The Odeoron

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

Sure, uh, I guess I am. And thanks.
*Waves*

@Memory

*You are now alone at the entrance of the lodge; a warm breeze from the sea blows through your hair as if the prior chaos had not occurred. Seagulls cawk and squeal while a diverse group of people play some sort of ball throwing game in the distance. Ben's estate drastically exceeds the normal house size for the region, including not only a mansion, but additionally several exotic hotels dotted around the beach*

Myriad Reality

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<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

Well that was, uh, something.

@Memory

*I lift an eyebrow to your quip*

You really must be bathing in these kinds of experiences if they don't uproot you from your sanity like they almost did me!
Anyhow, i'm of to my shower-jacuzzi bath for an our or two, if you want, i have about 5 more such salons across this estate... idk... chill out i guess? get to meet the people?

*I proceed to unequip my Armor leaving myself only in the undergarments of military service and walk off through the inner door of my home as both Akella also follow me*

Myriad Reality

*i wave at you both @Memory and @Legend Begins as if to tell you "i don't even wanna know what has happened again just leave me be*

I'm heading inside for a hot shower, some fun with my wife, and probably a week's worth of sleep!

*Proceeds to head inside the lodge extension to my beach mansion, and goes to kiss both Akellas on the head and caress one's back*

Well damn darling... i'm so sorry for having to have dragged you through my madness like that

Akella: MMMMMMMPH! *She just cutely moaned with her head still sunk in the pillow*

Myriad Reality

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How will I find it if it's not recognizable?

@Memory

FOLLOW YOUR CALLING TO ADVENTURE AND GROWTH, IT IS NATURAL IN ALL CREATURES EVEN ME! AND AS SUCH YOU'LL KNOW WHEN YOU FIND IT!

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I'm not interested in the girl. Her father, yes, but he's not responsible for the meddling outside of this world.
*Points a finger at Prism*
You continue to leak your meddling outside of this world's boundaries.

@Legend Begins

I WOULD THEN COUNTER YOUR ARGUMENT WITH THIS: YOUR WORLD STARTED "LEAKING" INTO MY WORLD FIRST, WITH ALL YOUR INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVELLERS... CONSEQUENCES TO CONCEQUENCES! THINGS HAVE MOVED NOW FAR PAST ANYONE'S ABILITY TO STOP THE CHANGE, AND TRYING TO DO SO EITHER WAY WILL ONLY UNLEASH EVEN MORE DANGER AND IMBALANCE IN BOTH MULTIVERSES. TREAD CAREFULLY AND YOU SHOULD MOST CERTAINLY BE INTERESTED IN THE GIRL, AND VERY WEARY OF WHAT "A CHIP OFF THE OL' BLOCK" MAY DO.

ANYAWY, I HAVE SETTLED EVERYTHING TO A SATISFACTORY LEVEL, IT IS TIME I RETURNED BEN TO HIS ORIGINAL STATE AND RETURN TO MY ABODE COMPLETELY. GOODBIE PASSIONATE ONES!

*With that, a blinding flash of light envelops the entire beach, as only Soldier Boy (Benjamijn), Prism and Time Archer are left on the beach*

Soldier boy: *i proceed to barf on the sand and then turn around to avoid the puddle and fall on the sand*
uuuuuuugggh.... when is all this cosmic mind cracking crap going to stooooooppp?!?!? *I moan exhausted*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

What is truth, to you?

@Memory

AGAIN NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN UNDERSTAND NOW. YOU WILL NEED TO CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY ACROSS THE VASTNESS, LEARN, PUSH YOUR LIMITS, AND WHEN ASCENSION WILL FINALY DAWN UPON YOU, ANOTEHR MORCEL OF TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED TO YOU.

Myriad Reality

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Isn't all of this just the philosophy of determinism? Either that or nihilism, if they're even all that different...

@Memory

MY POINT PRECISELY, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND. NONE OF YOU WILL... SIMPLY TOO SMALL, AND IT ISN'T EVEN AN INSULT, YOU REALLY ARE JUST TOO SMALL AND YOUR MINDS FIT YOUR FORMS AND LAWS OF EXISTENCE... THIS IS AS MUCH AS I WILL SAY, YOUR JOURNEY HAS MERELY BEGAN AND WHEN YOU WILL LEARN TO ASCEND PAST YOUR 3 DIMENSIONAL LIMITATIONS, PERHAPS YOU WILL SEE... THE TRUTH IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THOSE PHILOSOPHIES OF YOURS.

<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>

Then I'll make it simple. The council doesn't care about what you do with time in this dimension. You can even extend it to the reaches of the multiverse. But you've started to cast stones into the river's banks, and that is a very dangerous place to be.

