Valiance

Myriad Reality

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Could his mental state have something to do with its disappearance? Simulating one’s past like that would be considered clinically unhealthy behavior.

@System

It could. I can’t argue that it couldn’t. But to drop it entirely and also disappear himself, without a word of any kind, in any form, anywhere to anyone is where the coincidences start to tower to suspicious levels.

Myriad Reality

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Has Ridge indicated involvement with any new controversies lately?

@System

No. None at all. The only key element I have to go on-
*Sighs*
-is the fact that the location he retreats to that I mentioned prior, was a full world he left simulating in the back of his mind. A planet with an imaginary society that’s just disappeared. And if it’s gone because something happened to it, then someone is out there with more knowledge of our past than I believed to still be around.

Myriad Reality

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Does Ridge have many enemies?

@System

Not these days. I was concerned it would be someone related to my line of work, but I feel as though an attack from our mutual enemy would be more obvious, and an attack from Garsun would have more… Theater about it.

Myriad Reality

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Do you think Maelstrom has something to do with it?

@System

It wouldn’t be impossible. But if that were the case, there’s never really a cold trail, if you know what I mean.

Myriad Reality

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Do you have potential culprits?

@System

I don’t even know if it happened, let alone suspect anyone. But it’s not a good sign when I can’t find him in the place he can typically be found when he disappears to be alone.

Myriad Reality

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For what reason?

@System

Deja vu here. But Ridge has utterly disappeared and I fear he was attacked by someone.

Myriad Reality

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Few know where it is. Eliminating one of those few removes quite a bit of information from the pool. Learning about its location adds additional risk of that location being compromised. Once its knowledgebase further deteriorates, I foresee that it will rebalance that risk and attempt to capture her.

@System

I’ve been largely off the grid for a while now. Planned to be that way for a while still, and I suppose this is just another reason to do so.

Myriad Reality

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It will attempt to monitor you for that very reason. Although given today’s events, it may have deemed attacking you a greater value than discovering the location of Ilouro.

@System

For what reason?

Myriad Reality

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Once it tracks her location, she’ll be in danger. We may be operating on a time limit.

@System

I’ll need to be careful about trying to reach her directly then as well.

Myriad Reality

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What are the odds that Akora leaves Ilouro in the intervening time?

@System

I suppose that depends on how long it’s been since she went. She’s usually there for anywhere between a week to a month at a time.