The Odeoron

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

Certainly.
*Takes the bottle awkwardly and downs a large drink of it*

@Memory

*depending on your tolerance, this is both Hemp and alcohol effect... you are high and drunk!*

*I just grin so stupidly and with such satisfaction while we get out back on the port of New Eden*

Image of New Eden from Spaceport view

Attaboy! hahahahaha!

Now first we're gonna go to my flat, i need to change attire then we're gonna take you and your miss through town, because if more hell is gonna come raining down, we need our spirits lifted for a bit!

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

Whatever comes next, we will be able to handle it.
*Stands with unusual rigidity*

@Memory

Let me see here...

*Grabs the tesseract, hooks it back to my belt, then concentrates on the palm of my hand as it begins to glow with that nuclear fiery glow, then a vorterx of incandescent light starts forming like a bulbous tornado in my palm, and a full bottle of what looks like a green concotion of about 3 liters seems to manifest*

Ah... i do so love this custom concoction of mine! Hemp Whisky! Wanna try? *I open the bottle and chug a massive drink of it*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

*Flicks my hand and all alcohol disappears from your system*
Problem resolved.

@Memory

Soldier Boy: You really are here to torture me are you? If i don't stay drunk or high for at least two days after what we just went through, the asylum is my next destination!

Alioth: WELL, MY TIME IS NEARLY UP AS THE TESSERACT IS ABOUT TO STABILIZE AGAIN! BEN! YOU NEED TO TOUGHEN UP, BECAUSE THESE LAST 7 MONTHS FOR YOU WERE JUST THE BEGINNING AND WHAT YOU THOUGHT WAS REAL IS ONLY GOING TO COME CRUMBLING DOWN EVEN HARDER SOON!

*As Alioth says those final words, the blazing incandescent yellow tesseract with the ring of fire and light around it, flickers, faulters, then drops to the ground humming back with that low intensity crimson glow revealing the hypercube through the crystal*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

*Stares*
I apologize for the interruption. We may proceed.

@Memory

Alioth: YEAH... HE'S NOT... WHY DO THESE SHUTTLES OFFER DRINKS TO SOLDIERS... AH HUMANS, THEY GO TO WAR PHYSICALLY THEN THEY GO TO WAR AGAINST THEMSELVES... SO MUCH DISORDER AND IMBALANCE IN THIS CREATURES!

Soldier Boy: *Hicks and stumbles forward and clasps one hand in a 'buddy' resting arm around shoulder gesture* Yoooooo... PR-IJMMMM! Th-is ihsss my buddy from a far away land pals! *Gestures to you melodramatically to attract the attention of the disembarking soldiers -- Clearly lost it right now and drunk*

Alioth: *Sighs in frustration*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Memory>

*Smiles and withdraws my hand, and the space evaporates*

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

*The static effect disappears and we both stand there as if we never left*

@Etcetera

Alioth: JUST SO YOU KNOW BEN, MY COMMUNICATION ABILITIES ARE EXTREMEMLY LIMITED WHEN INTERVENING IN SUCH LOWER DIMENSIONS AS YOUR UNIVERSE, AND ONLY ABLE TO REALLY EXERT AUTONOMY WHEN THE TESSERACT IS PUSHED TO REALITY BENDING EXTREMES, SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO TALK FOR LONG, BUT BASICALLY --

Soldier Boy: You plucked me... hick! from my world, and dropped me in this storm of utter refuse without much explaining right?

Alioth: I... EH... YOU ARE ALREADY TOO DRUNK RIGHT? YOU'LL SOON SEE THE REASONS WHY...

*The pilot announces that we docked and that we may disembark, while the rest of the soldiers just look like they've seen a ghost when looking at the three of us*

Myriad Reality

*In the meantime, the Shuttle fully docks, while the blazing tesseract hovers next to my head*

Soldier Boy: Are you just gonna hover there and nag? Grab a glass and leave me be, look at what is happening!

Alioth: *Sighs... again* I... I DON'T DRINK... NOR COULD SUCH A SUBTANCE INFLUENCE ME IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY

Soldier Boy: *Chugs the bottle of whisky down then burps* AAAAH! That hit the spot!

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

I just—why is—OKAY!

<Snipped quote by Etcetera>

*Holds my hands toward you*
Misty, stop!

@Memory

Soldier Boy: Aight, i'm out! i'mma... i'mma go get myself something to drink while we land

Alioth: *Sighs* WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR ALCHOLOISM TOO EVENTUALLY

Soldier Boy: Cool, so now we are talking are we?

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

I just—why is—OKAY!

<Snipped quote by Etcetera>

*Holds my hands toward you*
Misty, stop!

@Memory

* Again that bellowing cosmic voice now pierces through whatever mental shielding had, and on top of the sedation, she is now compelled to relax and take a breather with a strong sense of 'what the heck just happened to my will' *

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

It’s—more an act of rebellion! She reacts strongly to being pushed!

@Memory

Alioth: AND IN THE PROCESS DESTROYING THE UNIVERSE AND MULTIVERSE I PUT SO MUCH WORK IN BALANCING OVER THE PAST 789 DUODECILLION EONS?

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

*Unidentifiable blood gushed up from the floor and starts to fill the ship*

@Etcetera

Alioth: RIGHT REBELLION IT IS LITTLE SPECK OF DUST IN THE VASTNESS... BECAUSE ANYTHING THAT TRIES TO HELP YOU, IS MISSINTERPRETED AS PUSHING YOU...

*All the blood starts boiling and bursts into blazes of white light simmering and some of it turns into golden tendrils that wrap around Misty causing a strong sense of sedation*

Alioth: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH PRISM? ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO LET HER PUSH MY BUTTONS? AT THIS POINT MY MERCY CAN ONLY TOLERATE SO MUCH IMBALANCE AND SHE TRULY IS BEHAVING LIKE PURE CHAOS RIGHT NOW, I'M ALLERGIC TO CHAOS!

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

*Grins at the challenge, and the surrounding ship ripples away from the three of us as if it were a reflection in a disturbed pool of water*

@Etcetera

*Everything seems to suddenly glitch and the ship is back and shining with a golden bright hue. The tesseract begins to hover independently off from my belt and suddenly is surrounded with a blinding yellow ring of fire and light*

Uuuh... Prism what is happening? are you going to do anything? She seems to want to collapse the entire universe on us!

*You and Prism both hear the voice of Alioth back in your heads, also me for the very first time but nobody else*

Alioth: PRISM I GAVE YOU A RESPONSIBILITY, SHE IS MESSING AROUND IN THE WRONG COSMIC BACKYARD, THREATENING THE STABILITY OF THIS UNIVERSE BECAUSE SHE HAS A TEMPER TANTRUM! AND IF SHE DOESN'T STOP THIS I WILL SHOW HER JUST HOW INSIGNIFICANT SHE REALLY IS!

Soldier Boy: What the HELL is happening?!?! Who just talked in my skull

Alioth: BENJAMIN, IT WAS TIME I INTRODUCED MYSELF, EVEN THOUGH I DID ONCE, YOU JUST FORGOT... I AM THE ONE WHO CHOSE YOU AND SHAPED YOU INTO THE BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF... MY NAME IS ALIOTH.