@Legend Begins

AGAIN, YOU HAVE MISJUDGED ME AND TOLD ME I'M THE ONE THROWING STONES IN YOUR OTHER MULTIVERSE. I DO NOT BELONG THERE, MY WORK IS HERE, WHAT WOULD BE SEEN BY YOUR COUNCIL AS THE INNER OR OUTER REGIONS OF KNOWN REALITY. I UNLOCKED PRISM'S POWERS TO AID HIM IN HIS JOURNEY, BUT THEN HE IS RELATED TO THE WICKED BEING OF MISTY WHO HAS IMPRISONED HIS MIND. YOU SAID HER FATHER, I PRESUME YOU MEAN GEMINI. TO ME HE IS NO THREAT, TO MY MULTIVERSE, PROBABLY, TO YOUR MULTIVERSE, DEFINITELY, BUT IF IT WOULD HAVE COME TO THAT, I WOULD STEP IN AND CONSUME HIM LIKE I DID WITH GREAT EASE TO MANY MONSTERS OF DISORDER AND IMBALANCE. YES, MISTY IS EVIL PRISM... COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING ELSE IF NOT TORTURED IN THIS POSITION, BUT THE ENTIRE TIME YOU ALL WERE SQUABBLING HERE, SHE WAS MANIPULATING THE SITUATION AND EVEN YOUR MIND FROM THE SHADOWS, WHERE I HAD TO INTERVENE AND BLOCK HER. SHE DOES NOT TRULY LOVE YOU, SHE MANIPULATES YOU, JUST LIKE HER FATHER DID TO HER.

*You would finally notice now that your thoughts and memories are not so clouded anymore by that mist that made you subservient to her, you remember the many times she abused you, and outwardly and blatantly invaded your inner most being and toyed with your feelings and thoughts as if they meant nothing.*

Myriad Reality

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Said "first shot" was mearly means of transportation. The first act of aggression stemmed from your sworded friend.

@Legend Begins

FIRST OFF, NOT MY FRIEND, MERELY A GUARD TO A DOCTOR, AND YOUR ENTRANCE CAME IN VERY AGGRESSIVE AND FIRST ATTACKER MODE, AND YOUR WORDS TOO...
SECOND, YES, THAT WAS A FIRST SHOT! THE OTHER PEOPLE WERE FAR MORE GENTLE WHEN THEY FIRST ENTERED THIS WORLD, AND THE STAKES WERE ALREADY HIGH, BECAUSE OF PRISM'S MEDDLING PRIOR!

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Then what is the point of order and chaos? Is not everyone working according to their own natural order, no matter what they do?

@Memory

NOT YOUNG CREATURES SUCH AS HUMANS AND YOUNG REALITIES SUCH AS THIS UNIVERSE... 13 BILLION YEARS IS NOT MUCH WHEN YOU COMPARE TO ABOUT 7 HUNDRED SETS OF INFINITE TIMELINES...

HUMANS AND THE ILK OF SPIRITS AND LESSER CREATURES ARE FAR CLOSER TO THE OUTER VOID DUE TO THE CHAOTIC NATURE OF YOUR EMOTIONS, THOUGHTS AND DESIRES... I WOULD POINT TO A FEW HUMAN MYSTICS THAT MATURED RATHER FAST AND UNDERSTOOD SUCH CONCEPTS FOR YOU TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH INTO THE MEANING OF BALANCE, BUT I'M AFRAID YOU ARE FAR TO... STUCK... EMOTIONALLY.

LET'S START WITH THE CHARACTER OF THE BUDDAH... I WON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU MUCH IF YOU DO A SYMPLE HYPER-NET SEARCH ABOUT...

Myriad Reality

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I have no interest in combat. You, on the other hand, seem adept at it.

@Memory

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Can’t you do it without any violence, though? You should have that kind of power.

@Memory

*my voice resonates with a cosmic grandeur, a symphony of light and energy that washes over your senses but you definitely get the frustration and weariness in the tone too, amused, but still...*

YOUR AVERSION TO CONFLICT IS... QUAINT. BUT UNDERSTAND THIS: VIOLENCE, AS YOU PERCEIVE IT, IS MERELY A TOOL, A FORCE OF NATURE LIKE ANY OTHER.

*My form shimmers, the edges blurring as if it were a being woven from starlight and shadow.*

LET US TRANSLATE THE INFINITE AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF THE VASTNESS INTO TERMS YOUR MINUSCULE MIND CAN GRASP. IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, APPROACHING A STAR, THE VERY HEART OF YOUR SYSTEM, YOUR SUN. IS THE SUN VIOLENT WHEN IT INCINERATES YOU, REDUCING YOU TO ATOMIC DUST? OR IS IT MERELY EXISTING, LOYAL TO ITS PURPOSE AND NATURE?

