Valiance

Myriad Reality

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Huh?
*Both of us look up*
That's disconcerting.

@Memory

*Watches*

Myriad Reality

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*Two of me wander throughout the snowy region, looking for each other and both clearly cold*

@Memory

*Glances back and forth in each of their directions even despite not having a direct line of sight on them, and, after verifying there are no other signs of life in the area, wordlessly manifests a beacon of light that shines into the sky above each of them*

Myriad Reality

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*Snaps, dissipating the door*

@System

*After a while, I step foot at the site of the old base, taking slow steps toward the site where the mountain used to stand in the snow. My own presence is masked, though the means by which it is obscured are not obvious*
… Time’s are changing…

Myriad Reality

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*A new doorway materializes next to the second environment’s viewing window*
Of course. Until next time.

@System

*Glances over at it, but doesn’t walk toward it, instead electing to step backward into a darkness which manifests behind me, and promptly dissipates as quickly as it showed up*

Myriad Reality

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Certainly. My greater concern is that the space below us is unshielded and extremely sensitive to metaphysical changes. The observation rooms should be safe.

@System

Right. Let’s speak again soon.

Myriad Reality

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*Closes the hatch behind you*
This should be a safe location to leave the lab. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite geared for visitors.

@System

I'm confident in our ability to move without being noticed so long as I won't be disturbing anything by travelling. Have to give us credit when I can only assume even you weren't aware of us until you met me.

Myriad Reality

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*Opens a similar hatch at the top, which leads into a near identical room, but the environments within the spokes have shifted two units clockwise since we last saw them, and on the other side of the room is another window leading to a wheel of environments completely foreign to the first*

@System

*Silently glances around, but mostly stays focused on the path on which I'm following you*

Myriad Reality

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Indeed. We need to exit from the observation chamber. This space is too sensitive to non-physical pressures.

@System

I'll take your word for it.
*Starts up the ladder behind you*

Myriad Reality

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Then trust you I shall. That is all from my end—we'll reconvene shortly.
*Starts climbing up a similar ladder on the other side of the flywheel hall*

@System

Is there a best method of leaving here without attracting unwanted attention?

Myriad Reality

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Very well.
*Reaches into the tube, which my hand phases through, and extracts one of the nodules*
If you need to reach me urgently, crush that indicator. Keep it out of the defense system's hands.

@System

It’ll end up crushed before he’d get his hands on it. Trust me.