Valiance

Myriad Reality

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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

@Artifact

*Raises a fist and clenches it so tightly that my knuckles pop*
Knock really hard.

Myriad Reality

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Once a hoarder has nothing left to hoard, why stay?
*Narrows my eyes, scanning up and down the mountainside*
Unless this planet sees more activity than meets the eye.

@Artifact

Has ties to cosmic forces, I wouldn’t be shocked.

Myriad Reality

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*Sniffs the air*
Even with the cosmic dragon's influence, this behavior is unusual. Dragons live in solitude, but rarely perfect isolation.

@Artifact

I don’t think there’s anywhere to be here other than alone.

Myriad Reality

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As if its lair could be any more obvious.

@Artifact

Creatures of habit just like all the rest, I suppose.

Myriad Reality

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You'll both have more than your fill. With any luck, your fill of violence rather than distress.
*Steps through and emerges onto a barren, cracked stone of a landscape, chilled with a supernatural eerie cold, and scattered with canyons that break apart the endless plain—before us stands a single towering mountain to break up the monotony of the landscape*

@Artifact

Lest our luck and ideals meet.
*Steps in behind you after a very brief moment and glances around, then looks expectantly up at the mountain*

Myriad Reality

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*Manifests in a wave of blue pixels, chanting to Roland with my arms raised*
Let’s go let’s go let’s go!

@Multifarious

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I agree with your proposal. First comes the unknown unknown.
*Rolls up the map and stuffs it away before stepping outside*

@Artifact

*Shifts my shoulder pad slightly and lumbers over behind you, rolling my shoulder a few times to loosen it up*

Myriad Reality

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If it takes over your mind, I'll ensure your death is swift and pain-free.
*Smiles impishly*

@Artifact

*Blankly stares back for a moment*
You know, I think I will simply choose not to be mind controlled, and that will be that. Simple.

Myriad Reality

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Before we go, do you have any resistance to mental manipulation? I anticipate that these worlds are infected at this point with that creature’s influence.

@Artifact

I have resisted mind manipulators before. Where they scale to these things? I have no idea.

Myriad Reality

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As important is the element of strategy. I don’t trust precious metal or gem dragons to forego some underhanded trickery, I’d rather the mind dragon not possess the rest of our foes before we slay them, and we ought to prevent the bone dragon from resurrecting our previous opponents, if that is indeed within its capabilities.

@Artifact

You've thought it through, for sure. Sounds like as good of a plan as we can get.

Myriad Reality

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Bone is not very durable, and undead usually possess but a fraction of their living counterparts’ strength. Simply put, have you ever felt threatened by an undead? Nor have I.

@Artifact

Admittedly not a frequent experience I've had, to say the least. But sure, makes sense.