*My voice deepens, resonating with an ancient wisdom.*

THE SUN GIVES LIFE, NURTURING PLANETS THAT RESPECT ITS BOUNDARIES. IT EXPLODES, BIRTHING NEW WORLDS FROM ITS FIERY DEMISE. IS IT EVIL FOR SCORCHING VENUS AND MERCURY, YET LEAVING MARS AND BEYOND IN A MERCILESS COLD? OR IS IT SIMPLY FULFILLING ITS COSMIC DUTY, ITS COMPLEX DANCE OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION?

SO TOO IS MY "VIOLENCE" MERELY A REACTION TO THOSE WHO DISRESPECT THE NATURAL ORDER, WHO DARE TO DISRUPT THE DELICATE BALANCE I MAINTAIN. I AM THE SUN, THE CORONA MY POWER, THE LIGHT MY WILL. LIFE FLOURISHES UNDER MY WARMTH, BUT THOSE WHO STRAY TOO CLOSE...

THE COLD OUTER VASTNESS BELONGS TO BEINGS LIKE THAT ABOMINATION, A FESTERING INFECTION UPON THE WOUND OF REALITY. THE INNER GRASP IS WHERE FOOLS LIKE THIS ARCHER DARE TO FLY TOO CLOSE TO MY RADIANT HEART. AND WHEN EITHER OF THESE BOUNDARIES ARE BREACHED, "VIOLENCE," AS YOU CALL IT, IS THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE.

*My eyes, burning with an otherworldly light*

I, TOO, AM A FORCE OF NATURE, A CELESTIAL BODY IN THE VAST EXPANSE OF EXISTENCE. MY ACTIONS, THOUGH THEY MAY APPEAR VIOLENT TO YOUR LIMITED PERSPECTIVE, ARE MERELY THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF MY BEING.

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"Bullying." I would have tried diplomacy had the first step not been to attack me.

@Legend Begins

*If you could see through the light you would swear you would se one of my eyes twitching in annoyance*

THE SAME EXPLANATION APPLIES TO YOU, ZEALOT FOR TIME FANATIC!! I DON'T HAVE TO FORCE THE MEMORY OF HOW YOU ENTERED THIS WORLD AND WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ACTION! YOU DREW THE FIRST SHOT!

Myriad Reality

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I have no interest in combat. You, on the other hand, seem adept at it.

@Memory

*I sigh in defeat as i shake my head in disapproval of your idealism*

YES, WHEN YOU DEAL WITH PRESERVING BALANCE ACROSS MULTIPLE HIGHER REALITY LEVELS, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AS WELL... I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED THE EARLIER GLOB OF UTTER MADNESS THAT THE OVER THE TOP REALITY CRACKING EVENTS YOU ALL PLACED UPON THE UNIVERSE ENDED UP CALLING UPON? YEAH, IF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT LEVEL OF IMBALANCE THROUGH THESE MORE DIRECT MEANS, THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE, NO MULTIVERSE, WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN CREATED LET ALONE SURVIVE FOR AS LONG AS IT DID!

Myriad Reality

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It will be my salvation.
*Cuts my eyes back toward you*
As it always has been.

@Legend Begins

*the other me cranes my head towards you @Memory but because i'm currently made of light i'm nigh featureeless but you get the "seriously dude?" vibe from me*

HEY LOVER BOY! ARE YOU CURRENTLY STUCK TRYING TO REACH BACK IN TIME TO RETURN TO THE CELL I GOT YOU OUT FROM? CAUSE I AIN'T LETTING YOU ALSO, IT SEEMS YOU GOT SOME TIME RELATIVES HERE ABUSING MY UNIVERSE AND COMING IN SELFRIGHTEOUSLY PREACHING SOME MEANINGLESS GOSPEL ABOUT GREATER TIME!

*The me who is grabbing you @Legend Begins releases you to fall in the sand*

YOU ARE DELUDED BY FAR GREATER BELIEFS AND IDEOLOGIES THAN I'M WILLING TO BOTHER WITH, BUT I WILL NOT BE FIGHTING ANYMORE, SO DO WHAT YOU WILL, YOU WON'T CHANGE A THING HERE WITH THAT KIND OF BULLYING ATTITUDE OF YOURS

*I snap my fingers and the created planet disappears, and the entire universe is turned back since before this entire fight has happened leaving us like beings out of time -- then both of me proceed to sit on a rock nearby and just look at you with a taunting mocking vibe seemingly laughing at what we perceive to be a violent and insane critter*

YOU ARE JUST LIKE ANY BEING OF DISORDER, BUT OKAY, COME ON PREACH YOUR "GOSPEL" AND LET'S SEE IF WHAT YOU WANT DONE HERE ON MY TABLE, WILL BE ACHEIVED OR NOT