. I leave that to the lab coats.
*Ceremonially turns my cup upside down and sets it on the counter*

@Etcetera

*Does the same as i proceed to pinch my nose bridge* Uuugh.... such a materialist culture this society... painful... *I whisper but audibly* Look boy, it doesn't take a genius to understand the fundamentals of the spirit and the ethereal... *I sigh* Just think of how our people knew everything was more than the tangible in lost history...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Gravity, a fundamental force. What part does that play outside the realm of science?

@Etcetera

*I grab a piece of trash from the ground that would be no bigger than a morsel of paper as it begins to glow incandescently*

Well... it really does depend on what is the official definition of science Officer Heelton... *I say pensively*

Myriad Reality

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Droll: And what makes you consider that old thing a religious artifact?

@Etcetera

*smirks* Why shouldn't it be one? Isn't it a thaumaturgical device manipulating one of the fundamental forces of nature of our universe? *adjusts my voice* Ahem... i mean technological not thaumaturgical...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Then I ask again, what brings you here specifically, revered one?

@Etcetera

Well... you were touched by divinity, and got close to a forbidden ancient magical artifact... how does that sound for a reason? And yes, i refer to the black hole reactor that the government just likes to call it 'technology' *I make quote marks with my fingers ironically* so as to avoid mass panic.

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Droll: The order is perhaps less pious than I originally thought.

@Etcetera

I don't represent the whole order young one! *I chuckle* And you'd be surprised just how pious most monks are especially the oracle circle. But me... i'm just a recluse hermit who goes along with the order as best as i can.

Myriad Reality

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Droll: *Interjects on one of the rabbit trails*
Doesn't scorch violate your asceticism?

@Etcetera

Yes... buuut... this is my cheat day! You'd think Lysthiell would not bother with such minor rule skipping... after all, i did travel from Planet Ley-9 all the way to here with the speed of though... so the powers have not been taken away as a punishment.

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Erm. Help yourself.
*Pours another cup*
You were saying?

@Etcetera

*I savour every drop of the substance* First off, that station was a sacrilege, i remember the early days when i first decided to dedicate my life to ascetism. The empire was so proud with their technology that could defy the universe... *I carry on rambling about the good old days* Anyway where was i, you were touched by a higher being. This is why i came here, whatever transpired here, is no longer mere diplomacy between living organic beings, like ourselves, and containment protocols for deadly anomalies...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: I've survived many a combat I had no business walking out alive from. Perhaps you could call that divine intervention.
*Prepares a cup of thick black liquid from a dispenser*

@Etcetera

*Nods in understanding* The ways of the higher beings elude us even to this day son... but i've seen a pattern of denying the existence of more than what we can toy with using our limited abilities increase rather alarmingly across the United Empire. *Looks at the liquid* OOH! is that SCORCH?! *I start salivating in true recluse old geezer fashion*

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Droll: *Speaks with a degree of suspicion but without hostility*
A saint? I think I've committed a few sins too many to be called one of those, your honor, or whatever title your kind goes by.

@Etcetera

*Holds my hands out in defence with a timid smile* Please child! Don't go calling me your honor... although yes the temples do that... way too much... anyway... *A flicker of light flows out from your shadow and hovers in the palm of my hands* Well, all i can say, is that you were touched by divinity not that long ago, and it has nothing to do with that sacrilegious derelict station...